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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1925

171 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 9

Gun License Renewals Due

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 4

Owners of firearms are reminded that, all licenses issued under the Gun License Act expired on December 31, and that the question of renewal should…

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Hotel Cellar Doors

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 4

The attention of the aldermen at Young has been drawn to the fact that hotelkeepers, whose cellar doors are on the footpaths, cause danger to the public,…

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Licensing Case Keeping of Hotel Register. Charge Dismissed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 2

E. G. Clark, the licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Pound street, Grafton, was prosecuted by the Licensing Inspector (Sergeant McAlpin) at the Grafton…

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Drunken Driver. Fined and License Suspended. Perjury Charge Next. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 5

At the Central Court to-day, Clive Edwards, 31, auctioneer, was charged with having driven a motor car in Elizabeth street while under the influence of…

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Ulmarra Police Court Carrying Away Liquor Case Under Amended Licensing Act

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 January 1925 · page 2

On January 7, before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., at Ulmarra, William Dunn was charged that he did on the 30th December. 1924, carry away liquor, to wit…

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Telegrams. Driving Without License. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 5

Robert Baillie, a well known horse trainer, was fined £3 with costs at Parramatta court on a charge of having driven a car without a license on…

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Licensing Matters

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 January 1925 · page 4

Yesterday, at the Grafton Court, Fanny Small, proprietor of the Post Office Hotel at South Grafton, was granted an extension of four months in…

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Gun Licenses Refused

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 4

At a meeting of the Yass Pastures Protection Board the directors reported that most of them had been refused a renewal of their special gun licenses, and that the…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1925 · page 1

The Licensing Inspector's quarterly report was received for the quarter ended December 31, 1925, and in reply to the Bench, Sergeant McIntosh stated that all…

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Radio Sets Nearly 37,000 Licenses Issued. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 29 January 1925 · page 5

Mr. Brown, Secretary to the Postmaster General's Department, stated that 36,719 broadcasting licenses had been issued up to the end of December…

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Local and General. Hotel Changes Hands

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1925 · page 4

It is understood that the Lion Hotel, in Prince street, is about to change hands again, Mrs. L. A. Wallace having sold her Interests to Mr. Parker, of…

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Hotel Burnt Down. Walgett

Daily Examiner · Friday 6 February 1925 · page 4

The Barwon Inn Hotel, three miles from Walgett, was totally destroyed by fire. The cause of the outbreak is a mystery…

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Fire at Hotel Bag Saturated with Kerosene. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 February 1925 · page 2

An attempt was made to set fire to the Wentworth Hotel, Flemington, early this morning. About 1.15 a.m. Watchman Fletcher,…

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Where Bolshies Hotel Sway the Town of Innisfail

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 4

Innisfail, thanks to its enormous sugar yield and the activity of its criminal and Bolshie element, is one of the best known towns in Australia. A…

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Wants to Fight Asked Magistrate for License. Geelong

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1925 · page 4

When Oscar Demetri, acrobat was fined £3 for having assaulted Thomas Winter, stage hand, at his Majesty's Theatre, Geelong, he asked the…

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Beer 'Black' Waterside Workers' Boycott Hotels. Hobart

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 February 1925 · page 5

The waterside workers have declared beer '"black" as a protest against the high price of the beverage. A campaign committee is urging that beer should be…

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Disastrous Fire Narrow Escape of Hotel Inmates. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 5

A disastrous fire occurred at Westport this morning, when the Grand Hotel, the King's Theatre, and several other buildings were destroyed. The Club Hotel…

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Hotel Hours Saturday Half-Holiday Liquor Referendum Suggestion at Methodist Conference. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 5

A letter was received at the Methodist Conference to-day from the W.C.T.U., putting forward a plan for closing of all hotels and wine bars at one p.m. on…

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Hotel Tragedy Fall From High Window. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 2

Frederick C. Wright, grazier, of Weabouga, near Tamworth, was fatally In a fall from his bedroom window at Adams' Hotel, Pitt street, early this…

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Brushgrove Publican Bankruptcy Examination Liabilities £3446, Assets £39

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 3

An examination in bankruptcy in Grafton was held yesterday into the affairs of John Donohue, recently license of the Brushgrove Hotel, Brushgrove, who has…

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