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Courts & crime, 1950

1,296 stories in Riverina's papers · page 55 of 65

Signs Painted on Court Steps

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1950 · page 1

These slogans were painted on the front steps of the High Court, in Law Court Place, Melbourne, on Tuesday night…

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Employers Challenge Court's Right to Fix Date for Wage Rise

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 October 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday: The power of the Arbitration Court to make the announcement on Tuesday that the increased basic wage would operate from the first pay period in December was challenged by Mr…

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Author Charged With Libel

Daily Advertiser · Monday 30 October 1950 · page 2

CHARGED WITH criminal libel in his rovel, "Power Without Glory," Francis Joseph Hardy, 33, author (left), is seen arriving at the Melbourne City Court with his solicitor, Mr. T. H. Dall. Hardy was remanded to November 27 on £500 ball, with a…

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Gundagai Police Search For Bodies Of Burrinjuck Victims

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 30 October 1950 · page 1

GUNDAGAI Police and civilians yesterday continued the search for the bodies of the victims of the recent Burrinjuck Dam tragedy. They dragged the Murrumbidgee River from Jugiong to Gundagai, a distance of nearly forty miles. Sgt. A. A. Forbes, and…

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No Further Railway Stoppages Are Likely Pending Arbitration Court Proceedings

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 30 October 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday — While Sydney members of the A.F.U.L.E. are still meeting today, a mass meeting of A.R.U. members endorsed a recommendation that today's stoppage should not be extended…

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No Progress in Basic Wage Case Court Awaiting Altered Act Discussion on £1 Rise and State Awards

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 30 October 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE; The Arbitration; Court to-day announced it would not proceed with the basic wage case until the Commonwealth had…

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Police Oppose Request for Extradition

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 31 October 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday: A Sydney man who was charged in the Central Court today with having escaped from lawful custody in…

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New Australian Is Fined for Assault

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 November 1950 · page 2

Police said at Wagga Court yesterday that a New[?] Australian was summonsed for assault in order to up-hold the supervisor's authority at Uranquinty migrant centre…

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Wagga Court Items

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 November 1950 · page 2

For having cut timber from a Forestry Commission reserve without permission or a licence, Arthur Stanley, wood merchant,…

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Court Reaffirms Basic Wage Increase From First Pay in December

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 November 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The Acting Chief Judge of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court (Mr. Justice Foster) said today that the court still held that the increased basic wage plus the standardised prosperity…

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M.h.r. Says: "Government and Court in War of Economics"

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 November 1950 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday: Mr. Downer (Lib., S.A.) said the Arbitration Court and Federal Parliament were engaging in an economic war. "The Government is pounding for deflation and…

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Alleged Gaol Conversation Told at Inquest

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 November 1950 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday: A conversation he allegedly overheard between a man charged with two murders and his father…

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Two Migrants Charged Over Booby-Trap

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 November 1950 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wed.: Two Hungarian migrants appeared in court today after an electrically-controlled booby-trap in a…

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District Court Fees

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 2 November 1950 · page 2

The Attorney General (Hon C. E. Martin M L.A.) has announced that certain alterations in the scale of fees payable in the…

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Gundagai Police Kept Busy with Road Accidents

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 2 November 1950 · page 1

The toll of the road has greatly increased with the influx of transports over the |past week, and on an…

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Ex-Tumut Man Bashed Police Believe

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 2

Police believe that Charles Fowler, 25, of Merimbula and formerly of Tumut (son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Fowler, owners oi the Wynyard…

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Full High Court to Hear Anti-Red Bill Challenge

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday: The Full High Court will hear the Communist Party's challenge to the Communist Party Dissolution Act in Sydney on November 13, Mr. Justice Dixon announced in the High Court this afternoon. THE Communist Party intends…

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Court of Petty Sessions Adulterated Milk Two Defendants Fined

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 2

Two charges of having adulterated milk were dealt with at the Coolamon monthly Court of Petty Sessions, by Mr. Quiggin, S.M…

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Murrumbidgee Shire Council Monthly Meeting at Darlington Point Police Constable to Be Appointed

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 3

The monthly meeting of the Murrumbidgee Shire Council was held in the Council Chambers, Darlington Point, on Friday, 13th October, there…

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Court of Petty Sessions FRIDAY, 27th OCTOBER (Before Mr. Keith Smith, S.M.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 1

Robert Edward Smith (18) and Bramwell Mervyn Dudman (18) were charged with that on or about 12th October, at Leeton, they stole one…

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