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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

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Sensational Stabbing Hotelkeeper Wounded. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 23 January 1931 · page 5

A sensational stabbing affair, as the result of which a crippled man has been arrested and charged with feloniously wounding with intent to murder, occurred…

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Repairs to a Lismore Hotel

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 4

It will cost nearly £2500 to repair the damage to the Hotel Ryan, Lismore, caused by the fire at the beginning of the Month. The end wall of the brick…

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Fruit Machines Suggested Heavy License. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 1

Although the Chief Secretary, Mr. Gosling, announced on Thursday that proceedings were to be taken against clubs and hotels which installed fruit…

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£305,000 Hotel Passed in at £125,000. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 2

The Savoy Hotel, Castlereagh and King streets which was purchased by the Savoy Hotel Company, Ltd., for £305,000. was submitted at auction yesterday, but…

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Swagman Runs Amok Sensation at Cooyal Publican Shot in the Neck. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

Running amok at Cooyal, near Mudgee, to-day, a drink-crazed swagman, after firing wild shots as he raced on horseback through the town, shot Oswald…

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Hire Car Licenses

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 4

In his report to the Dorrigo Shire Council on Wednesday Mr. C. Vost stated that he had interviewed all the car drivers plying, for hire in Coff's Harbor, and had…

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Lismore Hotel Burgled

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 28 January 1931 · page 4

Thieves on Friday night entered the bar of the Lismore Hotel in the main business block of the town and stole about £1310. Entrance to the building…

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Telegrams Licensed Victuallers' Protest. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4

The licensed victuallers at the Publicans' Conference, yesterday, reaffirmed the protest against the tax of 5 a gallon on spirit bottled out of bond. The…

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Cheque Forms Stolen From Employer Three Convictions Recorded Two Hotelkeepers Defrauded

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 3

Leslie Homy Whittingham, 49, a returned soldier, who apparently bore an excellent military record, was charged at the Grafton Police Court yesterday with…

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Hotel As Rest Home

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 4

Cessnock Hospital Board paid its first deposit of £400 towards the total purchase price of Abernethy Hotel on Saturday. The hotel is to be converted into a…

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£100,000 Fire At Charleville Hotel and 15 Shops Flames Leap Main Street. Brisbane

Daily Examiner · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 4

Buildings on both sides of the street in the main business centre of Charleville were gutted by fire last night, a hotel and 15 shops being…

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Thieves at Copmanhurst Hotel and Store Visited Money Taken From Cash Registers

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 2

Police inquiries arc being made at Copmanhurst regarding two thefts reported on Thursday morning from local business premises. The first was from Small's…

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The Gresham Hotel

Daily Examiner · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 3

It would be difficult to find a more central site in the city of Greater Brisbane than that occupied by the Gresham Hotel, at the corner of Creek and…

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S.P. LICENSES Alleged Conspiracy Three Men Charged at Manly Ministers' Names Mentioned. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 5

Conspiracy in connection with the issue of starting price licenses was alleged at the Manly Court to-day, when Edwin Roes, 50, and William Ardill, 50, brokers…

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S.P. CASE Labor Minister Mentioned '£250 for License' Man's Story of Alleged Fraud. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 6

The hearing of the case, was resumed at the Manly Court to-day in which Edwin Llewellyn Rees, 50, and William Edwin Ardill are charged…

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Local and General Hotel License Transferred

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 4

Yesterday morning in the Grafton Licensing Court the Licensing Magistrate, Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., granted an application for the transfer of the license…

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GARAGES. To Be Licensed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 2

Complete control of the services required by motor Usere—including the registering of mechanics and the licensing of garages—is being…

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Hotel Meals. Travellers' Rights

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 3

People who have travelled over five miles have the right to demand a meal at any time of the day or night of the licensee of any hotel said the…

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'Should Have Been £5' Bogus Electrician Fined Working Under Another's License. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 5

At the Parramatta Court to-day, Norman Rudouph Stein was fined 5 for having acted as an electrician without a license…

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Police Kept Waiting Sudden End to a Send-off Raid on a West Maitland Hotel

Daily Examiner · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 7

For a long time, from 2.30 on January 21, police endeavored, to gain admission to the Metropolitan Hotel at West Maitland. When they eventually succeeded,…

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