"Dangerous Discourtesy" Motorist Obstructed Police Car
For having obstructed a police car proceeding to an accident, Horace Henry Gray was fined £1 with 5/6 costs at the Traffic Court on…
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Town's 4500 People Have No Police Protection
THE peaceful little town of Galong, 30 miles from Yass, became the centre of a stormy debate in Parliament yesterday. The Government was saved from defeat on a motion to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Just a Ducking," Says Mackay Police Commissioner's Launch Accident
"I received nothing worse than a ducking and a swim in my clothes." The Commissioner of Police, Mr. MacKay, yesterday thus described his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Insists He Is Mayor Police Keep Out Botany Alderman
REFUSED admission to the administrative branch of Botany Town Hall yesterday, Ald. G. Anderson still…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →P.M.G. Declines Aid to Police Melbourne
A police application to the P.M.G's. Department for promised information on "silent" telephone lines has been refused. Police officials believe that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Supreme Court. Causes in No. 6 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury.) Alleged Malicious Prosecution
Further evidence was heard in the action, in which Lionel Gordon Tooley, formerly manager of a railways refreshment room, sought to recover £5,000 damages for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police Mission to Island. Strait Closed to Luggers. DARWIN
With the object of protecting the aborigines on the north coast of Australia from the crews of pearling luggers, Constable Ronald Pryor left…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Hawkesbury River Collision. Police Chief and Party Swim to Safety
The Commissioner of Police, Mr. W. J. MacKay, and Messrs, W. T. Arnott, garage proprietor, of City Road, Darlington, and Charles Stevenson, of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Arbitration Court. Mr. Justice Cantor Refuses Appointment. CANBERRA
Mr. Justice Cantor, of the New South Wales Industrial Commission, will not, as was expected, succeed the late Chief Judge Dethridge on the Federal Arbitration Court Bench…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Driver of Car for Trial Girl, 16, Knocked Down, Killed, Police Allege
Police alleged at Parramatta Coroner's Court yesterday that a car which had knocked down two girls had been driven at 60 miles an hour. Ruth Joyce Kathleen Luhr, 16, of Auburn, had been killed, and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bones Lead to U.S. Plea to Police Trace Man From N.Z. AUCKLAND
Police in California have been asked to try and interview a man who left Auckland for America shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hushing The Gaol Scandal
N.S.W. Minister of Justice (Mr. Martin) has made another attempt to whitewash conditions in the gaols of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cocaine Traffic. Man Sentenced in Sydney
During the hearing of a case at the Central Police Court, yesterday. Detective Gordon said that during the last two or three years the traffic in cocaine had been very quiet…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →False Statements Alleged. Accountant Charged
At the Central Police Court yesterday Harold Robert Griffiths, 40, a public accountant, was remanded until March 21 on three charges alleging that he had made false statements…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Fine For Trader Changed Plea; Magistrate Caustic
"I AM satisfied that the evidence given by Dobrinski to defeat the prosecution was not true and was intended to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Manufacturer Fined. Breaches of Award. Magistrate's Censure
"I have no sympathy with the con0 duct of the defendant either out of court or in court, and I will not allow time to pay," said the Chief Industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Police on Films
The efficiency of the N.S.W. Police Force, demonstrated in pageantry at the Sydney Police Carnival, and the disastrous £40,000 fire at Essendon…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court Sidelights
SERGEANT STAFFORD (Prosecutor) at Central: You say you met someone in Elisabeth Street--what was said? Witness: Just a casual talk--one little…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Appeal in Murder Cases Melbourne
Notice of appeal against his conviction for double murder was lodged in the Supreme Court to-day by George Green, 38, of Batfield-road…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Youth Beheaded for Theft. Berlin, March 3. (A.A.P.)
For holding up and lobbing a motorist or a sum equivalent to 10/, Arthur Gose, 19, has been beheaded. This makes the seventh execution for motor…
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