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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

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Thirty-one Hotels Closed. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 4

Thirty-one hotels in the Melbourne metropolitan district (were closed last night as a result of the licenses having been revoked by the Licenses Reduction Board…

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Hong Kong Fire Hotel Guests Escape Unparalleled Blaze Bluejackets and Soldiers to the Rescue. Hong Kong

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 5

A fire broke out at a Hong Kong hotel and was blazing fiercely but all the guests are safe. The guests retired in the small hours of the morning from a…

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Brandy for Cake and Beer As a Gift Interesting Licensing Case

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 6

At the Kempsey Police Court before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.M., Henry Robinson, licensee of Tattersall's Hotel, was charged with supplying liquor on licensed premises…

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Murder of Mrs. Macfie Two Hotel Boys Confess to Crime. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 4

A message from Java states that two of the hotel boys held in connection with the murder of Mrs. Mac[?]e have confessed to the crime…

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Fire in Hotel Woman's Narrow Escape. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 5

A fire broke out in the Bellvue Hotel at 2 o'clock this morning. Several persons sleeping on the first floor above the seat of the outbreak were awakened just…

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New Hotel for Ballina

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 2

Plans have been prepared for a new Australian Hotel at Ballina, to cost in the Vicinity of £12,000…

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Licensing Court Quarterly Meeting

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 2

At the quarterly meeting of the Grafton Licensing Court, Mr. J. McCulloch, P.M., presiding, Sergeant McAlpin, licensing inspector, presented his…

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Canadian Hotel Fire. Quebec

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 5

Damage estimated at 2,000,000 dollars was done by a fire at the Chateau Frontenac Hotel, one of the premier hostelries in Canada…

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Famous Hotel Partly Destroyed by Fire. Quebec

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 3

The original wings and the great tower of the Chateau Frontenac at Quebec, one of the world's most historic and famous hotels, are to-day ruins owing to a fire…

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Licensing Case Southgate Publican Fined Sequel to Aboriginals' Arrest Drunken Men on Licensed Premises

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 3

A the police court, Grafton, yesterday, before (Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M., the Licensing Inspector (Sergeant McAlpin) proceeded against A. Hutchby, licensee…

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Passing of Hotel

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1926 · page 4

At the Murwillumbah Licensing Court on Friday, Mr. F. G. Adrian, chairman of the Licensing Reduction Board, Sydney, called upon Sommerville Matthias…

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44 Hour Week Hotel Charges Rising. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 January 1926 · page 1

The Residential Hotels' Association, which represents most of the leading hotels in Sydney, has endorsed the adoption of the increased tariff to cover the…

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Shires Association The 44-Hour Week Bill Licensing of Service Cars Representation on Federal Board. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 20 January 1926 · page 5

The Shires Association executive have received a communication from the Terania Shire Council to the effect that service cars in the country avoid the…

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Disastrous Blaze Early Morning Outbreak in Dorrigo. Block of Buildings Destroyed. Fight to Save Hotel

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 2

One of the most disastrous fires experienced in the history of Dorrigo occurred at an early hour yesterday morning, when the block of business…

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Fares and Freights Motor License Payments Must Be Sent to Sydney. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 5

In the Legislative Assembly to-day Mr. Doe asked the Premier had he yet taken any action to give effect to his preelection promise to reduce the rail and…

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Big Hotel Fire Eight Dead, Twenty Injured. Vancouver

Daily Examiner · Monday 25 January 1926 · page 5

A message from Allentown, Pennsylvania, states that at least eight are dead and a score injured, in the ruins of the Lafayette Hotel, which was burned on…

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The Freemasons' Hotel License

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 26 January 1926 · page 4

Business in connection with the quarterly meeting of the Licensing Court was dealt with at the Grafton Courthouse yesterday, when the report of the Licensing…

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Aboriginal on Licensed Premises

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 February 1926 · page 2

Keith Roy Lawrie, an aboriginal, failed to appear to answer a charge of being found on licensed, premises at Southgate on December 12 last…

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Fire at Commercial Hotel Is a Fire-bug at Work?

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1926 · page 2

The Commercial Hotel had another narrow escape from going up in smoke at an early hour on Wednesday morning last. The outbreak, which…

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Ulmarra Police Court on Licensed Premises

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 February 1926 · page 6

At Ulmarra Police Court On February 3, before Mr. j. E. McCulloch, the police proceeded against George Finlayson charging him with carrying…

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