Alterations to Supreme Court Building
The Minister for Works and Local Government, Mr. Martin, said yesterday that improvements to the Supreme Court building would be completed during the law vacation, at a…
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£1926 to Repair Supreme Court
The Minister for Works (Mr. Martin) has accepted a tender of £1926 for repairs to the Supreme Court building in King Street…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Spy Who Served Two Masters. Moravian Baron Sentenced. ZURICH, Jan. 3. (A.A.P.)
A Moravian baron who was sentenced today to l8 months imprisonment was alleged to have been employed by both the British and German Intelligence Services…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Fewer Holiday Accidents. Campaign's Success. Special Police Patrols
The marked reduction in road accidents during the Christmas and New Year holidays is attributed by the Superintendent of Traffic, Mr. Hooper,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shock to Tenant Rent Raised By Court
"This is not justice," exclaimed a woman tenant from Rose Bay to-day when the magistrate at the Fair…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Law Notices. Thursday January 4, 1940. State Jurisdiction. Supreme Court. in Chambers
Before Mr Justier Halse Rogers in Banco Court.— At 10.30 a.m.: Rees v Dukes, moratorlum. Before the prothonotary, in the Prothonotary's Public Chambers.—At 10 a.m.: Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Carried Firearm in Street. Labourer Sentenced
Charged at Glebe Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Sutherland, S.M.. that, having previously been convicted of an indictable offence, he had a revolver in his possession in a public…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Increase in Stealing From Shops. Heavier Penalties Probable
Heavier penalties to check the increase in shop thefts in Sydney were foreshadowed by Mr. Arnold. S.M., in the Central Police Court yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Police on "Menial Duty"
Declaring that insult had been added to injury, the secretary of the Police Association (Mr, Cosgrove) complained to-day that four…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stole Police Bicycle. Labourer Fined
John Day. 26. labourer, was fined £5, with [?] costs, at the Kogarah Police Court yesterday for having stolen a Police Department bicycle, valued at £5. He pleaded guilty…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Silence in the Court
MR. LARKINS (barrister at Traffic Court): Women are diffident about producing their licences…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →For Trial On Charge Of Murder MELBOURNE
A woman told the City Coroner today how she saw her husband bleed to death at her feet…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Toot Cases for Court
Seven of the 20 motor car tooters reported since Christmas by constables who alleged that they sounded the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Notice To Quit At Fair Rents Court
A woman tenant was served with a notice to quit outside the Paddington Fair Rents Court yesterday. She is Mrs. Doris Ethel Urquhart, St. James Road, Bondi…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Lower Wage or Sack Apprentice Tells Court
"It makes one wild to think an employer told this boy in cold blood that he would have to get a permit to work for less than full wages or…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Barefaced" Theft
"You were warned 12 months ago, and if there is any repetition you can expect gaol without the option," declared Mr. Cookson, S.M., at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Theft of Clock
A clock valued at £3 was stolen yesterday from the home of Mr. Joseph wall, in Kensington Road, Kensington…
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William Cochrane, 46, described as a scientist, pleaded guilty at Central Police Court yesterday to charges of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drugs Obtained by Fraud. "Scientist" Sentenced
William Cochrane, 46, described as a scientist, was convicted at the Central Police Court yesterday of having falsely represented himself as a doctor of medicine, and of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Man Posed As Doctor. Gaol for False Pretences
A man who said he was Dr. Robert James Jackson, of Armidale, sought to open an account with Lowes, Ltd., Sydney, on December 2…
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