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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

196 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 1 of 10

Stay-in Strikes at Nice Hotels New Year Festivities Cancelled

Tweed Daily · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 5

NICE, Thursday:—Owing to stay-in strikes by the staffs, New Year festivities were cancelled at two of the most fashionable hotels and guests…

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Hotel Staffs Strike Festivities Cancelled NICE

Northern Star · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 10

owing to the stay-in strike of the staffs, the new year festivities were cancelled in two of the most fashionable hotels. The guests were forced to…

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Gold Mine in Back Yard Old Hotel Is Sold

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 6

Held in the same family for about a quarter of a century, the Exchange Hotel at Foster--which had a gold mine in the back yard--changed…

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£55,000 REFUSED Bellevue Hotel, Brisbane

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 8

BRISBANE, Tuesday:--The Bellevue Hotel, one of Brisbane's historic landmarks and rendezvous of royalty, vice royalty, premiers, legislators and…

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New Byron Bay Hotel

Tweed Daily · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 4

Work on construction of the new Great Northern Hotel at Byron Bay to replace that destroyed by fire last year has commenced, the contractor…

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New Hotel at Byron Bay Byron Bay

Northern Star · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 6

Work has commenced on the construction of the new Great Northern Hotel, to replace the building destroyed by fire last year. The contractor is…

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Hotel Counter Lunches Casino, Thursday. 'Wars' of the Past

Northern Star · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 3

COUNTER lunch "wars" of the past are recalled by the decision of the L.V.A. in Victoria to ban free counter…

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Bought by Breweries Three Coolangatta Hotels

Tweed Daily · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday:--Three of the four Coolangatta hotels this week passed from private control to brewery interests. The hotels involved…

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CLERGYMAN Finds Charity in Hotels Farewell Sermon (From a Special Correspondent) LONDON, January 2, 1937 (By Air Mail)

Northern Star · Monday 18 January 1937 · page 11

"I GO into pubs, have gone pubs, and always will go into pubs," shouted the Rev. James Wildman, assistant…

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Stole Clothing From Hotel Man Sentenced to Six Months

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 7

Pleading guilty to a charge of having, at Murwillumbah on January 9, stolen clothing to the value of £2, the property of Arthur John Cowdrey,…

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Breweries Buy Three Hotels At Coolangatta

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 2

Three of the four Coolangatta hotels including one of the most modern establishments on the South Coast of Queensland have…

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Hotel Sewerage CASINO

Northern Star · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 10

"In a hot climate like this, the question of sewerage for hotels wants looking into and pushing ahead," remarked the…

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Hotels Open

Northern Star · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 6

The State Government, which has examined the position during the last few weeks, has decided that hotels will remain open on March…

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Closing Hotels

Northern Star · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 6

THE decision of the N.S.W. Government to permit hotels to remain open on March 6, polling day for the referenda, is…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire

Tweed Daily · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 3

BRISBANE, Friday:-- The two storeyed Hotel Canungra, at Canungra, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. The damage is…

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Bull Caused Stir In N.Z. Hotel

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 8

A bull walked into the Mohaka Hotel, Auckland, jazzed along the highly polished floor, slipped on a mat, crashed, into a bedroom, then…

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On Licensed Premises CASINO

Northern Star · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 3

Walter Hardy (48) was [?]ined 10s at the Casino Police Court to-day on a charge of being found on licenced premises at the Exchange Hotel…

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Hotel Licence Alleged Graft Royal Commission Perth

Northern Star · Wednesday 27 January 1937 · page 9

BEFORE the Royal Commission on the corruption charges today, evidence was given by Max Kott, solicitor, that after he…

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New Act in Force Effect of Licensing Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 4 February 1937 · page 5

The Business Agents Act, which came into force yesterday, will bring to an end the activities of hundreds of nondescript agents who…

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Hotel Transfer BALLINA

Northern Star · Saturday 6 February 1937 · page 11

An application by John Vincent Pedley for the transfer of the licence for the Exchange Hotel, Ballina, to Louis John Benness, of Evans Head,…

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