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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

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Tourist Hotel Planned for Surfers' Paradise

Tweed Daily · Thursday 12 August 1948 · page 2

SOUTHPORT, Wednesday: A permit to build a first-class modern temperance hotel at Surfers' Paradise to foster the tourist…

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Former Jockey Found Dead in Hotel Room

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 17 August 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: The well known ex-jockey, Reg Marsden, 43, was found dead in a room at the Imperial Hotel, King's…

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Ex-jockey Dies in Hotel Room

Northern Star · Tuesday 17 August 1948 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday. — The former Well-known jockey, Reg Marsden, 43, was found dead in his room at the Imperial Hotel, King's Cross,…

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False Figures For Hotel Alleged Claim for Damages

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 August 1948 · page 4

Allegations of misrepresentation on the part of a Casino hotel owner were made in the Supreme Court in Lismore yesterday, when Charles Milsom, licensee of the Charcoal Inn…

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Red Book Features In Hotel Case

Northern Star · Thursday 19 August 1948 · page 4

A red ledger book featured prominently in the Supreme Court in Lismore yesterday in the case in which the licensee of the Charcoal Inn, South Casino, Charles Milsom, claimed…

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Jury Finds for Hotel Owner

Northern Star · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 4

The jury in the Supreme Court in Lismore yesterday returned a verdict in favour of Casino hotel owner, Mathew Patrick Dougherty, who was alleged to have perpetrated a fraud in…

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Nine Hotels for Choir Visitors

Northern Star · Monday 23 August 1948 · page 4

Arrangements have been completed to accommodate 100 members of the Brisbane Eisteddfod Choir who will take part in the…

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Licensing Court

Tweed Daily · Friday 27 August 1948 · page 2

John Norman Kearney, licensee of the Australian Hotel, Murwillumbah, was yesterday granted a booth licence at Tygalgah…

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Drank in Hotel On a Sunday: Nine Men Fined

Northern Star · Thursday 9 September 1948 · page 4

CASINO, Wednesday.—"I don't appreciate people gathering in hotels on Sundays and neither does anybody else," said Mr. E. I. Cocks,…

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New Business License

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 10 September 1948 · page 11

George Milton Garrard Grant was granted a new business agent's district license by the licensing magistrate, Mr. F. C. H. Tompson, on…

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Bakers May Be Licensed

Northern Star · Friday 10 September 1948 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday. — Whether legislation should be recommended to license bakers and to control bread from its manufacture to its…

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Baillina Hotel Cricket Club Meets

Northern Star · Monday 13 September 1948 · page 5

BALLINA Sunday.—At the annual meeting of the Commercial Hotel cricket club members expressed confidence that the premiership…

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Guest Houses To Be Licensed?

Northern Star · Monday 20 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Minister for Tourist Activities (Mr. Matthews) said the Government was considering the introduction of legislation requiring registration and licensing of guest houses…

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Found Dead in Casino Hotel Room

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 September 1948 · page 4

CASINO, Tuesday.—An inquest will be held into the death of Allan David Ferguson, about 45, of Newcastle, who was found dead in a…

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Publican Fined For After Hours Trading

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 September 1948 · page 4

When he entered the Winsome Hotel, North Lismore, after 8 p.m. on August 14, two tap rooms were open and were crowded with people,…

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Publicans' Attitude To Unionism

Northern Star · Thursday 23 September 1948 · page 4

The attitude of some Lismore publicans towards union organisation was "disgusting," said the organiser of the Hotel Club and…

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Commercial Hotel Licence Transferred

Northern Star · Tuesday 28 September 1948 · page 4

Approval for the transfer of the licence of the Commercial Hotel, Lismore, was granted by Mr. Tompson, S.M., in the Licensing Court…

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Publican on Charge Of Manslaughter

Northern Star · Thursday 30 September 1948 · page 5

BOURKE, Wednesday. — The police tonight arrested the licensee of the North Bourke Hotel and charged him with manslaughter of…

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Chinderah Hotelkeeper Fined

Tweed Daily · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 2

At Tweed Heads Court on Wednesday, before Mr F. C. H. Tompson, S.M., Frederick William Walsh,…

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Refuse to Leave Hotel Room

Tweed Daily · Saturday 2 October 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: An order for the eviction of Mrs. Agnes Tolman and her husband, who had barricaded…

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