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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1952

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106 Hotels Off Nrma Register Standard Criticised

Northern Star · Wednesday 14 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Because their standard had deteriorated, the N.R.M.A. had deregistered 106 N.S.W. hotels, a country inspector of the N.R.M.A. told Liquor Commissioner, Mr…

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Teachers' Complaints Over Country Hotels

Northern Star · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—In the Royal Commission today a Teachers' Federation official submitted a document containing, evidence of complaints by school teachers of treatment they had received at some country hotels…

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Luxury Hotel to Close or Reduce Rates?

Northern Star · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 4

BRISBANE, Wednesday. —Royal Haymen Hotel, on the Barrier Reef, may have to close, or reduce the…

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Bride Criticises Hotel Standard

Northern Star · Friday 16 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday. — The Liquor Royal Commission was told today that a yourrg bride's wedding night had been spoilt by the accommodation in a leading Sydney…

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Trouble For Landholders Without Pumping Licenses

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 20 May 1952 · page 1

Persons who had failed to apply for licences and who were pumping from local water courses might find themselves in trouble fairly shortly, said Mr. Noel Smith, Water…

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Publican Admits Takings "Pocketed" to Evade Tax Deliberate Fraud, Says Judge

Northern Star · Tuesday 20 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday. — A Sydney publican admitted to the Liquor Royal Commissioner, Mr. Justice Maxwell, today he had been taking large sums from the profits of two hotels and pocketing them to defraud the Taxation Commissioner…

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Praise for Lismore Publicans Judge May See Hotels

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Lismore witnesses before the Liquor Royal Commission today were a credit to the hotel industry, Royal Commissioner, Mr. Justice Maxwell, said…

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Lismore Publican Says:hotel House Trade Profitable Only If Fully Occupied

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—John Gordon Hicks, licensee of the Civic Hotel, Lismore, told the Liquor Royal Commission today it was essential to have every room at the hotel occupied to make a profit from the house side of the business…

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Hotel Black Ban Investigation

Northern Star · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Crown Solicitor, Mr. McCrae, has asked police to investigate the black ban…

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Publican 'Not Indebt Ted to Ex-inspector' Evidence on £1,000 Present

Northern Star · Friday 23 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday. — A City publican today told the Liquor Royal Commissioner, Mr. Justice Maxwell, he had never felt indebted to, or under any obligation to, former Metropolitan Licensing Inspector Francis Thomas Nunan…

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Publican Denies Approach to Chifley Over Police Sergeant

Northern Star · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A Bathurst publican today denied he had threatened to approach the late Prime Minister, Mr. Chifley, and Mr. C. A. Kelly, M.L.A., in an endeavour to prevent a police sergeant from "disrupting" his business…

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Licensee Cleared of Dishonesty

Northern Star · Saturday 31 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Friday. — Mr. Doyle Mallett had been cleared of any dishonest practice in the purchase of…

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Spectacular Blaze Guts Lismore Shop, But Hotel Seved

Northern Star · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 4

Firemen yesterday saved the Commercial Hotel from destruction by a fire which gutted an adjoining weatherboard shop in Woodlark Street, Lismore…

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Liquor Inquiry Publican Threw Hats in Street, Traveller Says

Northern Star · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Frederick B. Pren[?]ergast, a commercial traveller, told the liquor Royal Commission today that the proprietor of the Oriental Hotel, Springwood, had assaulted…

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Permission to Improve Hotel

Northern Star · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 4

CASINO, Thursday. — Permission was granted for improvements and alterations to the value of £400 for a Coraki…

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Publicans Reply to Complaints

Northern Star · Thursday 12 June 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Forty-two letters replying to alleged complaints about country hotels were…

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Brewery Manager... Thought Hotels Under "Good Control" Sly Grog Trading Surprise

Northern Star · Wednesday 18 June 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The general manager of Tooth and Co. Ltd., Mr. Tom Watson, told the Liquor Royal Commission today that he had not believed hotelkeepers had been trading in sly grog because "I considered we had them under pretty good control."…

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Publicans Selling Beer to Nightclubs Not 'Traced'

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 June 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Liquor Royal Commissioner, Mr. Justice Maxwell, said today he was inclined to think that more hotelkeepers had sold bottled beer to nightclubs than those…

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Toohey's Manager Names Top Hotels

Northern Star · Friday 27 June 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Toohey's Brewery considered several country hotels to be "first-class", the company's General Manager, Mr. Eric Leslie Callaway, told the Liquor Royal Commission today. Included in the "first-class" list were the Canobolas (Orange),…

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Jamaican Atheletes Walk Out of Hotel

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 July 1952 · page 8

LONDON, Monday (AAP).—The crack Jamaican athletic team, which is on tour with the Australian Olympic team, walked out of their hotel following a booking mix-up, at…

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