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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1948

1,233 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 5 of 62

Kyogle Litigants Disputed £621 In District Court

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 1

Seventeen actions were sent from Kyogle for determination by the District Court sitting at Casino last year. Total amount involved was…

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Big List of Court Cases, But Only A Few Dealt With

Tweed Daily · Friday 16 January 1948 · page 2

Of the 23 cases listed for hearing at Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, only six were heard--one ex parte…

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Charge of Assault at Upper Burringbar

Tweed Daily · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 3

Frederick Leonard Laws (18) appeared in Murwillumbah Court of Petty Sessions yesterday on a charge of having assaulted Arthur…

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Court Dismisses Plagiarism Suit

Northern Star · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday (AAP). --Federal Judge John Bright yesterday dismissed the plagiarism suit against the English author, Daphne…

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World Force Urged to Police Palestine

Northern Star · Saturday 17 January 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday (AAP.)--Notice of a resolution that Security Council be requested immediately to establish an international military force to maintain order in…

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On Stealing Charge

Northern Star · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 4

A man was arrested at Ballina on Saturday morning on a provisional warrant from Queensland charging him with stealing £30, the property…

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Assault, Robbery Alleged

Northern Star · Monday 19 January 1948 · page 4

Lismore police are searching for two men who allegedly assaulted William James Mills, a banana worker, of Mountain Top, Nimbin,…

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Six Months' Gaol

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 5

A man with an interstate record was sentenced to six months' gaol at Urbenville Police Court on Saturday. The man was Victor King, who…

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Farmer Sentenced Over Relief Grant

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 7

At Balranald Court of Petty Sessions, Angus Graham McLennan, of Swan Hill, who pleaded guilty fore Mr. E. J. Etherton, S.M., was…

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Second Arrest On Car Theft Charge

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

A second man was arrested yesterday by Detective-Constable G. North, of Murwillumbah, and charged with having stolen a car,…

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Woman Alleges Criminal Assault by Four Men

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Police are investigating a report by a young married woman that she was criminally assaulted by four men…

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Police Use Military Tactics

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: The police adopted military tactics to smash a large two-up school at Wallerawang, near Li[?]hgow…

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Police Campaign Against Unsafe Motor Vehicles

Northern Star · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 4

Lismore police this week will join in a State-wide campaign against the use of defective motor vehicles on New South Wales roads…

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Railway Scuffle Brings Taxi Drivers to Court

Northern Star · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 4

For years it has been the custom of taxi drivers, clustered around the entrance to the railway station at Lismore, waiting for the North…

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Youth for Trial; Murder Charge

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 3

LANDSBOROUGH, Tuesday: A 15-year-old youth was committed for the at the Children's Court today on a charge that he wilfully…

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Lismore Theatres Star Court

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 5

"MOLLY AND ME": The Joyous comedy, "Molly and Me", opens tonight at the Star Court Theatre, with Gracie Fields and Monty…

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Police Sgt. Injured in Road Accident

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 January 1948 · page 4

Riding to his home in Casino Street, South Lismore, early yesterday afternoon, Sergeant W. J. Good, of Lismore Police, sustained slight…

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Charged with Disloyalty

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 6

HONG KONG, Wednesday: G. S. Kennedy Skipton, formerly one of the senior cadets at Hong Kong, will be tried…

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Committal for Gaol Escapee

Northern Star · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--The Long Bay Gaol escapee, Crofton Edward Barnes, 26, who gave himself up to the police after 10 days, was…

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Former Tas. Premier Charged

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

HOBART, Wednesday: An indictment was filed by the Crown Law Department in the Supreme Court…

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