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

Hotels & licensing, 1950

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Lithgow Car Tragedy Hotelkeeper Arrested

National Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 1

LITHGOW, Friday: The annual convention of the N.S.W. Agricultural Bureaux at Lithgow was abandoned today…

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London Hotel Theft Trail of Pearls

National Advocate · Saturday 28 January 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Friday: Jewellery and furs believed to be worth £20,000. were stolen from a suite at a London hotel on Wednesday night while the…

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George's Plains Hotel

National Advocate · Monday 6 February 1950 · page 2

At the Bathurst Licensing Court today an application will be made for the transfer of the licence of the George's Plains Hotel from Archibald…

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Georges Plains Hotel Transfer

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 2

At the Bathurst licensing Court yesterday, Mr. Dash, SM. granted an application by Archibald Bon tick, formerly of Walgett, for the transfer…

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A Plucky Publican Alice Springs

National Advocate · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 3

An Alice Springs publican. Mr. Underdown, fought a fire in the ceiling of the hotel office early this morning with his bare hands…

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Woman Hotel Licensee a Sympathetic Judge

National Advocate · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 4

GOULBURN, Wednesday: After saying that a woman applicant had turned a hotel from a bloodhouse into a first-class hotel" In the past 18…

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License Transfer

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 5

Messrs. Quirk and Davidson, solicitors, of Arthur Street, Wellington will be informed that Amaroo Shire Council raises no objection to the…

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Royal Hotel Cudal Is Sold

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1950 · page 7

Several local people purchased allotments in Cudal which were offered for sale at a public auction on Saturday last…

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Upheld Royal Hotel Appeal Defense Council Attacks Police Sergeant Case at Bathurst Quarter Sessions

National Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1950 · page 1

A CONVICTION against Ben Bernard for being the licenser of premises on which persons were found during prohibited hours…

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New Dog Licenses Deferred

National Advocate · Saturday 11 February 1950 · page 2

COONABARABRAN, Friday: The Chief Secretary has told the Coonabarabran sub-branch of the RSL that pending a review, additional…

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Important to Hotelkeepers

National Advocate · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 2

At the conclusion of a Bathurst court case yesterday, in which a former Bathurst publican was convicted of overcharging for beer and was fined £100,…

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Former Bathurst Hotelkeeper Heavily Fined

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 14 February 1950 · page 2

BATHURST, Monday.--The former licensee of the Royal Hotel, Bathurst, Ben Bernard, was fined £100 and ordered to pay £36 costs and…

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Orange Hotel Sold

National Advocate · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The well-known Orange hotel the Great Western was sold today for £24,000. subject to the vendors approval. The…

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Grazier Buys Orange Hotel

Central Western Daily · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mr. E. D. Forrest, a grazier, today purchased the well-known Orange hotel, the Great Western, for…

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Hotel’s Link with the West Sale Of The Great Western

Central Western Daily · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 2

The Great Western Hold, Orange, which has been purchased by Mr. E. D. Forrest, grazier, of Old Baddish Lake, Trangie, is linked with the development of Orange, and in fact, the whole of the West…

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Hotel Staffs Picnic

National Advocate · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 2

The kitchen and room service in many of the hotels of Bathurst will be curried on today by skeleton staffs. Many of the regular employees will…

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Licensing Application Adjourned

National Advocate · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 2

When an application for a spirit, merchant's license lodged by Gwendoline Dean, a storekeeper, of Denison Street, Sofala, came before the…

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Publican Fined But No Black Mark

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 1

Although a fine of £4 was imposed on Orange publican, Wilfred M. Houlshan, at Orange Court yesterday, the Magistrate, Mr. W. K. Smith, S.M. ordered that the conviction not be recorded…

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Inquiry Into Hotel Phone Charges Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 1

Charge of 4d by some leading Sydney hotels for local telephone calls will be investigated by the PMG's Department…

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Orange Hotel Has Long History

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 2

The Great Western Hotel, Orange, which has been purchased by. Mr. E. D. Forrest, grazier, of Old Buddah Lake, Trangie,…

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