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Sydney · Courts & crime

Courts & crime, 1964

57 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 3

Merrylands police H.Q. confirmed

The Biz · Wednesday 17 June 1964 · page 1

Merrylands has been made the headquarters for the Police Department's new No. 26 Division. This was announced…

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New Police Division

The Biz · Wednesday 24 June 1964 · page 3

A map of the new No. 26 Police Division (pictured) was released by the Member for Fairfield, Mr. L. J. Ferguson, last week. The boundaries of the division will…

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Police spy on Party Congress

Tribune · Wednesday 24 June 1964 · page 10

SYDNEY: The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of Australia strongly condemned the systematic spying on the Congress by Federal and State political police. Squads of these police parked in cars outside the hall in Day Street,…

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Brand-court Gov Bows 10 B.h.p

Tribune · Wednesday 24 June 1964 · page 11

PERTH: Municipal councils and local organisations--progress association parents and citizens' associations and landowner protection bodies--are protesting vigorously against actions of the Brand-Court Government and their railway representatives on the…

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Hairdressers Facing Gaol

The Biz · Wednesday 1 July 1964 · page 1

A Fairfield hairdresser was among the first to receive a summons for defying shop trading hours last week. But Mrs. Elaine Loves, of The Twins…

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Five Men in Court

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 3 July 1964 · page 3

Five men, who were arrested during a meeting at the Ashfield headquarters of the National Socialist Party of…

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Coughs At The “Murder”

Tharunka · Monday 6 July 1964 · page 2

The more than competent production of “Murder in the Cathedral” on Thursday night. 14th May did not deserve the…

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No Cause for Police Alarm

Tharunka · Tuesday 7 July 1964 · page 28

STANDING on a railway platform in steady rain, handcuffed to two other convicts. Oscar Wilde observed to the warder: “If this is the way Queen…

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Police Strike in Rabaul -- Wages Very Low

Tribune · Wednesday 8 July 1964 · page 11

Behind the recent police strike in Rabaul, which so jolted the Menzies Government and the Administration, lies seething discontent with starvation-level wages and near-slavery conditions…

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Police Approve Review

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 21 July 1964 · page 1

Fairfield M.L.A. Mr. L. J. Ferguson, has joined the struggle for a double centre line in Merrylands Road. Hoiroyd Council has…

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Wa Workers Crowd Court for Basic Wage Hearing

Tribune · Wednesday 29 July 1964 · page 10

PERTH: The Trades and Labor Council is firmly opposing the concept of a uniform State and Federal wage in tie basic wage case now before the WA Industrial Commission. THE aim of the Brand Liberal…

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New headquarters to step up war against crime Premier Opens Police Division

The Broadcaster · Tuesday 4 August 1964 · page 12

The new Merrylands-based No. 26 Police Division officially became a reality last Friday…

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Stray Dogs Roam School Lunch stealing

The Biz · Wednesday 12 August 1964 · page 1

Dozens of stray dogs roaming Cabramatta go to the Cabramatta Public School for lunch, says principal, Mr. A. Reinhart. If children leave their schoolbags open,…

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In gaol

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 21 August 1964 · page 9

Hanover (JCNS)—For calling a Jewish restaurant owner in Hamburg “Jewish swine”, Horst Alag, 30, was sentenced to…

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Police brutality again protected! ARREST!

Tribune · Wednesday 26 August 1964 · page 3

SYDNEY: Just what is NSW Premier Renshaw hiding by his refusal to take public a police departmental report on the arrest of a TV cameraman on May 6 during a Sydney University Commemoration Day demonstration! THE cameraman, Richard…

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Court refuses steel workers claims on margins, shifts

Tribune · Wednesday 26 August 1964 · page 12

Claims for a doubling of margins and substantial increases in shift ratio for workers employed by the wealthy steel monopoly in Newcastle and Port Kembla have been refused by the NSW Industrial Commission…

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Police Boys' Club opens

The Biz · Wednesday 2 September 1964 · page 1

Fairfield District Police-Citizens Boys' Club will be opening its new clubhouse in Cabramatta Pork, Cabramatta, on Saturday, September 5. It will be opened…

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Court Slug

Tribune · Wednesday 9 September 1964 · page 10

PERTH: A meeting of over 600 members of the Railways Union, (W.A.A.S. of R.E.) at the Midland workshops recently pledged their full…

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New Light on Police Methods

Tribune · Wednesday 9 September 1964 · page 3

SYDNEY: New exposures of Sydney police methods have come to light from court proceedings against some of the students charged in connection with the huge demonstration last May 9 supporting Negro civil rights in the United States…

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Council Apology After Theft Allegations Staff protest

The Biz · Wednesday 23 September 1964 · page 3

Fairfield Council has apologised to Fairfield Hospital staff for embarrassment caused when a stocktake of books was made at the hospital recently…

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