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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

196 stories in Northern Rivers's papers · page 8 of 10

Names Suggested For Private Hotel

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 September 1937 · page 5

Mr. C. M. Thomas, who is one of a committee appointed to investigate the proposal to form a company to establish a private hotel in Lismore,…

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Enough Beer for Week-end Two Coolangatta Hotels

Tweed Daily · Friday 17 September 1937 · page 5

Inquiries yesterday revealed that two of the four Coolangatta hotels have ample stocks of draught and bottled beer to see them over the…

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Five Fruit Machines in Private Hotel Destruction Ordered; £71 for Crown

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 8

BRISBANE, Monday:— Mr. P. M. Hishon, P.M., in the Police Court to-day, ordered the destruction of five fruit machines, the…

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1000 Gallons of Water Instead of Oil Hotelkeeper Defrauds American Firm

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday:—How an order from the United State for 1000 gallons of eucalyptus oil had been fulfilled by the shipping of…

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Is Illegal After Hours ? or Coffee Drinking at Hotels

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday:—It was was against the law to drink tea or coffee on licensed premises after hours, said Mr. Bradley, K.C.,…

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Licensing by Council Favoured Public Motor Vehicles

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 10

At a meeting of the Lismore Chamber of Commerce last night it was decided, on the motion of Messrs. Ray Granger (president)…

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Hotelkeepers' Claim for Lounge Licences Sydney

Northern Star · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 7

A large deputation of hotelkeepers to-day waited upon the Minister for Justice (Mr. Martin) and urged that legislative power be given the Licences Reduction Board to grant, lounge licences, upon application, and that the board have power to…

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Wireless Sets Not Licensed Several Persons Fined at Byron Bay

Tweed Daily · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 4

When proceeding were taken at Byron Bay Court yesterday morning against a number of persons with unlicensed wireless sets…

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Hotel Manager Gives Evidence Intervention Suit SYDNEY

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 8

During the continued hearing of the Munro intervention suit to-day, in the Divorce Court, the manager of the Grand Hotel,…

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Lounge Drinking Licensee's Preparations SYDNEY

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 September 1937 · page 9

Irrespective of whether the Government agrees or not to permit drinking in lounges after 6 p.m., as requested by the United Licensed…

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Hotel Rocked by Earthquake [?]antas Pilot's Experience in Sourabaya

Tweed Daily · Thursday 30 September 1937 · page 8

SINGAPORE, Tuesday.--The Qantas Empire Airways pilot, Captain Crowther, who arrived in Singapore from [?]arwin to-day, said that when he was…

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Failed to License Wireless Sets Mullumbimby Court

Tweed Daily · Monday 4 October 1937 · page 8

Edward Torrens, of Mullumbimby, pleaded not guilty at the Mullumbimby Police Court on Friday to a charge of failing to license a wireless set. He…

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Thief in Hotel Coat and Vest Taken with £38 in Pockets

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 6 October 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.--While Mr. F. J. Fox, licensee of the Star Hotel, Parramatta, and his wife were asleep in a room at the hotel early this…

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Armed Intruder Hotelkeeper Robbed SYDNEY

Northern Star · Wednesday 6 October 1937 · page 7

Sydney Fox, licensee of the Star Hotel, Parramatta, was threatened early this morning by an intruder, who had taken Fox's own revolver…

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Auctioneer Goes to Gaol. for Refusing to Pay Publican

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 8 October 1937 · page 8

For having refused to pay for meals and accommodation at the Club Hotel, Glen Innes, Jack Dudley Moore, auctioneer, of Moree, was…

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Hotelkeeper Fined BALLINA

Northern Star · Saturday 9 October 1937 · page 12

L. Benness, of the Exchange Hotel, Ballina, pleaded guilty to a breach of the Licensing Act, in allowing unauthorised persons on his licensed…

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Publicans Rush for Supplies Brisbane

Northern Star · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 7

So great was the rush by publicans in motorcars, taxis and motor and horse drawn lorries for supplies of liquor…

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Two Charges Incidents at Hotel Pleaded Guilty

Northern Star · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 9

William Crawford (30) pleaded guilty at the Lismore Police Court yesterday to charges of having assaulted Harry Green, and with…

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License Transferred BALLINA

Northern Star · Saturday 16 October 1937 · page 2

At a special Licensing Court at Ballina to-day the transfer of the licence of the Royal Hotel, Wardell, from Jacob Creighton to Henry…

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Hotel Fire Brigade's Good Save CASINO

Northern Star · Saturday 16 October 1937 · page 8

Fire threatened the Hotel Cecil, a two-storey weatherboard building at the corner of Barker and Centrestreets, shortly after 3 a.m. to-day,…

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