Court reports batch details Northern tribes murder charge
Three Arawe from western New Britain were charged with murder after a tribal fight near Kakopo. One man died, five were injured, and about 400 people were involved in the payback clash using spears and axes. A fourth man faced riotous behaviour charges. Separate ACT Supreme Court case heard a $100,000 hospital negligence claim against Canberra Community Hospital Board with doctors named and detailed post operative care allegations.
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Rabaul
New Britain
Kakopo
Gazelle
Yuna
Canberra Community Hospital Board
Justice Joske
ACT Supreme Court
Dismissed summons for former Cambridge Insurance director
A summons for the arrest of Mauric Gordon Kriss, former director of the dissolved Cambridge Insurance Company Ltd, was dismissed in Equity Court today. The arrest application was set for October 12 by the official liquidator McRoy Leslie Penler, but was postponed as Kriss voluntarily surrendered his passport and agreed to be available for court examination before Mr Justice Street.
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Sydney
Cambridge Insurance Company Ltd
Mauric
Gordon Kriss
Coogee
Io Equity Cou
Cambridge
Roy Leslie Penler
Man fined for assault in Canberra Petty Sessions
Peter Edward Bates twenty labourer of Finniss Crescent Narrahundah was fined seventy dollars for offensive behaviour resisting police and assaulting a police officer Constable J G Brown testified at Calherta Key Hotel grounds December 4 around a crowd of up to one hundred. Bates denied the charges but received the fine and other penalties after the hearing.
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Peter Edward Bates
Finniss’ Crescent
Narrahundah
Canberra
J. G. Brown
ACT Police
Dobson
Herta Key
Peter Ross
Micellar Crescent
Cook
Ome Finnth
McPearson
Ross
J. D. Allen
AUT
Riss
von Singer
Australia
Tammur Fine Paid
An incomplete OCR passage reports a motorist stop at 1045pm near De AqM An anonymous witness notes a fine payment and mentions an ACT Police patrol. Details are fragmentary with names and locations garbled, but references a fine settlement and ongoing investigation.
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Mable
Dotinlsin
ACT Police
Matungan
Murr
Mortih Caoyone
Alyivendy
Hind
Fentvan
Seelarich
Ken
Keravat
Sheldrick
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