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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

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License Transferred CASINO

Northern Star · Saturday 24 June 1939 · page 15

In the Licensing Court at Casino yesterday, the licence of the Commonwealth Hotel, Casino, was transferred from Frank Augustus Roberts to Nora…

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Permission to Renew Hotel Licence Is Refused Sydney

Northern Star · Tuesday 27 June 1939 · page 7

Finding that the licensee, Walter Ross Weekes, of the Plaza Hotel, at the George-street entrance to Wynward Station, had not yet a minimum…

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Licensing Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 29 June 1939 · page 3

In the Licensing Court at Murwillumbah yesterday. Nicholas Kcocooles was granted a Sunday trading licence. A hawker's pack licence was granted…

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£600 Missing From Hotel Safe Duplicate Key Thought To Have Been Used

Tweed Daily · Monday 3 July 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sunday:—Between Saturday night and early this morning £600 mysteriously disappeared from a safe built into the…

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Licensee Fined Men Found On Premises

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 8

Edith Grace Geraghty, licensee of the Lismore Hotel, pleaded guilty, through Mr. C. McKenzie, at the Lismore Police Court yesterday, to a…

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License Suspended Driving Under Influence Charge

Northern Star · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 12

Harry Lowndes (45) was charged at the Lismore Police Court yesterday with having driven a motor vehicle in Magellan-street, Lismore, whilst under…

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Visitor Criticises Hotel Accommodation At Darwin DARWIN

Northern Star · Wednesday 5 July 1939 · page 7

In 40 years, covering two million miles of travel, he had never struck hotels as bad as those at Darwin, said Mr. H. J. Curie, mining engineer…

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Savage Attack on Man in a City Hotel

Tweed Daily · Monday 10 July 1939 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday:—William Lavington Bennett (38), of Gale Street, Mortlake, was savagely assaulted by two men in Oxford…

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Hotel License Transfer BALLINA

Northern Star · Wednesday 12 July 1939 · page 8

A transfer of the license for the Exchange Hotel, Ballina, from L. J. Benness to Kingsley E. Fleming was granted by Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., at…

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Local and General Licensing Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 13 July 1939 · page 4

In the Licensing Court at Murwillumbah yesterday, before Mr. J. McElroy, P.M., Sunday trading licences were granted to John Vlismas,…

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Licensing Report

Northern Star · Tuesday 18 July 1939 · page 2

At the quarterly Licensing Court held in Lismore yesterday the report of Inspector W. Sherringham was read by Mr. J. McElroy, P.M. It stated that…

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New Hotel for Bangalow

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 19 July 1939 · page 4

Preliminary work has been commenced for the excavations for the new brick structure to replace the old Granuaille Hotel which was…

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New Hotel at Bangalow Work Commenced BANGALOW

Northern Star · Wednesday 19 July 1939 · page 3

Preliminary work has been commenced for the excavations for the new brick structure to replace the old Granuaille Hotel, which was…

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BABE BUNTING.—The Six License Numbers

Tweed Daily · Thursday 20 July 1939 · page 4

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Chain Stores Inquiry. Report Released "Licensing System"

Tweed Daily · Saturday 22 July 1939 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday:—A licensing system for the extension or opening of further chain stores is stated to be…

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Hotel Licence Transferred BALLINA

Northern Star · Saturday 22 July 1939 · page 12

An application by Ernest Nicholson, of Evans Head, for the transfer of the licence for the Pioneer Hotel, Evans Head, to Harold Charles…

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Chain Store Licensing Plan Urged Report on Inquiry

The Kyogle Examiner · Monday 24 July 1939 · page 2

A licensing system for the restriction of the opening of further grocery chain stores is stated to be necessary by Mr…

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"Lucky" Edwardes Leaving Luxury Hotel (From A Special Correspondent.) LONDON, (By Air Mail)

Northern Star · Monday 24 July 1939 · page 10

Sixty-three-year-old Arthur Octavius Edwardes, owner of the aeroplane in which Scott and Black won the Melbourne Air Race, retired this…

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Licensing Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 6

The following applications were granted in the 'Licensing Court., a Murwillumbah, yesterday: Francis Robertson Clark, transfer of billiards…

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Bangalow Hotel Excavations BANGALOW

Northern Star · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 11

Good progress is being made with the excavations of the new £10,000 structure to be erected at Bangalow to replace the Granuaille Hotel, which…

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