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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1963

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Act to halt Irak's wave of murder-for-oil

Tribune · Wednesday 14 August 1963 · page 6

MOSCOW The brutal murder of yet more Communists by the Iraki ruling clique is a measure of the acute tension prevailing in the Middle East. Jamal al-haldari, a secretary of the Party's Central…

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Electricity workers: Anger at Court's wage decision

Tribune · Wednesday 14 August 1963 · page 12

SYDNEY: A State-wide delegates' meeting of Electricity Commission workers in Sydney last Friday condemned the court's decision in granting only a 6 per cent margin increase…

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Police Boys' Club Start Next Month

The Biz · Wednesday 21 August 1963 · page 3

Work will begin next month on a £60,000 Police and Citizens Boys Club, at Cabramatta, Mr. G. Baker told Cabramatta Rotary last week. Mr. Baker said that…

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Court Rules on Alitalia Crash

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 23 August 1963 · page 9

One can well understand that Alitalia should be sensitive about the findings on the crash of its DC-8 last year…

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£650 theft from clothing store

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 27 August 1963 · page 1

Thieves who broke into F. J. Palmers men's store at Merrylands in the early hours of Tuesday morning, last week, escaped with clothing valued at more than £650. The robbery was…

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Police Station on the Way Up

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 27 August 1963 · page 3

Construction of the new £40,000 police station at Merrylands is…

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Warning in police brutality cases Why Is There Danger in Forced Fingerprints?

Tribune · Wednesday 4 September 1963 · page 3

The danger behind police proposals for a national compulsory system of finger-printing have been underlined by reports of shocking police brutality in Sydney in the last few days. LAST week, South Australian…

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Police Station "a disgrace": Council calls a conference

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 10 September 1963 · page 3

Merrylands' £40,000 police station, now under construction in Miller Street, would be "a blot on the community", Ald. H. Maley…

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Police bullies

Tribune · Wednesday 11 September 1963 · page 9

LAST Wednesday, at about. 9.30 p.m., a group of five young girls (between 14 and 16 years, I would think) were sitting on a. seat at a…

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Working with Secret Police

Tribune · Wednesday 11 September 1963 · page 1

There has long been regular contact between the Croat fascists and the Menzies Government's secret political police ("Security"). FABIAN LOVOKOVIC,…

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Police threat on stray dogs

The Biz · Wednesday 11 September 1963 · page 1

Fairfield police will conduct on allout drive to destroy all mongrel and stray dogs roaming streets of the municipality after October 1…

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Council to Protest Over Police Station

The Biz · Wednesday 11 September 1963 · page 7

Holroyd Council will officially protest about the appearance of the walls on the partially built Merrylands Police Station. Council will seek a…

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Show-Cause Upheld By Court

Tharunka · Friday 13 September 1963 · page 3

A senior lecturer in Accountancy, Mr. A. A. Forster, has failed to secure…

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Claim by Police Court would give more protection

The Biz · Wednesday 18 September 1963 · page 3

The officer in charge of Fairfield Police, Sergeant A. McCarthy, this week stressed the need of courthouse at Fairfield. He said that…

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What's behind the police "scandal"?

Tribune · Wednesday 18 September 1963 · page 2

The unanimous demand of the New South Wales Labor Council, the "parliament" of the organised workers, for a full-scale Government inquiry info the administration of the NSW Folice Force has still to be met…

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Greek arrests confirm Tribune charges on murder of Lambrakis

Tribune · Wednesday 18 September 1963 · page 12

ATHENS: The arrest of four high Greek Police officers for complicity in the murder of Dr. Gregory Lambrakis last May,…

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Ryan to inspect police station

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 1 October 1963 · page 6

The controversial Merrylands Police Station will be inspected by the Minister for Public Works, Mr. P. N. Ryan. This follows…

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Berlin's nazi murder wave

Tribune · Wednesday 2 October 1963 · page 5

BERLIN: The second week in September in Berlin was one of murder and attempted murder in the worst nazi fashion. ON the Sunday the 22-year-old Staff- Sergeant Siegfried Widera of the…

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Police state vote

Tribune · Wednesday 2 October 1963 · page 9

THE recent electoral "win" by the semi-fascist Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, has been described by the "Sydney Morning…

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Police inquiry on bogus collectors

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 15 October 1963 · page 2

Police are anxious to interview residents in Guildford, Merrylands and neighbouring suburbs as to the identity of bogus collectors claiming to represent a blind charity. They say that a man…

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