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

Hotels & licensing, 1944

124 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 7

Wheat Growers Licensed Receivers' Fees To the Editor

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 6 January 1944 · page 16

Sir,—For Some month's the Wheat Growers Union (of which Gulgong has an active branch) has been fighting a fight against the licensed…

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News in Brief S.P. in Hotels Convictions in Victoria

National Advocate · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Friday: Gaming convictions in Victoria last year totalled 2052. Of those convicted 90 per cent. were S.P. bookmakers, operating near…

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Meat Rations Hotels and Cafes SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 1

Under meat rationing, boarding houses, hotels and cafes will get the same cuts as the ordinary public…

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Glen Davis Hostel Has Hotel Amenities

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 2

The new hostel now in course of erection at Glen Davis, will prove a boon to the employees working in the valley, especially the men who…

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Gay Goings on Alleged Naked Soldiers and Girls in Hotel Charge Against Licensee

National Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Evidence was given by police officers at the licensing court today that when they visited the York Hotel, King Street, city,…

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"Black" Liquor Cootamundra Hotelkeeper Fined £20

National Advocate · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 3

COOTAMUNDRA, Tuesday: [?] having refused to answer questions for regarding the purchase of liquor, Richard Partick Boylan (43), licensee of he…

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Blackmarket Liquor Offence Hotelkeeper Withdraws Appeal

National Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Leo Bernard Cullen. licensee of the Criterion Hotel. Liverpool Street. Sydney, who is serving a gaol sentence for selling…

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Beer Thieves Active Dubbo Publican's Experience

National Advocate · Saturday 15 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.— When a Dubbo publican tapped a keg of beer water came through, but no beer. The beer had been sent by rail and carrier…

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Publicans As Bookies Comment by Asc Spokesman

National Advocate · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.— Any representations made by the Hotel Licensing Board that hotelkeepers should be refused bookmakers' licenses would be…

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Charge Against Licensee Magistrate Reserves Decision

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: After a hearing mending over several days, Mr. Scobie S.M., in the licensing court today reserved his decision in the case…

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Breaches of Liquor Act Woman Licensee Barred for Three Years

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Mr. Scoble, S.M., in the licensing court today disqualified Mrs. Edna Violet Reimer from holding a licence of any kind…

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Great Week-end Raid On Hotels And Cafes

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 2

Hot weather and the corresponding demand by Lithgow Residents for all cool beverages and ice-cream almost proved too much for Lithgow hotels and cafes over the week-end. On the demand list ice-cream had No. 1 priority. Many shops…

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Wheatgrowers’ Licenses

Leader · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 4

Applications for [?] on the [?] should [?] the [?] of the Wheat Industry [?]…

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Hunt for Beer Dry Time in City Some Hotels to Close Till

National Advocate · Tuesday 1 February 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Only a few hotels in the metropolitan area offered beer for sale today. Thirsty drinkers rushed from one…

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North Sydney Publican Gaoled Excess Charge for Wine

National Advocate · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.— At the Special Federal Court today an hotel manager was sent to gaol for nine months for having sold 480 bottles of Wine at…

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Legal Action Pending Closing of Hotel Bars

National Advocate · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday Prosecutions impending against at least 50 hotelkeepers who are alleged to have failed to Weep their premises open between 2…

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Ban on Former Licensees

National Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday The chairman of the Licence [?] to made [?] granting the [?] two hotel…

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Hotelkeeper's Conviction Quashed Charge of Receiving Stolen Tea Appellant Classed As Innocent Holder of Goods

National Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 2

The doctrine of recent possession was successfully raised at the Bathurst Quarter Sessions yesterday in the appeal lodged by Oliver Edgar…

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Hotelkeeper's Death Soldier for Trial

National Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Recently charged with murder, James Clifford Moore (24). soldier, was committed for trial for the manslaughter of Reginald…

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Decision in Hotel Case Woman Licensee Fined

National Advocate · Tuesday 8 February 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: In a declared decision [?]y Mr. Sca[?]ie S.M. in the licensing court convicted Mrs. Alexandrina Li[?]an lean McKinley…

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