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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

114 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 2 of 6

Ebor Licensee Says Farewell to Customers

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 5 March 1954 · page 1

Prior to handing over the licence to the incoming licensee, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Butcher held a farewell party for their…

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£15 Fine On Hotelkeeper

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 4

William Matthew, Dougherty, licensee of the Royal Hotel. Grafton, was fined £15 at Grafton Court of…

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Released Men Failed To Pay Hotel Dues

Daily Examiner · Thursday 18 March 1954 · page 4

Two men, recently released from Grafton gaol, were each fined £20, in default 40 days' imprisonment,…

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Fell to Death At Hotel Melrepole

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--An elderly man fell to his death from the fifth floor of the Metropole Hotel to-day…

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Fire Sweeps Hotel

Daily Examiner · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sun.--Five persons died and three are missing in a fire that swept a small hotel in Crookston,…

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Five Die in Fire at Hotel

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Five men were killed and four men critically injured in an explosion, and fire…

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Made Search Of Hotel Ruins

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday. --Police ore satisfied no more bodies are buried under the smouldering ruins of the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla…

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Noted Hotel Changes Hands

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 2

Grafton's C r o w n Hotel, one of the best known public houses on the North Coast,…

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Crown Hotel Licence

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 6

A transfer of the publican's licence of the Crown Hotel,Graf Ion from…

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Weiley's Hotel Renovations

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 2

Grafton City Council has granted permission for the conversion at a cost of £3000 of two shops near the main…

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Licensee Fined For Unclean Bat

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 6

Leo Grafton Zietsch, licensee of the Great Northern Hotel, South Grafton, Was fined £10 at Grafton…

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No License

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 6

Rex Alfred Moore, of Powell street, Grafton, was fined street, Grafton was fined ½ with 12 costs at Grafton Court of Petty…

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No License

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 6

Robert Allen-Kent, of Hoof street, Grafton, was fined £2 at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Palace To Be Luxury Hotel

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 1

ISTANBUL (Turkey).-- The Istanbul town council has taken over the burnt-out ruins of the Chiragan…

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Exerting Pressure On Hotel Owners

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.--The Licensing Board is exerting pressure on hotel owners to restore destroyed, damaged and substandard hotels…

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Hotels Open on

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 April 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri. -- Hotels will open at 10 a.m. on the Anzac Day holiday, and will observe normal…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 7

The licences of two Clarence River district hotels were transferred at the Grafton Licensing Court…

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Hotel Licence Suspended For Three Months

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 12 May 1954 · page 4

Mr. R. M. Stewart, Metropolitan Licensing Magistrate, at a special sitting of the Licensing Court, Grafton,…

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Not Allowed to Hold License for Three Years

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 14 May 1954 · page 5

When Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., fined a Woolgoolga resident, Rex Ernest George Rogan, £10 and 12/ costs at Coffs Harbour…

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City Hotel Fires

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 May 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.--Arson Squad detectives investigating two fires which occurred in the Burlington…

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