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

Hotels & licensing, 1927

266 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 14

Country Hotels. Campaign by the N.r.m.a

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 3

"The Royal Automobile Club of Australia intends to carry out a campaign against country hotels which do not provide proper accommodation, being…

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Boxers As Hotelkeepers

Leader · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 2

Like policemen, the height of a boxer’s ambition is to become proprietor of a public house when his boxing days are over. Look at the list of…

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Sydney Man’s Skull Fractured. Non-Licensed Boy Motorist Arrested. SYDNEY

Leader · Monday 30 May 1927 · page 6

While James Rickard, [?] brother of Sir Arthur Rickard, was crossing the road at Darlinghurst, we was struck by a motor car and seriously injured…

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Radio Notes. Licensed Listeners

Leader · Wednesday 1 June 1927 · page 1

[?] of the Royal Commission [?] have [?] considerable [?] the Sydney [?]tings of [?] trying to discover…

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Fine Country Hotel

Leader · Friday 3 June 1927 · page 7

At Queanbeyan, which la Just outside the dry area at Canberra, one of the finest hotels In the State, has Just been completed at a cost of £18,000…

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Lithgow Police Court. Wednesday, June 8. (Before R. Donaldson, J.p.) Stripped to Waist. Fight in Zigzag Hotel

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 1

Answering separate charges of using indecent language, and of behaving in a riotous manner in the Zigzag Hotel on June 7, Herbert Alex Robson…

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Closing of Hotels on Anzac Day. Proclamation Declared Invalid

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 11 June 1927 · page 15

The Full Court has decided that the proclamation issued by the Governor in-Council, ordering that hotels should remain closed from 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m…

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Pushed O[?] of Hotel

National Advocate · Tuesday 14 June 1927 · page 2

At the Bathurst Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Scobie, S.M., a charge of having used indecent language in William Street on the 6th…

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No Mark Recorded. Standard Hotel Care

Leader · Wednesday 15 June 1927 · page 4

Three [?] who were found on the premises [?] the Standard Hotel, on the night of Anzac Day (April 25). were fixed 10/. with coats, by…

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Commission or Gift? Sale of Hotel Orange. Interesting Court Case

Leader · Wednesday 15 June 1927 · page 4

An unusual claim came before the Orange Small Debts Court, on Monday (Mr. Reed, P.M., adjudicating), when William J. H. Thompson claimed…

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Royal Hotel New Licensee

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 16 June 1927 · page 4

Mr. H. Linton has taken over the Royal Hotel from Mr. W. E. Atkins, and entered into possession last week. Mr and Mrs. Linton…

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Remarkable Escape Struck by Falling Bucket Accident at Royal Hotel

National Advocate · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 3

To have a bucket of cement fall on you from a height of 30 feet, strike you in the region of the neck and knock you down, and then to be able…

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Georges Plains Hotel

National Advocate · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 2

Jack Stokes, late of the Farmers' Arms Hotel, Vale Road, is in harness again. Jack has now settled down in the George's Plains Hotel, where he…

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McGIRR. POLITICIAN. Is Merged Into Hotelkeeper. COOTAMUNDRA,This Afternoon

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 17 June 1927 · page 1

Mr. Greg. McGirr has intimated that he has not the slightest intention of contesting the seat at the forthcoming elections. He says that his hotel…

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Licensing Court

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Saturday 18 June 1927 · page 14

Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., presided at the annual sittings of the Licensing Court held at Molong on Thursday morning. The…

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Cosmopolitan Hotel

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 2

All application for the transfer of the license of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Bathurst, from Benjamin B. Howe, to Henry Hilton Laskell, was mentioned…

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General News Licenses Granted

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 2

The following licenses were grant-at the Bathurst Police Court yesterday, by Mr. Scobie, L.M.: Robert Gumbleton (hawkers): William Ovens…

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Telegrams. Closing Hotels on Anzac Day. An Agreement Reached. SYDNEY

Leader · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 1

Arising out of a decision of the Slate Pull Court, declaring Invalid a proclamation fur the partial closing of hotels on[?] Anzae Day, the following…

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Agreement to Close. Hotels on Anzac Day. SYDNEY

Leader · Monday 27 June 1927 · page 6

Arising out of a decision of the State Full Court, declaring invalid a proclamation for the partial closing of hotels on An[?]ac Day. the following…

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Hotelkeepers Fined Three Cases at Police Court Licensees' Difficulties

National Advocate · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 1

Three Bathurst hotelkeepers were fined by Mr. Scoble, S.M., at the Police Court yesterday for breaches of the Liquor Act. and men found on the…

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