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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

207 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 10 of 11

Hotels Closed To-day

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 November 1928 · page 4

In accordance with the provisions of the Liquor Act all hotels will be closed to-day, except between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 a.m…

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Grafton Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1928 · page 4

At the Grafton Licensing Court yesterday, Edward George Clark, for whom Mr. H. Collins (Pollack and Collins) appeared, applied for the transfer of the license in…

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Fill From Balcony Hotelkeeper Found Dead. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 November 1928 · page 4

The fully clothed body of Archibald Harden, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Adamstown, was found on the pavement outside of the hotel at 5 o'clock yesterday…

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Local and General Hotel License Transferred

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 November 1928 · page 4

The license for the Commercial Hotel, Prince street. Grafton, has been transferred from Mr. R. N. Ward to Mrs. M. Allan, formerly of Oxley Island. Mrs…

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Doctor Fined Car Driver's License Suspended Refused to Give Information Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 November 1928 · page 5

At the Campsie Court to-day, Robert Vivian Storer, a Macquarie street doctor, was fined £5 and had his license suspended for three months for refusing to…

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£100 Fine Selling Liquor Without License. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 November 1928 · page 4

When Henrietta Delbois. 31, proprietress of the Rivoli Cafe, was charged at the Central Court to-day with selling liquor without a license, Mr. McMahon,…

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Found on Licensed Premises

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 November 1928 · page 4

For having been found on the licensed premises of the Great Northern Hotel, South Grafton, during prohibited hours, John Breen (65) was, at the Grafton…

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Death From Lock Jaw Licensee of Barney's Hill Hotel

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 November 1928 · page 4

The death, occurred yesterday from lockjaw of Mr. William Peter Sorensen, licensee of the hotel at Barney's Hill. It appears that about a week, ago,…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 December 1928 · page 4

Before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., in the District Licensing Court yesterday morning, the matter was mentioned of the complaint by the licensing inspector in…

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Clean Sweep Big Fire At Moree £200,000 Damage Hotels--bank--stores Twenty-six Business Places Destroyed. Moree

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 December 1928 · page 5

The most disastrous fire in the history of Moree, and one of the worst that has ever occurred in the country districts of the State, swept the…

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Volunteers Attacked in Hotel Bar Four Men Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 5 December 1928 · page 2

Four volunteer seamen were attacked and severely handled by unionists in the bar of a hotel in Day street to-night. The volunteers were taken to hospital…

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Aboriginal on Licensed Premises

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 December 1928 · page 4

Brandy Donnelly (44), an aboriginal, pleaded guilty at the Grafton Police Court yesterday to a charge of having been found on the licensed premises of the…

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Motor Driver Fined £20 No License for Three Years. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 December 1928 · page 2

At Parramatta Police Court, James Thomas Noone, master butcher, who was charged with having driven a motor car while under the influence of liquor and…

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A Hotel License Matter

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 December 1928 · page 4

Matthew Dougherty, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Casino, who intended to appeal against the decision of the Police Magistrate (Mr. Sutherland), in…

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Moree Again Another Disastrous Fire £30,000 Damage Seven Shops and Hotel Destroyed. Moree

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 December 1928 · page 5

The second disastrous fire within a little more than a week occurred at Moree early this morning, when seven shops and a hotel were…

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Man's Skull Fractured Row Outside Hotel. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 December 1928 · page 4

During the course of a quarrel outside a hotel at Enmore yesterday Ernest Neville, 43, of St. Peters, was knocked down and sustained a fractured skull, his…

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Italian Fined £80 Sold Liquor Without License. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 December 1928 · page 5

At the Central Court, Turate Bassanetti, an Italian, was fined a total of £8[?] on a charge of selling liquor without a license. Evidence was given that defendant had…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 December 1928 · page 4

Sitting in the Licensing Court yesterday morning Mr. E. A. Mahony,. P.M., granted applications for the renewal of a billiard room license to S. A. Arndell,…

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A Bad Record Hotelkeepers Victimised Lismore and Grafton Episodes

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 December 1928 · page 3

Before Mr. E. A. Mahony P.M., in the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning, Henry Arthur Meeres, 44, appeared on remand to answer a charge of having by…

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Drink on Sunday a Candid Motorist Fined £15 and License Cancelled. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 December 1928 · page 5

Raymond Kennedy, 20, was fined £15 and had his license suspended for a year in Parramatta Court to-day for having ridden a motor cycle while under the…

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