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Mid North Coast · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1953

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Luxury Hotels Expect to Pay

Macleay Argus · Monday 7 September 1953 · page 6

Two big American hotel chains have drawn up ambitious building plans. Statler, which has…

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Two Mistakes Stopped License

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 2

NEW YORK. --Dolly Farrington, 17, made only two mistakes when she applied for her driving licence in…

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Country Party Member Says Only Drinkers Should Vote On Hotel Closing Hours

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 11 September 1953 · page 6

Mr. J. S. Easter (Country Party, Lismore), suggested in the NSW Legislative Assembly that in any referendum on the…

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Thief's Great Daring in Hotel Robbery

Macleay Argus · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sept. 27.--After menacing Collingwood hotelkeeper John Lewis with an iron bar, a thief last night…

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An Ode To The H'ymoon Hotel

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 30 September 1953 · page 4

A woman reader at Forster's Plaza Hotel has compiled these verses in praise of the famed holiday…

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Bakers Next to Be Licensed

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 30 September 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sept. 29. -- The Premier (Mr. J. J. Cahill) said that no definite date had been fixed on which bread…

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Great Northern License Transfer

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 October 1953 · page 1

At Kempsey Licensing Court on Wednesday, before Mr. H. D. Tyler, S.M., the license of the Great…

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Vote On Community Hotel At Forster

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 14 October 1953 · page 3

Ratepayers of Stro[?]d Shire are to be given the opportunity of expressing an opinion for or against at a poll to be conducted on the proposed establishment of a community hotel at…

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Poll on Forster Community Hotel Scheme

The Northern Champion · Friday 16 October 1953 · page 1

A poll of ratepayers in the Stroud Shire on the proposal to establish a community hotel at Forster will be…

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Forster C'munity Hotel Proposal Is Not Popular

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Monday 19 October 1953 · page 6

Ratepayers of Stroud Shire will be given the opportunity by vote in December to indicate whether or not they favour the establishment of a community hotel at Forster…

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Vote On Community Hotel At Forster

Macleay Argus · Monday 19 October 1953 · page 4

STROUD: Ratepayers of Stroud Shire are to be given the opportunity of expressing an opinion for or against…

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Liquor License Sought for Forster Restaurant, Application Fails

The Northern Champion · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 4

An application by a Forster restaurant proprietor for a licence to supply liquor, was refused by Mr. W. Kelly, S.M., at Taree Licensing Court yesterday…

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Taree Man Gets Wine License

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 1

An application by John Stanley Harkness Wallace, of 109 Cornwall Street, Taree, for a wine and…

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License Refused Private Hotel

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 October 1953 · page 1

Mr. W. Kelly, S.M., at the Taree Licensing Court refused an application by Stanley. Wilfred Pike,…

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Spirit License for Grafton Granted

Macleay Argus · Monday 2 November 1953 · page 7

The full Licensing Bench, sitting at Grafton, granted the application by Wilton David Weir, secretary and…

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Converted Bus To Travelling Hotel

Macleay Argus · Monday 2 November 1953 · page 5

DUSSELDORF (West Germany). -- A mother of five here converted a bus into a "Travelling Hotel" to give…

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Another Hotel For Coffs Harbour

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 4 November 1953 · page 3

The Full Bench of the Licensing Reduction Board, comprising Messrs. S. J. Bliss (chairman), R. M. Stewart…

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Driver Lost License Over Domestic Trouble

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 November 1953 · page 3

Described by his solicitor as a hard working young man, of good character, Frederick Joseph Riordan pleaded guilty in Kempsey Petty Sessions, on Wednesday, to a charge of having driven a motor…

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License Transferred

Macleay Argus · Friday 6 November 1953 · page 7

In the Licensing Court at Kempsey, on Wednesday, the license of the Centennial Hotel was transferred from…

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Spirit License Transferred

The Northern Champion · Friday 13 November 1953 · page 8

A transfer of a spirit merchant's license from Stanley James Gorman to Herbert Thomas Kearns was approved…

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