Man Charged with the Thefts From D.m.r
Detective Sergeant John Imrie said in the Bega Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. Wm. Cobcroft, J.P., on Thursday,…
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Court Crowded with Cases Long List Causes Adjournments
The lists have been so long at recent Bega Courts of Petty Sessions, that many cases have been adjourned…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local & General Murder at Wollongong
Sydney police, investigating the murder of Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, licence of the Oxford Hotel, Wollongong, on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Useless Cheques Drawn Bega Police Get Reports From North
The Bega police have been informed that a number of transactions have been settled in the northern part of the State and Queensland, with cheques drawn on the Bega branch of a bank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Robbery at Golf Club-house Man Charged with Offence
When Mr. Ralph Linehan, caretaker at the Bega Golf Club, arrived at the links on Wednesday morning, he found…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smart Police Work
Receiving a police message that a man, who had been, slashing valuable cheques about it Bega, Quaama, Cobargo and other…
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Erroll Dan Dummett was not very discreet when he attempted to drive away from the Central Hotel, on June 16,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licensing Court
In the Bega Licensing Court, on Wednesday July 4, Thomas Francis Dunne agreed to have the licence of the Bemboka Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Traffic Offences Another Big Batch at Berry Court
Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr. A. Fleeman, was kept busy at Berry Police Court, on Friday last, dealing with over 80…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Gets Nine Months Gaol Stung People From Cobargo To Berry
A man who has been twice declared an habitual criminal, and released from prison in May this year, after serving a six months sentence at Goulburn, was sent back' to prison by Mr. Fleeman, S.M., at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal Court Inaugurated by Lord Chancellor
Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor, recently inaugurated the new Supreme Court of Appeal for East Africa in a ceremony full of local colour. The Lord Chancellor administered the judicial oath to the two justices of appeal who have already been appointed include the first President of the court, Sir Barclay Nihill, formerly Chief Justice of Kenya. Left to right are: R S. Thacker Acting Chief Justice,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rumpus at Bega Cafe Man Assaults Police And Resists Arrest
When Constable Lance Stirton, of the Bega Police, arrived at a Bega cafe, on May 14, the proprietor, Harry O’Donovan, said, pointing toward William Leslie Jamieson: “Take him out of here, or I’ll kill him,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oil Dispute Before the Hague Court
The refusal of the persian Government to settle the oil dispute with the Anglo-Iranian Oil company by negotiation in sprite of repeated British efforts towards such a solution of the deadlock, has made it necessary for the British Government to seek other…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“EDEN P.P. Board Not Biased” Evidence In Court Case Resented By Chairman
The Chairman of the Eden Pastured Protection Board (Director Douglas Thomson), at last Friday’s meeting of the Board, said that he deplored some of the evidence given in the recent case in which the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tension in District Court
An adjournment in a traffic case came abruptly when Mr. E. G. Whitlam, counsel for the defendant Wilfred John…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judge Remarks on Theft of Public Property No Immunity For Public When They Steal From Govt. Departments
At the Bega Quarter Sessions, on Monday last week, His Honour Judge Berne said that the theft of public property is a very serious matter, and the public must not be given the impression that they have an immunity from punishment when they steal articles that belong to Government Departments…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sequel to Recent Fire Young Man Charged
A sensation was caused at Berry on Thursday last, when detectives after questioning a young Berry man, laid a charge against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local & General Coroner’s Court
At the suggestion of the District Coroner, Mr, U. K. Walsh, the Kiama Coroner, Mr. Arthur Oakes, will preside at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tenancy Case and High Court
Mr. E. J. Forrest S.M., at the Bega Court of Petty Sessions, on Wednesday last week, adjourned a tenancy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Police Inspector
Inspector A. E. Brown, accompanied by Mrs. Brown and daughter Miss Brown, arrived Bega on Monday evening,…
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