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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

213 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 11

Youth's Lapse Stole Watch From Hotel

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 3

Robert Athol Bale, 18, of Jackadgery, appeared in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions, yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Blackmore, J.P., charged with…

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Local and General Hotel Licenses

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 January 1939 · page 4

Publicans' licenses issued from the Grafton Licensing Court during 1933 totalled 29. There were seven billiard licenses…

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Police Raid Documents Seized Jap Hotel in Singapore. Singapore

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 5

After throwing a cordon around the buildings, police and detectives the Special Branch of the Straits Settlements Police raided several…

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Fined 10 Drove Without License

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 1

Thomas Lee of Southgate, was charged in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions, yesterday, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., with driving a motor car…

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Without License Carried Passenger Man Fined at Maclean

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 7

In the Maclean Police Court, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., on Monday, Charles Mulville, of Broome's Head was charged with having carried a…

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Local and General Collector's License

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 4

A collector's license was issued to Christy Peter Tamini, in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions, yesterday…

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"Dirt and Flies" Dreg Beer Bottled Granville Publican Fined £40. SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 5

William Knight, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Granville, pleaded guilty at the Parramatta Court to-day to charges of selling adulterated beer and adulterated…

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Passenger Without License

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 3

Charles Mulville, of Broome's Head, pleaded guilty before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., at Maclean Police Court last Monday to having carried a…

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Broadcasting License

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 4

The Labor Government in New Zealand is now exercising the same supervision of the talks of radio foreign commentators as the Australian…

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Child Applies For Variation In Will Estate of Grafton Hotelkeeper £300 Provision Made. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 January 1939 · page 4

In the Supreme Court of New South Wales, in Equity, on Wednesday, before Judge Milner Stephen, an application under the provisions of the…

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Shocking Injuries Man Dies At Tumut Attack in Hotel Yard. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 January 1939 · page 5

Violently attacked in a yard at the rear of the Woolsack Hotel at Tumut last night, Michael Junior Downing, 40, clerk, of Tumut died early this…

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District Hotels Licensing Court Quarterly Meeting

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 January 1939 · page 4

At the Licensing Court, Grafton, yesterday morning before the Licensing Magistrate, Mr. A. J. Bryant, the Licensing Inspector's report for the…

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School Radio Licenses. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 January 1939 · page 2

The Postmaster-General, (Mr. Cameron) revealed to-day that the P.M.G.'s Department had ruled against the granting of free radio licenses for school…

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Licenses Renewed

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 February 1939 · page 4

In the Licensing Court at Grafton before the Magistrate. Mr. A. J. Bryant, yesterday the following renewals of licenses were granted: Wool hide and…

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Hotel Employee Huge Overtime Claim. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 8 February 1939 · page 5

Allegations were made that an employee had worked 637 hours overtime from May 28, 1938, to August 28, 1938, an average of 49 hours overtime a week,…

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Murdered in Redfern Hotel Seaman's Shocking Injuries Police Without Clues Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 9 February 1939 · page 4

Suffering from shocking head injuries the body of Eric Carlson, 50. a Swedish fireman on the Interstate freighter, Caledon, was found at the…

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Origins of the Dog License

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 3

The present form of licensing dogs was introduced in England in an Act of 1867. The tax on dogs was first, made in 1796, when it was estimated…

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Man Charged with Murder at Hotel. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 2

Timothy Ryan, 45, laborer, of St. Peters, was charged to-night with the murder of Eric Carlson, 51, seaman. Carlson was found at the rear of a…

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Licenses Issued

Daily Examiner · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 4

Before Messrs. C. H. Blackmore and D. J. Shaw, J.'sP., in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions, yesterday, the following licenses were issued:-…

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£180 in Bag Hotelkeeper's Wife Robbed SYDNEY

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 14 February 1939 · page 5

A bag containing £180 was snatched from a woman while she was sitting in a tram waiting shed at Miller's Point to-day…

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