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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1966

67 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 4

Magistrate Attacks Queanbeyan Drivers

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 January 1966 · page 5

Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. D. G. Hughes, has attacked Queanbeyan district who “drives to slowly and hug the centre of the road.”…

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An Understanding Qbn. Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 January 1966 · page 5

Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. S. G. Hughes, handling of a drunken driving case at Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions revealed him as a man of understanding and…

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Quiet Day in Queanbeyan Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 January 1966 · page 5

The opening Petty Sessions court in Queanbeyan for 1966 proved to be a quiet day with the bulk of the police list devoted to traffic offences…

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Outdated Police Buildings

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 January 1966 · page 3

The Premier (the Hon. R. W. Askin) has told Mr. Steve Mauger, M.L.A. that the matter of providing new…

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Rubber hose at police station

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 February 1966 · page 3

Queanbeyan police have in their possession a quantity of rubber hose found recently in Cooma Road in the…

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New Sergeant of Police takes up duties

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 February 1966 · page 1

Officer-in-charge of the Queanbeyan Police, Sgt. First Class E. Leamon, this week commenced duties,…

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Askin replies to Mauger No Finance for New Police Premises

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 February 1966 · page 5

In view of more urgent requirements elsewhere, the Premier, the Hon. R. W. Askin. says it is not possible at this juncture to give, consideration to the erection of a new police…

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Thirty-two arrested in police raids

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 February 1966 · page 1

Officers of 21 Division, Sydney and Queanbeyan police arrested 32 persons following raids on…

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Month’s gaol follows attack on sergeant

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 February 1966 · page 4

A man who struck a police sergeant in the stomach with a metal spike attached to a-stick has been gaoled for one month. Mr. D. G. Hughes, S.M., sentenced the man, Myno[?]…

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Mounted Police Attraction Unique display at Canberra show

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 March 1966 · page 3

The presence of a unit of the South Australian Mounted Police at the Canberra Show to-day and to-morrow provides a unique opportunity for show patrons to see…

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Unclaimed property at Police Staton

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 March 1966 · page 2

Queanbeyan police have in their possession a number of items of property which have been handed into them…

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Coroner’s Finding Murder-suicide in Queanbeyan double shooting

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 March 1966 · page 4

The deaths of James Welch McFarlane and Dorothy Maude Thompson on January 14 this year were-murder and suicide This was the finding of the…

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Seven days gaol for vagrant

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 March 1966 · page 3

Patrick, Joseph Maher, of no fixed abode, was sentenced; in the Queanbeyan Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday…

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$40 fines after scuffle with police officer

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 March 1966 · page 4

Two Queanbeyan men, who, during the hours of Tuesday morning used indecent language, assaulted a police officer and resisted arrest, were each fined a total of $40 in the…

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Migrant a nuisance says Magistrate

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 March 1966 · page 8

“Your record shows that you are a nuisance around the place and you have to learn to behave yourself” said ,Stipendiary Magistrate Mr. W. M. Sherley in the Junee Court of…

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Magistrate on to Licensing Court

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 March 1966 · page 3

The State Government has appointed a Stipendiary Magistrate as Deputy Chairman of the Licensing Court…

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Police Blitz on Parking

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 March 1966 · page 1

Sgt. E. Leamon. officer-in-charge of the Queanbeyan police said this afternoon police would be making an…

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Court House landscaping suggested

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 April 1966 · page 3

A Queanbeyan resident, Mr. H. Harridine, has suggested that improvements should be effected to land…

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Arrested in early police raid

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 7 April 1966 · page 1

A man who was arrested in an early raid by Queanbeyan police at a caravan park this morning, later…

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Extended police hours assured, says Mayor

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 7 April 1966 · page 1

Queanbeyan Police Station will become a full 24-hour station when the manpower necessary is available to provide the additional staff. The Mayor (Ald. F. E. Land)…

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