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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

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Daring Hold-up At City Hotel

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. - Three armed bandits bound and gagged the driver of a hire car, stole the vehicle, and used it to stage a daring hold-up at the Hotel Arcadia, Pitt street, Sydney, late last night…

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Pulled Gun In Hotel; 12 Months' Gaol

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.--Louis Henry Morgan, 32, Who yesterday pulled a gun and threatened to shoot two detectives when they cornered…

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Hotel Explosion Called Wanton Dastardly Murder

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 1

Jerusalem, wed. (A.A.P.).--An official statement by the Palestine Government brands the Semiramis Hotel explosion…

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Hotel Hpld-up Police Confident Of Early Arrest

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 January 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Police have thrown out a dragnet which they are confident will soon result in the early arrest of the three armed bandits who last night held up three porters at the Arcadia Hotel after kidnapping a hire car driver…

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Pointers On Hotel Accommodation

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 4

In view of recent controversy regarding services, to be rendered to the public by publicans, the following points provided by a…

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Mug of Beer Thrown Over Man LOST £1 Note and Abused Publican Language Charge at Dorrigo Court

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 2

When Bernhard Fahey, 39, labourer, complained he had lost a pound note, he started to abuse the licensee of the Commercial Hotel,…

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Hotel Thief Sentenced

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 2

Edward Denis Doolan. (23). labourer, a stranger to the district, was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour by the Stipendiary…

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Licenses Revoked; "Warning Off" Only In Two Cases

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 3

In the "Daily Examiner" yesterday, an error occurred in the report of the Northern Rivers Racing Association committee's…

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Death's in Hotel Fire

Daily Examiner · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 3

ST. ALBANS (Vermont), Fri. (A.A.P.).--An undetermined number of guests were killed, when a fire destroyed the 75-room Jesse…

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Another Arrest In City Hotel Hold-Up

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.--Police to-day arrested a 21-year-old sales man and charged him with armed hold-up. They allege he is one of the four men who kidnapped, bound and gaged a taxi driver and held him prisoner in a house at Kensington while they…

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Money Stolen From Hotel Bedroom

Daily Examiner · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 2

During the week-end a sneak thief entered a room at Tattersall's Hotel, South Grafton, and stole £86…

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Transfer Of Hotel Licence

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 2

In the Licensing Court at Grafton yesterday, Mr. Austin. S.M. granted a transfer of the licence of Roche's Hotel. Grafton, from…

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£5 for Malicious Damage Hurled Tin of Flowers Through Hotel Bar Window S.M. Advises Defendant to Keep Off Drink

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 1

Following an argument at a local hotel, a man picked up a 4-lb. tin filled with flowers and threw it through the bar window…

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Stole From Hotel Bedrooms

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 17 February 1948 · page 4

A series of thefts from hotel bedrooms at Grafton and South Grafton resulted in Derek Bernard John Pickering, 21,…

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Hotelkeeper Seeks Divorce

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 4

An affirmative finding was given by Judge Storkey in a remitted divorce suit at the Grafton District Court yesterday, when…

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Hotel Transfer

Daily Examiner · Friday 19 March 1948 · page 5

In the Licensing Court at Grafton yesterday, the Licensing Magistrate (Mr. E. I. Cocks) granted a transfer of the licence…

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Found At Hotel In Prohibited Hours

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 7

Seven people found during prohibited hours on the licensed premises of Roche's Hotel, Grafton, on February 14, pleaded…

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Liquor License For Lismore R.S.L. Club

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 March 1948 · page 2

LISMORE, Mon.--The Full Bench of the Licensing Court, Sydney, has approved a liquor licence for the Lismore R.S.L…

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Hotelkeeper's Chase

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Neil MacMillan, licensee of the Lismore Hotel in Pitt street, last night chased arid caught a man who…

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Licensing Court

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1948 · page 4

In the Licensing Court at Grafton yesterday, the Magistrate (Mr. E. I. Cocks), granted an application for the transfer of the…

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