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

Hotels & licensing, 1947

285 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 5 of 15

Hotel Thief Gaoled

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Described by the police as a notorious hotel thief, Charles Winters (57), engineer, was sentenced to a year's gaol Central…

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Hotel Guests Annoyed Canberra, Tuesday

National Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 2

Guests of the government owned Acton Hotel are up in arms against the management. A meeting of the House committee will demand…

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No Mark Bathurst Hotelkeeper Fined for Sunday Trading

National Advocate · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 1

Henry John Merton. licensee of Hie Victoria Hotel was yesterday churned at Bathurst: Court with allowing persons on licensed premises during…

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Publican's Turn to Complain

National Advocate · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 2

The NRMA, which has been complaining for years of the ill-treatment of the travelling public by indifferent hotel licensees, now report two…

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Guest Houses and Hotels Government Improvement Plan

National Advocate · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: A special drive to improve the standard of hotel and guest house accommodation throughout New South Wales will be…

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Tourist Minister to Start Blitz on Hotels, Guest Houses

Central Western Daily · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday-A special drive to improve standards of hotel and guest accommodation throughout N.S.W. would be undertaken immediately, the Minister…

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Brewery Control Over Hotels Govt. to Review Position

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: The "tied house" system, wider which breweries control the majority of hotels in N.S.W., would be examined, if recent…

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Granted Booth License for Showground

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 1

Booth because for the Orange Show for the three days was granted to Janes L. Nash at the Licensing Court…

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Melbourne Cup in Royal Hotel

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 1

For the first time in history a Melbourne Cop was displayed in Orange, and yesterday afternoon those…

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Mark to Stand Former Bathurst Hotelkeeper's Appeal Fails

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 1

An appeal by Selby Harry Lewis at Bathurst Quarter Sessions yesterday against a mark impose) on him for a breach of the Liquor Act, was…

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Drive for Better Hotel Accommodation

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 25 April 1947 · page 4

The State Minister for Tourist Activities and Immigration (Mr. Clive Evaft), last Sunday announced that he proposed legislation for…

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Hotel "Barber's" Haul Sydney

National Advocate · Saturday 26 April 1947 · page 1

During a few moments absence of a man from his hotel room in William street. Sydney, early today, a sneak-thief stole his trousers,…

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Hotel Trading Law Not Compelled to Sell Liquor

National Advocate · Monday 28 April 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY. Sunday: The law did not compel hotels to open for the sale of liquor on any day, said the secretary of the U.L.V.A. (Mr. Connelly)…

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Hotel [?]

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 16

In the [?] court last Tuesday the collingwood Hotel, [?] was [?] from Mrs. [?] to Mr. Charles…

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Traffic Regulations At Variance, Says P.M.-- Will Cyclists Soon Be Licensed?

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 1 May 1947 · page 1

Commenting on printed traffic regulations governing the laws of the road, Mr. J. S. Hart, P.M., declared, in the police court on Tuesday that the handbook issued by the police was in direct contravention to the traffic regulations, in respect to…

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Social Function at Hotel

National Advocate · Friday 2 May 1947 · page 2

In the Licensing Court at Bathurst yesterday the licensee of the Victoria hotel, Mr. J. Merton, was granted permission for the holding of a social…

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Leeton May Have First Community Hotel. SYDNEY

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 5 May 1947 · page 1

The first community hotel to be erected by a shire council will probably be built at Leeton. The Leeton Shire Council has…

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Bicycle Riders Will They be Licensed?

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 5 May 1947 · page 6

During the hearing of a traffic case at the Lithgow Police Court last week Mr. Higgins (solicitor) and Sergeant Taylor declared that…

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Community Hotel Leeton Proposal

National Advocate · Monday 5 May 1947 · page 2

LEETON, Sunday: The Leeton Shire Council last night approved plans for the construction of a community hotel In Leeton…

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Transfer of Hotel License

National Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1947 · page 2

At the Bathurst Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. Dash, SM, granted an application for transfer of a publican's license from Henry John Merton,…

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