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

Hotels & licensing, 1950

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Hotelkeeper's Wife Wanted to [?] Purchase Hotel

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 21

An application by Mrs. Daphne Crittenden, wife of the licensee of the Goolma Hotel, for the transfer of the licence of the Grand Hotel,…

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Popular Bathurst Hotel to Be Sold at Auction

Central Western Daily · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 1

One of the best-known hotels in Bathurst—the Hotel Knicker[?]ocker—is be sold by public auction on Friday, March 10, at 11 a.m. The licence [?]…

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Telegraph Hotel Changes Hands

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 6

Mr. Tommy Burke, former licensee of the Tivoli Hotel on the corner of Castlereagh and Hay Streets, Sydney, has purchased…

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Prize Money for Sports Bathurst Hotelkeepers' Gesture

National Advocate · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 5

Bathurst hotelkeepers at the meeting last night undertook to provide the £75 prize money for the gymkhana, which is being…

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Hotel Changes Hands Deal At Molong (From Our Correspondent)

Central Western Daily · Saturday 25 February 1950 · page 1

MOLONG.—Mr. Tommy Barke, former licensee of the Tivoli Hotel on the corner of Castlereagh and Hay Streets, Sydney…

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Police Give Hotelkeeper Good Reference

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 1 March 1950 · page 2

Fading memories of last year's police raid on the Grand. Central Hotel were revived to-day when the case took a…

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Lithgow Car Fatality Publican Committed

National Advocate · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 6

LITHOOW, Thursday: At Lithyow coroner's court today. Carl Hansen (48), licenser of the Royal Hotel. South Bowenfels, was committed for…

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Bowenfels Hotelkeeper Committed On Manslaughter Charge

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 4

In the Coroner's Court yesterday afternoon witnesses said the driver of a car which crashed into an elderly couple in Main-street West on January 26 narrowly avoided a head-on collision with a lorry, raced down Main-street on…

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Publican on Trial for Manslaughter

Central Western Daily · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 1

LITHGOW, Thursday.—Carpenter John Crane told the District Coroner’s Court today that he saw a car travel in the…

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Takana Hotel Transfer

National Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 2

At the Bathurst Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. Dash, S.M., granted an application by Torrington Richard Edwards, for the transfer of the licence…

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Licences of Two Hotels Transferred

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 2

At the Change Licensing Court on Monday, the Magistrate, Mr. H. G. Cobley, granted transfers of…

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Hotel Changes Hands After Thirty Years

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 2

Tattersall’s Hotel Summer Street, which ha changes hands is one of the oldest and best-known hotels in the central West. It is the first time it has…

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Big Price Refused for Hotel

National Advocate · Thursday 9 March 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: carmody's palatial hotel at Wagga, which was bull in 1939, was passed in for private treaty at an auction sale conducted in…

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Victoria Hotel Licence

Central Western Daily · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 1

In Orange Licensing Court yesterday the license of the Victoria Hotel, Summer Street, was transferred from the Executors…

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High Price For Hotel At Bathurst

Central Western Daily · Saturday 11 March 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Hotel Knickerbockers, corner of William and Russell Streets, Bathurst, was sold…

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Grenade Thrown in Hotel

Central Western Daily · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 3

SINGAPORE, Sunday (A.A.P.-Reuter).— A hand grenade was tossed by someone on the pavement into the the main dining room…

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Offer For Hotel Refused

Central Western Daily · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 2

A maximum bid of £51,000 for the Hotel Knickerbocker at Bathurst was rejected by its owner,…

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On Licensed Premises

National Advocate · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 2

Paul Murphy, of Wiseman's Creek, pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found on licensed premises on Sunday, January 22, and was fined £2…

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Better Hotel Service Sydney

National Advocate · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 2

The State Attorney General (Mr. Martin) told parliament today that he thought the Licenced Victuallers. Association should induce hotelkeepers…

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Early Morning Arrests In Hotel Showroom

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 16 March 1950 · page 2

Arrested in the storeroom of the Lansdowne Hotel at two o'clock this morning, two local men were taken to the police station and charged with being on the hotel premises with intent to steal…

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