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Courts & crime, 1925

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Victorian Wages Boards May Go to Court and Bring Awards Into Line

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 6

During the term in office last year of the Victorian Labor Government, permission was given to industries that had wages board determinations and…

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Civil Servants Demand Justice Their Right to Go to Arbitration Court Depends on Labor's Return

The Labor Daily · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 1

IN ORDER to get common justice the public servants of the State now realise that they must place their faith in a Labor Government. NOT ONLY HAS the Faller-Bavin Government deprived 20,000 public servants of the rights of arbitration; but in matters affecting…

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Quarter Sessions. No. 1 COURT. (Before Judge Edwards.) Crown Prosecutor, Mr. L. J. McKean. ACQUITTED

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 6

Edward Henry Lyon, for whom Mr. R. A. Patrick apppared, was charged with committing [?] serious offence upon Linda May Smith, a girl 14 years and 11 months of age, at…

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District Court. (Before his Honor Judge Scholes.) Workmen's Compensation Act. Whaloy v Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 6

Annie Mary Whaley, widow, of Rose Bay, was a claimant for compensation under too Workmen's Compensation Act against the Union S.S. Company of New Zealand, Ltd.,…

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The Thompson Cup Competition Nearing Finality St. George Defeats Botany: West Vanquishes East Police Carnival: Australian Team in N.Z. What the Clubs are Doing

Arrow · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 13

The Thompson Cup competition is nearing finality. It will be advanced a farther stage next Saturday afternoon at the Sports Ground, when Western Suburbs will meet Botany, and East Sydney will tackle St. George—one in certain field game, jumping and hurdle events, and the other in a full programme…

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Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 14

Queen's-square.—Before the Chief Industrial Magistrate, at 10 a.m.—For hearing: Fitzgerald v McK[?]a, Rowland V Peel, same v Reed (two cases), same v Allen, same v Mcl[?]llan, At 10.30 a.m.: Hunt v Railway…

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Alleged Stealing

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 5

At penrith Police court on Tuesday, William H[?] Crawford (20), a laborer, of St. Marys, wan charged with stealing, on or about 25th. January, at…

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Motorist Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 14

Alfred John Rich, aged [?]8 years, a blind-maker, was charged before Mr. McMahon, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, with having driven a motor car in Eddy-avenue, on February 7, whilst…

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Butcher Attacked Brothers Charged

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 5

How a butcher who was wearing his pyjama coat inside out, with £120 in notes pinned up in the pricket, was attacked in bed at 3 o'clock in…

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Losses by Fire and Burglary. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 18

At Mr. Arthur J. Gi[?]ford's Strathnoon orchard, a six-roomed weatherboard cottage and a detached workshop, valued at £750, were destroyed by fire this morning, during the…

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Alleged Theft of Motor Cars

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 14

Drury Small, aged 23 years, an electrician, appeared before Mr. Giles Shaw, C.S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, to answer charges of having stolen [?]e motor cars from garages in the…

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Gaol Sentences Cases at Darlinghurst

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 5

The following sentences were passed at the Darlinghurst Versions yesterday. Before Judge Edwards (No. 1…

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Union Collects Employers Lapses Magistrate's Ruling

The Labor Daily · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 6

Though he expressed nome doubt as to making a precedent, the Chief Industrial Magistrate, Mr. G. C. Addison, yesterday, ordered that the…

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Infant's Death. Young Woman Charged. Muswellbrook

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 18

The finding of the body of a male infant in a parcel on the railway premises here on Wednesday afternoon, after the arrival of the Sydney to Tamworth train, resulted in…

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District Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 14

Before his Honor Judge Monahan and juries, in No. 1 Court—At 10 a.m.: Ritchie v Newland, Hamilton v Lamier, Agnew v Edwards. Note: The list will be called over punctually at 10 a.m…

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Police Assaulted. Wilcannia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 18

At the local police court, before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, stipendiary magistrate, Frank Arnold, Walter Jorgensen, Herbert Brown, and George Scoble were each sentenced to three…

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Industrial Arbitration Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 14

[?]ndustrial Court-house, Queen's-squae.—No. 1 Court— Before his Honor Mr. Justice Edmunds—At 10 a.m.— For hearing: Re Textile Workers' (State) award, application by General Textile Workers' Union of…

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Trust Moneys. Young Woman Charged. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 14

At the Dunedin Police Court a smartly dressed young woman, whose name was suppressed, was charged under an Australian warrant, with unlawfully receiving £10[?]0 at…

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Plea of Insanity Charge of Wife Murder AUCKLAND

The Sun · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 1

At the trial of James[?] in [?] charge of murdering his wife at Remuera on C[?]ber 5. the defence called several doctors, who [?]d…

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Honeymooning Burglar Sent to Gaol Arrested in Adelaide for Biggest 1924 Job

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 14 February 1925 · page 9

Four years' penal servitude and declared an habitual criminal means that late in 1932 or early in 1933 Ike Ferguson will be free. He will then be a ticket-o'-leave man, for such all released H.C.'s are. It was under the name of John James Richardson Clark that…

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