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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1921

287 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 14 of 15

Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1921 · page 4

Before Mr. A . H. Parkes (Licensing Magistrate), at the Courthouse Grafton yesterday, a transfer of the license of the Railway Hotel on the South…

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Grafton Police Court Friday, November 25. (Before Mr. A. H. Parkes, P.m.) Sunday Hotel Trading Cases

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 November 1921 · page 4

When a traveller has concluded a journey and its effect upon obtaining drink at ait hotel in otherwise unlawful hours was the basis of a case at the Court house…

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Grafton Police Court. FRIDAY, 25th NOVEMBER, 1921. Before Mr. A. H. Parkes, P.M. Mainly About Hotels

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 November 1921 · page 8

Yesterday business at the local Police Court was devoted entirely to hotels and cases arising therefrom, most of them postponed from a…

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Hotel Closing Hour Will Not Be Altered. Amending Act This Session. Sydney, Saturday Evening

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 28 November 1921 · page 2

Renewed interest is being evinced at the present time in the question of hotel closing hours. It is almost certained that a bill dealing with this…

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Nambucca Heads Hotel

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 November 1921 · page 4

The new premises for the Victoria Hotel at Nambucca Heads are now complete, the license has been transferred from the old place and Mr. R. Roberts has commenced…

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Telegrams Protest Against Wine Licenses. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 December 1921 · page 2

The executive of the International Order of Good Templars passed the following resolution: "That we express our regret at the large increase of wine licenses…

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Floating Hotel. Food Carried By Liner. Trainloads of Provisions. 110 Fowls a Meal

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 December 1921 · page 2

Victualling figures of the world's mammoth ocean hotels are staggering, but still more remarkable is the facility with which chief stewards and…

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Usher's Hotel Case. Verdict of Not Guilty

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 December 1921 · page 5

Dareey Edgar Jackson appeared at the Criminal Court charged with having caused the death of Alphonsus Bowdren, a hall porter at Usher's Hotel. The…

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Fatal Quarrel Hotel Porter's Death. Taxi Driver Acquitted. Sydney, Friday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 December 1921 · page 5

Darcy Jackson, a taxi-driver, appeared before Mr. Justice Wade at the Central Criminal Court to-day to answer a charge of having caused the…

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Sailor Killed in Hotel. Two Men on Trial. Sydney, Friday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 3 December 1921 · page 5

Edward Belsey and Robert Furlong, at the Central Police Court this afternoon, were charged with murdering William Mann, whose body was found…

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Vienna Food Riots. Cafes and Shops Pillaged. and Hotels Sacked. Vienna

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 December 1921 · page 5

Several milliard crowns worth of damage was done in the course of rioting, the outcome of a big demonstration by workmen against the cost of living. Nearly all…

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Auctioneer's License. Interesting Point Raised

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 5 December 1921 · page 4

At the Central Police Court an interesting question arose out of an application by William Stephen Keast for an auctioneer's general license in…

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Licensing Court. Monday, December 5

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 December 1921 · page 4

Before Mr. A. H. Parkes (chairman) and Messrs. D. McFarlane and W. J. Hawthorne, L.Ms. Thomas Kiely, Lion Hotel, Grafton…

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Sydney Hotel Tragedy the Inquest. Turlong Committed for Manslaughter. Sydney, Wednesday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Thursday 8 December 1921 · page 3

The City Coroner held an inquest to-day into the death of Wm. Mann, who was found in a serious condition at the foot of the stairs at the…

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Maclean Police Court. Thursday, December 8. Before Mr. A. H. Parkes, P.M. On Licensed Promises

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 9 December 1921 · page 2

A first offender pleaded guilty to being on licensed premises at an unlawful hour and was fined 15 and coats, or four days…

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Licensing Court Friday, December 9. Before. Mr. A. H. Parkes, P.M., and Mr. D. McFarlane. J.P. Hotel Licenses Renewed

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1921 · page 8

Renewals of licenses were granted to the following: Albert Erickson, Railway Hotel, South Grafton; Francis Benn, Lionsville Hotel, Lionsville;…

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Licenses Granted. Sitting at Grafton Courthouse

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 December 1921 · page 6

Before Mr. A. H. Parkes, P.M., and Mr. Duncan McFarlane, J.P., sitting at the Grafton Courthouse yesterday as a Special Licensing Court, the following applications…

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Reducing the Hotels. Murray Electorate Loses 25. SYDNEY, Friday Night

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1921 · page 5

The Licenses Reduction Court today de-licensed twenty-five hotels in the Murray Electorate. Wagga was the chief sufferer, eight houses being…

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Gun Licensing Act

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 December 1921 · page 4

Mr. Dooley said to-day that it had been represented to him that unless there was some relaxation of the provisions of the Gun Licensing Act during the Christmas…

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The Lion Hotel

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1921 · page 2

A popular figure in hotel circles is Mr. Tom Kiely, who fittingly styles his commodious and comfortable hostelry "a home from home, the rendezvous of…

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