Gaol for Rubbish Bumpers Shire Councillors Incensed at Filthy Practice
WHEN a letter was received at the Council meeting on Thursday night from a ratepayer complaining about…
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Police Remove Farmers From Shepherds Siding Silos
After wheat deliveries to the Shepherds Siding silos had been held up for three hours yesterday, by three farmers, who although they…
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Wagga police were called to the Shepherd's Siding silo yesterday to order from the weighbridge three district farmers who claimed they had the right to have wheat stored in the silo…
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AS the result of raids by police from Sydney on December 13th a number of men appeared at the Leeton police court on…
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REPEATED bashings of two men lying helpless on the ground, one of them unconscious, after a convivial wine…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Appeals Against Bank Act Before Court on Feb. 9 Government Affidavit Challenged
MELBOURNE, Thursday: In the High Court today Mr. Justice Dixon decided that the hearing of appeals by three State Governments and various English and Australian banks against the banks nationalisation legislation would begin on February 9…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court of Petty Sessions Tuesday, January 12. (Before Mr. K. Smith, J.P.)
Leslie Norman Carr (23) was charged with behaving in an offensive manner in Audley Street on 12th January…
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BOWEN, Friday: Six seamen of the Fort Lennox appeared on remand today on a charge of having unlawfully killed a shipmate, Julius…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Allegations by a 26-year-old married woman that she was held captive In a deserted hut at Botany last night, and criminally…
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SYDNEY, Monday: In the Lunacy Court today a young woman, who was originally charged, on January 9, at Parramatta children's Court, with…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Police are investigating the death of Thomas Slyman, 75, who was found dead in his bed this morning in a small…
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A sensational sequel to the recent West Wyalong Golf Club house fire was heart at the court, when Lloyd Fleming, of West Wyalong, was…
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At wagga court of petty Sessions yesterday, Mr. Finley, S.M., found a charge of stealing against Edward J. Francis, 21, of Forest…
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MR. A. M. BOTT, newly appointed Stipendiary Magistrate, making his first visit to Leeton last week, and responding to a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man Charged With Theft of Wheat Bags
Following inquiries by Wagga, Ariah Parka and Barmedman police, a man was arrested at Orange last Saturday and charged with stealing…
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Mr. A. V. M. Quiggin, S.M., recently transferred from the Broken Hill circuit, presided at the Urana Court on Thursday…
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At Balranald Court of Pettv Sessions on 18th December, 1947, Angus Graham McLennan, of Swan Hill who pleaded guilty before Mr. E. J…
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A man who pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing 710 wheat bags, two bags of wheat and two butts of wheat was fined £ 15 and ordered…
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Sitting as a Licensing Court, Mr. Quiggan adjourned three applications by the licensing inspector for structural alterations to be made to…
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SYDNEY, Monday: Detectives today made a widespread search for four young men who allegedly raped a young married woman in…
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