Industrial Court Claims for Overtime
An adjournment to February 20 was granted in the matters in which Kenneth Roy Stanford and Norman James Stan ford both of Merewether-street…
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Courts & crime, 1939
3,566 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 11 of 179
Oxy-welding Plant Stolen Police Fear Strong-room Raids SYDNEY
The theft of a complete oxy-welding plant at the week-end has caused police to believe that a gang of cracksmen may begin raids on strong-rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Young Miners Idleness Deplored by Judge Deficiency Pay Causes Discussed in Court SYDNEY
The youth problem was referred to in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court to-day when Judge Drake-Brockman continued the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrorists in Britain Threat of Renewed Outrages Armed Police Squads in London (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 23
Special precautions, including increased police guards for the King and Queen, who at present are in residence at Sandringham, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Company Director Charged with Conspiracy Sydney
John woolcott forbes, former managing director of the Producers and General Finance Corp., Ltd., now detained at Bombay under provisional…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Famous Woman Racing Motorist Charged Paris, January 23
Mrs. Kay Petrie, the well-known English racing motorist, who was driving the car in which Major Empson, a motoring journalist, was killed on Friday, has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bathurst Gaol May Become Mental Institution "Ideal Position" Sydney
Bathurst Gaol, the scene of recent trouble, may be closed this year and become an institution for mental defectives…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Licensing Court Licence Transferred
The licence of the Newcastle Hotel was transferred from Walter Dudley Barrington to George Robert Gittins, of West Maitland. Mr. C. A. K. Cohen (Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →West Maitland Police Court Newcastle Man Fined Negligent Driving Charge (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, P.m.)
Robert John Graham, of the Esplanade Hotel, Newcastle, pleaded "Not Guilty" at the West Maitland Police Court yesterday to a charge of having driven a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Thefts Reported to Police at Newcastle
A telephone receiver and two transmitters were included in the list of thefts reported to Newcastle police today. The receiver was stolen from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Small Debts Court Verdict for Defendant
A verdict in favour of the defendant was returned in the case in which Walter Menzies Reid, Croft-street, Wickham, sued Leslie Manning, Tudor and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Cricket Sydney Team to Play at Wallsend To-day
Wallsend Park Oval has been selected as the venue for the annual cricket match to-day between teams representing the metropolitan and Newcastle police. The…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Pensioned Off a Fit Man Rigours of Police Life Did Not Harm Him
At 50 years of age he was presumed to be beyond the arduous demands of police duties. But was he ? Read what be says now—live years after be was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Papers Seized Sequel to Bombings in Britain Mass Raids by Police London, January 24
Thirty detectives and 10 car loads of police carried out mass raids on houses throughout Manchester during the night, and it is believed that they seized…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Barcelona Awaits Final Assault Franco's Troops 10 Miles from Gates of City Last Defence Line Falls British Consular Staff Moving Out From Catalan Capital (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 24
General Franco's forces have captured the entire Llobregat line—the last line of Barcelona's defences—and Moors are only 10 miles from the gates of the city, according to an official report from Burgos, headquarters…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Charges of Theft Traveller and Clerk Before Court SYDNEY
Goods valued at several hundred pounds were mentioned in the Central Police Court to-day when Edward Doney, 38, traveller, and Arthur Mance, 43,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Assault at Kilaben Bay
Convicted on a charge of having assaulted Leonard Williams at Kilaben Bay, on January 13, Robert Dick, Kilaben Bay, was ordered to enter into a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gaol Secrets Not for Outsiders Bathurst
Every Warder at Bathurst Gaol has been warned that he will be suspended immediately if found guilty or revealing to outsiders anything of what…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Report Daily Four Men Get Bail on Assault Charge SYDNEY
On condition that they report daily to the police, Mr. Arnold, S.M., allowed bail to four men charged at Redfern Court to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Small Debts Court Hearing Adjourned
To permit the production of an application for membership of the Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union, an adjournment to March 1 was granted in…
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