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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

114 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 3 of 6

Carried Pillion Riders on Original License

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 7

Keith William Dutton, Boambee, and Jack Robinson Grant, England's Road, Coffs Harbour, were each fined £2 with 12/ court costs…

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Brewery Buys Hotel at South Grafton Driver Fined Best Debut Since Carruthers

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 4

PURCHASE of the Australian Hotel, South Grafton, by the Grafton Brewing Co. Ltd., was revealed at Gerald, Noel Fitzgerald, of Bent street, South Grafton, was fined £3 at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions SYDNEY, Mon.-- Former amateur champion and Olympian. Don McDonnell (9.10) brilliantly outpointed…

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Carruthers To Learn Hotel Business

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. -- Retired world bantamweight champion, Jimmy Carruthers, may go to the Terminus Hotel,…

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Former Coffs Licensee for Brewery Hotel

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 9

Purchase of the Australian Hotel, South Grafton, by the Grafton Brewery Co., and the, installation of former Coffs…

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Hotel Licence Suspended for Three Months

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 8

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

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Hotel Transfer

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 5

The Licensing Magistrate (Mr. A. E. Capp) at Grafton yesterday approved the transfer of the licence of the…

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Broke and Entered Pier Hotel and Golf Club

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 28 May 1954 · page 13

Mr A.E. Capp, S.M.,committed a Bowrtmlle aborigine for trial on two charges of breaking and entering premises…

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Hotel Transfer

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 6

Mr. A. E. Capp, S.M., at the Licensing Court, Grafton yesterday granted an application for the…

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Farewell To Hotelkeeper

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 4

BRUSHGROVE.-- The Brushgrove Hotel, despite the rain, was fully crowded for the farewell to Mrs. A…

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Seek To Extend Hotel Hours

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday.-- The Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council to-day unanimously decided to commend an extension of hotel trading…

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Hotel Rooms "Barbered"

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 4

Sergt. 3rd Class C. H. Swan is making inquiries into the disappearance from the Post Office Hotel, South…

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Sunday Breach At Hotel

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 4

A police visit to the Post Office Hotel, South Grafton, at 12.10 p.m. on Sunday, March 28, led to the…

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False Information At Hotel

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 4

Three men were fined £5 each at Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday for giving false information…

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Work on New Hotel Up to Schedule

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 10

Work on the new hotel being constructed for, Mr. E. W. Russell, in Grafton Street, Coffs Harbour, is progressing…

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Seek Referendum On Hotel Hours

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.--The Government is to be asked to take a State-wide referendum on the trading hours of hotels. State conference of the A.L.P. to-day endorsed an executive report to this effect…

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New Licensing Act In Victoria

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 16 June 1954 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Victorians will be able to drink liquor with meals at hotels and licensed…

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Hotel Safe Stolen From Urunga

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 1

Early on Sunday morning the safe was stolen, from the Ocean View Hotel Urunga. It contained a large sum of money in…

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Fire Destroys Two-Storey Hotel

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Fire completely gutted the Commercial Hotel at Albion Park, near Wollongong,…

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A Staff Reporter Finds: Support In Grafton For Longer Hotel Hours

Daily Examiner · Monday 28 June 1954 · page 4

A sruvey in the hotels and streets of Grafton indicates that most people are in favour of extending the hours when liquor may be sold in New South Wales. Of the half dozen people interviewed, only one, a young…

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