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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

1,509 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 76

Divorce Court Sitting Cancelled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 5

Norman Nelson and Co., of Cessnock, were advised last night by the associate to Mr. Justice Edwards that the special sitting of the Divorce Court at…

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Court Judgment on Women's Wages

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE.—By unanimous judgment, the Full Arbitration Court today declared that no anomaly existed under the…

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£75 Verdict at Maitland Supreme Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 6

After an hour's retirement a jury at Maitland Supreme Court yesterday returned a verdict for £75 in the case in which William John Black, share…

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Mayfield Raid Wife's Evidence in Divorce Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 5

Details of a raid on a house in Scholey-street, Mayfield, on the night of March 4, 1941, were related before Mr. Justice Bonney in the…

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Was Punched, Says Witness, When He Called Police Liars

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY. — Lindsay Bird, 25, a business executive, told the Manpower Board to-day that when Constables Thomas Earl Mathew Carney and Neville William Grigg accused him of indecency he called them liars; They both…

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Police Court Newcastle (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1943 · page 5

STEALING.—A fine of £7 was imposed on George Joseph Adams, 33, soldier, who pleaded "Guilty" to haveing stolen military stores at Scone…

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Turkish Police Close German Bookshop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1943 · page 1

ANKARA, June 17.—The police at Istanbul have closed a German propagunda bookshop. The manager has been held for questioning…

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For State Court Stewarts and Lloyds Dispute

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1943 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A dispute involving the classification of an employee of Stewarts and Lloyds (Australia Pty Ltd., was remitted from the…

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Wife of Kc Tells Court Why She Won't Join Union

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—A witness in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day in the matter of the strike at a Sydney munitions works was Mrs. Gwenneth Jeannie Cassidy, wife of Mr. Cassidy, KC, one of ten non-unionists over whose refusal to…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1943 · page 6

REMANDED.—Albert Morris, 25. labourer, was remanded to Monday on a charge of having broken into the shop of William John Ferguson, in…

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John Bunyan In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 June 1943 · page 4

LONDON.—A man mimed John Bunyan was fined £5 at Clerkenwell, London, for street tottering for the purpose of betting…

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Court Reference To Shooting

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Reference was made in the Central Court this morning to the shooting in Corfu Street, Woolloomooloo early on…

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In The Courts NEWCASTLE Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.m.) Sp Betting

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 June 1943 · page 2

A number of SP betters were arrested while contracting bets on Saturday. Ernest Moss, 29, laborer, was fined £15 or 30 days' imprisonment for…

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Police Appeal Witness's Identity Questioned

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—A radio announcer, who allows Constables Thomas Earl Mathew Carney and Neville William Grigg "framed" him on…

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Report Strikers To Industrial Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Refusal of 34 metal workers at Port Kembla to terminate a strike by them will result in their being reported to the…

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Actress Supporting Orphans; Court Gives Tax Relief

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 June 1943 · page 1

NEW YORK, June 20.—The Federal Court upheld film star Madeline Carroll's contention that 51 French orphans she is supporting at…

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Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1943 · page 3

REMANDED.—John William Booth, 21 process worker, was remanded to Monday on a charge of having broken into the garage of Eva Emily Twyford, at…

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Case For Defence In Trial For Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—James Jeffrey Hammond, a waiter, giving evidence in the case in which Keith Clarence White, 20, is charged with…

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High Court Drops Bombshell on Contracts Law

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 June 1943 · page 3

MELBOURNE.—The effect of a unanimous judgment given by the Full High Court to-day was that Regulation 4 of the Notional Security (Contracts Adjustment) Regulations was invalid on the ground that the National…

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Denied Police Closed Club Announcer Recalled at Appeal Hearing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A club run by him in William-street, Sydney was not the resort of perverts and was not closed by the police, a…

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