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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1920

232 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 2 of 12

Woman Shot Is She an Ex-bathurstian? Tragedy at Manly Hotel Assailant Commits Suicide

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

Mrs. May Wittner was shot by a man at the Steyne Hotel, Manly, yesterday. The assailant then committed suicide. A Mrs. May Wittner,…

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Two Shot. at Manly Hotel. Man Dead, Woman Wounded

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 14

Charles L. Minchin, aged about 40 years, was shot dead at the Hotel Steyne, Manly, shortly before to o'clock on Wednesday…

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Club House Hotel

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 14

Mr. R. J. Cohen, J.P., Deputy Chairman of the Mudgee Licensing Bench, yesterday granted a transfer of the license of the Club…

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The Park View Hotel

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 14

Mr. W. Moran, who has taken over from Mr. Horwood the license of the Park View Hotel, Church-street. Mudgee, is now in town,…

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Terrific Blizzard. Ice Bound New York. Seas Sweep Away Hotels. New York

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 2

A blizzard has worked terrible havoc here. Harbors have suffered severely and transport services are…

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Auction Sale at Sydney Hotel

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 2

Mr. S. Malone will hold a sale of stock in trade, furniture and effects etc., and Buick 6-cylinder motor car, at the Sydney Hotel,…

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Hartley Licensing Court. Monday, February 9. (Before Major H. E. S. Bracey, Chairman, and A. E, Roper, Member.)

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 9 February 1920 · page 2

W. H. Delaney, Club House Hotel, Lithgow, applied, to have the name of his lieensed premises altered to "The Hotel Lithgow," He also applied for permission to effect…

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"Men Solid." Railwaymen Reinforced. Publicans Also Firm

The Bathurst Times · Tuesday 10 February 1920 · page 2

Both sides in the beer strike, are still determined to hold out. The publicans who have risen the price to 6d per glass, declare that it will never…

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Beer Boycott Objection to 6d. Railwaymen in Protest Hotelkeepers Not Unanimous

National Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1920 · page 2

Yesterday effect, or at least partial effect, was given to the resolution carried by the Bathurst Licensed Victuallers' Association last week, and…

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[?] Other Beer Brown Men Still Firm Publicans Determined

The Bathurst Times · Wednesday 11 February 1920 · page 2

Beer remains "black" at the sixpenny houses which won't give the pint and the gili for that price. At all other hotels it is still brown in color…

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The Beer Boycott Pay Day Question. Proposed Picketing of Hotels

National Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1920 · page 2

The Bathurst Beer Boycott continues and despite the bravado cry of "business as usual," business at most of the Bathurst hotels…

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Back to Fourpence One Publican Beaten Both Sides Firm Licensed Victuallers Request

The Bathurst Times · Thursday 12 February 1920 · page 2

One publican has given in to the strikers. He has brought his beer down to 4d per glass all round. This [?]elkeeper depends…

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Local and General Licenses Granted

The Bathurst Times · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 2

Before Mr. Finecham S.M., at the Bathurst Police Court this morning, licences for Sunday trading were granted to Charles Combes and Albert J…

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The Case for the Hotel-keepers. Big Meeting Last Night

National Advocate · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 2

There was a big roll up of local hotelkeepers at a meeting held at [?]vis' Bros., rooms last night, when a plan of campaign was discussed. It…

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Higher Cost of Beer. Publicans' Unanimous Decision

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 4

At a meeting of the Lithgow publicans on Wednesday it was unanimously decided that beer be increased from 3d to 4d per glass or mug. The decision was arrived at owing…

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Booth License

The Bathurst Times · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 2

V. T. Hartland was granted a heath license at the Licensing Court this morning for the races to bo held On the Bathurst racecourse on the 21st and…

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Special Licensing Court

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 1

A special Licensing Court was held here on Saturday, February 7, presided over by Messrs. T. R. Mason, W. Luckie, and S. G. Ellis,…

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Mudgee Licensing Court

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 2

Sitting as a general Licensing Court at Mudgee on Friday, Mr. Hugh Malone granted an auctioneers' license to Michael Allan…

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Sale of Sydney Hotel

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon Mr. Steve Malone auctioned, on behalf of the executors of the late Mrs. C. Grady, a six-cylinder Buick motor car…

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Sale of Town Hall Hotel

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 2

Mr. W. H. Langbridge, who has been conducting the Town Hall Hotel for some years past, has, it is understood, sold the goodwill…

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