A police inspection to ensure that anyone engaged in gold-mining has a permit.
the commissioner stepped up licence hunts and ordered that fines be substantially increased
Example sentencesExamples
- The commissioner responded by ordering a licence hunt the next day.
- The authorities attempted a licence hunt but were met by a throng of diggers ready to resist.
- Another licence-hunt was conducted in heat-wave temperatures.
- There was the wrongful arrest during a licence hunt of a crippled servant of the local Catholic priest.
- They had burned their mining licences in a show of solidarity and were expecting the authorities to undertake a licence hunt.
- He ordered that licence hunts become the order of the day.
- He resented the once-a-month licence hunt and, in particular, the manner of its execution.
- He set up business on the day of the licence hunt which precipitated the Eureka uprising.
- He scathingly condemned what he called the unaccountable outrage of a licence hunt at the point of the bayonet.
- They also sought an end to licence hunts.