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Southern Highlands · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1943

7 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Aboriginal Tracker Honoured King's Police Medal for Distinguished Conduct

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 9 January 1943 · page 4

I have learned with pleasure that the Governor, Lord Wakehurst, has received advice that the King has [?] of the King's…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Shut My Big Mouth and Scattergood Survives a Murder

The Southern Mail · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 4

Joe E. Brown returns to the screen in Columbia's "Shut My Big Mouth," a laugh-loaded comedy of the wide open faces. Hailsd by Hollywood as…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Lucky Legs and Police Bullets

The Southern Mail · Friday 2 April 1943 · page 3

Jinx Falkenburg. Columbia's lonelegged lovely who once was America's number one magazine-cover girl and to-day is one of filmdom's most…

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Why the Police? (To the Editor.)

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 17 April 1943 · page 2

Sir,-According to the Press reports, our Police Force are blamed for inefficiency, inattention and want of action in cases of cattle…

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Charged with Horse Stealing Committed for Trial

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 June 1943 · page 3

At Bowral Court, on Friday, before Mr. Ryan, P.M., Frederick William Vare was charged with stealing a mare belonging to Stanley E. Sibley…

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Burradoo Burglary

The Southern Mail · Friday 16 July 1943 · page 3

The railway station at Burradoo was entered by burglars on Monday night and postal notes and cash to the value of £28 were stolen. The burglars…

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Police Aid District Ambulance Most Successful Ball at Moss Vale

The Southern Mail · Friday 29 October 1943 · page 2

The roseate anticipations of the organisers of the Police Ball at Moss Vale were more than realised when well over five hundred patrons took…

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