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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

220 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 9 of 11

To Be Licensed Soon Aerodrome Work Nears Completion Lismore Municipal Council

Northern Star · Wednesday 19 August 1931 · page 11

According to the report o[?] ray) at Monday night's meeting only the rolling of a small rough done before the municipal aero[?]…

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Problems of Luxury Hotels Past and Present Complying With Visitors' Fads

Tweed Daily · Monday 24 August 1931 · page 6

A generation ago the most expensive note in London was the old Bristol, at which King Edward VII. used to dine occa[?]y. The hotel was the resort…

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Disastrous Fire Hotel and Theatre Gutted

Tweed Daily · Friday 28 August 1931 · page 5

TOWNSYILLE, Thursday :--Damage gunning into many thousands of pounds was caused by a fire at Richmond this morning. The fire destroyed the…

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Charge of Fraud Issue of a License SYDNEY

Northern Star · Friday 28 August 1931 · page 11

A man who was attested in the city last night was later charged with having falsely pretended to David Cragg, a well known butcher, that William…

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Hotel Destroyed Blaze at Copmanhurst DAMAGE £10,000

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 2 September 1931 · page 2

GRAFTON, Tuesday:--Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused when a fire totally destroyed a hotel at Copleanhurst, about 20 miles up the…

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New Hotel for Coolangatta Imposing Structure Will Rise from Ruins of Hotel Grande

Tweed Daily · Friday 4 September 1931 · page 5

In June last the Hotel Grande, Coolangatta, was completely destroyed by fire, but at the last meeting of the Town Council, Ald. Youngman,…

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Copmanhurst Hotel Destroyed by Fire

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 5 September 1931 · page 4

About 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning Small's hotel at Copmanhurst, 20 miles from Grafton, was completely destroyed by fire, the total damage being…

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Longreach Blaze Hotel and Several Shops Burnt

Tweed Daily · Monday 7 September 1931 · page 3

LONGREACH, Saturday:-- A fire, which began this morning at 3.30, and raged for nearly an hour before it was got under control, destroyed the…

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Collapsed in Hotel Sacrarnents Administered in Bar

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 9 September 1931 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday:--When Patrick Ryan (72) collapsed in an hotel in Oxford Street to-day a priest was hastily summoned to…

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Licensing Court

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 11 September 1931 · page 4

In the licensing court at Casino on Tuesday before Mr. E. A. Mahoney, P.M., a transfer of the Exchange Hotel, Kyogle, from D. W. Steadman to…

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Death Sentence Recorded Shots at Katoomba Hotel Licensee and Policeman Shot At

Tweed Daily · Saturday 12 September 1931 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday:--In the Criminal Court to-day Cecil Cowell (22), a butcher, was charged with having fired a revolver at Joseph…

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Police Court Murwillumbah Cases Hotelkeeper Convicted on Liquor Charge

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 15 September 1931 · page 2

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., presided at Murwillumbah Court yesterday when a heavy list of cases was set down for hearing…

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Hotel Licenses Transferred

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 16 September 1931 · page 2

At a sitting of the Casino Licensing Court yesterday, application was made to transfer the license of the Hotel Cecil from, George Edgar Smith to…

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General News Licensing Court

Northern Star · Wednesday 16 September 1931 · page 6

In the Licensing Court at Lismore yesterday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., transfer of the license of the Royal Hotel, Lismore was granted from…

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Licensed Readers

Northern Star · Saturday 19 September 1931 · page 8

Replying to a question by Canon Moore (Lismore) at the Anglican Synod at Grafton this week Bishop Ashton stated that he had intimated to the…

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On Licensed Premises

Northern Star · Friday 25 September 1931 · page 4

Charged with being found on licensed premises (the Freemason's Hotel, Lismore) on Sunday, September 6, Harold Thomas Mudge and…

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Adulterated Liquor Several Hotelkeepers Fined

Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1931 · page 2

Several cases against hotelkeepers for selling adulterated liquor were heard in the Lismore Police Court on Thursday, before Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M…

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Tyalgum Hotel Licence

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 29 September 1931 · page 2

The licence of the New State Hotel, Tyalgum, was transferred in the Murwillumbah Licensing Court yesterday from Andrew Callaghan to Robert…

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Refused License To Carry Revolver SYDNEY

Northern Star · Thursday 1 October 1931 · page 8

When Sydney McCarthy applied at Redfern Police Court to-day for permission to carry a revolver he said he lived in a house in Thurlow-street,…

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Boiler Inspection Licenses Cancelled "Despicable Action" Attack in Council Sydney

Northern Star · Friday 2 October 1931 · page 5

Nationalists and Labour members of the Legislative Council to-day attacked the Minister for Labour and…

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