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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

213 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 11

Police Haul Drivers Without Licenses 170 Were Surprised. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 6

In a recent check-up of 68,268 drivers of motor vehicles in New South Wales the police found that 170 were driving while unlicensed, while eight more were…

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Boycott Threat Drives Man From Hotels. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 5

The unionists threat to boycott him forced Mr. Frank Goldberg, chief of the Goldberg Advertising Co., to leave another hotel at Christchurch…

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Freemasons' Hotel License Transferred to Widow

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 February 1939 · page 8

In the Grafton Licensing Court, before the Licensing Magistrate, Mr. A. J. Bryant, yesterday, an application for the transfer of the license of the…

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New Hotel Wanted

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1939 · page 3

Sergeant Bruton, who has just retired from the police force and the positions of officer-in-charge at Bellingen and District Licensing…

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Local and General Non-return of Licenses

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 February 1939 · page 4

In the Grafton Court yesterday, before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., Henry C. Elder, 22, of Kelly street, South Grafton, and Alfred O. Webster, of Duke…

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FINED £10 License Suspended Intoxicated Motorist. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 February 1939 · page 4

William Alexander McLeish, of Lismore, was convicted at Lismore Police Court to-day by Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., on a charge of having driven a car on…

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Spirit License 172 Objectors At Lismore "Richmond Brewery Liquor." Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 February 1939 · page 4

Hotelkeepers, spirit merchants and temperance organisations lodged objections at the Quarterly Licensing Court at Lismore, presided over by Mr. T. W…

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Beer Slops Sold In Hotels Effect on Licenses. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 5

Although a number of hotel licensees have recently been convicted of having sold beer slops, the Licenses Reduction Board, has no power to delicense…

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Not Renewed South Grafton Driver's License "Cruising for Passengers."

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 7

The license of N. McLennan as the driver of a public vehicle was not renewed by the South Grafton Municipal Council, at its meeting last night,…

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Maclean Court No Passenger License Car Owner Fined £5. MACLEAN

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 1 March 1939 · page 7

William K. Nicholson pleaded guilty before Mr. A. J. Byrant, P.M., at Maclean Police Court, to-day, to a charge of having carried passengers in a car…

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"Drip-beer" Hotels Minister Is on Warpath. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 5

The Minister for Justice, Mr. Martin indicated in the Legislative Assembly to-day that he is considering increasing penalties against hotelkeepers violating…

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Four Years Without License

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 2

When Richard John Conway was charged at Wauchope Police Court last week with driving a motor vehicle without a license, and with…

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Fire Horror Twenty-One Dead Hotel Guests Trapped

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1939 · page 5

HALIFAX (Nova Scotia) Thursday. A fire destroyed an old landmark, the Queen's Hotel, and two other buildings and damaged a fourth…

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Liquor License Granted At Lismore Richmond Beer Case. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1939 · page 5

Judgment in a case which has excited considerable popular interest in Lismore and district was given to-day by Messrs T. W. Cohen and W. Geikie,…

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MR. T. W. Cohen Licensing Magistrate Retires. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Saturday 4 March 1939 · page 3

When Mr. T. W. Cohen, one of the Licensing Magistrates, who visited Lismore to-day to deliver judgment in liquor case, signed that judgment…

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Armed Bandit Robs Hotelkeeper. Escapes in Motor Car. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 5

A bandit late to-day held up the licensee of the Star Hotel, Botany Bay, Alexandria, at revolver point, and robbed him of £44…

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Hotel Grafton License Transferred

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 4

The transfer of the license of the Hotel Grafton from James Ernest Lane to Arthur John Reginald Curtis, formerly of the Imperial Hotel, Narromine…

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"Woman Friend" Lodging At Hotel Claim Against Shoe Store Manager Evidence Given by Maids

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 2

Evidence of an alleged undertaking by Linnet Stuart, formerly manager of John Hunter and Sons, Ltd. s Grafton branch, and now manager of…

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Grafton Bankrupt Former Hotelkeeper Flourishing Bar Trade in 1930 Railway Construction Works

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 2

A remarkable instance of the big lift given to hotel bar trading in Grafton when the railway line and the Clarence bridge were being built…

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Sunday Trading Licenses

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 2

Applications for Sunday trading licenses were granted by the Police Magistrate, Mr. A. J. Bryant, in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…

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