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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

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

Hostile Mob. Two Constables Menaced Publican Draws Revolver. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 9 December 1929 · page 4

Constables James and Barwick were menaced by a hostile mob, while trying to arrest two men for indecent language at Darlinghurst, early this morning…

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Publican's Suicide Told His Wife First. Broken Hill

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 5

After having informed his wife that lie intended to end his life, Walter Grigg, 54, licensee of the Rorkwell Hotel drank a cup of [?] and died 25 minutes…

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State Budget Treasurer Expects Small Surplus Individual and Company Tax Reductions Tax On Amusements, Tobacco And Liquor Licenses New Endowmemt Tax System Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 December 1929 · page 5

An estimated surplus, of £21,386 for the year ended June, 1930 was forecasted by the State Treasurer, Mr. Stevena, in his Budget speech which he delivered in the Legislative' Assembly to-night. A reduction in both the company tax and individual, tax is promised…

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Murder and Suicide Burlington Hotel Tragedy. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 11 December 1929 · page 4

At the conclusion of an inquiry into the double tragedy at Burlington Hotel they Acting Coroner found Mary Pearl Lisley died from the effects of strychnine…

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Town Clerk Killed Fall From Hotel Window. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 December 1929 · page 7

Fatal injuries were received by Rupert Clarke, 29, Town Clerk, of Burrough, near Ballarat, who fell 60 feet from the window of a hotel during the night…

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New Liquor License Taxation. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 12 December 1929 · page 6

The Treasurer, Mr. Stevens, gave notice in the Legislative Assembly to-day of his intention to move to-morrow for leave to introduce a Bill to provide for the new…

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'All Rot' New Spirit Tariff View of Licensed Victuallers' Secretary. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 December 1929 · page 5

Mr. Durham, secretary of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, referring to a statement that one of the objects of the new tariff schedule is to encourage the…

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Workers' Compensation Act Operation of [?]Ers' ' Licenses Case of Default Alleged. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 4

Mr. A. J. Pollack (C.P.) asked the Treasurer in the Legislative Assembly today, whether he was aware that a certain insurer with a license under the Workers'…

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Bellinger River Licensing Court Sits. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 December 1929 · page 6

Before the Licensing Magistrate, Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, at Bellingen, yesterday, billiard licenses were renewed, for a further term of twelve months, in respect,…

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Local and General Pistol Licenses

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 December 1929 · page 4

Holders of pistol licenses are reminded that same must be renewed not later than December 31…

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Hotel Robberies Police Make Arrest. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 16 December 1929 · page 5

An arrest by Petersham police this afternoon will probably, clear up a long series of mysterious hotel and boarding house robberies, which have been…

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£20 Fine Drunken Motor Driver No License for Two Years. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 4

Bernard John Carroll, a carpenter, formerly of Casino, now of Lismore, was fined £20, with £6 costs, and was disqualified for two years from holding a driver's…

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£10,000 Fire Wentworth Falls Hotel Destroyed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 December 1929 · page 5

A fire which broke out in Wentworth Falls Hotel early this morning quickly destroyed the building, doing damage estimated at £10,000. People in the…

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Licensed Fishermen Maclean Association Nets on the Foreshores

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 December 1929 · page 5

A meeting of the Maclean Licensed Fishermen's Association was held in the Council Chambers, Maclean, on Friday night. There were present: (Messrs. A…

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Billiard Room License

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 December 1929 · page 4

In the Grafton Licensing Court yesterday morning, Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., granted an application by William James Weiley for the renewal of his billiard…

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A Perpetual License

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 December 1929 · page 6

An inspector in the Warrarapa district was recently on the warpath looking for erring motorists who neglected to carry their driver's licenses, says a New Zealand…

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£400 Taken From Hotel Safe. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 December 1929 · page 1

The sum of £400 was stolen during Saturday night from a safe of the Portsea Hotel…

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Determined Suicide Hotel Proprietor at Wollongong. Wollongong

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 December 1929 · page 3

Alfred Orchard, 55, hotel proprietor, was found with his throat, cut, on Thursday night. He was attended to by a doctor and placed under guard by friends…

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