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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1936

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Renewed Enthusiasm for Strike Melbourne Storm of Dissent Against Licensing

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday:--Vital decisions were reached at the meeting of Melbourne seamen to-day. There were about 500 present, and…

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Pistol Licenses

Northern Star · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 8

Owners of pistols are reminded by the Lismore police that licenses must be renewed. The fee is 10s, and a penalty is provided for failure to register a…

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General Strike Is Threatened Licensing Protest Unions Decide to Withdraw Members Sydney

Northern Star · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 7

As a protest against the use of the licensing clauses of the Transport Workers' Act and the Crimes Act against the seamen and the Trades Union movement, a conference of combined mining unions…

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Wild Scenes in Hotel Evidence at Inquest Death of Man Found in Well

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—There were wild scenes on December 22 in the hotel at Matong, where Jack Conway's body was later found in the…

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On Licensed Premises KYOGLE

Northern Star · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 3

Reginald Hoffman, for whom Mr. R. M. Jones appeared, William Crotty, and Francis Malcolm Stewart were each fined £1, and ordered to pay 8s…

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£10 Reward! How a Wayback Publican Was "Stung." A.J.A. Keating Story

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 6

Mr. J. A. Keating, formerly postmaster at Coraki, and now living retired at Dubbo, wrote many an interesting western yarn for this…

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PUBLICAN v. Policeman. Wild Time at Nanango

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 5

According to evidence in the case this week in which John Francis Gilshenan, hotelkeeper, Nanango, was charged with assault and insulting language to…

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Police Were Watching When Men Tried to Break Into Hotel

Tweed Daily · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 4

TRANGIE, Thursday:—Sergeant Dennison, in evidence at the Police Court to-day, told how two suspects had been followed and…

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On Hotel Premises After Hours

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 7

Charged in Kyogle police court on Wednesday with having been on the premises of the Commercial Hotel, Kyogle, after hours on December 21,…

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Booth License

Northern Star · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 5

In the Licensing Court at Lismore yesterday before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., Edith Grace Geraghty, of the Lismore Hotel, was granted a booth licence for…

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Post Licensing in Melbourne Mr. Menzies Mentions Preference Proposal

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.—The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies) today announced that following on the marked success which followed the…

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AMUSEMENTS "Great Hotel Murder"

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 4

John Wray, who plays the part of "Feets," Victor McLaglen's sap assistant in "The Great Hotel Murder," to be shown at the Memorial…

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Inspector's Report Mullumbimby Council. Dairy License

Mullumbimby Star · Wednesday 15 January 1936 · page 2

The Health Inspector (Mr. L. R. McNaught), reported to the Mullumbimby Council on Monday night last that Mrs. R. F. Cowan had applied…

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Hotel Licensee Fined Bottle of Whisky Not up to Standard

Tweed Daily · Friday 17 January 1936 · page 8

Thomas Wulff, licensee of the Pacific Hotel at Cudgen Headland, was proceeded against at Murwillumbah Police Court on Wednesday by Spencer…

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Licensee Fined Bottle Of Whisky Not Up To Standard

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 21 January 1936 · page 2

Thomas Wulff licensee of the Pacific Hotel at Cudgen Headland, was proceeded against at Murwillumbah Police Court by Spencer Moon, an…

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New Hotel Great Northern to Go

Mullumbimby Star · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 2

Immediately alter the Easter holidays, work will be commenced in demolishing the Great Northern Hotel, Byron Buy, in order to make room for…

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Condition of Lismore Hotels

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 8

The quarterly report on the condition of Lismore hotels submitted to the Licensing Court by the police described the hotels in the town as…

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Hotel Picketed Watching Seamen's President MELBOURNE

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 January 1936 · page 4

Pickets were placed outside the hotel where Mr. Jacob Johnson and the secretary of the Queensland branch of the Seamen's Union (Mr…

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Loss of Luggage Hotelkeeper's Liability

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 24 January 1936 · page 2

A case of unusual interest to hotel proprietors and guests at hotels was heard before Mr. Justice Nield at the Nowra District…

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Shipowners Will Confer Seamen's Strike "No Withdrawing of Licensing"

Tweed Daily · Saturday 25 January 1936 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday:--The action of representatives of the Steamship Owners' Association today in agreeing to confer with…

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