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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

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Drip Beer Not Coloured Hotelkeepers Fined SYDNEY

Northern Star · Saturday 3 February 1940 · page 8

At the Balmain Court two Balmain publicans were fined for having failed to colour waste beer in the drip-trays. George Podmore, of the Forth and…

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Licensing Of Potato Growers Discussion at Murwillumbah

Tweed Daily · Saturday 3 February 1940 · page 4

The move to obtain the passage of legislature to give effect to agitation initiated in 1929 to licence potato growers…

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Publicans' Licence Fees

Northern Star · Wednesday 7 February 1940 · page 9

Lismore district publicans paid in fees last year £2682. compared with £2573 the previous year. Sixteen publicans' licenses were renewed in both…

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Latest Swindle Worked on North Coast Publicans

The Richmond River Herald and Northern Districts Advertiser · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 6

Two hotelkeepers at Southport and one at Tenterfield in recent weeks have been the losers of over £20 in all as the result of an…

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Man Fined £5 Attack on Woman at Hotel

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 3

Charged in Kyogle Police Court before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M., on Wednesday with having, on February 3. unlawfully assaulted a…

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Hotel Licences Transferred CASINO

Northern Star · Saturday 10 February 1940 · page 10

In the Licensing Court the licence of the Hotel Cecil, Casino, was transferred from Margaret Campbell to Jas. Bernard McClymont, of Lismore; and…

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Housemaid Burned to Death in Hotel Fire in N.Z. Wellington (N.z.)

Northern Star · Monday 12 February 1940 · page 10

Miss J. Matthews, a 20-year-old housemaid, was burned to death yesterday when a fire gutted a six-storey private hotel at Wellington…

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Plans Prepared New Hotel For Brunswick Heads Brunswick Heads

Northern Star · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 6

Plans have been prepared for Messrs. Tooheys Ltd. for a twostoried building in brick to replace the Ocean View Hotel at…

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New Hotel for Brunswick Heads

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 4

Plans have been prepared for a two-storied building to be built in brick to replace the Ocean View Hotel structure at Brunswick Heads. The…

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Woman Attacked at Hotel Beryl Falconer, a waitress

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 February 1940 · page 6

employed at the Commercial Hotel, Lismore, was attacked in her bedroom in the maids' quarters at the hotel at 4…

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Publican's Licence Single Woman Debarred Broken Hill

Northern Star · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 2

"It has stood as law for 46 years, and I cannot overlook the judgment of the Full Court by which I am bound," said Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in…

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Woman Shot at Bondi Former Hotel Licensee Injured SYDNEY

Northern Star · Saturday 17 February 1940 · page 1

Mrs. Evelyn Grace Cabell (47), who was staying in a flat at Rondi, was fatally wounded when struck twice in the head by…

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Men Removed From Hotel Under Gun Threat

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 6

LONDON Sunday:—Soldiers trained Bren machine-guns on a hotel in Parnell Square, Dublin, and removed six men…

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Hotel in Toronto Wrecked by Soldiers

Tweed Daily · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 2

TORONTO, Tuesday: — Marching four abreast, 120 uniformed soldiers invaded the Riviera Hotel and wrecked the entire lower floor. A Union…

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Allenby's Big Bluff Fast's Hotel, Jerusalem

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 1

Men of the A.I.F. Light Horse, when they read that an hotel in Jerusalem will be converted into a club to accommodate leave parties of 50 men…

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Transfer of License

Northern Star · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 2

An application by Richmond William Jones for a transfer of the license of the Winsome Hotel, Lismore, was granted by the Licensing Magistrate…

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Fire in Hotel Laundry

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 4

The interior of the laundry at the rear of the Hotel Murwillumbah was extensively damaged by fire, last night. The blaze is believed to have…

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Special Licensing Court

Tweed Daily · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 4

In the special Licensing Court at Murwillumbah yesterday, J. R. Maione was granted permission to make material alterations to his premises, the…

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Tweed Potato Growers' Apathy Proposed Licensing Act

Tweed Daily · Saturday 2 March 1940 · page 4

The apathy of potato growers of the Tweed District to attend meetings and express an opinion on the proposed licensing of…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire

Tweed Daily · Monday 4 March 1940 · page 3

MACKAY, Sunday:— Cut off from escape from a hotel at Sarina which was destroyed by fire early to-day, the licence, T. Woodley, his wife and…

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