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

Hotels & licensing, 1946

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Easy Money. Bathurst Hotels Reap Harvest

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 13

Bathurst publicans are getting a lot of easy money from the Dutch authorities handling the accommodation of expected…

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Bathurst Hotel Deal Off

National Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1946 · page 2

Decision not to purchase the Club House Hotel, Bathurst, was made yesterday by an interested Sydney party. During the past week rumors were…

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Hotel Room Fire Publican's Lucky Escape SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 1

Clement McDonaugh, hotel licensee, saved his life today by smashing a window in house at Kensington when his bedding caught fire…

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Hotelkeepers’ Dance for Memorial Funds

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 6 February 1946 · page 2

The hotel keepers of Orange are getting behind the Orange and District Memorial Building Fund’s effort for the speedy…

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Orange Publicans Attacked for “Lack of Duty.”

Central Western Daily · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 1

A protest against the accommodation provided to travellers was expressed by Mr. Frank Thurn at the…

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"Unewsual" Pars From Here There and Everywhere License

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 4

In Franklin County, Ohio, 1945's divorce suits outnumbered marriage licenses by a solid 253. PLEASE EXPLAIN…

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Thieves Decamp with £260 (In Hotel Safe) Sydney

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 4

Wearing a black mask, an armed man early today held up and assaulted the porter at the Mansions Hotel in the city, and…

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GIRL [?] BOND Theft From Hotel SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 1

The girl who stole £1700 from the safe at the Hotel Carlton, Sydney, where she had been employed, was placed on bond of £250 to be of good…

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Pinned in Lift Well Hotel Accident

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Monday: Police and ambulance men had to batter their way through the wall of a lift well at Westminster Hotel today to rescue James…

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Hotel Room Brawl Man on Murder Charge SYDNEY

National Advocate · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 3

Sequel to an alleged drawl in the Pyrmont Hotel last January 30, after which William Emelyn (Taffy") Jones died in hospital, was the…

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Want Community Hotels

National Advocate · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Five hundred residents of Aub[?] are supporting the proposal that commits hotels be established in every municipality and…

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Control of Hotels Councils Seek Powers

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 10

The Coolah Council has decided to support the Balmain Municipal Council in its endeavor to have premises licensed under the Liquor…

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Hotel Control Complaint by Balmain Council

National Advocate · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 4

In a letter to Bathurst Council last night. Balmain Council stated that at its recent meeting scathing reference was made to the apparent inability of…

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Country Hews Review: Water Wasted in Lachlan Valley — The Govt Wakes Up — Hotel Robberies — Cowra Band Conscious

Central Western Daily · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 3

Wyangala Dam is not hacking up sufficient water, Mr. J. P. Breen recently, and a supplementary dam would have to be constructed it it were to meet the demands of Soldier Settlement requirements…

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Liquor Act Breaches Council Control of Hotels Urged

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 5

"We will have to send the Clerk round to have a look at the hotels," remarked Cr. Sherringham facetiously at the February…

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Hotel Theft at Orange

National Advocate · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 2

ORANGE, Monday: Thieves who broke into the Occidental Hotel. Lords Place, on Sunday morning, stole £18. Entrance was gained by a trace…

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Through Hotel Trapdoor to Tickle Bar Till

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 26 February 1946 · page 1

The Occidental Hotel, at the corner of Lord’s Place and Kite Street, was broken into by thieves in the early hours of Sunday morning, and £18 stolen from the bar…

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Horseplay in Hotel Young Man Fined

National Advocate · Wednesday 27 February 1946 · page 1

WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday: Carl Agustus Van Haren (22), who allegedly rode a horse into the public foyer of the Grand Central Hotel on…

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Gulgong District News Sale of Post Office Hotel Popular Residents Leave for Sydney

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 16

The well-known Post Office Hotel in Gulgong has changed hands, after being conducted by the firm of Wilde and May…

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Disturbance at Hotel

National Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1946 · page 2

Two soldiers were arrested as the result of disturbance at the Edinboro Castle Hotel, Bathurst, about closing time last night. It was alleged that…

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