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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

352 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 7 of 18

Week's Takings. Hotel Licensee Sandbagged and Robbed

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A daring robery was committed late on Friday night, when Harold O[?]Neill, licensee of the Railway Hotel; Bathurst, was…

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Hotel Grande Property

Tweed Daily · Monday 16 April 1928 · page 2

On Saturday Messrs., Thornton and Pearce (Brisbane) and O. Simpson (Casino) in conjunction, conducted an auction sale on the premises, for…

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Thug's Haul. £122 Off Hotelkeeper. Sydney

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 1

Harold O'Neil, licensee of the Railway Hotel at Bathurst, was placing the week's takings, amounting to £122, in a bag, when an unknown man struck…

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Daring Robbery. Hotelkeeper Sandbagged

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--A daring robbery was committed late on Friday night, when Harold O'Neill, licensee of the Railway Hotel, Bathurst, was…

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Valueless Cheque New Arrival Convicted Stayed at Best Hotels

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.--Albert Oswald Bradshaw, who arrived in Australia seven weeks ago, ostensibly to write scenarios with an Australian flavour…

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Hotelkeeper Sandbagged Bathurst

Northern Star · Tuesday 17 April 1928 · page 5

A daring robbery was committed late on Friday night when Harold O,Neil, licensce of the Railway Hotel, was sandbagged as he left the bar and…

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Local Interest. Sandy Hills Hotel Closes

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 2

The Sandy Hills Hotel, Drake, has been voluntarily closed by the proprietor and owner, Mr. G. Palmer. The loss will be greatly felt by the travelling public…

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Extravagance Bankruptcy of Licensee Sydney

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 April 1928 · page 5

The Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. Lockhart) refused to grant a certificate of discharge to Thomas Coffey, who was licensee of Macquarie Hotel,…

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Septic Tanks. At Country Hotels

Tweed Daily · Friday 20 April 1928 · page 6

A significant decision of importance, to hotel licensees was made by Mr. F. G. Adrian, chairman of the Licensing Reduction Board, sitting in, Lismore…

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Brawl in Hotel Two Men Injured Shop Wrecked

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 24 April 1928 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday —During a brawl at a Chinese case in Little-Bourke Street, Louis Wing, proprietor of the Chinese cafe, and Headley…

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Hotels Well Conducted

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 2

The quarterly report of the District Licensing Inspector (Sergeant Pye) in regard to the condition and conduct of hotels within the police…

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Expired Motor License

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 2

K. H. Hadfield was before Mr. F. D. H. Sutherland, P. M., in the Police Court yesterday on a charge of having failed to return his expired motor…

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Commercial Hotel

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 April 1928 · page 9

A visitor to the town, who went away without making a personal inspection of Mr. Glen Fuller's newly completed Commercial Hotel, and who merely…

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Motor Licenses

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 27 April 1928 · page 7

The attention of the Chief Secretary, Mr. Bruntnell, has been drawn to the fact that when a motorist surrenders his number plate the traffic authorities do…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Tweed Daily · Friday 27 April 1928 · page 2

In Murwillumbah Licensing Court yesterday before. Mr. W. C. Geikie, P.M, the licence for the New Brighton Hotel, Billinudgel, was transferred…

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Hotels Kept Open Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 27 April 1928 · page 4

The secretary of the Returned Soldiers League (Mr. Stagg) is stated to be considerably concerned over the report that a number of [?]lkeepers…

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Hotels Open on Anzac Day. Greed Nullified Patriotism

Tweed Daily · Saturday 28 April 1928 · page 4

SYDNEY, Friday.--Reports received by the Licensed Victuallers'. Association show that only three hotelkeepers broke faith with it in throwing open their…

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Unpatriotic Hotelkeepers Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 28 April 1928 · page 5

Reports received by the Licensed Victuallers' Association show that only three botelkeepers broke faith in only three botelkeepers broke faith in…

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Hotelkeepers and Prohibition

The Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser · Monday 7 May 1928 · page 3

A Sydney correspondent writes as folows:—Neivous brewery sharchelders may shiver again and seek to take the profits still available to them on…

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Cairns Fire Crown Hotel Destroyed

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 8 May 1928 · page 3

CATRNS, Monday:--A fire which broke out shortly before 2 o'clock this morning, destroyed the Crown Hotel, a two storied stucture, situated on the…

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