Opening day postponed at Macquarie and Aranda schools
An official report notes opening day delays at Macquarie and Aranda primary schools due to an incident at Tum Am official of the Department of the Interior. Enrolments remain low with 210 pupils in six classes and damages totaling 13,000. An electricity supply issue affected services but reopening is planned after repairs.
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Aranda
Macquarie and
Arands
William’ Frederick
Thelurton Geary
Melbourne youth dies after fight outside fish shop
Timothy Mark Harvey, a 20 year old unemployed labourer, is committed for trial on a charge of murdering a 26 year old Glen Waverley clerk after a fight outside a Huntingdale fish shop on March 1. A coroner reported the youth was punched and fell unconscious before dying.
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Melbourne
Glen Waverley
Harvey
Pascoe
Sime
Timothy Mark Harvey
Sinclair
Reep
Ene
Peter John
Hoteer
Huntingdale
Bushfire started by basins housewife during morning
A Melbourne Basin fire was sparked February 19 when a housewife who lived there allegedly scattered briquette dust and left for work. Lesley Haddy 25 faced Ferntree Gully Court charged with starting the blaze and was fined 400 dollars.
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McLeuurne
Basin J
Ferntree Gully Court
Lesley Haddy
Pascoe
Holzer
Sinclair
Tim
Friend
New aircraft in paddock and court case details emerge
Detecting a convoluted report from Ferntree Gully, Detective Ronald Arthur Sconper notes next day admissions about an RAAF order for Orion P28 maritime reconnaissance aircraft. The fragment mentions a fall at Edinburgh RAAP base, a skull fracture, and insurance aspects tied to April 29 with unclear names and locations.
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Ferntree Gully
Ronald Arthur Sconper
Ferntree “Gully
Faddy
RAAF
United
Serge Natnaea
Ates
Harvey
Edinburgh
Base
South Australia
John Sinclair
Wife recounts gun struggle in home with Jan Sokol
Mrs Sokal, a hairdresser, testified she had left her husband after nine years of marriage. She described waking January 19 to him near her bed with a loaded .22 rifle, grabbing the barrel, a struggle through the house, and shots fired in the kitchen as her father aided her. Sokol pleads not guilty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jan Sokol
Rial
Allov Sokol
Sokal
Sokol
Thien
Farnsey
Fred
Jhshand
G. Boyd
White Eagle
Cece
Timmer
C. Kent
Bovil
Canbberra
Mande
Sokot
Narrabundah
M. Boulter
Enderby
Ro. Mildren
J.B Norris
Feltj
NM. Macphillamy
Macphillamy
Cummins
Gibson
Court hearing recounts Sokol gun incident and damages claim
Crown examined as Sokol described a bedroom incident where a gun fired during a dispute with her husband. She said neither party clearly held the trigger. Evidence includes police testimony, translated notes, and a damages case by Colin Martin Brown over a 1946 car crash that cost his eye, with liability disputed and ongoing inquest.
Like Scarlet Pimpernel Mr Dobson fines Trevor Haines
Trevor Haines 21 steel fixer of Nar Rabundah was fined 100 dollars for the illegal use of a motor vehicle. He pleaded not guilty in Canberra Pelt Sessions, denied unlawfully taking and using the Commonwealth Motors vehicle without consent, with police testimony of driving on Lonsdale Street about 11 10pm.
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Dobson
Trevor' Arnold
Haines
Nineteenth Street
Narrabundah
Canberra
Witl
Commonwealth Motors (North
Tha Hines
T.H. Carveth
Pickerine
Alinga Street
Petrie Street
Hallumbir Street
Ainslie Avenue
Doonkuna Street
Skylarking
Pickering
Mc Salmon
D. McCulloch
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Ashburton
Supreme Court
Terrance John | Lawson
Chadstone
J. William —John Fenty
Bellaraye
Country Fire Authority
Basin
The
Rot
Pitt
Ena
TV Nead
Coles
Casba
Ymous "Johnson
Australia
Albert
Alic
Mms
Doyleya
Junger
Skivvies
Germany
Manuka
Colin’ Martin Brown
Carruthers Street
Curtin
Justice Fox
Rom Neville Atkins
Kurrajong Street
Leeton
Brown
Atkins
Ersom
Cancetta
Collector
Thins
Omething
Constable King
Kings Stee
Anthony Leighton Pickering
Beotham
Yarra Tumla
Pearon
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