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Northern Rivers · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1949

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Police Seize Arms in Calcutta Violence Risk Tomorrow

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 1

CALCUTTA, Monday: The police today took charge of all guns and ammunition from the city's 15 gunshops as a precaution against an outbreak of violence on Wednesday, when the…

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Sentenced To Death For Murder

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A 42-year-old timber-cutter, Clarence Henry French, was sentenced to death in the Central Criminal…

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Holland Charged "Selling Austn. Wool For Dollars"

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday: The Financial Times today alleged that Holland would still seem to be the worst…

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Death Sentence In Taree Murder Trial

Northern Star · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Found guilty at the Central Criminal Court today of the murder of Thera Lorraine Godwin, 25, at Taree, on…

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Petrol Charges Wait on High Court

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday:--Petrol charges against a former Pyalong woodcarter, James Thomas Moroney, 34, in the…

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Court Asked to Intervene in Tram Strike

Northern Star · Wednesday 9 March 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Application was made to the Industrial Court by the City Council today for an order restraining the Tramway's…

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Court Action on Strike Deferred

Northern Star · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 5

BRISBANE, Wednesday.—The Full Industrial Court, after hearing an application by the Brisbane City Council for an order to…

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Brisbane Tram Strike Court Gives Men Opportunity

Tweed Daily · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wednesday: The full court of the Industrial Court today, after hearing an application…

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Police in New Role

Northern Star · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 4

The Police Association of N.S.W. is making every effort to place before the Arbitration Court the true facts of a policemans' life…

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Fight in Street Had Court Sequel

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 10

As a sequel to a fight in which he was involved in a Kyogle hotel on January 8, Herbert Henry Davis, 53, of Kyogle, was fined £2, in default…

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Bernbrook Fancied First-Up InDenham Court Handicap

Northern Star · Friday 11 March 1949 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thursday.—With numerous "class" horses re appearing after their summer spell, racing at Randwick on Saturday should give a line on prospects in the big autumn events…

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Remand on Charge of Stealing

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 2

On the application of the police at Tweed Heads Court yesterday, Vernon Edward Bennett, 23, laborer, was remanded to appear at…

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Gaol Terms for Sanford Bank Robbers

Northern Star · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday. — Four men Involved in the Sanford Bank hold up today received sentences ranging from 10 to five years…

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Police Officer's Thanks for Assistance

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 2

At Coolangatta yesterday Sergeant M. A. Bergin, officer in charge of the police district, expressed his appreciation of the…

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Stamps Auction in Prize Court

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 1

HAMILTON (Bermuda), Friday: One thousand million stamps, seized here in wartime, went on auction…

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"Row with Girl" Led To Court

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 2

Leonard Ashley Akers, 21, of Chinderah, told the bench at Tweed Heads yesterday that he had a row…

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Court Defied No Trams Today in Brisbane

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 1

BRISBANE, Friday: The executive of the Brisbane Tramways Union today decided to call another City…

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Jap Councillor Charged With Improper Conduct

Tweed Daily · Monday 14 March 1949 · page 3

TOKIO, Sunday: Two young women secretaries, Miss O'Hara, 17, and Miss Nishibavashi 23, shocked the Japanese Diet today with charges that a member of the House of…

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Lismore Theatres Star Court

Northern Star · Tuesday 15 March 1949 · page 2

"MR. BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE."—The smart comedy of domestic life, "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House," heads the…

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Bank Clerk's Disappearance 'Nothing to do with Court Proceedings'

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 15 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: The disappearance of the missing bank clerk, Ainslie Kingsford, and the betting transactions of William Urquhart, managing director of Sydney Pincombe Pty. Ltd., were raised at today's hearing of the Royal Commission into the New Guinea timber case…

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