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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1956

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Storekeeper Committed Alleged Stealing of £77

Nepean Times · Thursday 5 July 1956 · page 6

At Penrith Court on Monday, a storekeeper, Wilfred John Davis (47), who was previously in charge of John Hudson's…

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Theft of £96 Yennora Railway Station Robbery

The Biz · Wednesday 11 July 1956 · page 13

The sum of £96 was stolen from Yennora railway station last Sunday night. Police said a porter, William King (23), of…

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Probe Wanted on Police Statement

Tribune · Wednesday 11 July 1956 · page 1

Tribune calls for immediate public investigation of a police sergeant's statement at a Mt. Isa (Qld.) Coroner's Court this week that he would take no notice of a man he thought was a Communist, even in cases of murder or…

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Needs Ignored in Court's Finding

Tribune · Wednesday 11 July 1956 · page 10

The Commonwealth Arbitration Court has again made clear the fact that it does not fix the basic wage according to the needs of a family or any scale of living costs. AS this article shows, the level of…

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Bond for Stealing Lighters

Nepean Times · Thursday 12 July 1956 · page 3

A strong plea by Solicitor E. O'Loughlin at Penrith Court last week no doubt saved William Ernest Anthony Frazer…

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Call for State Govt Action on Police

Tribune · Wednesday 18 July 1956 · page 8

EVIDENCE at the Mt. Isa inquest will strengthen the long - standing demands to the State Government for…

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Sugar Workers "Seething" Over Court Hold-up

Tribune · Wednesday 18 July 1956 · page 8

INNISFAIL, July 12: Sugar workers are seething at the State Court's failure so far to give a decision on the Australian Workers' Union log of claims and to grant to metal workers the 276 and 176 won by metal men in other…

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Hit Court's Deletion of A.w.u. Preference

Tribune · Wednesday 18 July 1956 · page 8

"IT appears preference was removed simply because the Australian Workers' Union challenged the right of the United…

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Court Judgment Supports Karl Marx Trade unions must struggle

Tribune · Wednesday 18 July 1956 · page 5

Commonwealth Arbitration Court judges in their recent basic wage finding supplied additional proof of the correctness of Kari Marx's views on the wages struggle and the…

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Police Stand by While Sydney Fascists Boast of Ubani Assault

Tribune · Wednesday 25 July 1956 · page 3

In the presence of police, fascists were heard to boast in the Sydney Domain last Sunday of their complicity in the assault on Indonesian Embassy First Secretary Ubani. MR. UBANI was attacked by a gang of thugs when he lectured…

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Police Choir at Scout Concert

The Biz · Wednesday 25 July 1956 · page 14

The first concert to be held in the modern Civic Hall, Cabramatta, will mark the first appearance in Cabramatta of the N.S.W…

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Police Sergeant Hurt in Chase

The Biz · Wednesday 25 July 1956 · page 8

Whilst chasing two suspects seen in the yard at the rear of Hie Post Office Delicatessen in Ware Street, Fairfield, at…

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Police in Mt. Isa Case Transferred

Tribune · Wednesday 25 July 1956 · page 11

Sergeant T. Griinke is one of 11 police being transferred from Mt. Isa. THIS month, at the inquest on James Michael Jorgensen, Griinke…

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Alleged Assault Denied

The Biz · Wednesday 1 August 1956 · page 22

A 29-year-old Hungarian denied in Quarter Sessions, Sydney, that he had attacked a young woman in a street at Fair…

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New Police Offices for Liverpool and Court House

The Biz · Wednesday 1 August 1956 · page 3

Mr. N. J. Mannix, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following letter from the Premier's Department: "I am writing in connection…

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Gaol for Three Youths

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 1 August 1956 · page 6

Judge Brennan in Parramatta Quarter Sessions last week sentenced three youths to four years'…

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£55 Mill Pay Roll Robbery Fadden's bid for big wage theft

Tribune · Wednesday 8 August 1956 · page 1

THE biggest armed holdups in Australia's annals of crime rank as small-time smash and grab…

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N.s.w. Police Choir at Cabramatta

The Biz · Wednesday 8 August 1956 · page 14

There should be a packed audience at the Civic Hall, Cabramatta, next Friday night, August 10, when the N.S.W. Police Choin…

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Proposed Third Hotel at St. Marys Evidence Before Licensing Court Opposition from Rex Hotel and Church Representatives

Nepean Times · Thursday 9 August 1956 · page 1

The hearing of evidence by the Metropolitan Licensing Court in the application for removal of a licence from Balranald Hotel to premises proposed to be erected on land at the corner of Queen and Chapel…

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Assault Charge

The Biz · Wednesday 15 August 1956 · page 9

A serious charge of indecently assaulting a 12-year-old girl in Cambridge Road, Canley Vale, was preferred against a…

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