Help for Police Effort
Muttama people are to hold a public meeting at the Muttama hall on Sunday week, at 3 p.m., to consider ways and means of assisting the…
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Woman Claims She Was Assailant Female Victim of Alleged Assault Badly Injured Couple on Serious Charge
STATED by the police to be "badly knocked about" and alleged to have been the victim of an assault by a local man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tumut Police District Defence Fund Arrangements for Sports and Ball
A meeting of the Tumut Police District Defence Fund was held at the Shire Chambers. Tumut, on Monday evening, Sergeant, G. F. Levett…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tumut Police District Defence Fund Ball to Be Held on 27th August Procession and Sports on 16th OCTOBER
Another largely-attended meeting of the Tumut Police District Defence Fund Committee was held at the Shire Hall on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£3000 Theft Brisbane
Continuing a hunt after a third suspect in connection with the theft of £3000 near Woodford last week, two detectives flew by plane to Wilcannia…
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Charles D. McLean, proprietor of a bakery business at Gundagai, claimed. £100 damages from J.R.G. Glasscock, grazier, of Gundagai…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Notorious Gunman Murdered Brother Finds Body in Lane Police Fear Reprisals Sydney
Shot three times in the abdomen, William Smillie, aged 38 years, notorious gunman and razor-slasher, was found dead in an alleyway off…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rule Nisi Served on Junee Hospital Board Case in Supreme Court in Late July
A rule nisi was served upon the Board of Directors of the Junee District Hospital last week-end by Mr. A. (“Tim”) Bond…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Court Drunks, Etc
Alfred Howell (36), James Clark ,(56) and Cecil Boy Thompson were each fined 5/, in default the rising of the court, on charges of drunkenness…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Clerk Sentenced for Retention of Documents London
Arthur Jack Bradbury, clerical officer at the Paddington police station, pleaded guilty to retaining confidential documents and a book issued from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Police Court Monday, July 15, 1940 (Before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M.)
Alfred Thomas Lewis was charged with having assaulted Lionel Clarkson, a railway employee at Albury. He pleaded guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Narandera Police Out to Capture Enjoyment
Seeing that the "proclamation" demanding the presence of all and sundry at the Narandera Police Social Club's Grand Ball to be "holden" at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Police Appeal for War Funds Enthusiastic Response at Bethungra
A meeting in connection with the above appeal was held in the Bethungra C.W.A. Hall on Friday, July 12 at 8 p.m. It had been arranged by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Awarded £88 Damages Sustained in Accident Jones' Creek Lady Weeps in Court
Whilst under cross-examination in the Gundagai District Court on Wednesday last, Dorothea Ferguson, a married woman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →All Night Search for Lost 5-Year-Old Slept Oat in Rain; Narandera Sensation Citizens, Police, Schoolboys Join in Quest
AN all-night search for a 5-year-old Narandera child who had lost her way while returning home from her second day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tent Stealing
"I would be prepared to release you on a bond, if you could find a surety, but as you cannot, you will have to go to gaol, as I cannot alloy you to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Communistic Propaganda Circulated at Griffith Referred to Police
GRIFFITH, Wednesday: Councillor C. E. Stuart complained at the meeting of the Wade Shire Council that Griffith was being flooded with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Police Offer Raising Money to Buy Planes Tamworth
To buy planes for the R.A.A.F. the Tamworth police have offered to raise £15,000 in the town and surrounding district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Union Sticking to Arbitration Assurance Given to Court
MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Members of the Australian Railways Union in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania are in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Communistic Propaganda Circulated at Griffith Matter Referred to Police Griffith
Councillor C. E. Stuart complained at the meeting of the Wade Shire Council lass night that Griffith was being flooded with Communistic…
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