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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

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Hotel Dispute in New Zealand

Tweed Daily · Thursday 9 December 1948 · page 3

"WELLINGTON, Wednesday: Barmaids and barmen at a stop-work meeting today threatened "job action" unless negotiations…

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Hawker's License

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 6

At a special court in Kyogle on Tuesday, J. S. Madden was granted a hawker's pack licence. Mr. F. C. H. Tompson was on the bench…

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Gunman Wounds Young Man in Vic. Hotel

Northern Star · Monday 13 December 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday. — A gunman fired five shots at a young man and wounded him while he was drinking with a friend in Melbourne…

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Good Save in Hotel Fire

Northern Star · Monday 13 December 1948 · page 4

CASINO, Sunday.—What might have been a serious fire was averted by the promptness of Casino Fire Brigade when called to the…

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Four Die in U.s. Hotel Fire

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 14 December 1948 · page 1

CHICAGO, Monday: An elderly man who leaped four floors to escape from a burning building yesterday suffered only fractured…

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Amazing Escape From Hotel Fire

Northern Star · Tuesday 14 December 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Monday (AAP).—An elderly man who leaped from four floors when a fire swept through the fifth floor of the…

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Booth Licenses for Ballina Races

Northern Star · Wednesday 15 December 1948 · page 7

BALLINA, Tuesday.—Mr. F. C. H. Tompson, S.M., in Ballina Licensing Court, granted liquor booth licenses to three Ballina hotel licensees for…

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Fight Near Hotel: Two Men Fined

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 December 1948 · page 3

Two men, arrested while fighting outside a Bridge Street hotel on Saturday afternoon, were each fined £2 by Mr. F. C. H. Tompson, S.M.,…

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Problems of U.K. Hotel Manager

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 28 December 1948 · page 6

Mr Wilshaw, a British hotel manager, recently told of the difficulties of public catering. He told how he lay in bed at night…

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Rush Drinking at Many Seaside Hotels

Tweed Daily · Tuesday 28 December 1948 · page 2

Combination of holiday. crowds and the beer shortage has reproduced rush drinking, during sessions at many New South Wales North Coast and Queensland South Coast seaside resort hotels…

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