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Hotels & licensing, 1949

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Liquor Licenses Cost £9.051 in 1948

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 7 January 1949 · page 1

Licenses issued under the Liquor Act cost publicans wine saloon proprietors, guest and road house proprietors in…

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Magistrate Cancels Two Licenses; Drunken Driving & Speeding

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1949 · page 3

Drunken drivers and drivers who flouted speed limits were a menace to themselves and every other user of the highways and did not deserve a license, said Mr A. E. Stonham, SM, at Gosford Court of Petty Sessions, Thursday last. Carrington Dolphus Brooker, 32,…

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Chamber Of Commerce To Discuss Prospects Of Community Hotel For Gosford

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 1

A general meeting of the Gosford District Chamber of Commerce in the Masonic Hall tonight will discuss the prospects of establishing a community hotel at Gosford in view of the chaotic drinking and accommodation position here. The hundreds of thousands of…

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Procedure To Establish Hotel

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 1

The procedure necessary to establish a community hotel, which would be the profit-earning factor of a…

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Establishment Of Gosford Community Hotel First Step To Community Centre Meeting Asks Shire Council To Convene Conference Here 40 Businessmen Endorse Proposal At Chamber Of Commerce Meeting

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 1

The Gosford District Chamber of Commerce is to ask Gosford Shire Council to convene a conference of representatives of local organisations to discuss the possibility of establishing a community…

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Editorial How Councillors Sabotaged The Community Hotel Must Not Happen Again: Facts Revealed

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 1

A former Gosford Shire Councillor, who is the licensee of the Ettalong Hotel at Woy Woy (Cr C. Barrett), a fellow…

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This Is What Mr Windeyer, KC, Told A Gosford Audience In 1945 About Community Hotels (Reprinted from the Gosford Times, September 18, 1945)

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1949 · page 4

Speaking at Gosford on Friday night, Mr R. Windeyer, KC, said hotel bars were merely pipes which enabled breweries to pour alcohol down the throats of the population. If the people realised the price they were paying to put profits into the pockets of the breweries, public opinion would be so thoroughly aroused that we might get something that would alter the lives of the whole of the people…

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Inadequate Hotel Facilities Are Criticised Tasmanian Project

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 6

Restrictive liquor laws were driving hotel tourists from New South Wales to Tasmania, Mr J. V. Roberts said yesterday. Mr. Roberts is secretary and…

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Hotel Worker Has Fingers Crushed

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 1

A Union Hotel employee, Jack Cafe, of Mann Street, Gosford, had three fingers of his left hand crushed when his hand was…

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Community Centres And Hotels Speakers Invited Here

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 22 February 1949 · page 6

Mr R. Windeyer, KC, and Dr Lloyd Ross are to be invited to speak at a meeting of the Combined Progress Associations of Gosford Shire on the subject of community centres and community hotels…

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Former TIMES Editor Supports Community Hotel Project

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 25 February 1949 · page 4

Mr Alfred Higgs, former editor-proprietor of the GOSFORD TIMES, writing from Caulfield (Victoria), sent to the paper this week a clipping with the following comment:…

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Community Hotel

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 6

I see by your valuable columns that the sadly-peeded improvement of liquor drinking…

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Late News Former Hotel Chef Died

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 1

A former Gosford Hotel chef. Mr Julian Casas, of Mann Street, Gosford. died at his home on Friday night at the age of 79 years…

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Community Centre And Hotel Meeting Thursday Week

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1949 · page 1

A public meeting will be held at the Gosford Shire Council Chambers at 8 o'clock on Thursday (April 21) 'to discuss the question of providho a community centre, including a community hotel, at…

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Shire Council Is Asked To Consider Local Community Projects Centre & Hotel Voting 100 To 6 At Big Public Meeting

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 27 April 1949 · page 3

"That the Gosford Shire Council be requested to investigate the possibility of establishing (a) a community centre, and (b) methods of financing same with or without a community hotel"…

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Coughs Cost Man His License & Fine

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 1

A fit of coughing cost Rollo W. Barber, of Railway Street. Point Clare, a £10 fine, his driving license and 13/- court…

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Shire President Is Against Community Hotel Proposal

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 20 May 1949 · page 1

Speaking at the Terrigal Progress Association meeting last Monday might, Shire President W. B. Grahame said he was not in…

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Stormy Council Meeting Yesterday; Serious Allegations Made By Councillors Community Centre Project Debated Woy Woy Beer "Dearest In NSW"—Cr Lloyd Says In Tilt At Local Hotel

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1949 · page 1

Attacks were launched against President W. B. Grahame and officers by Cr George Downes and Cr W. J. A. Dennett at yesterday's meeting of Gosford Shire Council…

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Hotel For Terrigal?

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 1

Cecil William Carmody, licensee of the Humula Hotel, Humula, will apply to the Holbrook Licensing Court on…

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RSL Sub-District Council Applies For Horse Race License At Gosford A & C Association Will Apply For Dog Race License Only Amended Legislation Will Not Permit One Body To Hold More Than One License

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Friday 9 September 1949 · page 1

The Brisbane Water Sub-district Council of the RSS&AILA has applied under the provisions of the amended Gaming and Betting Act for a license to conduct horse racing at Gosford after January 1…

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