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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1923

198 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 10

Local and General. Hotel License Transfer

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 September 1923 · page 4

In the Grafton Licensing Court, on Saturday last before Mr. W. B. Geddes, an application by Thomas Martin, licensee of the Hampden Hotel, Coramba, to…

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Liquor Polls. Amending Licensing Act. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 September 1923 · page 4

The Minister for Justice will probably next week introduce a Bill amending, the Licensing Act. The measure will probably provide for a periodic…

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Maclean Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 September 1923 · page 4

Before Mr. W. B. Geddes, P.M., J. E. Arnold and Dr. P. E. Corlis, J's.P., on Thursday the following applications were dealt with:--…

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Wanted to Get Square. Publican's Income Tax Return. Dunedin (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 September 1923 · page 5

At Dunedin yesterday Samuel Dunn, an ex-publican, was fined £200 on charges of making false returns of his income in respect of a hotel at Heriot. The…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 4

The Licensing Magistrate (Mr. W. B. Geddes) presided at a sitting of the Licensing Court yesterday morning. The transfer of a billiard license for the…

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Hotels and Defaulting Guests

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 September 1923 · page 4

In the Grafton Petty Sessions Court yesterday morning reference was made by the P.M. (Mr. W. B. Geddes) to the proper course open to hotel licensees from…

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All Fahmy Bey. French Wife on Trial. Savoy Hotel Tragedy. Case Opens at Old Bailey. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 September 1923 · page 5

Intense interest centres in the trial at the Old Bailey of Madame Fahmy, the French wife of the Egyptian Ali Fahmy Boy. She is charged with shooting her…

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Jockey Harry Atkins. A.J.C. Grant Riding License. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 September 1923 · page 4

At a committee meeting of the A.J.[?]. permission was given to the apprentice H. Atkins, of Grafton, to ride is races…

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Licensing Bill. Three Main Features. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 September 1923 · page 3

There are three maim features in the Licensing Bill introduced in the Assembly on Thursday evening. The first is the amalgamation of the Licenses Reduction…

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Licensing Matters

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 September 1923 · page 4

Permission to leave his hotel for three months was granted Mr. W. J. Zietsch, of the Australian Hotel, South Grafton, in the Licensing Court…

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Maclean Licensed Fishermen

Daily Examiner · Monday 24 September 1923 · page 4

A meeting of the Maclean Licensed Fishermen was held last Tuesday afternoon. for the purpose of interviewing a delegate fo a firm of fish buyers from…

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Hotel Robbery

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 September 1923 · page 4

Between 11 on a recent Saturday night and "early on Sunday morning a robbery was committed at the Victoria Hotel, Nambuccas Heads. Some persons, at…

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"Licensed Polygamy." Marriage After Divorce. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 September 1923 · page 5

Licensed polygamy was how Archbishop Kelly described the marriage of diyorced people at a meeting of the Australian Holy Catholic Guild Benefit…

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The Liquor Bill. "A Non-Parly Measure." Hours of Nurse. Licensing Land Agents. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 26 September 1923 · page 5

In the Assembly this afternoon the Minister for Health informed Mr. Greig that it was not deemed desirable to fix the hours of hospital nurses to eight per…

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32 Hotels Closed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 29 September 1923 · page 5

The Licenses Reduction Board deemed that 32 hotels in Broken Hill and district shall be closed…

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Local and General. a Motor License

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 October 1923 · page 4

Thomas A. MeGuren was charged before Mr. W. B. Geddes, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday with failing to renew or return his motor license…

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Single Rooms at Hotels

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 October 1923 · page 4

"There is a serious tendency by hotelkeepers to do away with the single room, and a lodger has to go into a room with a stranger. If hotelkeepers…

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Gun Licenses

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 6 October 1923 · page 2

Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A., is in receipt of the following letter from the Chief Secretary's Department:—Dear Sir,—In reply to your inquiry in…

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Adulterated Liquor. W.A. State Hotels. Perth

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 October 1923 · page 5

The Public Service Commissioner in Western Australia, reporting on the liquor supplied at the State, hotels, expressed the opinion that in some hotels…

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8 TO 8. Proposed Hotel Hours. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 October 1923 · page 5

Country members of the Labor party are organising with a view to having a clause inserted in the Liquor Bill providing for an early referendum as to…

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