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Northern Rivers · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1953

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Investigators to Be Licensed

Northern Star · Wednesday 24 June 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Private investigators will have to be licensed to carry on their work under proposed…

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Publicans Appeal Dismissed

Northern Star · Thursday 25 June 1953 · page 10

Judge Storkey, V.C., in Lismore Quarter Sessions, dismissed an appeal by William John Laurie, hotelkeeper, of…

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Longer Hotel Hours As Road Safety Move

Northern Star · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 5

MURWILLUMBAH, Tuesday.—Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Road Safety Council branch wants hotels to be…

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Casino Publican Fined £7

Northern Star · Thursday 9 July 1953 · page 3

CASINO, Wednesday.— Matthew P. Dougherty, lieensee of the Charcoal, Inn, South Casino, was fined £7…

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Belongings Lost In Hotel Fire

Northern Star · Friday 17 July 1953 · page 4

Two men lost all their belongings in a fire which caused £500 damage to staff quarters at the rear of the Commercial Hotel, Lismore, yesterday…

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W.c.t.u. Opposes Longer Hotel Hours Proposal

Northern Star · Tuesday 21 July 1953 · page 6

A Eureka member of the Lismore branch of the Women's Temperance Union drew the attention of the meeting to a…

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Well Known Motor Business Changes Hands Casino Publicans Purchase Mackrell's

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 31 July 1953 · page 1

Negotiations were completed this week for the transfer of the business of G. S. Mackrell, well known Kyogle motor traders, to Messrs. E. P. Kearney and J. Dougherty, of…

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Road Safety Council No Decision On Extended Hotel Hours Motion

Northern Star · Saturday 1 August 1953 · page 7

Lismore Road Safety Council on Thursday night made no decision on a motion urging that the hours for hotels be extended compulsorily to 10.30 p.m…

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Rest Homes to Be Licensed

Northern Star · Wednesday 5 August 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A Bill to licence all "rest homes" in N.S.W. was approved at to-day's State Cabinet meeting…

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£50,000 Deal Second Sale Of Hotel In Four Months

Northern Star · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 4

The Richmond Hotel, in Woodlark Street, Lismore, has been sold for the second time within…

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£50,000 for Lismore Hotel

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 1

Kyogle publican, Mr. Bill Thompson, of the Exchange Hotel, has purchased the Richmond Hotel in…

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Linesmen Fight Hotel Fire

Northern Star · Monday 17 August 1953 · page 4

Two Lismore Rugby League linesmen were called to fight a fire in a chimney at the Ryan Hotel, Lismore,…

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WCTU Moves Against Late Hotel Closing

Northern Star · Tuesday 18 August 1953 · page 8

Lismore branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union has asked Lismore Road Safety Council to oppose…

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Hotel Fight Sequel; 3 Men Fined

Northern Star · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 7

BALLINA, Wednesday. —At Ballina Court of Petty Sessions fines amounting to £12/10/- were imposed by…

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Man's Body Found in Hotel Room

Northern Star · Saturday 19 September 1953 · page 5

The body of a man dressed in a railway uniform was found in a room at a Casino hotel yesterday afternoon…

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Hotel Change

Northern Star · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 4

Mr. J. R. Scarlett, S.M. in the Licensing Court yesterday granted an application for the transfer of the licence of the…

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Hotel Robbery Armed Bandits Take Safe, £300

Northern Star · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Armed and masked bandits got away with a safe containing £300 from the Gasometer Hotel in Smith Street, Collingwood, early today, after locking the manager and a…

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£1200 In Safe Stolen In Daring Hotel Robbery

Northern Star · Tuesday 29 September 1953 · page 1

One of the most daring robberies in the history of the Richmond district was perpetrated at Brunswick Heads when a safe containing cash and notes in the vicinity of £1200 and a large amount in cheques was removed from the Hotel Brunswick…

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Woman Dies in Bath at Hotel

Northern Star · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A man was burnt about the arms today when trying to rescue his mother who…

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Former Kyogle Publican Fined

Northern Star · Thursday 8 October 1953 · page 7

KYOGLE, Wednesday.—A former Kyogle publican, William Emery Thompson, was fined £2 when, through…

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