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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1952

2,290 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 62 of 115

Decision Of Court "Given Later" (Continued from Page 1)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 4

Mr. R. M. Eggleston, Q.C., assisted by Mr. D. Corson, told the Arbitration Court he would appear on behalf of the Electrical Trade Union of Australia, the Federal Miscellaneous Workers' Union, the Australian Workers' Union, the Federated Clerks' Union,…

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Maitland Court Before Mr. V. R. Jenkins, J.p

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 5

BEGGING CHARGE.—Thomas Andrews, 51, labourer, of no fixed abode, was charged with having at Maitland on August 2…

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Court at Newcastle (Before Mr R. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 14

Henry Hickligh, 41, hotelkeeper, was remanded until Aug. 13 on a charge of driving a car in Maitlana Rd., Mayfield, on…

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Kurri Court Before Messrs. P. Johnson and D. G. HUGHES, J's.P

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 5

RESISTED AREEST.—Cyril Cecil Vincent Roach, 35, wheeler, of Bellbird-street, Abermain, was fined £5 for haling used…

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Migrant Fined For Assault

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 10

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A migrant had tipped up all the furniture of a Waterloo home on Saturday, torn off…

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Canadian Gaol Riot Quelled

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 8

MONTREAL, Tuesday (A.A.P.): An attempt to renew rioting in Montreal'se Bordeaux Gaol was…

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How To Behave In Gaol

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 8

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5. A.A.P.—The film producer, Walter Wanger, serving a four-month term for shooting and…

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Judge Says Police Supt. Is Fit To Go To Court

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: The Liquor Commissioner (Mr. Justice Maxwell) said today that he had not the slightest doubt that the Metropolitan Police Superintendent, W. C. S. Thompson, was well enough to come to the Commission. After a doctor had given,…

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Gardener On Charge Of Assault Before Judge Brennan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 7

The trial began at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday of Lyall Mervyn Humbles, 30, gardener, of Dagworth, who…

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Mother's Thanks To Police

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 12

LONDON: A mother said at Southend Juvenile Court that her 12-year-old son's pocket money next week…

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Liquor Inquiry: Police Visitors To Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Names of police officers who visit the Captain Cook Hotel, Mcore…

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49 Mines Stop On Court Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 8

Miners at 49 New South Wales coalmines went on strike yesterday in protest against the employers' application to the Arbitration Court for a lower basic wage…

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Anxiety In Maitland; Police Alerted As River Rises

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 1

After a respite of little more than two years, flood danger is again mounting hourly at Maitland. From a height of 22ft. 6in. at 8 a.m. today the Hunter River at the Belmore Bridge had risen to 26ft. 3in. shortly after midday…

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Woolcott Forbes Is Examined By Court o

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: The former financier John Woolcott Forbes told the Bankruptcy Court today that although he did not have a penny in 1947 and his wife had about £700, they were now living in a £12,000 home, ran a car and sent their children to a private school…

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Cessnock Court Before Mr. F. WOOD, S.M.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 7

ASSAULT IN COMPANY.—Francis Orchard, of Myra-road, Cessnock, Keith Beckett, of Hunter-street, Cessnock, and…

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Union Fails To Block Court In Hours Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The six Arbitration Court judges to-day rejected a claim by the Boilermakers' Society that they, or, alternatively, the Chief Judge alone, could not justly hear the wages and hours case…

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Union Move To Boycott Court In N.Z.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 8

AUCKLAND, August 5. A.A.P.-Reuter.—The National Executive of the New (Zealand Federation of…

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Court At Wallsend (Before Mr. F. R. Wood, S.m.) Remanded

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 14

A remand to Sept. 7 on £50 bail was granted James Pritchard, 23, laborer, who was charged with having embezzled…

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Newcastle Court (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Drove Under Influence

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 August 1952 · page 4

Brian George Pead, 23, laborer, was fined £10 when he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving a car in Denison St.,…

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Floods Stop Magistrate

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 August 1952 · page 14

Owing to the flood position at Maitland, Mr. F. R Wood, S.M., was unable to attend the usual sitting of…

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