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Mid North Coast · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1942

66 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 4

Hotels and Anzac Day Closing Order Proposed

The Gloucester Advocate · Tuesday 21 April 1942 · page 2

The Federal Government proposes to issue a national security order, closing all hotels in the Commonwealth all day on Anzac Day…

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Hotel License Transferred

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 2

Before Mr. G. W. Brown, P.M., at the Kempsey Licensing Court on Wednesday, Frank H. Moses was granted permission to transfer the license of…

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Motor Cycle License

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 3

Ellis Edward Walmsley, through Mr. Phil Sheridan, pleaded guilty to charges of failure to notify alteration in his motor cycle outfit, and with…

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Licenses Granted

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 3

Sunday trading licences were granted to Gordon Phillips and Mrs. R. M. Nancarrow. Restrictions on the advertising of…

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Hotel Hours May Stand Sydney

Macleay Argus · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 5

Commenting on the decision of the Premiers' Conference leaving the States to fix the closing time for hotels on a basis of eight trading…

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Hotels Shut on Anzac Day

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1942 · page 4

The War Cabinet has made the decision that the sale of liquor on Anzac Day will be completely prohibited. Previously liquor sales were…

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Pelican Island Hotel Destroyed by Fire Lodger Succumbs to Burns

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 28 April 1942 · page 5

On Sunday last at approximately 3.50 a.m., Mr. Harry Walsh, licensee of the Pelican Island Totel, Jerseyville, was awakened to discover…

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Bathurst Hotels and After-hours Drinking Sydney

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 29 April 1942 · page 2

The Minister of Justice, Mr. Downing, said to-day that no instruction had been issued either by his Department or himself permitting Bathurst…

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Jerseyville Fire. Pelican Island Hotel Destroyed. Mr. Samuel Elliott Dies From Injuries Received In Blaze

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 29 April 1942 · page 4

About 4 a.m. on Sunday morning Mr. Harry Walsh, licensee of the Pelican Island Hotel, at Jerseyville, was aroused from sleep by heat and the…

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Jerseyville Hotel Fire Causes Man's Death

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 3

About 4 a.m. on Sunday morning Mr. Harry Walsh, licensee of the Pelican Island Hotel, at Jerseyville, was aroused from sleep by heat and…

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Died in Hotel Fire

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 2 May 1942 · page 4

The Pelican Aland Hotel, Jerseyville, Macleay River, was destroyed by fire last Sunday morning. Samuel Elliott, aged 56, a boarder, was so…

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Refused Lodging. Windsor Licensee Fined

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 1

For having refused lodging to a bona fide traveller, an hotel licensee was fined at the Windsor Police Court recently, Mr. C. Pickup, S.M., warning…

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RACING & Hotel Hours in Premiers' Hand Canberra

Macleay Argus · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 5

The Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, said last night that if something could not be left to the Premiers there should not be Premiers. He was…

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Captured in Hotel Escaped German Prisoner Sydney

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 20 May 1942 · page 3

Melbourne: Walter Fishbeek, 22, one of the six Germans who escaped from an internment camp in the Goulburn Valley, was recaptured in the Windsor…

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Wingham Police Court. FRIDAY, 22nd. MAY, 1942. Before Mr. G. W. Brown, P.M. Licenses

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Tuesday 26 May 1942 · page 2

A Sunday Trading License was granted to Messrs. C. E. Mallyon and Son. A Skin Dealer's License was granted…

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Licensing Court. Port Macquarie, June 2Nd. Before Mr. G. W. Brown, L.M.

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 6 June 1942 · page 5

Renewal of licences were granted to the following hotels in the Port Macquarie Police District:—F. J. Brennan, Telegraph Point…

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Coronial Inquiry. Jerseyville Hotel Fire. Open Verdict

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 10 June 1942 · page 1

At Kempsey Court House on Saturday last the District Coroner. Mr. N. L. Parker, J.P., held an inquiry regarding the fire which destroyed the Pelican…

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Claim for £390 Wages Against Hotel Licensee Interesting Case From Gloucester

The Northern Champion · Saturday 13 June 1942 · page 1

At the District Court at Taree on Thursday, before His Honor, Judge Storkey, V.C., Alfred Henry Shears proceeded against Florence Matilda…

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Hotel Licenses Renewed

Macleay Argus · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 2

Before Mr. G. W. Brown at the Licensing Court, Kempsey, on Wednesday, the following hotel licenses were renewed consequent upon there…

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Licensing Court. Taree, Monday, June 15, 1942. (Before Mr. G. W. Brown. P.M.)

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 19 June 1942 · page 4

The whole of the hotel and wineshop licenses for the Taree police district came up for renewal on Monday and the Licensing Inspector (Sergeant…

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