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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

83 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 5

Bookmaker Surrenders Licenses

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 22 March 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues. -- "Because ol health reasons and insufficiency of ready cash," one of Australia's biggest bookmakers, E. O'Brien, surrendered all his…

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Wild Scenes In Northern Hotels

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 3

BRISBANE, Wed.—Wild, scenes, which were alleged to have occurred in hotels in North Queensland, were described in the…

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Radio Disappears From Hotel Room

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 2

Returning to her room after tea on Tuesday night, Miss K. O'Mara, secretary of the C.R.J.C., who resides with her mother at…

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Hotelkeeper Fined £160 For Prices

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 4

William James O'Sullivan, licensee of the Crown Hotel, Urbenville, yesterday was fined a total of £160, on four charges of breaches of the National…

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Hotel Bookkeeping Methods Questioned in Federal Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 4

At Grafton, in a special Federal Court, before Mr. R. Atkinson, S.M., yesterday, Joseph Bryan, licensee of Tattersall's Hotel, Casino, pleaded not…

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Faulty Bookkeeping Costs Hotelkeeper Fine of £50

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 March 1944 · page 1

In a special Federal Court at Grafton yesterday, before Mr. R. S. Atkinson, S.M. Joseph Bryan, licensee of Tattersall's Hotel, Casino, was…

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Claims Hotel Order Beyond P.M.'s Powers

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 March 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--A submission that the order made by the Premier, Mr. McKell, that hotels must remain open between the…

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21 Killed in Hotel Fire

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 March 1944 · page 3

SAN FRANCISCO, Mon.-- Twenty-one persons were fatally burned and 22 severely injured early to-day when a fire swept…

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Licensee Acquitted on Charge of Goods in Custody

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 29 March 1944 · page 4

Before Mr. R. S. Atkinson, S.M., at Grafton yesterday, a charge against William James O'Sullivan, licensee of the Crown Hotel, at Urbenville, of…

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Incendiarist Blamed For Hotel Fire

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 March 1944 · page 3

SAN FRANCISCO, Tues.--Police blame an incendiarist for the tragic fire in New Amsterdam Hotel, which resulted in 22…

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Hotelkeeper Fined for Giving False Information

Daily Examiner · Thursday 30 March 1944 · page 4

Michael Joseph Ryan, licensee of the Grafton Hotel, on summons, was fined £5, with £513 costs, by Mr. R. S. Atkinson, S.M., of Sydney, at a special…

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Cooking Utensils Off No License List

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 April 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.--Certain essential castiron and enamel cooking utensils have been removed from the no license list…

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Fight in Hotel at Coff's Harbor Leads to Fine of £2

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 April 1944 · page 4

At Coff's Harbor Police Court on Friday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., Bertie Clyde Loader charged Robert Keith Mackay with assault and indecent…

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Regulation Fixing Hotel Hours Held To Be Valid

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 April 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.--With only Mr. Justice Starke dissenting, the Full High Court of Australia today ruled that regulations…

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Bookmaker Hotelkeepers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.--The Full Licensing Bench decided to-day that in future hotel licenses would not ordinarily be…

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Manpower Round Up of Women at Sydney Hotel

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon.--Manpower officers are now making a check of 100 men and women who were found in the vestibule and winter…

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Assault In Hotel Bar Costs Defendant £5 Fine and £22 Costs

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 May 1944 · page 4

Lyle H. Thorne proceeded against Loyal D. Cavanagh, in the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, before Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., on a…

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55 Years a Licensee

Daily Examiner · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 1

The following article, which appears in the current issue of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association's Gazette, referring…

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Few Hotelkeepers Blackmarket Liquor

Daily Examiner · Monday 15 May 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.--Only a small minority of hotelkeepers blackmarketed portion of their liquor supplies, and these would "be…

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Had Spine Fractured: Assaulted In Hotel

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 May 1944 · page 3

BRISBANE, Tues.--When an American naval man recovering from a fractured spine was knocked unconscious in the bar…

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