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Courts & crime, 1917

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Rural Workers' Claims. Application to the Court

The Cobargo Chronicle · Saturday 1 December 1917 · page 2

The Australian Workers' Union is Applying lo the Industrial Arbitration Court for an award regulating the rates, terms, and conditions of rural…

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District Court

The Nowra Leader · Friday 7 December 1917 · page 7

According to a notification in the Govt. Gazette the District Court will not in future sit at the following places in this…

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Kaiser’s Court

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 December 1917 · page 3

“Mr. Gerard’s picture in the London ‘Telegraph’ of the theatrical flunkeydom in which the Kaiser revels is like a page torn from Carlyle. The…

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“Bush Memories.” Opening of the Public Court at Throobleboobledoona

The Bega Standard and Candelo, Merimbula, Pambula, Eden, Wolumla, and General Advertiser · Friday 7 December 1917 · page 6

Throoblebooble doona exists only is name; but it will serve to signify a certain bush township, where the events here recorded once actually occurred. Like…

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Local Police Court

The Southern Record and Advertiser · Saturday 15 December 1917 · page 2

At the Candelo Police Court on Monday, before Mr. Sheppard, P.M., Isabella Sarah Williams was charged with using offensive language to…

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Nowra Police Court. Wednesday, December 19. (Before Mr. Clegg, P.M.)

The Nowra Leader · Friday 21 December 1917 · page 4

A youth was fined 40, and 8 court costs, for using obscence language towards a couple of coloured young ladies in Kinghern street, Nowra, on a…

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Nowra Police Court. Wednesday, Dec. 19. (Before Mr. Clegg, P.m.) Indecent Language

The Shoalhaven News and South Coast Districts Advertiser · Saturday 22 December 1917 · page 2

A lad named Morrison pleaded guilty to using indecent language, and was find 40s and costs. MAINTENANCE ORDER…

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Suspension of District Court Sittings at Kdem

The Twofold Bay Magnet : and South Coast and Southern Monaro Advertiser · Monday 24 December 1917 · page 4

We stated briefly in our last issue that [?] had been omitted from the District Court fixtures for the coming year. No reason for this action is…

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