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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

218 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 11

Licensing Court Cangai Hotel Improvements District's Mining Possibilities

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 9 January 1929 · page 3

Mr. Le Brun Brown, Licensing Magistrate, presided over a special sitting of the Licensing Court for the licensing district of Grafton, at the Grafton…

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Licensing Court Sitting at Maclean Alterations to Commercial Hotel

Daily Examiner · Thursday 10 January 1929 · page 1

Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, a member of the State Licensing Magistrates, at Maclean on Wednesday, John Walter Salmon made application to effect material…

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Police Court Maclean Sitting a Hotel Riot

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 1

Yesterday morning, at Maclean Police Court, Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., dealt with several cases arising out of a disturbance at the Commercial Hotel, Maclean, on the…

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License Refused for African Beam Company. Capetown

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 January 1929 · page 5

The South African Wireless Company failed to obtain a license to work the beam, despite the fact that it has been efficiently operating for a year and a…

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Prisoner on License in Trouble at Parkes. Parkes

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 5

At the police court, Patrick Martin, who was released from prison last March, after having been sentenced to penal servitude for life in 1909 for wounding a…

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£100 Cr Six Months Selling Liquor Without License. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1929 · page 5

A fine of £100 or six months imprisonment was imposed on Gregory Selas, 34, restaurant keeper, at the Central Police Court to-day for selling liquor without a…

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Beer Strike Publicans Retaliate Boarders Receive Week's Notice. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 January 1929 · page 5

A beer strike is in progress at Meekatharra as the result of the hotelkeepers' decision to raise the price of board and lodging…

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Market Hotel Improvements

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 4

Permission to make material alterations at the Market Hotel, Grafton, was granted to the licensee and owner, Mr. W. J. Weiley, in the Grafton District Licensing…

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Auctioneer's License

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 4

An application by Leo. J. B. Tyrell, of Baryulgil, for an auctioneer's district license was granted by Mr. E. A Mahony, P.M., in the Grafton District Licensing…

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£15 Fine Police Raid License Not Cancelled. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 7

Because Edward Knight is a farmer and lives 18 miles from the nearest township, Mr. McMahon, S.M., decided not to suspend his license, when he was…

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To Pay £100 Fine Sold Beer Without License. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 5

William Munro, 33, fruiterer, was fined £100, in default six months' imprisonment, at Glebe court, for having sold two bottles of beer to a constable at a house…

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Row in Hotel Man Dies From Effects of Blow. Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 5

Robert Cassels died at Wollongong as the result of a blow received in a hotel on Saturday. Before Cassels' death the police arrested George Edwards and…

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Hotels Standard of Service N.R.M.A. Seeks Change. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 January 1929 · page 7

A deputation from the N.R.M.A. waited on the Licenses Reduction Board to-day, and suggested that hotels should display signs for the convenience of the travelling…

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Standards of Hotel Service

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 4

Many other people besides motorists will hope that good will come of the suggestion made by the deputation from the National Roads and Motorists' Association to the Licensing Reduction Board that hotels should display signs for the convenience of the travelling public to denote whether they are…

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Drunken Driver £20 or Three Months No License for Five Years. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 19 January 1929 · page 5

At the Central Police Court to-day Henry Benjamin McNamara, 60, storekeeper, of Wiseman's Ferry, pleaded guilty to driving a motor car at Circular Quay…

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Coffs Aerodrome. License to Be Granted. "Smithy" May Land Here

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 1

The Defence Department has given the shire council a very satisfactory report on Coffs aerodrome site and has intimated that a license will he…

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Application for Hotel Booth

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 January 1929 · page 4

Charles Inglis, licensee of Small's Hotel, Copmanhurst, was at the Grafton Police Court yesterday granted a booth license for the sports to be held at…

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Drunken Driver £20 Fine, No License for Twelve Months. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 January 1929 · page 5

Samuel Edric Warren, 26, a butcher, of Parkes, was fined £20, or three months hard labor, at the Central Court, on a charge of having driven a motor car…

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Open Verdict South Grafton Fire Adjourned Inquiry Destruction of Great Northern Hotel

Daily Examiner · Saturday 26 January 1929 · page 8

The adjourned inquiry info the circumstances surrounding the fire, which destroyed the Great Northern Hotel, South Grafton, on Sunday, December 30, was…

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Publican's Joke Put One Over Police Bottles of Water—not Beer. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 4

Albert McGee, licensee of the Dooen Hotel, Horsham, thought the police were out to tran him for selling liquor after hours, so he filled two bottles of beer…

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