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BREWERY STAY-IN STRIKE DECLARED ILLEGAL BY COURT BRISBANE, Sept. 20. (Received Sept. 20, at 10 p.m.) , The stay-in strike at Castlemam and Perkins’s brewery was to-day declared illegal by the Industrial Court, which, on the application ot the Brewers’ Association, ordered the cancellation of the men’s award unless the strikers return to work by Wednesday. ‘ Brisbane was practically without beer over the weekend. JAPANESE LUGGER ‘‘ARRESTED ” DARWIN, Sept. 20. (Received Sept. 20, at 11.30 p.m.) Another Japanese pearling lugger v/as “ arrested ” to-day for allegedly operating within territorial waters in the Gulf of Carpentaria. A WOMAN DEFRAUDED IMPRISONMENT FOR ENGINEER MELBOURNE, Sept. 20. (Received Sept. 20, at 11.30 p.m.) Jack Mann, aged 33, an engineer, was sentenced to five .years im.prisonment for obtaining £IOOO from Mrs Christina Bremner, of Hawthorn, with intent to defraud, by “falsely pretending he was in the habit of working commissions for the jockey Andy Knox, and that he himself was placing £3OO on a certain racehorse.” The judge said apparently Mann had obtained £6OOO, but the other charges were being abandoned. The woman had been cruelly defrauded.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23302, 21 September 1937, Page 9
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