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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1917

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Liquor Prosecutions. on Licensed Premises. Cases Dismissed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 June 1917 · page 2

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P .M ., Leslie Neill Connor, Joseph Daniel Bellamy, Peter Macaulay, and Robert O'Brien…

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Chatsworth Hotel. Licensing Magistrate's Comments

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 June 1917 · page 3

At the quarterly Licensing Court at Maclean yesterday, the inspector's report stated, in reference to the Chatsworth Hotel, that the building was in…

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Domestic Trouble. Hotel Licensee Shot. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 27 June 1917 · page 3

Mary Farrell was committed for trial on a charge of having shot her husband, a hotel licensee, with intent to do grievous bodily harm…

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New Zealand. the New Hotel Closing Hours Auckland

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 July 1917 · page 5

It is believed that New Zealand win decide in favor of 9 a.m. to. 9 p.m., as the hours during which hotels should remain open…

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Local Government. Condition of Country Hotels. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 July 1917 · page 5

The Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald, replying to a deputation from the Shires Association, which presented him with the resolutions passed at the last annual…

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Clarence River Hotels. Ancient History Recalled

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 11 July 1917 · page 4

The granting of 28 renewals of hotel licenses at Grafton on Tuesday by the Bench gives the opportunity of glancing back over the liquor dispensing…

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The Publican and the Drunk

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 14 July 1917 · page 6

A case interesting to publicans and lushingtons is reported in the Quirindi "Gazette." A local resident, who had been on a "bender," was sued by…

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Licensed Houses. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 1

By an amendment of the War Precautions Regulations, powers given to the Minister for Defence to close licensed premises where the sale of intoxicating…

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Old Grafton Hotels. (To the Editor of the "Argus.")

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 2

Sir,--In the interesting summary of vanished hotels in Grafton I note the absence of "the Grafton Hotel," which was one of the first established in…

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A Cross Appeal. Hotel and Restaurant Employees. Arbitration Court Award. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 July 1917 · page 3

Judge Curlewis, in giving his decision in the cross appeal of the employees and employers concerned in the hotel, club restaurant and Catering business said he…

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Money in Hotels

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 July 1917 · page 4

The total cost of the State hotel at Babinda (Q.) was £17,551 18s 2d. The cost of running it per week is £299 2s 6d. The average amounts per week received on…

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Hotel Sydney's License Refused

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 July 1917 · page 4

Judgment in the appeal of certain objectors to the liquor license recently granted by the Licensing Bench to the Hotel Sydney, at the corner, of Hay,…

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Hotel Rent Reduction

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 August 1917 · page 2

There is a difference of opinion as to whether the Liquor (Amendment) Act of 1916 is retrospective in the matter of reduction of rent. Some of the…

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Hotels Guarded

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 August 1917 · page 3

The hotels in the vicinity of the various metropolitan tramway depots were guarded by pickets from the ranks of the railway employees out on strike…

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The State Hotel

Daily Examiner · Saturday 18 August 1917 · page 4

A return received by the Queensland Home Secretary shows that during July the State hotel at Babinda accommodated slightly over 100 first-class visitors…

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Special Licensing Court. Tuesday, August 21. Before Messrs. J. L. Shropshire. W. J.

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 August 1917 · page 2

Hawthorne and D. McFarlane, L.Ms. Margaret Roche, application for reassessment.--A.v. reduced to £202 from £318. License fee reduced' from £40…

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Grafton Police Court. Monday, August 27. Before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M. South Grafton Licensing Cases

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 29 August 1917 · page 2

The charges against William Zietsch, licensee of the Australian Hotel, South Grafton (alleged permission of a breach of the Licensing Act) William…

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Grafton Licensing Court. Wednesday, August 29

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 31 August 1917 · page 4

(Before Messrs. J. L. Shropshire, W. J. Hawthorne, and D. McFarlane L.Ms.) The following cases were dealt with at a meeting of the Grafton Licensing…

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Grafton Licensing Court. Monday, September 3

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 September 1917 · page 4

Before Messrs. J. L. Shropshire, W. J. Hawthorne and D. McFarlane, L.Ms. The following cases were dealt with at a sitting of the Grafton Licensing…

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Liberty or License

The Raleigh Sun · Saturday 8 September 1917 · page 2

It is just over a year since a local paper called attention to the grave danger to which the Body Politic of this State was being subjected by reason of the unbounded…

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