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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

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English Licensing Laws Commission Appointed Work to Extend for Two Years. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 October 1929 · page 5

The Royal Commission on the working of the licensing, laws in England and Wales will next week begin its labors, which are expected to occupy two years…

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In Voteless Canberra Object to Closed Hotels. Interest and Speculation in Results. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 October 1929 · page 5

In voteless Canberra polling day passed in much the same way as any other day and there was little outward interest in the events which were happening all…

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Publican Stabbed. Bourke

Daily Examiner · Monday 14 October 1929 · page 2

Daniel Toohill was stabbed in the bar of his hotel at Yantabulla, 75 miles from Bourke, during an affray with another man. He was taken to the hospital in a…

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Grafton Hotels Liceneing Bench Inquiry Sanitary Conditions

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1929 · page 7

At the quarterly meeting of the District Licensing Bench on Monday, the Licensing Magistrate, Mr. C. G. CarrBoyd, P.M. in giving consideration to…

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Death Pact? Supposed Double Poisoning Tragedy in Toowoomba Hotel Man Dead; Companion in Hospital. Toowoomba

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 October 1929 · page 5

The body of Cyril Gowlett, 24, a school teacher, was found in the Australian Hotel. Toowoomba, early this morning, while Mrs. Armbrose Taylor…

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Post Office Hotel, South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 October 1929 · page 4

Mr. F. G. Adrian, chairman of the Licensing Migistrates, sat in the Licensing Court, Grafton, yesterday, and dealt with an application by the district…

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Shock for Publican Incident at Pawnshop. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 October 1929 · page 3

Detectives acted promptly to-day and recovered part of the goods stolen, when a showcase of the Sydney Direct Mail Order Company's premises Oxford street was…

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Thieves' Haue £400 in Hotel Safe. Kandos

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 October 1929 · page 3

Thieves broke into the Kandos Hotel and carried away the safe, weighing, three hundred weight, and which contained over £400…

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Liquor Bill Change in Hotel Hours? Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 22 October 1929 · page 5

It is understood the report of the Liquor Bill, to be submitted to Cabinet by the Minister for Justice, Mr. Lee, recommends that the trading hours of…

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Hotel Safe Cut Open in Bush. Perth

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 6

The Melbourne Hotel was broken into yesterday morning and a small safe, containing £112 in cash and about £300 in cheques, carried off in a stolen motor car…

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Hotel Fire Guests' Dash to Safety. Innisfail

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 6

A number of boarders' narrowly escaped being trapped when a fire broke out in the Criterion Hotel, South Johnstone, early to-day…

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Live at Hotel Prime Minister's Decision Well Not Use Official Residence Canberra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 5

Mr. Scullin stated to-night that the present financial position, which the new Government has to face, was one that called not only for the co-operation of all…

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Hotel Yamba Fine New Premises to Cater for Seaside Visitors

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 October 1929 · page 7

For years past it has been apparent that the hotel accommodation at Yamba has not been in keeping with the growing popularity of the place, but the new…

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Wealthy Negro Excluded From London Hotel Complaint to British M.P. LONDON

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 29 October 1929 · page 5

Robert Abbott, a wealthy negro news paper proprietor in Chicago, has cabled Mr. Marley, a member of the House of Commons, complaining that he and his wife…

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Transport Workers' Act to Automatically Lapse No More Licenses to Issue. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 October 1929 · page 4

The provisions of the Transport Workers' Act will automatically lapse without any repeal of the Act by Parliament, when Mr. Beasley, Assistant Cabinet…

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Cancelled for Life New Zealand Motorist's License. Auckland

Daily Examiner · Thursday 31 October 1929 · page 5

At Wanganui yesterday, the license of a motorist, who had been found drunk in a car twice in a fortnight, was cancelled for life…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 November 1929 · page 4

Sitting in the Licensing Court yesterday afternoon, Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., granted an application by Patrick Sherry for a publican's booth license, at…

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Historic Black Horse Hotel

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 November 1929 · page 4

Until its license was removed to Kurrajong recently, the Black Horse Hotel, at Richmond, was the oldest licensed house in Australia. Originally licensed to Paul…

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Licenses for Wharf Laborers Attorney-general Noncommittal. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 November 1929 · page 5

The Federal Attorney-General, Mr, Brennan, to-day refused to comment on the report from Canberra that it is proposed to suspend the issue of licenses for…

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'WEALTHY' But Didn't Pay Hotel Bill Told Police He'd Fix Em Says Sir A. Taylor Is Partner

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 November 1929 · page 4

Charles C. Currier, 68, who describes himself as a mining engineer and who, if his own statements, are true, is a wealthy man, was, at the Grafton…

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