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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

187 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 10

His Hotel Bill £67 for a Fortnight. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day Thomas Hughes, 28, clerk, was charged with having refused to pay his hotel bill. It was stated he and his wife arrived…

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Radio in Hotels Chief Secretary's Statement. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 4

The Minister for Justice, Mr. McKell, says under the Licensing Act radio music could not be permitted in a bar or other public portion of an hotel, but it would…

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Clifden Wine Depot. Renewal of License

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1926 · page 3

Wallace Rupert Gill applied to the Grafton District [?]censing Court yesterday morning, before Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M., for the renewal of the Australian…

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Hotel Bill Claim For Payment Information Dismissed Defendant Brought From Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 June 1926 · page 3

In the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday morning, Frederick Morris Woodford appeared on remand from Sydney, to answer a charge of having…

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Whisky Bottle As Hotel Sign

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 June 1926 · page 4

An application was made to the Richmond (Vic.) City Improvement, and Building Committee by the proprietor of a hotel for permission to erect over his…

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Five Tamworth District Hotels Close

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 July 1926 · page 4

Five hotels in the Tamworth Licensing District closed their doors for the last time at 6 p.m. on June 30, the date fixed by the Licenses Reduction Board…

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Hotel Balconies The New Freemasons' POSTS V. Cantilever Awnings Council Decision Reversed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 July 1926 · page 4

A letter was received at the meeting of the Grafton Council last night from Messrs. Pollack and Collins on behalf of Mrs. Fanny Small, of the Freemasons' Hotel,…

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Licenses Issued

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 July 1926 · page 5

The Premier announced that the Workers' Compensation Commission so far has licensed 14 companies to carry on business, and has also issued authority to…

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Hotel License Transferred

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 July 1926 · page 4

The transfer of the license of the Commercial Hotel, Rappville, from Andrew Burnett to Alfred Bugden, was granted at a sitting of the Licensing Court at…

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Hotel Change

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 July 1926 · page 4

Mr. W. Kelly, late of Ulmarra and the Post Office Hotel, Grafton, and Royal Hotel, South Grafton, has taken over the Commercial Hotel at the corner of Prince…

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Licensee Praised

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Wednesday 21 July 1926 · page 2

At Bellingen Licensing Court on Thursday, Mr. J. E. McCulloch, P.M., granted the transfer of the Pier Hotel, Coff's Jetty, from T. E…

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Resumption of Hotel Sydney City Council Sued. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 July 1926 · page 5

Acting on behalf of Miss Margaret Alexander Troy, of St. Kilda, Melbourne. Mr. W. H. Drew, solicitor, of Sydney, has issued out of the Supreme Court of…

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Hotel Bedroom Tragedy a London Inquest. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 July 1926 · page 5

A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest into the circumstances of the death of Mrs. Ida Maneylake, who was found dead through…

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Aeroplane Left at Hotel

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 4

A novel application was made by Mr. P. G. Preston, licensee of the Victoria Hotel, Moonan Flat (N.S.W.), for an order under section 73 of the Liquor Act, for…

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Jewel Robbery From Hotel Australia Property of Chicago Millionaire. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 5

Saul Newbury, a reputed millionaire, from Chicago, who is staying at the Hotel Australia, informed the police this morning that jewellery, consisting of a…

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Jockey Fined Car Driver's License Suspended Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 4 August 1926 · page 4

At the Burwood Police Court to-day Reginald Marsden, the well-known jockey, was fined £5 and had his license suspended for two months for having driven a motor…

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Hotel License Transferred

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 August 1926 · page 4

An application for the transfer of the license of Laird's Family Hotel, Prince street, Grafton, from Hannah J. Daniels to Frederick Sadie, late of Redfern,…

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No License for Crime Twin Brothers Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 August 1926 · page 5

"Because a man went to the war he has not been given the license to live by crime," said Judge Rolin at the Darlinghurst Sessions to-day in imposing a…

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Hotel Theft. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 August 1926 · page 7

While Detectives Kennedy and Watkins were inquiring into a number of thefts from one of the city hotels to-day, they saw the name of a man, alleged to…

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INEVITABLE Prohibition In Australia Rev. Nicholson's Views Publicans and Fleas. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 August 1926 · page 4

"You might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a bunch of toothpicks as try to stop prohibition coming into force in Australia," was the…

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