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Riverina · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1946

1,494 stories in Riverina's papers · page 6 of 75

Licensing Court

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 3

Renewal of billiard room licenses for 1946 were granted to Claude S. Doherty, Oaklands; Leslie J. Fox, Urana, and James A. Mulcahy,…

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Police Court (Before Mr. R. M. Stewart, P.M., at Urana, on January 10th)

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 3

Murray Evans proceeded against Malcolm Roy Jones for allegedly using insulting words in a public place. Defendant was in a public place. Defendant was convicted and…

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Tokyo Police Threaten Strike

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 1

TOKYO, Mon, (A.A.P.): Fifteen thousand Tokyo police are planning to strike for a 200 per cent. wage…

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Police Court Wednesday, January 16 (Before Mr. Hardwicke, P.M.) Travelling on Footboard of Carriage

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 1

John James Fitzpatrick was charged by F. L. Rodley, traffic Inspector, with travelling on the footboard of a railway carriage on 10th November…

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Wagga Police Court Monday, January 21, 1946 (Before Mr. E. A. Hardwicke, P.m.) False Endorsement Charge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 4

At the Wagga Police Court yesterday, before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, P.M., Thomas Henry Sutton, agent, of Wagga, was charged…

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Ex-servicemen for the Police Force

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 1

The possibility of allowing ex-servicemen to join the police force, even though they were over the prescribed age for enlistment, wAs…

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Body of Infant in Lagoon Wagga Police Still Inquiring

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 2

The Wagga police are continuing their inquiries in connection with the body of the infant found recently in Wollundry Lagoon…

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Could Not Write— Sentenced for Forgery

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 6

A man who claimed he could not read or write was sentenced to three months with hard labor at the Orange Court on a charge of…

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'Bureaucratic Blackmail" Allegations in Brisbane Court

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 2

BRISBANE, Wed.: Costs, totalling £15/15/ were to-day allowed Bruce Pie, M.L.A., against the Commonwealth in the Summons Court, when…

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Bail Granted on Charge of Murder Judge Refuses to Hold Man

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: In Chambers to-day Mr. Justice Street granted bail in £1000 to Douglas Ronald Morris, aged 26…

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Flood Waters Isolate Moree Police and Ambulance Take People From Homes

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 5
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Flood voters from the Mclntyre and Mehi Rivers completely isolated Moree yesterday when the water, four feet deep, was…

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Police Court (Tuesday) Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, P.M. Wilful Damage

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 2

McDonald Sinclair, a stranger, was charged with wilfully damaging one glass door, the property, of the Commissioner of Railways…

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Police Court Wednesday, January 23 (Before Mr. H. G. Cobley, J.P.) Drunk and Offensive Behaviour

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 2

John Francis Grogan (46) was charged with being found drunk in East Street. Plea guilty…

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Court House Statistics for 1945

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 2

During the year 1945 there were 274 births in Leeton as compared with 76 deaths, while the marriages for the same period totalled 59. Of…

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Body of Infant in Lagoon Wagga Police Still Inquiring

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 1

The Wagga police are continuing their inquiries in connection with the body of the infant found recently in Wollundry Lagoon…

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Junee Court Case Appeal

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 January 1946 · page 2

J. Payne, formerly licensee of the Locomotive Hotel, Junee, who was recently fined £150 on three charges in relation to motor tyres, at the…

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New Police Uniform Means Passing of Hunting Crop

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 28 January 1946 · page 1

Hunting crops or riding whips carried by officers of the police force in Goulburn as an insignia of office have been replaced by gloves…

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Stealing Machine Guns From R.A.F. Station Near Tel Aviv

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 29 January 1946 · page 1

JERUSALEM, Tuesday: Fifteen armed men yesterday stole 200 sub-machine guns from an R.A.F. station at Aquir, 20 miles south of Tel Aviv…

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Serious Assault on Girl

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Alan Stanley Hines, aged 18 years, laborer, was charged at Ryde Court to-day with a serious assault on a…

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