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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

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Licenses for Cars and Radios

Northern Star · Saturday 1 January 1938 · page 11

The recent announcement that one mullion wireless licenses had been issued in Australia is cited as an instance of the increasing popularity of…

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Man To Stand Trial Barman's Death After Affray in Hotel

Tweed Daily · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday.--The inquest on the death of Demsey was postponed for a time to-day, when the Coroner (Mr. Tingate) held an…

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Bees On Hotel Balcony

Northern Star · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 6

A swarm of bees which settled on the balcony of the Royal Hotel at the corner of Molesworth and Woodlark streets yesterday morning attracted a…

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Bogus Clubs Licensed Clubs Act

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 8

Elimination of bogus 'clubs may be dealt with in a Government Bill which will come before the next Parliamentary session…

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Hotel Transfer Application by Executors

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 2

An application was made in the Licensing Court at Lismore yesterday before Mr. H. Hawkins on behalf of the executors of the Estate of the late…

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Licenses Granted

Northern Star · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 2

The following licences were granted by Mr. H. Hawkins at the Lismore Police Court yesterday :--Billiards (renewals), Gordon Herbert Bird,…

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Plans for Company Surfers Paradise Hotel

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 5

SOUTHPORT, Wednesday:-- Steps have been taken to form a company with a capital of about £150,000 to acquire the new Surfers' Paradise Hotel…

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Blind Barman Manages Own Hotel

Tweed Daily · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 3

Blind from birth, Mr. Roland Hewitt runs and manages his own public- house in Cannock-road, Wolverhampton, states "People." In the…

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Lock-out in Sweden Hotels, Restaurants And Cafes

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2

LONDON, Sunday.--The "Telegraph's" Stockholm correspondent says: Hotels,- restaurants and cafes throughout Sweden will…

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Private Hotel Scheme Believed To Be Practicable

Northern Star · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 3

After investigating lasting several months, a committee comprising Messrs. C. M. Thomas, R. Granger and R. E. Noble, is of the opinion that the…

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Licenses Granted

Northern Star · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 5

The following licenses were granted by the P.M., Mr. H. Hawkins, in the Lismore Police Court yesterday : -- Eric John Jackson (hawker's pack),…

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Cases Adjourned Hotelkeeper's Claim CASINO

Northern Star · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 3

At the Casino Police Court to-day Ernest Nicholson, licensee of the Exchange Hotel, Casino, proceeded against several persons for alleged refusal to…

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Hotel Employees' Picnic

Northern Star · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 11

At a meeting of Lismore hotel employees arrangements were made for a picnic at Brunswick Heads on February 20. 'Buses will leave the New…

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On Licensed Premises Byron Bay

Northern Star · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 9

Burdette Carr was fined 12s, with 8s costs, when he appeared before the P.M., Mr. H. Hawkins, at Byron Bay court to-day on a charge of being on…

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Motor Licensing Regional Inquiries in Border Districts

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 4

Mr. A. A. Shocbridge, Administer, Department of Road Transport, writes: "With regard to the licensing under the State Transport (Co-ordination)…

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Licenses Granted

Northern Star · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 9

The magistrate (Mr. H. Hawkins) granted the following licenses in the Lismore police court yesterday : Nicholas Crowes and Ray Nicoll Sunday…

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£200,000 DEAL Northern Queensland Hotels

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 3

TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday: -- The Carlton United Brewery, in conjunction with northern merchants, has bought all properties in P. J. Doyle's estate…

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Pistol Licenses Two Grafton Appeals. Chemist Refused a Licence—hotel-keeper Granted One

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 7

Two appeals against the refusal of the Grafton police to issue pistol licenses to local residents were heard in the Court of Petty Sessions at Grafton this week,…

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Attempted to Shoot Wife Man Suicides in W.A. Hotel PERTH

Northern Star · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 7

A case of attempted murder and suicide is reported from Collie. A man named Norman Lock arrived in Collie yesterday from Perth, and…

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Less Drunkenness Altered Hotel Hours In Tasmania

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 7

HOBART, Monday:— The scarcity of cases of drunkenness in recent months is attributed by the police to the altered hotel hours which are…

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