Unit Id Item Date Range Description 1 Description 2 Description 3 Description 4 Description 5
149 Item 18 Jan 1926 - 19 Jan 1926 File 261/1926 Port Adelaide Division: Bribery of PC's C.R. Dedman and O.C.H. Easton alleged by W.A. Rollison re breaches of Lottery and Gaming Act.
149 Item 01 Mar 1926 - 17 Sep 1927 File 520/1926 Commissioner of Police: Suggesting appointment of a Royal Commission into alleged bribery of Police Officials. For Report and Minutes of Evidence of the Royal Commission see South Australian Parliamentary Paper No. 58 of 1927.
149 Item - File 187/1926
150 01 Jan 1926 - 01 Jan 1926 Files 1261/1926 to 1889/1926 NE GRG/MRG Unit
151 01 Jan 1926 - 01 Jan 1926 Files 1903/1926 to 1984/1926 NE GRG/MRG Unit
152 Item 16 Dec 1926 - 28 May 1927 File 2450/1926 Police Conference, 1926: Increase of allowance to Motor Traffic Police.
152 Item - File 2316/1926
152 Item 03 Nov 1926 - 22 Aug 1926 File 2120/1926 Criminal Investigation Branch: Requesting Counsel to appear on behalf of members and former members of S.A. Police Force, at Bribery Commission.
152 Item 16 Dec 1926 - 07 Jul 1927 File 2454/1926 Police Conference, 1926. Question of the abolition of Plain Clothes Police. Relates to the Royal Commission of 1926.
152 01 Jan 1926 - 01 Jan 1926 Files 2003/1926 to 2511/1926 NE GRG/MRG Unit
153 Item 26 Jan 1927 - 01 Feb 1927 File 253/1927 Commissioner of Police: Supervision of "Fig Leaf" Ball, held at Floating Palais, 26/1/1927, by Women Police who are to report any acts of indecency. Bert Smith was the promoter of the Ball. Includes report by Miss Cocks, Principal of the Women Police.
153 Item - File 1111/1927
153 01 Jan 1927 - 01 Jan 1927 Files 152/1927 to 1154/1927 NE GRG/MRG Unit
153 Item 08 Feb 1927 - 13 Feb 1927 File 988/1927 Port Adelaide Division: Additional police for duty at Semaphore during Carnival week. Arrangements made by Inspector Nation not carried out. Mentions Smithfield Speedway.
153 Item - File 330/1927
154 01 Jan 1927 - 01 Jan 1927 Files 1175/1927 to 1946/1927 NE GRG/MRG Unit
154 Item 02 Jun 1927 - 02 Jun 1927 File 1175/1927 Central Division: Detail of duty of Mounted Constables stationed at Barracks on 28/5/1927.
154 Item - File 1898/1927
155 01 Jan 1927 - 01 Jan 1927 Files 1947/1927 to 2383/1927 NE GRG/MRG Unit
155 Item - File 2126/1927
155 Item 06 Dec 1927 - 21 Dec 1927 File 2282/1927 Government records alleged to have been burned at Port Lincoln Institute From: Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery
156 Item 19 Oct 1928 - 06 Dec 1928 File 229/1928 Anonymous: Bookmaking at 'Sport' Office and at Thistle, Union and Bristol Tavern Hotels.
156 01 Jan 1928 - 01 Jan 1928 Files 1/1928 to 334/1928 For 193/1928 see Unit 1156 NE GRG/MRG Unit
156 Item - File 205/1928
157 Item 14 Feb 1928 - 26 Mar 1928 File 377/1928 Commissioner of Police: Methods adopted by Plain Clothes Constables to detect offences against the Licensing Act.
157 Item - File 667/1928
157 01 Jan 1928 - 01 Jan 1928 Files 338/1928 to 947/1928 NE GRG/MRG Unit
158 Item 14 Jun 1928 - 19 Jul 1928 File 1160/1928 Commissioner of Police: Complaints re Two-up School operating at rear of Horwood Bagshaw Limited.
158 01 Jan 1928 - 01 Jan 1928 Files 961/1928 to 1225/1928 NE GRG/MRG Unit
158 Item 28 May 1928 - 15 Feb 1939 File 1012/1928 Commissioner of Police: Suggested amendment to Lottery and Gaming Act, 1917 re Gaming Schools.
159 Item - No. 1479/1928
159 Item 19 Jul 1929 - 02 Aug 1928 File 1441/1928 Deputy Director of Navigation & Lighthouses, South Australia: Convention for establishing facilities for finding employment for seamen.
159 Item 12 Jul 1928 - 31 Jan 1929 File 1387/1928 Assiciated Steamship Owners: Undesirable persons frequenting wharves at Port Adelaide, either begging or demanding meals.
159 01 Jan 1928 - 01 Jan 1928 Files 1234/1928 to 1730/1928 NE GRG/MRG Unit
160 Item 17 Oct 1928 - 03 Sep 1930 File 1798/1928 (Part 4) Waterside Worker's Dispute etc. File relates chiefly to provisions, equipment and accommodation at the Police Camp and wharves. Includes plan of proposed Police Camp.
160 01 Jan 1928 - 01 Jan 1928 Files 1733/1928 to 1798/1928 NE GRG/MRG Unit
160 Item 04 Sep 1928 - 07 Sep 1928 File 1759/1928 Under Secretary 'Hansard': Alleged razor gang from Eastern states operating in South Australia.
160 Item 12 Sep 1928 - 05 Nov 1928 File 1798/1928 (Part 1) Constables for special duty in Adelaide in the event of trouble on the waterfront. Gives names of officers, statistics, costs and accommodation arrangements. Also includes reports of sabotage etc. Includes a copy of the Commonwealth Transport Workers Regulations, 1928.
160 Item 10 Oct 1928 - 03 Nov 1928 File 1798/1928 (Part 3) Waterside Workers' Dispute etc. Includes police reports on the waterfront, Volunteer Labour, Ladies' Committee, Citizens' Defence Force, fears of sabotage of infrastructure and raid at Powder Magazine, police horses.
160 Item 22 Oct 1928 - File 1798/1928 (Part 2) Contables for special duty in Adelaide in the event of trouble on the waterfront. Includes references to the Citizen's Defence League, and breaches of the Transport Workers Regulations.
160 Item 01 Jan 1928 - 31 Dec 1928 File 1798/1928 (Part 6) Waterside Workers' Dispute Plans. Includes plans of Citizens Defence Brigade, Outer Harbour Dispostions of 2nd Battalion; Citizens Essential Service Brigade Steamship Warfs (sic) Port Adelaide, Dispositions of 1st Battalion. Citizens Defence Brigade, Fort Largs, Dispositions of Brigade Headquarters and 3rd Battalion (2 copies).
160 Item 23 Nov 1928 - 01 Sep 1930 File 1798/1928 (Part 5) Waterside Workers' Dispute etc. Gives details of Police, returns of offences against the Transport Workers' Act, offers of volunteer help from private citizens. Also includes list of all Communist Party members at Port Adelaide and Union, copy of minutes of the Central Council of Action (Communist Party) siezed in a Police raid, assaults on Police during Unemployed Demonstration and Communist activities.
161 01 Jan 1928 - 01 Jan 1928 Files 1806/1928 to 2295/1928 NE GRG/MRG Unit
161 Item - No. 1896/1928
161 Item 22 Oct 1928 - 02 Nov 1928 File 2078/1928 Brigade Headquarters: Formation of Citizens Defence Brigade. This docket mentions 5 boxes of cards giving the names and addresses of all members of the Citizens Defence League, handed over to the Commissioner of Police. These cards have not since come to light. Assuming there was one card per member, there were 2573 members of the CDB.
161 Item 22 Oct 1928 - 02 Nov 1928 File 2079/1928 Commissioner of Police: Re Edward Alexander Dickinson committed for trial for "taking part in a riot" and "seditious libel". Also includes report on all cases of assault or intimidation during the Waterside trouble, 22/10/1928.
162 Item - File 457/1929
162 01 Jan 1928 - 01 Jan 1929 Files 2325/1928 to 499/1929 NE GRG/MRG Unit
162 Item 22 Jan 1929 - 01 Feb 1929 File 299/1929 Commissioner of Police: Report re disturbances at Port Adelaide during week ended January 18th, 1930.
162 Item 21 Jan 1929 - 15 Feb 1929 File 296/1929 L.J. Fraser, Port Adelaide: Re trouble at the waterfront.
162 Item 01 Jan 1929 - 01 Jan 1929 File 281/1929 Commissioner of Police: Accommodation for Constables at Police Depot, Port Adelaide
162 Item 22 Jan 1929 - 29 Jan 1929 File 283/1929 Port Adelaide Division: Olaf Christiansen and Peter Sydney McCormack charged with riot.
162 Item 22 Jan 1929 - 17 Jul 1929 File 295/1929 Grange Dindhy Club: Alleged threat by men from Port Adelaide, intention to destroy dinghies the property of H. and S. LeLeu, in Grange Dinghy shed.
163 Item 07 Mar 1929 - 12 Apr 1929 File 661/1929 Plain Clothes Branch: Breaches of Section 67(d), Police Act, (pretend to tell fortunes) committed by Marie E. Semmens.
163 Item 31 May 1929 - 18 Nov 1930 File 1344/1929 Commissioner of Police: Training of recruits at Police Depot, Port Adelaide. Daily state and weekly syllabus of training to be furnished.
163 Item 02 Mar 1929 - 04 Mar 1929 File 639/1929 Inspector W.F. Johns: Training of Probationary Constables at Police Depot, Port Adelaide.
163 Item 14 Mar 1929 - 20 Dec 1929 File 725/1929 Commissioner of Police: REcommending power be given to Commisiosner of Police to close roads, bridges and other places when considered necessary for preservation of life and property.
163 Item 07 Mar 1929 - 09 Jul 1929 File 682/1929 J.F. Kelleher, Yatala: Madam Graham, advertising consultations daily, at 'Seaforth', Russell St, Yatala (alleged fortune telling by).
163 Item 21 Feb 1929 - 15 Jul 1929 File 514/1929 Commissioner of Police: Advisability of working volunteer transport workers and waterside workers together at Waterfront.
163 Item 20 Mar 1929 - 07 Jan 1930 File 754/1929 Commissioner of Police: Intelligence report to be furnished weekly re the situation at the Waterfront.
163 Item - No. 882/1929
163 01 Jan 1929 - 01 Jan 1929 Files 505/1929 to 1451/1929 NE GRG/MRG Unit
163 Item 04 Apr 1929 - 26 Jun 1929 File 853/1929 Overtime worked by members of the Police Force owing to industrial trouble at waterfront.
163 Item 14 Mar 1929 - 10 Dec 1929 File 710/1929 Retirements from the South Australian Police Force on 30/6/1929
163 Item 05 Jun 1929 - 14 Jun 1929 File 1341/1929 Eyes & Crowle Ltd.: Quotation for two 'Bean 6' motor cars for use of Police Department.
163 Item - No. 848/1929
164 Item 09 Jul 1929 - 06 Aug 1929 File 1594/1929 Central Division: Sergeant O. Koch charged with breaches of rEgulation 555(7) (Two charges).
164 Item 17 Jul 1929 - 09 Aug 1929 File 1688/1929 Commisisoner of Police: Alleged encouragement of volunteeer workers to have firearms in their possession.
164 Item 23 Jul 1929 - 21 Sep 1929 File 1697/1929 Portable cell for Police Depot, Port Adelaide.
164 Item 28 May 1929 - 24 Aug 1929 File 1559/1929 Collector of Customs: Cocaine believed to have been obtained from overseas vessels at Port Adelaide, and cocaine stolen from A.M. Bickford & Sons, Currie St.
164 Item 27 Jul 1929 - 31 Jul 1929 File 1756/1929 Inspector T.O. Martin, Port Adelaide Police Depot: Rope "snotters" on S.S. 'Kooliga' cut, endangering volunteers working on ship.
164 Item 09 Jul 1929 - 24 Jul 1929 File 1589/1929 C.M. Drage, Halifax St.: Houses of ill-fame and sly-grog shops in Adelaide. Westralian girls named Alma Schute alias Jewl McDonald and Edith Nash alias Val Royce keeping sly grog shop and house of ill fame in Royal Avenue.
164 Item - File 1563/1929 J. P. Williams: Requesting return of revolver seized by Police during trouble on the waterfront
164 Item 12 Jun 1929 - 20 Feb 1930 File 1585/1929 Police Depot, Port Adelaide: Police supervision of silaing vessel "Dorothy H. Stirling" at Port Adelaide.
164 01 Jan 1929 - 01 Jan 1929 Files 1464/1929 to 1764/1929 NE GRG/MRG Unit
164 Item - No. 1694/1929
165 Item - File 1889/1929 Repairs to Police Boat at Torrens Lake.
165 Item 30 Aug 1929 - 02 Sep 1929 File 2014/1929 Letter introducing Mahomet Allum, Herbalist, of Broken Hill From: Goode, Durrant & Co.
165 Item 18 Oct 1929 - 01 Nov 1929 File 2301/1929 Conference of Commissioners of Police: Police resolution re registration of aliens.
165 01 Jan 1929 - 01 Jan 1929 Files 1767/1929 to 2746/1929 NE GRG/MRG Unit
165 Item 17 Dec 1929 - 17 Dec 1929 File 2702/1929 Commissioner of Police: Proposed work to gantries at Port Adelaide with unlicensed labor. No prosecutions to be undertaken without reference to Minister controlling Harbors Board Department.
165 Item - File 1884/1929
165 Item 18 Oct 1929 - 06 Jan 1930 File 2302/1929 Conference of Police Commissioners: Police resolution re seditious organizations and migrants.
165 Item 20 Oct 1929 - 01 May 1931 File 2397/1929 Foot Constable Daniel Beaty, Recommended for King's Police Medal Actions in arresting Ernest Ryan and Richard Bennett, after being fired at
165 Item - File 2054/1929 Alleged murder of Clara Crowe by her husband Daniel Bernard Crowe at Cocoburn on 27/8/29
166 Item - File 486/1930 Members of SA Police to retire on June 30, 1930.
166 01 Jan 1930 - 01 Jan 1930 Files 131/1930 to 1319/1930 NE GRG/MRG Unit
166 Item - File 784/1930
166 Item 03 Jun 1930 - 06 Jun 1930 File 1197/1930 Commissioner of Police: Attacks on volunteer waterside workers at Port Adelaide.
166 Item 21 May 1930 - 05 Aug 1940 File 1100/1930 Director & Central Authority, Commonwealth Investigation Branch: Questionnaire for the annual report on International Convention for the Suppression of White Slave Traffic. File also relates to prostitution and the protection of women and children in SA generally.
166 Item 29 Apr 1930 - 02 May 1930 File 896/1930 Commissioner of Police: Police arrangements in connection with May Day celebrations conducted by Communists. Includes hand made flyer of the S.A. State Committee of the Communist Party 'What a United Front Against the Shipowners Means!'.
166 Item 28 May 1930 - 04 Jun 1930 File 1202/1930 Under Secretary: Questionnaire in regard to the Traffic in Women and Children. Also relates to illicit drug supply, and actions against Gee Shing, Lee Wood and Ah Chee, all Chinese.
166 Item - File 1039/1930
167 Item 23 Jul 1930 - 10 Sep 1930 File 1588/1930 Commissioner of Police: Re efforts to be made by Communists to cause trouble with the unemployed. Commissioner Leane uses the term '"extremist".
167 01 Jan 1930 - 01 Jan 1930 Files 1327/1930 to 1943/1930 NE GRG/MRG Unit
167 Item 01 Jan 1930 - 01 Jan 1930 File 1386/1930 (Part 5) Communistic literature siezed from premises at 20 North Parade, Port Adelaide.
167 Item 02 Sep 1930 - 02 Sep 1930 File 1876/1930 Commissioner of Police: Opinion re Special Constables sworn in during Waterside Workers' Strike in October 1928. Includes oath taken by Alfred Abbott.
167 Item 01 Jan 1930 - 01 Jan 1930 File 1386/1931 (Part 2) Port Adelaide Division: Communist paper "Port Adelaide Beacon" and other Communist matter circulated in the district.
167 Item 05 Jul 1930 - 12 Jul 1930 File 1471/1930 Assaults on volunteer workers at Port Adelaide on 4/7/1930.
167 Item 01 Jan 1930 - 01 Jan 1930 File 1386/1930 (Part 4) Communistic literature. Includes copies of 'The Workers' Weekly. The Official Organ of the Communist Party of Australia'.