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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1930

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Airman Loses License Recent Brisbane River Crash. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 6 September 1930 · page 5

The defence authorities have suspended the "A" class license held by H. Gi Urquhart, pilot of the Moth aeroplane that crashed into the Brisbane River on…

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'Listening In' On Licensed Premises Test Night at Ulmarra the Sergt. Pays a Visit Police Court Sequel

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 September 1930 · page 1

At Ulmarra. Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. T. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., John Watkins, who was represented by Mr. McGuren was charged that on August 19,…

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Liquor After Hours Sequel to Hotel Australia Raid Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 September 1930 · page 5

There was a sequel to the recent police raid at the Hotel Australia at the Central Court to-day when the licensee, George Edward Arlidge, and four other…

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Trade with Canada Butter Exports Under License. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 September 1930 · page 5

Australia's desire to increase trade with Canada was emphasised in a special message despatched to-day by the Acting Minister for Markets, Mr. Forde, to the…

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Thief in Hotel Licensee Waits with Iron Bar. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 4

A thief, who broke into the Rose, Shamrock and Thistle Hotel at East Preston last night, accidentally bumped against a bell in the bar and awakened the…

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Boxers Caused Stir Fight in Fashionable Hotel London

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 September 1930 · page 5

The crash of crockery, an overturned table and angry shouts interrupted the luncheon of distinguished guests at the Savoy Hotel, when the boxers, Harry…

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Savoy Hotel Fight Boxers' Advertising Stunt. London

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 September 1930 · page 1

The British Boxing Board of Control in an official statement following a special inquiry into the brawl between. the boxers Mason and Rice in the Savoy…

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Buses on Tram Routes £4 Seat License Fee. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 September 1930 · page 5

The decision of the Transport Trust to compel motor bus owners in the metropolitan area to take out special licenses in accordance with the terms of the…

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Hotel Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 September 1930 · page 3

The following is the list of guests at the Hotel Sydney:--Mr. and Mrs. McEvay (Cobar), Mr. and Mrs. Court (Buthurst); Mrs. Eilerton (Newcastle), Miss Hewitt…

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Held Intruder Plucky Female Cashier Arrest of Alleged Hotel Thief. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 September 1930 · page 4

A man entered the office of the George Hotel, Newcastle, yesterday afternoon, and secured £27 in bank, notes, from an open safe, Just as he was leaving, the…

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BUSES V. Trams Bus Owners Ask for Cars to Be Licensed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 September 1930 · page 5

The Taxibus Owners Association of New South Wales has decided to request the Transport Trust to allow their cars to be licensed. The association expresses…

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Hotel License Transferred

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 September 1930 · page 4

At the Grafton Licensing Court yesterday morning the Licensing Magistrate, Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., granted an application by Sidney Ross for the…

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Hotel Robbery Escape From Custody Charge. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1930 · page 1

Hack Shaw, 40, clerk, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment on each of two charges of having stolen £28 from a hotel safe and for having escaped from the…

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'Scullin's Friend' Suicide in London Hotel Was Member of Naval Board. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 26 September 1930 · page 5

Stated at the inquest to be a great friend of Mr. Scullin, Captain Albert Martin, O.B.E., 59, formerly a finance member of the Australian Naval Board, was found…

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Licensed Listeners' League

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 October 1930 · page 4

A general meeting of the Grafton Licensed Listeners' League is to be held in the New State rooms to-night, at 7.30 o'clock. A trouble-finding set has been…

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Bathurst Tragedy Hotelkeeper's Wife Shot Husband Arrester. Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 October 1930 · page 5

With a bullet wound below the left breast, Mrs. Catherine Lazarus, 41, wife of Abraham Lazarus, licensee of the Railway Hotel, was found in a state of…

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Explosion in Hotel Bedroom Death of Occupant. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 11 October 1930 · page 4

When some gelignite exploded in his bedroom in a hotel at Nowra early this morning James McGregor, aged about 50, received dreadful injuries which resulted…

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Bathurst Hotelkeeper Charged with Intent to Murder Wife. Bathurst

Daily Examiner · Monday 13 October 1930 · page 5

Abraham Lazarus, licensee of the Railway Hotel, Bathurst South, was remanded at the local court to-day on a charge of having shot at his wife with…

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Dramatic Suicide Lapstone Hotel Manageress Bullet Through Body Attempt to Burn Down Hotel. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 15 October 1930 · page 5

After setting fire to Lapstone Hotel, near Penrith, shortly after midnight, the manageress, Miss B[?]dore Fernandez, 40, shot herself dead, in the…

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Wireless Licenses Decrease of Nearly 5000. MELBOURNE

Daily Examiner · Thursday 16 October 1930 · page 5

The Director of Postal Services, Mr. Brown, said that at the end of September there were in force in Australia 330,165 wireless licenses. This showed a decrease…

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