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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

180 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 9

£115 Taken From Till While Hotelkeeper Was Out of Bar. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 June 1931 · page 5

While Oscar Radestock, licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Leichhardt, was talking to a man in the street this morning, someone entered the bar and stole £115…

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Hotel Licenses No Help From Mr. Lang. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 27 June 1931 · page 6

In the Assembly to-day, replying to Mr. Kilpatrick, the Premier, Mr. Lang, said the Government did not propose to give any assistance to hotelkeepers, in…

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New Move. Federal Govt. and Water Siders Preference by License. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 30 June 1931 · page 4

The Government's decision to restrict work on the wafer front to members on the Waterside Workers' Federation and returned soldiers who held liceness under…

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Marriage License Treated Like Car License. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 July 1931 · page 4

Rev. T. Mathers, in a sermon at St. Enoch's Church, Newtown, last night stated there was a growing tendency to treat the marriage license with about as…

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Getting Even with the Publican

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 July 1931 · page 4

A country hotelkeeper, having struck financial trouble, was approached by a commercial traveller. "Look here, Jerry," said the Gil'., "I had to guarantee your…

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Coffs Golf Club. Pier Hotel Cup

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 14 July 1931 · page 2

The qualifying rounds for the Pier, Hotel Cup must be completed before the end of this month, and as the weather has been so good the…

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Revolvers Brandished Surry Hills Hotel Incident. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 20 July 1931 · page 3

A man, apparently demented, caused consternation when he brandished revolvers in the bar of a hotel at Surry Hills yesterday. Early in the afternoon the…

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An Expensive Smoke Found on Licensed Premises

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 July 1931 · page 3

Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at the Grafton Police Court yesterday morning Harry Rowles pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found on the…

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"A Landmark" Crown Hotel Sign

Daily Examiner · Saturday 25 July 1931 · page 4

Bright and artistic is the new electrically illuminated sign, which adorns the roof garden of the Crown hotel, Grafton. The current was switched on for…

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Broadcast Licenses May Be Reduced to £1. MELBOURNE

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 July 1931 · page 2

The Postmaster-General, Mr. Green, to-day expressed the opinion that tin broadcast licenses should be reduced from 24 to £1. He added that he is now…

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Sporting Randwick Bookmakers More Than 40 Fail to Renew Licenses. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 July 1931 · page 1

Between 40 and 50 bookmakers have not renewed their A.J.C. paddock licenses and it is probable that a couple of rows of stands Will be removed…

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The Hotelkeeper Won

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 July 1931 · page 4

A dispute between two hotel keepers, Ward' recently in the Brisbane Court, was reminiscent off an amusing case which set wagging the tongues of the…

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Coffs Golf Club. Pier Hotel Cup. Associates' Trophy

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 3

The preliminary rounds of the Pier Hotel Cup have been completed, and under the conditions the four players returning the best aggregate have to…

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Motor License Fees Instalment Plan Disallowed. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 4

In the Assembly, the Minister for Local Government in informing Mr. Booth that the Government could not permit motor license fees to be paid by instalments, said…

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Quoits Willow Tree Hotel Contests

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 August 1931 · page 3

Keen interest is being evinced in the £5 quoits handicap to be promoted by Mr. E. G. Clark at the Willow Tree Hotel allotment this afternoon…

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Maclean Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 4

At the Maclean Licensing Court yesterday, the granting of the transfer of the license of the Hotel Clarence, Maclean, from John Dunsford Shenron to…

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Foreign Lotteries Charge Against Hotel Employee Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 7

An employer of a hotel at Maroubra was arrested last night and charged [?] having sold tickets in the £100,000 Irish sweepstakes consultation on the…

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Pier Hotel Cup

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 11 August 1931 · page 3

The tie for a place in the Pier Hotel Cup between Messrs. Dowling, Drinkwater and Hawke, which should have been played, was held up through the…

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Liquor Act Lengthy Sitting Alleged Gambling on Licensed Premises Sergeant's Midnight Visit

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 August 1931 · page 2

Lengthy evidence was tendered in the police prosecution at the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday against Ernest Maitland Armstrong, who pleaded not…

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Issue of Licenses Scrub and Swamp Wallabies

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 August 1931 · page 1

At yesterday's meeting of the Grafton Pastures Protection Board the stock inspector (Mr. C. W. Sabine) said that, realising the damage being caused by…

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