Hearing Adjourned Industrial Court Case
The case in which Sydney Carrington Smith, an inspector under the Factories and Shops' Act, is proceeding against Leslie James…
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Courts & crime, 1942
985 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 2 of 50
Magistrate Criticises Conscientious Objectors
AUCKLAND, Wednesday. — A magistrate in the Wellington Police Court to-day criticised a number of men who asked for exemption from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gaol Escapee Suicides After Gun Fight
SYDNEY, Wednesday:-- Robert Sidney Jones (36), who escaped from Maitland Gaol on November 7, 1940 shot himself dead in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Committed for Trial on Murder Charge
SYDNEY, Wednesday: -- The City Coroner (Mr. Oram) to-day committed Donald Pagett (47), linesman, for trial on a charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Casino Police Court Fined on Assault Charge
CASINO, Thursday.âAt the Casino court to-day before Mr. R. M. Stewart P.M., Esbert Clarke Robertson (33), a railway fitter, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rentals Charged Evacuees Exploitation Alleged
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Labour (Mr. Ward) will investigate immediately allegations that exorbitant rentals were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Italian Sent to Gaol Rifle Under House
SYDNEY, Thursday. — When the police raided the home of an unnaturalised Italian in Albion Street, Annandale, a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Chase After Stolen Car
Two members of the Lismore police. Sergt. C. Love and Const. T. B. Bresnahan, and a Lismore taximan, figured in a chase early…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Warning Has Good Results
Last week's police warning that, unless dairies were registered within seven days, action would be taken against the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Garrison Member on Murder Charge Xmas Day Shooting
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Giving evidence in the Landsborough Court to-day Police Sergt. Mawn said, that early on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Death of Former Supreme Court Judge
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The death occurred in a private hospital of Sir Alexander Gordon, formerly a judge of the Supreme Court. He…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"My God I've Shot My Corporal" Statement at Murder Hearing
BRISBANE, Thursday: -- "My God I've shot I've Corporal. We were good cobbers. I must have gone mad," said Mathew Peter…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Air (Mr. Drakeford) announced to-day that the New South Wales police were closely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vic. Police Active Against Sly Grog
MELBOURNE, Friday. — During: raids over the last month or two the Victorian licensing police have taken…
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"KIDNAPPED." Robert Louis Stevenson's widely read adventure story, "Kidnapped," opens this evening at the Star Court Theatre. Warner Baxter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Firearms Which Must Be Delivered to Police
All firearms coming within the categories announced under the National Security Regulations must be handed in to the police at once. The list does…
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HOBART, Monday:--Three men, George Edward Maxwell, undergoing indeterminate sentence for stealing, Horace Desmond Burgess, serving 18…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Arms Impressment Many Types Handed to Police
A room at the Lismore police station is becoming a miniature arsenal as a result of the Government's impressment of…
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BALLINA, Tuesday. — At the Ballina Police Court to-day Boota Singh, a market gardener residing at Teven, pleaded guilty to a…
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YASS, Tuesday. — Thomas William Davis (49), a grazier, of Good Hope, came before the Yass Police Court to-day on a charge of…
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