Recognition of the Hague Court London
The British Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax), in a letter to the League of Nations, renews British recognition of the Hague International Court for a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime
Courts & crime, 1940
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Scott-street Traffic Problems Light Positions; Police as Teachers
It is pleasing to note that again the Greater Newcastle Council is seeking reversion to one-way traffic in Scott-street, Newcastle. SINCE IT was proposed, a few years…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tennis Prospects Bright Winter Competitions Court Space Is Worry
The Newcastle and District Lawn Tennis Association's winter teams competition which is due to begin shortly promises to be one of the best on record…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police Division (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Stole A Cycle
Pleading guilty to having stolen a bicycle valued at £3, the property of Robert Dow, at Waratah, on December 5, Raymond Thomas Jones,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parties Shadow Sparring Mair Critical of Coal Dispute He Urges Action By Federal Court SYDNEY
Accusing the parties to the coal dispute of shadow sparring instead of getting down to realities, the Premier (Mr. Mair) declared in the Legislative Assembly to-day that the Commonwealth Arbitration Court should call a compulsory…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →West Maitland Long Police Court Case
Arthur Edmonson Preston, of King-street, Newtown, was charged before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at West Maitland Police Court, yesterday, with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Theft of Bicycle
"You are starting again," said the Magistrate, imposing a sentence of a month's imprisonment on Raymond Thomas Jones, 20, labourer, who pleaded "Guilty" to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →School for Murder Chapter Ix
District Attorney Strong sat in his study sipping his after-dinner coffee. Baby Burke's trial was scheduled for to-morrow. On the desk in front of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newcastle Police Court Tuesday, March 12 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Woman Warned
"This is your last chance. You are here too frequently. Come back again and you will be sent to Maitland," said the Magistrate to Eva Mahoney, 33, who…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Thefts Reported to Newcastle Police
The theft of a rowing boat from Mirrabooka Bay was reported to Newcastle castle yesterday by Allan Wilson, of Morlsset…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licensing Court Booth Licences
Mary Ann McGuire, of the Grand Junction Hotel, Newcastle, was granted booth licences for Newcastle South Bowling Club on March 23…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police to Escort Funeral Sydney
An escort of police in uniforms will take part in the funeral of the late Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Kelly, to-morrow. Monsignor Meany…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Inquiry Into Police Promotions Sydney
The Government had decided, on the recommendation of the Chief Secretary (Mr. A. U. Tonking), to appoint a representative committee to review the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Small Debts Court Interpleader Matter
In the first case of its kind for many years at Newcastle, the baliff interpleaded in a matter concerning equipment on premises known as the Newcastle Fish…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Police Search Dam Missing Cameras Not Found
For two hours this morning Police Cadets H. Ferris and R. Banks, clad in swimming trunks, dived in the dam in Nesca Park…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sent to Gaol and Fined Man Assaulted Woman at Hamilton Solicitor Urges Treatment
William John Masson, 24, signwriter, was sentenced at Newcastle Police Court yesterday to six weeks' imprisonment for having assaulted Mrs. Mary Beck at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man and Woman on Trial Charge of Murder Sydney
A fight, an armistice and another fight, were the prelude to the death of John Scholey Ritchie, 46, military pensioner, in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Compensation Court Five Claims Before Commission
Five claims for compensation by mine workers were before the Workers' Compensation Commission, which continued its sitting at the Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Was Case of Suicide, Police Believe Sydney
Detectives inquiring into the death of Miss Cornelia Elizabeth Johanna Wilhemina van Tonder, 23 whose strangled body was found…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Chief to Take Over by April Sydney
Third-class Superintendent H. H. C. Jones, of Newcastle, will succeed to the control of the North-eastern Police District at the end of the month when…
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