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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 3 of 7

Fire at Old Royal Hotel

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 6

On Sunday morning at about 8 p.m. an alarm was given by Mr. Tom Staines that smoke was coming from the cellar of the old Royal Hotel. The Brigade…

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Money Stolen From Hotel Room Man Gaoled for Six Months Case at Bathurst Court

National Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1944 · page 1

A sentence of six months' hard was imposed on Leslie Charles Nunn (26). a laborer, at the Bathurst court yesterday on a charge of stealing £10…

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Warning to Publicans

National Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1944 · page 2

In the Licensing Court at Bathurst yesterday Mr. Measlier, S.M., directed the police to take the necessary action to ensure that publicans…

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Must Keep Hotel Bars Open Important Court Ruling

National Advocate · Friday 21 April 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.— With only Mr. Justice Starke dissenting, the Full High Court of Australia today held that regulations requiring hotel…

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Hotel Bars Trading Hours aw Upheld

National Advocate · Friday 21 April 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: In future hotels in NSW must keep all bars open from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. This decision was upheld in the High Court today by a…

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Appeal Succeeds Hotel Cleared of Prostitution Charge

National Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: Judge Clancy to-day upheld the appeal of Alexandrina Lillia Warford, licenser of the York Hotel, City, against a conviction on a…

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Failed to Keep Bars Open Action Against Hotelkeepers

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: The Justice Minister (Mr. Dawning) announced today that prosecutions ponding against hotelkeepers for not keeping…

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Traffic Offences Dubbo Publican Allowed Bond Defendant Takes Pledge in Court

National Advocate · Saturday 29 April 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: At North Sydney police court today, Frank Hilton Watson (48), licensee of the Club House Hotel. Dubbo, was placed on…

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Booth License

National Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1944 · page 2

Leslie Joseph Long was granted a licence in the Licensing Court at Bathurst yesterday for a booth at the gymshatta to be held near Bathurst…

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Police Objection Fails Hotel License Renewed

National Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Holding that it was in the interests of the public that hotelkeepers should regulate the disposal of their beer supplies. Mr…

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Popular Hotelkeeper Passes. The Late Mr. T. Sloane, of Orange

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1944 · page 6

The death of Mr. Thomas Sloane, Tattersall's Hotel proprietor, last week-end removes from our midst one of the most popular hotelkeepers…

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Latest Local News Paragon Hotel

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 22 May 1944 · page 3

The management of the old-established Paragon Hotel announces that there is once more ample accommodation for boarders and…

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Community Hotel Provide Comforts and Make Huge Profits

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 22 May 1944 · page 2

Leeton is preparing a mammoth petition, seeking an amendment of the Liquor Act, so that its citizens can establish a community hotel…

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Hotel Licence Transfer Adverse Report by Gilgandra Police Application Before Bathurst Court

National Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1944 · page 1

Reference to an adverse report about the conduct of an hotel at Gilgandra was made in a Licensing Court application at Bathurst…

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Hotel Profits Review by Prices Branch

National Advocate · Saturday 27 May 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday: Professor Copland today emphasised that hotelkeepers would not be allowed to make additional profits by selling a greater…

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Community Hotels: Leeton to Press Claims

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 31 May 1944 · page 4

LEETON is preparing a mammoth petition, seeking an amendment of the Liquor Act, so that its citizens can establish a community…

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Gaol Sentence for Publican

National Advocate · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: For having sold a bottle of Australian brandy above the fixed price, William Harold Manning, a publican, was sentenced…

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Hotel Keepers Warned

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 2 June 1944 · page 5

Mr. G. W. Brown, P.M., fined John Haddy, of the Royal Hotel, Forbes, £2. In not recording the conviction the P.M. warned…

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Claim by Hotelkeeper Court Action Against Mr. Falstein

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 June 1944 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: Action has been taken by Pierce Gavin Beary, licensee of the Club Hotel, Eairnsdale, for the recovery of £19 19 from…

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Ulan Hotel to be Reopened on July 1

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 16

The hotel at Ulan (15 miles from Gulgong and 25 miles from Mudgee) is to be re-opened on July 1…

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