£100,000 in Sales Tax Refund Issue for High Court Sydney
Regarded as test cases, two actions for recovery of money against the Federal Government will be heard by the High…
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Courts & crime, 1937
3,769 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 59 of 189
Police Opposed Licensed Betting Shops Appeals Board Conference Wants Decisions To Be Final SYDNEY
Two important decisions were reached at to-day's' session of the Police Association conference. One was the rejection of a motion to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Anzac Day Court Refuses to Grant Holiday Victoria, Tasmania and W. Australia Melbourne
Applications by 24 unions in Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia for the declaration of Monday, April 26, as a public holiday, were rejected…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Club's Right Eject Man from Course High Court Verdict Cowell's Appeal Dismissed SYDNEY
Rosehill Race Course Coy., Ltd., had the right to eject a man who had paid for his ticket when he refused to leave the ground. This, in effect, was the decision…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Troops Called Strikers Defy Police Several Injured Longshoremen Out Again (Australian Associated Press.) LEWISTON (Maine). April 22
After State and local police had fought two separate engagements with the massed shoe factory strikers, and failed to disperse them…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Salesman in Court Charged with Stealing as Servant SYDNEY
Edward Cohen, 41, a salesman was charged in Central Police Court to-day with having stolen £711/17/6 while a servant of the Egg Marketing Board…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Court Drama
The theme of "Midnight Court" concerns the rehabilitation by his wife of a brilliant attorney, who becomes an unkempt and drunken vagabond. An[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tribute to the Police
After the Anzac Day ceremony at Adamstown Public School yesterday. the Headmaster (Mr. H. Martin) paid a tribute to the police of that suburb for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Court Friday, April 23 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) False Pretences Charge
On the application of Mr. Rosendahl, who appeared on behalf of Mr. N. C. L. Nelson, Percy Morgan Rees, 52, law clerk, was remanded to May 31 on a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A New Book Japan's Rise Trade, Conquest — and Murder
Japan's spectacular attacks on the complacency, of the world in the past six years—first by her wrecking of the status quo in the Far East, and then by her…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gangster's Millions Police Say They Are Hidden
Belief is growing among U.S. police that the millions made by Al Capone, world's most notorious gang chief…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Warning to Children Detonators Stolen From Store Sydney
The biggest detonator robbery in New South Wales was reported yesterday by the Water Board officials. The explosives were stolen from a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prisoner Escapes Dash from Irish Court LONDON, April 22
After conviction for smuggling and the imposition of a fine of £500 of six months' imprisonment at Dowra (Leitrim), Charles McMorrow leaped from the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gipsy Brawl Wild Scenes at Dubbo Baton Charge by Police Dubbo
There were scones of wild disorder in the main street of Dubbo to-night when two rival groups of gipsies fought out their differences in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Anzac Holiday No Power to Substitute Federal Court's Ruling Melbourne
Holding that it did not possess power to substitute another day for Anzac Day when Anzac Day fell on a Sunday, the Full Arbitration Court to-day dismissed…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Order on Overseer Return to New Guinea Full Court's Decision Sydney
In a reserved judgment to-day, the Full Court discharged a rule nisi on behalf of Alfred Mervyn. [?]frost, overseer, seeking the discharge of an order for his…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mr. and Mrs. Lyons Attend Venice Military Display Police Escort on Trains Milan, April 22
The Australian Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) and Mrs. Lyons left Venice this morning a few minutes before the arrival of Signor Mussolini and the Austrian…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Father Divine Found Hiding in House Excitement in Harlem Negro Mob at Police Station (Australian Associated Press.) New York, April 23
Father Divine, the leader of a negro religious sect, who was wanted on a charge of felonious assault, following a stabbing affray…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →American Jew Sentenced to Death High Treason in Germany Berlin, April 24
It is now disclosed that the Jew Helmut Hirsch, 21, who was sentenced to death on March 8 on a charge of high treason for bringing explosives into Germany, is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Boy Washed Off Rocks? Police Search at Stockton
Examination by police of foreshores in the vicinity of the Stockton breakwater this morning failed to reveal any trace…
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