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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Dispute in Hotel Young Man Killed NEWCASTLE

Northern Star · Saturday 3 July 1937 · page 9

Cyril George Burns (25), a steelworker, of Tighe's Hill, was struck with a glass on the side of the head in a dispute in the bar of an hotel…

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Saved by Parrot Men Asleep in Burning Hotel

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 6 July 1937 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday:--Awakened by the loud shrieks of a galah this morning, two men in the Railway Hotel at…

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Hotel Improvements

Northern Star · Tuesday 6 July 1937 · page 9

At the Lismore Licensing Court yesterday before Mr. H. Hawkins, P.M., orders were made permitting the sale of liquor with meals at the Commercial…

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General Strike Cafe, Restaurant and Hotel Employees PARIS

Northern Star · Monday 12 July 1937 · page 7

A general strike of cafe, restaurant and hotel employees was called to-day following the refusal of the proprietors to adopt a five-day week…

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Woman Strangled with Stocking Body Found In New York Hotel

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 13 July 1937 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday:-- An unidentified woman in the early thirties was found by a maid strangled in a hotel room with her…

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Thieves' Big Haul Safe Removed From Hotel In Broad Daylight

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 13 July 1937 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- After scaling a 15ft. wall topped with glass, thieves in broad daylight carried off a safe weighing 2 cwt. containing £225…

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Woman Strangled Discovery In Hotel New York

Northern Star · Tuesday 13 July 1937 · page 9

An unidentified woman in her early 30's was found by a maid strangled with a silk stocking in an hotel room. The body was partially clad and there…

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Hotel Extensions

Northern Star · Thursday 15 July 1937 · page 16

It is claimed that with, the completion of an extensive programme of additions this year, the Freemasons' Hotel, Lismore, will have more…

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French Hotel Dispute Ends

Tweed Daily · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 8

PARIS, Wednesday:-The hotel dispute regarding hours has been settled and the forty-hour week will be spread over six days of the week…

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Police Raid Three of Sydney's Leading Hotels

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday:--Three of Sydney's leading hotels, the Australia, the Carlton and Usher's, were raided simultaneously by 20 police last night…

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Death of Countess Fell From Window of Savoy Hotel

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 July 1937 · page 3

LONDON, Sunday.-- Countess Cardigan, who recently returned from South Africa, was killed in falling…

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Bloody Scene in Hotel Suite Suicide of Countess of Cardigan

Tweed Daily · Thursday 29 July 1937 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday:--The Coroner to-day delivered a verdict that the Countess of Cardigan, who was killed by falling from a…

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Hotel Employees' Award Complaint Dismissed Industrial Magistrate's Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 29 July 1937 · page 8

In the Industrial Magistrate's Court at Murwillumbah yesterday Charles Herman Worley laid a complaint against Arthur Clarke…

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Hotels Raided Court Sequel SYDNEY

Northern Star · Thursday 5 August 1937 · page 10

As a result of police raids on the Australia, Ushers, the Metropolitan and the Car[?]ton, four of Sydney's leading hotels, on July 23, 86 people were fined…

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New Air Navigation Regulations Wireless Now Compulsory Licensing of Air Lines

Tweed Daily · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 5

CANBERRA, Thursday:— With minor exceptions, all regular passenger-carrying aircraft in Australia must in future be equipped…

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Convicted on Three Charges Hotelkeeper In Trouble

Tweed Daily · Saturday 7 August 1937 · page 5

MACLEAN, Friday:— Thomas Edward Graham, licensee of the Hotel Maclean, was charged in Maclean Police Court with having been found…

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Jews Banned Bermuda Leading Hotels

Tweed Daily · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 6

Ban on Jews as rigid as Nazi Germany's came into full effect recently in Bermuda, British Colony,, island playground of Mayfairites and…

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Federal Hotel BALLINA

Northern Star · Monday 9 August 1937 · page 12

An application by William McPherson, licencee of the Federal Hotel, Alstonville, as executor of the will of the late Alfred Riley, to have Gordon Riley…

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American Girl Vanishes From Paris Hotel

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 5

PARIS, Sunday:— Police throughout France are seeking Jean De Koven, an American danseuse, who disappeared from…

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Burned to Death Trapped In Hotel Blaze Wellington (N.z.)

Northern Star · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 9

Early this morning fire broke out at the Railway Hotel at Kurow and one of the guests, David Alexander Robertson (24), was burned to death…

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