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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

207 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 11

Kyogle Hotels

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 4

In the Casino Elcensing Court the matter of the transfer of the meense of the Exchange Hotel, Kyogre, was brought forward, this hour was destroyed by the…

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Townsville Mystery Man Shot at Hotel. Townsville

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 5

A mysterious murder was committed at the Causeway Hotel about midnight on Thursday as a result of which the body of Alexander Bower was found early this…

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Hotel Appeal Case

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 4

Some time ago H. C. Page, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Casino, was convicted on a charge of having allowed persons other than lodgers to be on the premises…

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Selling Liquor Without a License

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 4

At the Kyogle Police Court, before Mr. F. H. D. Sutherland, P.M., Robert Bell (who did not appear) was charged with having, at Upper Grady's Creek on…

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Revolver Without License

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 4

At the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., George Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of having in his possession a revolver, he not…

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Dangerous Driving Motorist Fined Deprived of License Echo of This Armidale Road Accident

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1928 · page 3

William Edward Langdon pleaded not guilty at the Grafton Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., to a charge of driving a car in a manner…

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Bogus Knight Hotel Suite and Motor Car Six Months for False Pretences Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 March 1928 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day, Robert William Edward Gunter, 42, engineer, pleaded guilty to a charge of having falsely represented to Michael Patrick…

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Hotel Boycott Trouble at Darwin Sydney

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 2

At a meeting of the Union which is organising the hotel boycott at Darwin forty unionists were asked to show cause why they should not be…

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Prisoner on Parole Police Sergeant Shot Perth Hotel Sensation. Perth

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 4

A sensational shooting affray occurred at the Brisbane Hotel, Perth, yesterday, when Sergeant Alexander Mark was shot in the abdomen, allegedly by Edward…

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Darwin Unionists the Hotel Boycott a Noisy Meeting. Darwin, Frida

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 March 1928 · page 5

A noisy meeting of the union which is organising the hotel boycott was held, when 40 unionists were tried for drinking beer at "hotels in "defiance of the…

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Moron License Opposed. Granted by Court

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 16 March 1928 · page 2

Sydney Dark appealed to the P.M. at the police court on Wednesday against the Traffic Department's refusal to issue him a motor driver's…

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Drunken Car Drivers No Hope for License Renewals. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 17 March 1928 · page 4

The Minister for Justice, Mr. Lee, stated to-day that it would be useless for persons who have been deprived of their motor licenses through drunkenness to…

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Game or Competition? Hotelkeeper Charged

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 3

Following a several days' visit to Coffs Harbour by Constable Gunther, of Kew, in plain clothes. Thomas Joseph Williams was charged at the…

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Wild Scatter Police Raid Hotel. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 March 1928 · page 5

Twenty men were arrested by the police following on a raid at the White Swan Hotel, Darlington, yesterday, and were charged with having been unlawfully on…

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Police Criticised Unrelenting Attitude Bathurst Licensing Case. Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 March 1928 · page 5

Mr. S[?]obie, S.M., was outspoken in his comments regarding the actions of the police in the case in which R. S. Burton, licensee of King's Hotel, was charged…

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Alleged Unlawful Game Charge Against Hotelkeeper Dismissed. Coff's Harbor

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 March 1928 · page 4

On Monday morning, before Messrs. Walker and Sawyer, Mr. J. T. Williams, licensee of the Pier Hotel, was charged that he did suffer an unlawful game to…

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Religious Lectures Bible Association Refused Wireless License. Ottawa

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 5

The International Bible Students' Association has been refused further radio broadcasting licenses, because lectures have been put on the air, containing…

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Darwin Hotels Two "Black" and One "White" Darwin

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 7

The Victoria Hotel has been declared "white" again by the union, but the boycott has not been lifted from the other two hotels one of which does not…

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Licensing Bench Annual Report Revenue Totals £194,748 Expenditure on Hotels. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 3

The annual report of the Licensing Bench and Licenses Reduction Board for 1927 states that while the work of reduction of licenses was drawing to a close…

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Taxi Licenses to Lapse on Second Conviction. Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 3

The City Council has decided that licences of taxi cabs shall lapse automatically on the second conviction…

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