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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1923

367 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 10 of 19

Hard on Hotelkeepers

Tweed Daily · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 2

Serving a drunken man is a breach of the Licensing Act, hut it is not generally known that an hotelkeeper may be fined for permitting a drunken man to remain…

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Fire at Gundagai. Destruction of an Hotel

Northern Star · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 5

GUNDAGAI, Thursday. — The Gilmore Hotel was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. The outbreak is believed to have been the work of an incendiary as some…

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General News. Special Licensing Court

Northern Star · Saturday 16 June 1923 · page 4

A special licensing court Thrill be held at the Lismore Court House on Monday next…

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A Day of Thirst Belfast Hotels Closed on Sunday, and Clubs Are Besieged

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday.--To-day was Belfast's first "dry" Sunday, the Licensing Act, passed on Friday last, being put into operation immediately, to the…

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Not So "Dry" Yanco Residents Quench Their Thirst, But They Would Like an Hotel

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--Mr. Ley, Minister for Justice, who has just returned from the Yanco area, states that sly-grog shanties are very plentiful, and the…

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State Hotels. Liquor Seized by Police

Northern Star · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Western Australian Government has appointed the Public Service Commissioner to make an immediate inquiry into the supply of liquor to the State…

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Hotelkeeper Fined Failed to Register Names of Boarders

Northern Star · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 4

BATHURST, Monday.—A local hotelkeeper was fined £3 for not entering in his registerthe names of his boarders. The magistrate said that this was…

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Licensing Court. Renewal of Hotel Applications

Northern Star · Wednesday 20 June 1923 · page 3

A special licensing court was held at Lis more on Monday before Messrs. J. L. Shropshire (chairman), R. J. Spinks, and G. A. Burrows, L.M's. The chairman said the…

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Licensing Court

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 20 June 1923 · page 2

Mr. E. A. May, P.M., and Messrs. A. E. Budd and A. Buchanan, Js.P., presided at the Murwillumbah Licensing. Court yesterday, when all publicains' licenses…

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Local and General Hotel Wells Changes Again

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 20 June 1923 · page 2

The Hotel Wells at Tweed Heads has again changed hands this week. Mr. Reilly has disposed of his lease to Mr. C. W. O'Connor, of Mullumbimby. The…

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Bound and Gagged. in Burning Hotel. Rockhampton, Tuesday. -- A fire

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 20 June 1923 · page 2

occurred in the Commercial Hotel Longreach, last night. The door of one bedroom was battered in by boarders, who found a man inside, bound…

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Vaudeville Artist an Unrehearsed Comedy. What Happened in the Hotel

Tweed Daily · Thursday 21 June 1923 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--In the District Court to-day Bessie Lester, a vaudeville artist, claimed £400 from Clarice May Ormond, of Her Majesty's Hotel, Pitt…

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New Hotel for Lismore

Tweed Daily · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 2

At the Licensing Court, Lismore, on Monday, it was stated that Tooth and Co., proprietors of the Commercial Hotel, Woodlark Street, were preparing plans…

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Hotel Accommodation

Northern Star · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 6

Amongst the many problems that the authorities in charge of the licensing of hotels have to solve is that of providing sufficient accommodation for visitors to…

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Licensing Court

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 27 June 1923 · page 2

John Askew, hotel-keeper of Bonalbo, was yesterday granted a renewal of license by Mr. Shropshire, P.M. The fee was fixed at £282…

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Licensed for Spiritual Healing

The Kyogle Examiner · Wednesday 27 June 1923 · page 2

The Anglican Bishop of Newcastle, Dr. Stephen, has licensed 10 of his clergy for the laying on of hands as the result of the recent mission of…

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"Looking for a Bed." Thief at Hotel

Northern Star · Thursday 28 June 1923 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the early hours of Tuesday morning a thief visited one of Wagga's principal hotels. He got £1 19s 6d, but missed a haul of over £350. The first…

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Liquor Fees. Fixed by Reduction Board. Effect on Hotelkeepers

Northern Star · Thursday 28 June 1923 · page 7

As recently mentioned by the Police Magistrate (Mr. J. L. Shropshire) during the recent renewals of local and district hotel licenses at Lismore, the fees were fixed…

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Community Hotel. Liquor Legislation Considered

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Friday 29 June 1923 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—At the conclusion of the Cabinet meeting Mr. Oakes had considered the whole question of liquor legislation as the result of the [?]…

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Special Licensing Court

Northern Star · Friday 29 June 1923 · page 4

A special Licensing Court was held yesterday before Mr. J. L. Shropshire, P.M., and Mr. G. A. Burrowes. L.M. The transfer of the Exchange Hotel, Molesworth-street,…

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