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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

333 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 17

Pony Licenses

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 January 1926 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday. Jockey J. Munro did not apply for a renewal of his pony license, when applications were made for half-year permits. He…

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Licenses Revoked. 31 Hotels Closed

Tweed Daily · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday. Thirty-one hotels in the Melbourne metropolitan district were closed last night, as a result of their licenses having been…

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Hongkong Fire Big Hotel Doomed Enormous Damage Done Unparalleled in Recent Years (Reuter). HONGKONG

Northern Star · Saturday 2 January 1926 · page 5

Fire has broken out at the Hongkong Hotel, and is blazing fiercely. The guests are safe. The guests retired in the small hours…

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31 Hotels Closed

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 2

Thirty-one hotels in the Melbourne district closed on December 31, as a result of the licenses having been re-voked by the Licenses Reduction Board…

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Hongkong Fire. Large Hotel Destroyed by Fire. Enormous Damage. HONGKONG

Tweed Daily · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 3

The Hongkong Hotel was totally destroyed by fire on New Year's Day. Enormous damage was done, the conflagration being unparalleled during recent…

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Died in Hotel Dining Room Sydney

Northern Star · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 2

Mr. H. R. McClure, Resident Commissioner for Gi[?]bert and Ellice Islands, who was spending his furlough in Sydney, collapsed and died in the dining room at Wentworth…

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Hongkong Hotel Fire (Reuter.) HONGKONG

Northern Star · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 5

Able Seaman Bachelor, of H.M.S. Hawkins, who was injured at the Hongkong Hotel fire, died this morning…

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Hotel Battle Meeting of Rival Gangs Melbourne

Northern Star · Monday 4 January 1926 · page 4

Revenge is believed to have been the motive of an attack made by several young men upon a number of others in the Boundary Hotel, Campbellfield, last night. The men…

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Interesting Licensing Case

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1926 · page 4

At the Kempsey Polite Court before Mr. F. F. Potts, P.M., Henry Robinson, licensee of Tattersall's Hotel, was charged with supplying, liquor on licensed…

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Sleep-walker Killed. Fall From Hotel Balcony

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 4

A well-known auctioneer, Frank Ryan, employed by Messers. Baker and Campbell, of Dunedoo (N.S.W.) fell from the balcony of the hotel at…

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Cook Nearly Cooked. Narrow Escape When Hotel Catches on Fire. Drops in Yardman's Arms

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. A fire broke out in the Bellevue Hotel, Newcastle, at 2 o'clock this morning. Several persons sleeping on the first floor,…

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Macfie Murder. Hotel Boys Confess to Crime. Robbery the Motive. No European Confederates

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday. A message from Weltevredon (Java), states that it has been learned that the two main suspects in the Macfie murder are…

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On Licensed Premises During Prohibited Hours. Cases in the Police Court

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 2

William Imeson and Francis McLean were charged in the Casino Police Court yesterday morning with having been found on the licensed premises of the…

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Fire at Newcastle Hotel Newcastle

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 January 1926 · page 5

Fire broke out at Bellevue Hotel at 2 o'clock this morning. Several persons sleeping on the first floor, above the seat of the outbreak; were awakened just in time…

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Prince Carol's Romance. Milan Hotel in State of Seige

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 11 January 1926 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday.—The "Daily Telegraph's" Rome correspondent states that Prince Carol's voluntary imprisonment at the Milan Hotel is…

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Prince Carol's Romance. Mussolini Likely to Intervene. Milan Hotel in State of Seige. Voluntary Imprisonment

Tweed Daily · Monday 11 January 1926 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday. The "Daily Telegraph's'' Rome correspondent States that Prince Carol's voluntary imprisonment at the Milan Hotel is…

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Hotel Cecil Cases Licensee Fined

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 2

In the Police Court yesterday morning, the police proceeded against Sydney Daniel Pidcock, charging him with having been found on the licensed…

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Liquor Charges. Cases at Hotel Cecil. Convictions Recorded

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 2

In connection with a visit paid by the police to the Hotel Cecil on the night of November 27, Sidney Pidcock was charged, before Mr. F. D. H…

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The Passing of an Hotel The Junction Inn Goes. The First Hotel to be Wiped Out Under a New Section of the 1912 Liquor Act

Tweed Daily · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 4

In the Murwillumbah Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. F. G. Adrian, Chairman of the Licensing Reduction Board, Sydney, called upon Sommer…

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Wiped Out. Tweed Hotel Delicensed

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1926 · page 2

At the Murwillumbath Licensing Court on' Friday, Mr. F. G. Adrian, chstirman of the Lieencing Reduetion Board, Sydney, called up on Sommer-…

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