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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

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Bandits Raid Hotel

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Two aimed bandits shortly before 11 o'clock tonight held up three porters in the Hotel Arcadia,…

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Bold, Armed Hold-up At City Hotel

Northern Star · Wednesday 7 January 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.--Three armed bandits bound and gagged the driver of a hire car, stole the vehicle and used it to stage a daring hold-up at the Hotel Arcadia, Pitt Street, late last night…

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Cigarette Believed Cause of Hotel Fire

Northern Star · Tuesday 13 January 1948 · page 4

CASINO, Monday.--A man who Fire Brigade officers believe, dropped off to sleep while smoking a cigarette in a room at the Exchange…

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Hotels Match at Ballina

Northern Star · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 7

BALLINA, Monday. -- Exchange Hotel defeated Ballina Hotel by 31 runs in the Hotels' Association cricket match on Clement Park. L…

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No Complaints with Casino Hotels

Northern Star · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 4

CASINO, Thursday.--"The hotels are well conducted, serve meals as required by the Act, and we have received no complaints," said the…

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Buck Ban on Hotels Called Off

Tweed Daily · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: By 1020 votes to 2, unionists at Wollongong, Port Kembla and Thirroul today decided to call off the…

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Old 'Drome to Be Licensed

Northern Star · Thursday 29 January 1948 · page 4

The Department of Civil Aviation has indicated its intention to grant a "C" class licence for the former Lismore aerodrome,…

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Guests Killed in Hotel Fire

Tweed Daily · Saturday 31 January 1948 · page 1

ST. ALBANS, Vermont, Friday: An undertermined number of guests was killed and 12 persons were…

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Licensee and Friends Fined for Sunday Drinking

Northern Star · Wednesday 4 February 1948 · page 3

The licensee of the Station Hotel, South Lismore, John Ernest Haydon, was fined £20 in the Court of Petty Sessions in Lismore…

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Licensee Fined £3-- Not £20

Northern Star · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 4

In the case of John Ernest Haydon, licensee of the Station Hotel. South Lismore, who was charged at Lismore Court on Tuesday with…

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License Transferred

Northern Star · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 4

CASINO, Thursday. -- The licence of the Oxford Hotel was transferred from John Christian Erichs to Thomas Gordon Tyrell Riley in…

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£60,000 Hotel for Hayman

Tweed Daily · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Thursday: Building regulations have been re-laxed to allow Barrier Reef Islands [?]ty. Ltd. to erect a £60,000…

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Kyogle Hotel Management

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 24 February 1948 · page 4

An application by Mona Ida Mackeggie, holder of a publican's liceence for the Exchange Hotel, Kyogle, for leave of absence and the…

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Licensing Court at Lismore

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 February 1948 · page 4

At the Licensing Court held in Lismore yesterday Mr. F. C. H. Tompson, S.M., granted an application for a publican's booth and…

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Fight in Hotel Yard

Tweed Daily · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 2

At Tweed Heads Court on Wednesday, before Mr F. C. H. Tompson, S.M., Henry David Kafoa pleaded guilty to a charge of…

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Australian Hotel (To the Editor)

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1948 · page 6

Sir: With your kind permission, I desire to correct a statement in Miss Martyn's History of the Tweed, in-so-far as it relates to the Australian…

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Licensing of Motor Cycle Riders: New Method Urged

Northern Star · Thursday 4 March 1948 · page 4

Lismore branch of the Road Safety Council will endeavour to have the present system of licensing motor cycle riders altered. Inspector H. Taylor, of Lismore…

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Fined For Being on Licensed Premises

Northern Star · Thursday 4 March 1948 · page 5

Leo Gava, of Newbridge Street, South Lismore, was fined £1 10s by Mr. W. C: Avery, S.M., in the Court of, Petty Sessions in…

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Vats Full, But Hotels "Dry"

Northern Star · Saturday 13 March 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.--The three Sydney breweries involved in the brewery strike will probably stop making…

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Casino Licensing Court

Northern Star · Wednesday 17 March 1948 · page 8

CASINO, Tuesday.--Applications for registration of the Casino Bowling, Golf and R.S.L. Clubs were adjourned to April 22 in the…

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