Convicts, Broadcasting From Gaol, Chose Apt Number
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 4
SYDNEY: Piece de resistance played by Goulburn Gaol convicts over Station 2GN yesterday was "In a Monastery Garden." The gaol orchestra was conducted by lifer. Alister J. Clark, who has served 18 years for the murder of his wife…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Seek Skeleton
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 2
Newcastle police are investigating a report by two boys that they saw portion of a human skeleton on the beach at Salt Ash on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charged With Trying To Rape Mother-in-law
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 4
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Sunday. —A 43-year-old farmer was charged at Dunedin Court with having tried to rape his mother-in-law, aged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Conference Compulsory Unionism Advocated
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 3
SYDNEY: Compulsory unionism to force non-members into the Police Association was suggested by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police To Seek "Full Rights"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 4
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Full recognition as an industrial trade-union and, full arbitration rights will be advocated by members of the New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tennis Players In Court May 13
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 2
Several tennis players, whose names were taken by Greater Newcastle Council officers for playing on park courts on Sundays, have been cited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Orion Passenger Got Court Summons Just Before Vessel Sailed
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 April 1947 · page 4
SYDNEY: A summons to attend the Bankruptcy Court was served on a manufacturer's wife, a passenger on the Orion, during a farewell party on the ship just before it sailed on Saturday, the Registrar in Bankruptcy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →American Charged With Theft Of 504 Diamonds
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 4
YOKOHAMA, April 14. A.A.P.— Colonel Edward Murray, former Army custodian of the vaults of the Bank of Japan, is being tried for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Butchers Charged With Blackmarketing
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 8
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Three men allegedly associated with black-market meat transactions were charged in the High Court before Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Police Court Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 8
REMANDED.—Charles Ronald Jones. 39, seaman, was remanded untill to-day on £5 ball on a charge of offensive behaviour in Market-street. Mr. A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Charged; Mutilation Of Calves Alleged
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 8
Allegations that teats had been cut from two Ayrshire calves with scissors before being sent to the saleyards for auctions were made at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder Charge Against Mother Fails
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 5
SYDNEY, Monday.—Ida Lillian Higgens, 21, was charged at Central Criminal Court to-day with having murdered her illegitimate baby. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wallsend Asks More Police Protection
The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 4
"Without a night-watchman, Wallsend had adequate police protection," the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Mr. J. W. Scott)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →40-Hour Week Promised To Police Force
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 2
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Minister for Conservation (Mr. Weir) told the annual conference of the Police Association to-day that the 40-hour week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Denies Assault on Wife
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 7
MRS. EILEEN MURIEL GAHAN alleged at Newcastle Sessions that her husband, Maurice Gahan, 39, labourer, had assaulted her in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, S.m.)
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 7
DISORDERLY:—Michael Bikoft, 43, seaman, was fined £10, with £3/3/ costs, for having behaved in a disorderly manner on the British ship Trident on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Quarter Sessions At Newcastle (Before Judge Nield) Theft From Railways
The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 3
John Athol Christopher Kane. 22. railway porter, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing two cartons of cigarettes, the property of the Railway Commissioner, at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Would Like To Police Hotels
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 2
The strictest attention should be said to seeing that hotels provided accommodation for tourists and the travelling public, Mr. C. G…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Called To Wounded Man
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 1
Detectives were called early this morning to St. Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, where they found a man with head injuries and a bullet wound…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"In Hands of Court"
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 3
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—No action has yet been taken by the Commonwealth to intervene in the Victorian metal trades dispute…
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