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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

1,597 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 80

Court Opposes Overtime Munitions Work at Stewarts & LLOYDS Company's Low Costs To Defence Department SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 17 January 1941 · page 3

Opposition to the working of regular and systematic overtime on munitions production at Stewarts and Lloyds at Newcastle was expressed by the Full Bench of the Industrial Commission in a…

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Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 12

REMANDED.—Horace Claud Chapman. 30, a carpenter was remanded to January 23 on £20 bait, on a charge of having stolen, at New Lambton, on or about November 11…

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Blueprint From Tube Plant Man Fined for Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 5

John Lloyd Wayne King, of Swan-street. Hamilton pleaded "Guilty" before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M., at Newcastle Summons Court yesterday, to a charge…

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Thefts Reported To Police

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 3

Among the articles reported stolen to the Newcastle Police to-day were 30 feet of hose and fittings from the home of Dr. W. S. Barnes, Bull-street,…

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Wholesale Arrests in Italy 5000 Political Prisoners in One Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 7

LONDON, Jan. 17. A.A.P.—Italian secret police have begun wholesale political arrests in Trieste and Venice, says the Belgrade correspondent of the…

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Police Drive Against Copper Cable Thefts

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 2

Police are to concentrate on the detection of thefts of copper cable from the Railway Department and other places where the loss of the…

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No Systematic Overtime Court's Ruling War Work at Stewarts and Lloyds

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1941 · page 9

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Industrial Commission was opposed to regular and systematic overtime at the special purpose plant of Stewarts and Lloyds. Mayfield,…

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Theft Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 8

Charged with having stolen a quantity of scrap iron, valued at £6. the property of the B.H.P. Ltd., at Dudley on Friday, Robert Bell, 51. laborer…

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Spanish Exiles Sentenced By Franco Tribunal MADRID

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 4

Largo Caballero, Premier of Republican Spain in the civil war, and Martinez arrios, Speaker of the Cortes, have been…

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To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 8

William Oakes, 20, Air force trainee, pleaded guilty to having had in his possession at Broadmeadow on Saturday a towel marked "N.S.W.G.R.,"…

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Lost Boy at Police Station

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 3

Newcastle police would like Mrs. Cole, of Newcastle, to call at the Hunter Street headquarters for her grandson. Douglas Cole, aged 8…

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"Pyjama Girl's" Identity Police Not Satisfied

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A high police official said yesterday that the Police Department was satisfied that the "pyjama girl" was not the girl named in the claim…

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Police Raid at Sandgate Seized Records and Literature

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 4

Newcastle police yesterday morning raided the Jehovah's Witnesses community at Sandgate. A large quantity of literature and gramophone records was seized…

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Cessnock Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M.) Three Men Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 January 1941 · page 8

A disturbance outside Paxton Picture Theatre on Saturday night resulted in the appearance of four men at Cessnock Police Court to-day…

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To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Assault Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 2

Boil in £30 was allowed Ralph Side-bottom. 36, unemployed, who wits charged with having assaulted Constable O T. Watts in the execution…

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Police Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 3

ILLEGAL BETTING.—John Jones, 27, ironworker, was fined £20, on a charge of having accepted bets in Steel-street, Newcastle, on Saturday. Constable W. J. Simons said that…

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Jehovah's Witnesses Go to Gaol Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 3

Five young men, each of whom quoted Scripture, were to-day sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labor…

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"Should Be Banned" Patriotic Work by Police

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 4

"Some move should be made to have a ban put on patriotic work for the police," the President of Lambton Soldiers' Welfare and Patriotic Committee…

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Extension of Police Carnival Planned: Night Programme?

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 3

The programme of the Police Carnival, which will be held at the Newcastle Showground on Saturday. February 22, may be extended to include…

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Won Right on Tennis Court to Have Hair Bobbed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 January 1941 · page 8

PIG-TAILED Mary Reynolds received cups as trophies for winning the Under 16 singles and doubles in the Victorian schoolgirls'…

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