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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

213 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 8 of 11

Defendant Warned Threatened Publican

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 21 July 1939 · page 3

Fining Frederick James Vincent £1 and 8s costs at Taree Police Court this week on a charge of having used threatening words towards Lionel C…

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"Children Only" Hotel To Open In London Special Concessions for Dominion Students. London. July 1

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 July 1939 · page 5

Youngsters from the Dominions visiting England will soon be able to stay at a "children only" hotel to be opened at Clapham Common, London. Two…

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Seevn Pilots Gain "B" License

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 July 1939 · page 4

Newcastle Aero Club recently achieved distinction in the aviation world by presenting seven of their advanced club pilots for their "B"…

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Booth License

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 4

In the Licensing Court at Grafton yesterday applications by Alfred George Limberey, of the Exchange Hotel, Ulmarra, for a booth license at…

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No License For Jockey P. Morgan Q.T.C. DECISION

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 2

Jockey P. Morgan did not get his Q.T.C. license for the current season. He had to appear before the Q.T.C. committee last week…

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Hotel Burnt

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 2

The hotel at Laurieton was destroyed by fire about midnight on Sunday of last week. Until about a couple of months ago the licensee was Mr…

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Licensed Fishermen Maclean Branch Size of Marketable Fish Imported Fish

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 7

A meeting of the Maclean branch of the New South Wales Licensed Fishermen's Association was held on Friday afternoon, the president…

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"LOST £30" Hotel Card Game Alleged Assault and Robbery Man Committed for Trial

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 4

A description of a card game called "boxer," in which a player was said to have lost £30. was given in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions…

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Alterations to Hotel

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 4

In the Licensnig Court at Grafton yesterday, before the Licensing Magistrate (Mr. A. J. Bryant), application was made on behalf of Matthew Charles…

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D. Munro's License. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 5 August 1939 · page 6

At a committee meeting of the A.J.C. to-day it was decided that Darby Munro be granted his license fromAugust 16, "…

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Local and General Hotels Visited by Police

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 4

Two hotels in Grafton were visited by the police during the week-end, at a late hour at night. Several names were taken by the police officers…

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Hotel Employee Verdict for Overtime

Daily Examiner · Friday 11 August 1939 · page 3

Arthur J. R. Curtis, licensee of the Grafton Hotel, Fitzroy street, was defendant in an action brought in the Grafton Industrial Magistrate's Court…

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Margarine Quota Factory Licenses Tentative Decisions by Agricultural Council Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Saturday 12 August 1939 · page 5

The Agricultural Council to-day tentatively decided to license factories producing margarine and Ministers will recommend to their…

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£100 in Safe Burglars Took Liquor Royal Hotel Entered

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 August 1939 · page 4

Although £100 was in an unlocked safe, and over £5 in the till in the Royal Hotel bar in Pound street, Grafton, nothing but a small quantity of…

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1,129,786 Listeners' Licenses. Canberra

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 August 1939 · page 5

More than 3000 broadcast listeners licenses were issued in Australia in June this year, and at the end of that month the total number of licenses…

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Fishing Industry Maclean Licensed Fishermen the Annual Meeting Proposed Registration of Nets

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 3

The president (Mr. A. H. Baker) presided at the annual meeting of the Maclean branch of the New South Wales Licensed Fishermen's Association…

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"A Recluse" Young Man of 22 Shot Dead In Hotel Evidence at Inquest Sydney

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 5

"A veritable recluse despite his tender years, William James Anderson, 22, was shot dead in cold blood in a washroom of the Cosmopolitan Hotel,…

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Explosions in Two Hotels. London

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 5

Explosions occurred at the Sandringham Hotel, Southport and North Euston Hotel, Fleetwood. During the night fires were put out…

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Hotel Changes Freemasons' and Royal

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 4

Negotiations for the sale of the leases of two hotels in Grafton have been completed. The lease of the Freemasons' Hotel…

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Hotel Shooting Inquest On Anderson Former Choirmaster's Evidence. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 5

Admissions that he had been guilty of certain conduct, but not with Anderson, and that certain words' written on the wall of the washroom at the…

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