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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

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New Hotel at Murwillumbah

Northern Star · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 14

Ray Granger's Lismore Plaster Works have secured the contract to supply and fix the whole of the plaster ceilings for the new Imperial Hotel at…

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Publican Shot . Drink-crazed Swagman Amok Sensation Near Mudgee

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday:-- Running amck at Ccoyal, near Mudgee, to-day, a drink-crazed swagman, after firing wild shots as he raced on…

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Hotel Burgled

Northern Star · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 4

Thieves on Friday night entered the bar of the Lismore Hotel in the main business block of the town and stole about £13 10s. Entrance to the…

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Fruit Machines May be Licensed SYDNEY

Northern Star · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 9

Although the Chief Secretary (Mr. Gosling) announced on Thursday that proceedings were to be taken against clubs and hotels which installed fruit…

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Ran Amok Swagman With Gun Hotelkeeper Shot Cooyal Sensation MUDGEE

Northern Star · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 5

A swagman who ran amok at Cooyal yesterday shot a local publican, Oswald Hall, in the neck, and then shot himself…

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To Cost £500,000 Bermuda's Luxury Hotel

Northern Star · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 2

A London firm, the Regent Construction Company, is to build a luxury hotel in Bermuda, in the Atlantic, north of the West Indies, at a cost of £500,000…

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Link with History Yarmouth Hotel to Be Pulled Down

Northern Star · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 9

Yarmouth is shortly to lose one of its best-known Elizabethan houses—the Star Hotel. Facing the harbour, near the town hall and adjoining the…

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Former Sydneyite Disappeared from Hotel PARIS

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 9

Myra Filhel, formerly of Sydney, who recently married the captain of the liner Cophes, disappeared from an hotel and left a note saying: "Do…

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Disastrous Fire Hotel and 15 SHOPS Big Blaze at Charleville Many Narrow Escapes

Tweed Daily · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 2

CHARLEVILLE, Wednesday:-- Buildings on both sides of the street in the main business centre of Charleville were gutted by…

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Police Court Lismore Cases in Hotel After Hours

Northern Star · Tuesday 10 February 1931 · page 11

At Lismore Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M, Arthur Lawrence Harrison, Charles Robson McLean, Douglas Way Wotherspoon,…

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Police Court Lismore Sitting Fight in Hotel

Northern Star · Wednesday 11 February 1931 · page 7

The story of a fight in an hotel was heard by Mr. H. Hawkins, J.P., at Lismore Police Court yesterday morning and Charles Hudson (33) and…

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900 BEDROOMS New Hotel for London

Northern Star · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 11

A new hotel will occupy a magnificent site of 56,000 square feet at Marble Arch, Loudon. This hotel, which will be completed in the early…

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S.P. Licenses Conspiracy Alleged Case at Manly Three Men Charged Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 13 February 1931 · page 7

Conspiracy in connection with the issue of starting price licenses was alleged at Manly Police Court to-day when Edwin…

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S.p. Licenses. Chief Secretary's Name Mentioned. Alleged Conspiracy to Defraud

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.--The case was resumed at Manly Court to-day in which Edwin Llewellyn Rees (50) and William Edwin Ardill were charged with…

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License Granted Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 5

T.Woodcock, foreman to H. R. Telford, was to-day granted a license by the A.J.C. to train at Randwick. It is likely that Woodcock will be given…

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"FOR £250" "Fix Up a License" the Manly Case Further Evidence Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 14 February 1931 · page 7

The case was resumed at Manly Police Court to-day in which Edwin Llewellyn Rees (50), and William Edwin Ardill are charged…

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Licensing Court

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 2

A Sunday trading licence was granted to Thomas Hennessey and a hawker's vehicle to Thomas Burke; in Murwillumbah Licensing Court yesterday…

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Driving Without a License

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 2

In the Police Court yesterday morning, before Messrs, C. J. M. Hade (Chamber Magistrate) and C. Kelly, J.P., Herbert Edward Graham pleaded…

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General News Licensed to Inoculate

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 8

The inspector to the Tweed-Lismore Pastures Protection Board (Mr. C. J. Woollett), has been advised that the following additional licenses to…

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Sporting Items, Commercial Hotel Footrace

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 20 February 1931 · page 4

Fcotrunning appears due for a revival here, judging by the remarkable entry received for to-morrow's event at the Commercial Hotel. Possibly, there…

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