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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1941

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Traffic Breaches. Motor Drivers in Court

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 March 1941 · page 3

Four motorists pleaded guilty at the Lismore Police Court yesterday to breaches of the Motor Traffic Act. The police magistrate…

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Britain's Military Police

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 5

Britain's Military Police Units parading in gas masks. They have been formed from the ranks of mobile policemen (or "speed cops") and the road scouts of motor organisations, and are that expert motor-cyclists with a thorough knowledge…

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Casino Court Cases

Northern Star · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 2

CASINO, Thursday.--At the Casino Police court to-day before Mr. A. J. Bryant P.M., Frank Hansen (22), a plasterer, of Lismore, who pleaded…

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Found Guilty of Contempt of Court

Tweed Daily · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 6

BRISBANE, Thursday:--Arising out of publication in the "Courier Mail" on February 26 of a statement attributed to E. B. Maher, leader of the State…

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Court Decision Affects Universal Military Trainees

Northern Star · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday.--An important decision affecting men who have been called up for compulsory military training, and who, as a…

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Police Magistrate's Transfer

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 4

Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., has received notice of his transfer from Lismore to the Tamworth circuit. He will leave Lismore at the end of this month…

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Police Court Fines for Drunkenness

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 2

"I would rather not," was the answer given by Harold Becker (34) to a suggestion by Mr. J. Mc Elray, P.M., in the Lismore Police…

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Bound Over on Stealing Charge

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 2

Two members of the ground staff of the R.A.A.F. were bound over on their own recognisance after pleading guilty in the Lismore…

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Doctor and Farmer on Murder Charge

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday:--Franklin Christian Richards (64), medical practitioner, and Frank Henry Knowles (42), farmer, were remanded until…

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Casino Court House

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.--Three tenders were received to-day by the Tender Board of the Department of Works and Local Government for external…

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Police Transfers

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 6

Constable 1C H. Fletcher, of Lismore, has received notification of his transfer to Nimbin. Constable 1C M. Griffin, who has been stationed at…

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Knight Charged with Murder

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 1

NAIROBI, Tuesday:--Major Henry John Delvis Broughton has been charged with the murder of the Earl of Errol, 25th Hereditary Lord High…

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Police Court Motor Traffic Breaches

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 7

Pleading guilty in Murwillumbah Court yesterday to a charge of driving around a bend on the wrong side on the Pacific Highway on the…

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Charged Under National Security Act

Northern Star · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.-- Edward Crowe (65), of South Melbourne, a native of Ireland, was to-night arrested and charged under the…

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Wages in Lieu of Notice Claimed Against Dairyman Murwillumbah Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 3

A claim for £15 wages in lieu of notice, 10 damages for delayed payment of these wages and £110 wages for extra work was made by Harold…

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Stealing Charge

Tweed Daily · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 4

Murwillumbah police received advice yesterday that William Blake had been charged in Brisbane with stealing a utility truck, the property of Alfred…

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Murwillumbah Court

Tweed Daily · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 6

At Murwillumbah Court on Saturday morning, before Messrs. F. Pocock and J G. Price. J's.P., two young men. Kevin John Farrell and Bernard James…

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22 Men Arrested in Police Raid

Northern Star · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 4

Lismore police requisitioned a ton motor lorry late yesterday afternoon to carry to the police station material and…

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Coroner's Court Death From Asphyxia

Northern Star · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 4

The deputy district coroner (Mr. A. C. Joubert) returned a finding at the conclusion of an inquest in Lismore on Saturday morning…

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22 Men Arrested in Police Raid at Lismore

Tweed Daily · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 2

LISMORE, Sunday:--Lismore police requisitioned a ton motor lorry late this afternoon to carry to the police station material and…

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