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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1953

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Yamba's Luxury Hotel to Open

Northern Star · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 5

GRAFTON, Tuesday.—Rebuilt enlarged and refurnished at a cost of £100,000, the new Hotel Pacific at…

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Reversion to Former Radio Licensing System Not Warranted

Northern Star · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—Reversion to the former arrangement of requiring radio listeners to obtain separate licences for sets used, would not make up the deficiency caused by the reduction…

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Girl Under Age, In Bar; Licensee Fined

Northern Star · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 4

BALLINA, Monday.—A Ballina hotelkeeper was fined £1, with 12/- costs, in the Ballina Court of Petty…

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Coraki Hotel Licensee on Three Charges

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 2

CORAKI.—A licensee of a Coraki hotel appeared on three charges at the Coraki Court of Petty Sessions…

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Damages Clam Over Hotel Stables, Garages

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 5

A claim for £50 damages over the sub-letting of stables and garages at the rear of the Commercial Hotel, Woodlark Street, Lismore, was brought against the licensee, Thomas Toohey, in Lismore…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Northern Star · Wednesday 22 April 1953 · page 10

An application to transfer the licence of the Richmond Hotel, Woodlark Street, was by Mr. K. Anderson,…

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Hotel Licensee Charged Police Disguised As Workmen

Northern Star · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 6

When he came downstairs on the evening of November 8, 1952, he saw four men in the hallway of his hotel, two of whom were policemen disguised as workmen, Charles Arthur Broadbent, licensee of…

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Three Stabbed Italian Arrested After Hotel Brawl

Northern Star · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—in a hotel brawl at Fair Australian had accused treating a dog?…

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Hotel Trading Next Saturday Being Considered

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 May 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Whether hotels should be permitted to remain open in N.S.W. next Saturday,…

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S.M's. Ruling Fit Person to Seek Hotel Licence

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 May 1953 · page 4

GRAFTON, Monday.—A former Kyogle baker who was convicted of theft at Kyogle two years ago was held by…

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Hotels to Colose on

Northern Star · Tuesday 5 May 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—Hotels will be closed on Saturday—polling day for the Senate elections…

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Light Fines On Two Publicans For Liquor Breaches

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 8 May 1953 · page 1

Both Kyogle publicans, William E. Thompson and Leslie G. Scanlan, appeared at Kyogle Court of Petty Sessions this week to plead guilty to charges against them in…

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Publicans Fined at Ballina

Northern Star · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 4

BALLINA, Saturday.—For selling intoxicating liquor outside of the prescribed hours, Stanislaus Leslie…

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Works Planned By Lismore Hotels

Northern Star · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 7

Lismore City Councils gas, health, water and sewerage committee recommended approval of applications for improvements to two Lismore hotels…

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Lismore Publican Fined £10

Northern Star · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 6

Charles Arthur Broadbent, licensee of the Northern Rivers Hotel, Terania Street, North Lismore, was fined £10,…

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£11,500 to Be Spent on Hotels

Northern Star · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 4

The State Full Licensing Court, which met in in Lismore yesterday, approved applications for alterations and additions to three Lismore hotels amounting to £11,500. The applications were…

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Failed To Pay Publicans: Man Fined £15

Northern Star · Thursday 4 June 1953 · page 5

CASINO, Wednesday.—A North Queensland man who had refused to pay three Casino publicans for meals and…

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Hotel's "Dear Sir" to Woman Entertainer

Northern Star · Saturday 6 June 1953 · page 1

LAS VEGAS (Nevada), Friday (AAP). — The Hotel Sahara at Las Vegas announced today it was…

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Breach By Publican

Northern Star · Monday 8 June 1953 · page 7

BALLINA, Sunday. — At Ballina Court of Petty Sessions, Hilton William Delaney was charged with, being the…

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Thieves Left Hotel by Front Door

Northern Star · Monday 22 June 1953 · page 4

CORAKI, Sunday.—After taking £95 in notes and silver and a number, of cheques from the office of the Club Hotel late last night or early this morning thieves brazenly left by the main door…

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