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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1960

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Stole Tyres From Queanbeyan Factory Sentenced to Goal

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 January 1960 · page 6

A Dutch migrant and a German migrant were sentenced to goal for stealing four tyres from a Queanbeyan factory at the last Cooma Court of Quarter Sessions…

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Queanbeyan Police Report A Quiet Holiday Period

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 January 1960 · page 1

No major road accidents were reported in the Queanbeyan district during the Christmas New Year, holiday period, despite a record number of tourists and exceptionally heavy through traffic, and no fatalities…

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Chamber of Commerce to Seek Adjournment Of Court Cases Poll To Be Taken On Extended Hours

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 January 1960 · page 1

The Queanbeyan Chamber of Commerce at a meeting on Wednesday night, decided to instruct its solicitor to seek an adjournment of the hearing of summonses served on local businessmen for night…

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Charges Against Traders Adjourned Until March 3rd Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 January 1960 · page 1

En the Queanbeyan industrial Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, 109 charges against Queanbeyan shopkeepers for trading after the prescribed hours were adjourned until March 3…

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Traffic offenders On Local Court List

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 26 January 1960 · page 5

Nine summonses against live different motorists, were heard by Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. A. Fordyce, at the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions, on Wednesday. The summonses resulted…

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Theft of Bicycles Reported

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 February 1960 · page 1

Bicycle thieves have been active again following the [?] in this undesirable activity after the…

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Police Active Against “Roadhogs”

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 February 1960 · page 1

Queanbeyan’s traffic patrol officer, Constable G. Alcook, has been active in recent weeks campaigning…

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Police Traffic Patrol Needed Permanently

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 February 1960 · page 1

Queanbeyan Municipal Council will press for the permanent retention of a police constable in…

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Driver Charged With Stealing

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1960 · page 12

Aubrey Francis Bradley, 31, driver, of Collins Street, Queanbeyan, appeared before Mr. F. C. P. Keane,…

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Industrial Court Case Adjourned

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1960 · page 4

A case in the Queanbeyan Industrial Magistrates Court, in which Ellen Cushieri (nee Borg) is…

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Traffic Cases Heard Ex-parte at Local Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 February 1960 · page 4

Five defendants failed to appeal to answer traffic charges at the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesdy and the matters were disposed of…

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Magistrate Advocates A Police and Citizens Boys’ Club For Queanbeyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 March 1960 · page 1

In an address to last night’s meeting of the Queanbeyan Apex Club, Mr. J. D. Button, S.M. advocated the formation of a Police and Citizens Boys Club in Queanbeyan. Mr. button who is a…

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Daring Theft From Tourist Hotel Offire

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 March 1960 · page 1

A large quantity of[?] arettes, valued at £140 was stolen from the office of the Tourist Hotel…

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Court Cases Show Marked Increase

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 March 1960 · page 1

There has been a marked increase in a number of cases dealt with at the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions last year…

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Indecent Assault At Bunaendore

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 March 1960 · page 1

A 64 year old: Bungendore man was yesterday remanded to Cooma Quarter Sessions on April 4 fro sentence…

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Escapees’ Long Gaol Sentence

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 March 1960 · page 1

Bigga “Man-hunt” gaol escapees, Brian Thomas Bullock and Anthony James Foster; have been sentenced…

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Man Charged After Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 March 1960 · page 1

A Queanbeyan man has been charged with driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor following…

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Canberra Men Remanded On Assault Charge

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 March 1960 · page 4

Two Canberra men were remanded to May 18 when they appeared before Mr. A. Fordyce S.M. in the…

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No Room on Road for Motorists Who Drink, Says Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 March 1960 · page 4

Stipendiary magistrate, Mr. A. Fordyce told two men who appeared before him in the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday that there was…

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Ald. E. C. O’Dea Attends Local Court

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 March 1960 · page 1

The secretary of the New South Wales Shop Assistants’ Union, Ald. E. C. O’Dea was in…

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