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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1915

118 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 6

Licensing Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 2

At the Licensing Court this morning, before Messrs. H. Malone and W. A. Zuill, L.M's., the application for removal of the license of The Bluff…

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Price of Beer. Hotelkeepers Divided

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 3

The new scale of charges for whisky and beer came into operation on Monday, but quite a number of city and suburban hotelkeepers refused to raise their prices…

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KURRI KURRl Beer Strike. Hotels Effectively Picketed. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 3

The beer strike at Kurri Kurri now extends over the whole of the Maitland coalfield, from Pelaw Main to Cessnock. No beer business has been…

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Licensing Court. Monday, January 25. Before Mr. H. Malone, P.M.

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 27 January 1915 · page 2

Renewals of the colonial wine license of Elizabeth E. Grebert (Copmanhurst Road) and of the hotel license of Frances Benn (Royal…

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Drinkers Revolt. Publicans at Variance

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 30 January 1915 · page 8

Although many moderate drinkers in the metropolitan area have refrained from following in detail the example set by former frequentors of hotels at Kurri Kurri and…

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Pony Owner Disqualified. Jockey's License Cancelled. Sydney, Sunday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 1 February 1915 · page 3

The stipendiary steward held an inquiry into the running of Toinette in the first division of the Flying Handicap at Ascot yesterday and…

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Licensing Court. Monday, February 8. Before Messrs. H. Malone and W. J. Hawthorne, L.M.'s

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 10 February 1915 · page 2

The application of James McLennan for transfer of license of The Bluff Hotel, to premises to be erected at Glenreagh, was adjourned, by consent,…

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State Hotels

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 11 February 1915 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Minister for External Affairs stated the object of establishing State hotels in the Northern Territory was not to give cheap beer to the…

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Letters to the Editor. The Yamba License

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 18 February 1915 · page 2

Mr. Editor,—Will you kindly permit me space in your journal to give vent and air to some of the evidence given recently at Maclean in support of an application for an additional…

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Maclean Licensing Court

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 22 February 1915 · page 2

The hearing of the application for the second Yamba license was started in the Maclean Licensing Court on Friday morning and, after lasting for…

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Temperance and No-license

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 23 February 1915 · page 3

Mr. Arthur Toombes, temperance lecturer anil no-license specialist, delivered open-air leatures in Prince-street on Saturday and Sunday evenings to large assemblages of both foxes…

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Late Wires Yamba Licensing Matter. . Application Refused. Maclean

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 24 February 1915 · page 2

At yesterday's Licensing Court the adjourned hearing of the application of Len. C. Lawson, of South Grafton, for a license for premises…

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Maclean Licensing Court. Application Refused

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Thursday 25 February 1915 · page 8

The application by L. C. Lawson for an hotel license at Yamba, adjourned from a previous court, at which there was a division of opinion of the Bench, was reopened…

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Temperance and No-license

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 27 February 1915 · page 10

Mr. Editor,—After reading the report of Mr. Toqmbes' open-air lectures on Saturday and Sunday last, one is inclined to think your reporter rather one-sided in his views. In…

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Burned in a Hotel. An Australian's Fate. Wellington, N.Z.

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Saturday 6 March 1915 · page 2

After the fire which destroyed the Royal Hotel, Neleon, a boarder named Fred. Bloomfield, a native of Australia, was found dead…

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Temperance and No-license

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 3

Mr. Editor,—Mr. Tom Willan reminds me of a man who said the Bible bade men commit suicide. When asked for proof he said that in one place it stated, "And Judas went and…

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Local and General. United Licensed Victuallers' Association

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Association disclosed a state of affairs which was regarded by members as being satisfactory on the whole, though leaving much to be desired. It…

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Mr. Toombes and No-license

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Tuesday 9 March 1915 · page 3

Mr. Editor,—I was surprised to notice in the "Impressions of Mr. Toombes' visit," recently published in your paper, that Mr. Toombes is reported to have said in regard to Paul's…

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Big Hotel Burnt. Inmates Narrowly Escape. Brisbane

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 15 March 1915 · page 2

A fire destroyed a three-storied hotel, containing 40 rooms, at Toowong. The inmates narrowly escaped with their lives and several were injured. A…

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Letters to the Editor. Temperance and No-license

Clarence and Richmond Examiner · Saturday 20 March 1915 · page 2

Mr. Editor,—As I read Mr. Willan's half— column in yours of the 13th inst., a phrase of Shakespeare's impressed itself on my mind —"Words, words, words." I would heed…

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