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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

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Murder Charge Hairdresser for Trial Hotel Shooting Affray "I Thought He Had a Gun" Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 5

Harcourt Lee (38), hairdresser, was committed for trial to-day at the Coroner's Court on a charge of having murdered Arthur Kingsley Taplin…

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New Act Motorists, Beware! Licenses at Stake

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 3

Motorists who have committed breaches of the Traffic Act since the beginning of the year have found that there are no "beg pardons' 'about the…

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FINED £20 Drove Motor When Drunk Disqualified From Holding License for Three Years

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 1

In the first case to be heard under the amended motor traffic, law, John Davis was fined £20 and disqualified from holding a license for three years…

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£370 Haul From Hotel Safe. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 4

Thieves entered the Earlwood Hotel, at Earlwood Hotel at Earlwood. early to-day, and after removing the back of the office safe with a pick, stole £370…

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Habitual Criminal License Revoked by Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2

Frederick Rosedell, alias Rosedale, alias Richard George Smith, an habitual criminal, appeared before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M. in the Grafton Police Court…

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Lock-out in Swedish Hotels. Stockholm

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 5

Hotels, restaurants and cafes throughout Sweden will close at mid-night, when the long anticipated lockout begins, involving 20,000 employees…

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Boxing Commission Chief Secretary's Plan Licenses for Competitors. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 4

Following representations made by a number of members of the Legislative Assembly and interested bodies the Chief Secretary, Mr. Chaffey, has…

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Drove Furiously Young Man Fined £10 Driver's License Suspended Sequel to Triple Smash

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 8

A collision between three cars at the intersection of Fitzroy and Villiers streets, Grafton, on September 1, 1937, had a sequel in the Grafton…

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Looking Back Petrol Supplies In 1904 Publicans Urged to Carry Stocks

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 3

More than 11,000 motor service houses, with some 35,000 petrol bowsers, are to-day dotted along the streets and highways of the…

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Show Publican's Booth

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 2

At Tuesday's meeting of the show committee two lenders were received for the publican's booth rights at the forthcoming show. Mr. T. Navin's…

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Pistol Licenses

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 2

Two business men at Grafton who were refused pistol licenses by the police on the grounds that there was no good ground for their acquiring…

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Pistol Licenses Grafton Applications Appeals Against Refusal

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 7

Two appeals against the refusal ol the Grafton police to issue pistol licenses to local residents were heard in the Court of Petty Sessions at…

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No License for One- Armed Driver. Perth

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 5

Last July, T. M. Houston, a chaff cutting contractor, aged 76, had his left hand and wrist amputated. He applied to the Katanning Police Court…

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Two Cases Special Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 3

Two cases were heard before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., in the Special Licensing Court, Grafton, yesterday morning. An order was granted for the…

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Assault Case Altercation At Hotel Defendant Convicted

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 8

Arising out of an altercation at the Lawrence Hotel on January 6, Edward John Whitby charged Cecil Albert Lovell Ditton with alleged…

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Motorists Fined Licenses Withdrawn For Year Lismore Prosecutions. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 4

At Lismore Police Court, to-day, two men were charged under the new Traffic Act with driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of…

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Expired Motor Licenses

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 3

When fining two defendants 2s 6d and 8s costs at Taree Police Court this week for failing to return expired motor drivers' licenses, Mr. D…

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First Australian to Hold Pilot's License

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 3

Mr. W. E. Hart, the first Australian to hold a pilot's license, flew a homemade biplane in Sydney in 1911 at a speed of 37 miles an hour. In a lecture…

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Held Over Again Failure To Pay Debt To Hotelkeeper Defendant's Application

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 3

Carl Osberg, of Grafton, a sentence of 14 days' imprisonment against whom had been cancelled for the time being by Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., on Monday,…

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Newton Boyd Hotel License Transferred Freehold Also Sold

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 3

In the Grafton Licensing Court, yesterday, before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., Robert Lawson, hotelkeeper, applied for permission to transfer the…

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