Victoria's Fair Rents Court Many Drawbacks Melbourne
The Fair Rents Act brought in by the Dunstan government is to operate from March 20, but only in the metropolitan…
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6,973 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 250
Liquor Raids Crop of Convictions in Court
As the result of police raids on night clubs, the following convictions were recorded in the Licensing Court yesterday:--…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →J.woolcott-forbes Case. Extradition Proceedings. Magistrate Finds Prima Facie Case Proved. Detective to Go to Bombay
After the hearing of evidence against John Woolcott-Forbes, company director, had concluded in the Central Police Court yesterday, Mr. Reed, C.S.M., held that a prima facie case had been proved against Woolcott-Forbes on the charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Union Official's Right of Entry. Application to Court
Mention of the Dalfram dispute was made yesterday before Mr. Justice Cantor of the Industrial Commission. James Mackie, an organiser for the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Says Miners Die "Like Files" Orr Tells Court of Hardships in Industry
"MlNERS die off like flies after reaching the age of 35 years. The average age in the Australian coal-mining industry is only 46 years!" So said Mr. W. Orr, general secretary of the Miners'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Court Told Nurse Took Patient's Necklace Worth £265. Burnt Pearls Not Knowing Them Real AUCKLAND
It was alleged in Auckland Magistrates' Court today that:-- A probationer nurse took a string of pearls from the drawer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Warehouse Theft Charges
Alleged robberies from the York-street warehouse of Dalgety and Co.. Ltd., formed the subject of 18 charges of stealing, against Edward John…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →3 Months Gaol
Leslie James Rowe (19), press hand, was sentenced at Parramatta Court, last week, to 3 months hard labour for having on January 14 used a motor car…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Law Case. Murder
An interesting appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from the Supreme Court of Hongkong was recently heard. THE facts briefly were that on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Shot in Head. Woman Charged
William Francis Mason, wharflabourer, of Albion Street, Annandale, who was shot in the head early on the morning of December 17, outside a…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Court Sidelights
MUSICIAN (in small debts case): Time to pay, your worship? I've had my tonsils out, and can't play for three weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Clues Raise Theory of Assault Train Journey Mystery
Clues suggesting the possibility of assault were discovered to-day, by police inquiring into mysterious injuries suffered by Richard John Thornett, 32, of Toxteth-road, Glebe…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On Double Charge of Murder Christchurch
An apparent mental lapse on the part of a husband during which his wife and 9-year-old son were fatally…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Satisfied Police Service Auburn Claim
Though Auburn Council says that practically the only patrol of the 300-shop business centre is that carried out by the two…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Police Constable's Bankruptcy Dubbo
Edwin Irwin Bailey, a police constable, of Dubbo, was publicly examined before Mr. Cookson, P.M., in the Bankruptcy Court. It was stated that Bailey recently proceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Macarthur Onslow Writes To Court
"Tell the gentleman I refuse nothing, but I am neglectful and careless." These words were written in red ink on a summons returned yesterday to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No Compensation To Police; S.P. Case
No cash compensation will be paid to four constables to be readmitted to the N.S.W. police force. This was authoritatively learned last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Man Who Invented the Police Force
Many a man has, by some spectacular deed, won a place in history quite out of proportion to his real contribution to the world's affair…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Boy Fatally Shot. Mother's Story to Police. HOBART
With a bullet in his forehead, Athol Suckling, 15, of Derwent Park, was found lying unconscious in the back yard of his home late this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Mustn't Police Award Action Against Liquor Trades Union Official
IN a statement last week, the Canberra secretary of the Liquor and Allied Trades Employees' Union (Mr. B. Hillier) alleged that an ordinance…
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