The Beer Went "Off" Man Charged with Stealing
The Bega District News · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 2
Although about 20 to 30 people were in the ba[?] of the Hotel Bermagui on the afternoon of March 12 last, a man was charged at the Bega Court of Petty Sessions, on Thursday last, with having stolen a keg of beer from the bar at that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A'fuedin' and A'fightin' Court Actions For Assault
The Bega District News · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 4
A tale which resembled nothing so much as the story of Martins and the Coys was told before Mr. Bott, S.M., in Bega Court of Petty Sessions on Wednesday last, when well-known Wolumla residents clashed over a disagreement…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Milk Lorry Cover Case Verdict Announced Court Has No Jurisdiction
The South Coast Register · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 5
The verdict in a case of interest to all milk carriers conveying milk from dairy farms to Milk Board receiving factories…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Magistrate Offers Advice Few Cases at Petty Sessions
The Bega District News · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 2
“Some people become wise with age, others through experience. I hope you will become wise through experience.”…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deadly Assault on Freedom Mr. Treatt Attacks Press Ban
The Bega District News · Tuesday 12 July 1949 · page 1
"The New South Wales Government had made its most deadly assault on democratic principles and freedom of the Press, in its bill to ban publication of election comment for 70 hours before the dosing of polls," declared the State…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Police Jeep for Wyndham Commissioner Rejects Application
The Bega District News · Tuesday 12 July 1949 · page 1
Representative bodies of the Wyndham Police District recently appealed to the Member for Monaro, Mr. J. W. Seiffert, M.L.A., to make…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Police Court Traffic Breaches
The South Coast Register · Thursday 21 July 1949 · page 4
Six cases, embracing breaches of the Motor Traffic Act, were dealt with by the Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Man on Stealing Charge Alleged Theft of Goods
The Bega District News · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 2
As a result of the theft of a wireless set and watch from a camp at Bodalla last week-end, a man was charged at the Bega Court on Monday afternoon last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Nurses Now Have Tennis Court Excellent Voluntary Effort
The Bega District News · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 2
One of Bega’s best voluntary public efforts was completed at the Nurses’ Home, on Saturday, when the tennis court was left almost ready for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cafe Brawl Finishes in Court Man Fined Ten Pounds
The Bega District News · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 2
The Donnybrook which flared up in the Niagara Cafe, in Carp Street, Bega, on July 28, had an aftermath in the Bega Police Coast last week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Hears Shocking Wife-beating Story Tathra Man Prosecuted by Wife
The Bega District News · Tuesday 9 August 1949 · page 1
What must rank as one of the most degrading accounts of wife beating was heard in the Bega Police Court, on Thursday, by Mr. Bott, Stipendiary Magistrate, when Mrs. Vera May Richards prosecuted her husband, William Richards, for assault…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Daring Car Theft Mr. John Momsen’s Morris Missing
The Bega District News · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 2
What appears to have been a very daring theft took place last night when a car was stolen from the yard of Momsen’s Gargage, Gipps Street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gross Negligence Caused Car Accident Magistrate Points To Drivers’ Obligations
The Bega District News · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 5
The defendant was provided with a road sign, and clearly marked guide stones to indicate the curve in the highway. It was a clear night therefore the course of the road should have been in his vision before his attention was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Bega Court Magistrate Hears Many Cases
The Bega District News · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 4
Nerves were getting a bit frayed, and the fingers of the deposition clerk (Mr. Cobcroft) were losing some of their accurate speed last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Quick Arrest After Bega Assault Woman Alleges Rough Handling
The Bega District News · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 1
Bega police officers made a quick arrest of a man following complaints by a female member of the Bega District Hospital staff that she was assaulted on Friday evening when returning to her quarters in the hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Promotion for Police Officer. Inspector Young’s Fine Record
The Bega District News · Friday 2 September 1949 · page 2
Few people in this district will fail to congratulate newly promoted Inspector Jim Young who received word of his change of status from Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tennis at Nurses’ Home Court Now Ready for Play
The Bega District News · Tuesday 6 September 1949 · page 7
The tennis court at the Bega Nurses’ Home might not produce a Wimbledon champion, but it will provide a valuable opportunity for the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Convicted on Rabbit Charge Two Landholders Before Court
The Bega District News · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 1
Two district land owners appeared before Mr. Bott S.M., at the Court of Petty Sessions, Bega, on Wednesday, on a charge of failing to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Dies In Pambula Police Cell Removed From Hospital After Disturbance
The Bega District News · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 1
Placed in a police cell at Pambula, on Wednesday morning last, after having become uncontrollable as a patient at the Pambula District Hospital, a man was shortly afterwards found to be dead…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Charged with Cruelty to Horse Magistrate Orders Animal Destroyed
The Bega District News · Tuesday 13 September 1949 · page 1
A story of unbelievable cruelty to an animal was told before Mr. Bott, S.M., at the Bega Petty Sessions on Thursday last, when George Tradd, 46, a travelling hawker, was charged with having cruelly ill-treated a horse…
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