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

Hotels & licensing, 1951

194 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 2 of 10

Hotel Orange Was Once the ‘Steam Engine’

Central Western Daily · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 4

The Steam Engine Hotel was on the corner of Sale and Summer Streets, Orange, Anne Martin held the licence in 1878, and Mrs…

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National Hotel

Central Western Daily · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 4

This hotel stood at Five Ways, East Orange, on the site now occupied by a garage. James Russell was the licensee…

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Tragedy Hit One of the Earliest Hotels

Central Western Daily · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 4

One of Orange’s earliest hotels had some sad associations. These included the case of a constable who accidentally shot himself near the hotel and the death of a licensee on a New Year’s Day…

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Bedroom Fire Suffocated The Publican’s Daughter

Central Western Daily · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 3

Nearly 50 years ago, one, very cold winter’s night, the daughter of the licensee of the Locomotive Hotel…

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Orange’s First Hotel Was “Coach And Horses”

Central Western Daily · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 3

The first hotel in Orange was the “Coach and Horses.” It was built in the early 1840’s on the present site, of or in the vicinity of where the Victoria Hotel now stands in summer Street on the eastern side of the railway level crossing. As early as 1849 reference has…

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Canobolas Replaced Hotel of the 1870’S

Central Western Daily · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 2

The Hotel Canobolas, know far and wide as a platial mecca for tourists and other visitors to Orange stands on the site of the formed Club House Hotel to which early records make reference as far back as the 1870’s. Situated on the corner of…

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Station Hotel Now a Residential

Central Western Daily · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 2

The building, now a residential, stands in Paisley Street opposite the southern end of the “railway station…

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Hotel Building Orders Police Department Letter

National Advocate · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 4

A letter from the Police licensing inspector's office received by the Bathurst Chamber of Commerce last night, stated: "I have to acknowledge…

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Bathurst and District Hotels Many Below Standard Strong Criticism by Licensing Magistrate Inspector Chisholm's Report

National Advocate · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 1

Seven of the 19 hotels in Bathurst could be classified as poor to very poor and three others in a yet lower category, the licensing magistrate (Mr. K. M. Dash, S.M.) said in the Bathurst Licensing Court yesterday…

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50 Hotels Bathurst in 1862 Old Residents Recalled An Interesting Review

National Advocate · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 1

GOLD mining was the major industry in Bathurst in 1862 and to quench the thirst aroused by this dusty undertaking, the…

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Unfavorable Report On Bathurst Hotels

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 2

Seven of the 19 hotels in Bathurst could be classified as poor to very poor, and three others in a yet lower category, the Licensing Magistrate, Mr. K. M. Dash, S.M., said in Bathurst Licensing Court on Friday…

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Permission Is Awaited to Rejuvenate Exchange Hotel

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 2

Although permission is not yet . to hand for the extensive alterations to the Exchange Hotel, the licensee, Mr. Leonard R. Nash, said this morning he expected, work would commence as soon as the application was granted…

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Bathurst Hotels Not So Good

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 4

Seven of the 19 hotels in Bathurst could be classified as poor to very poor and three others in a yet lower category, the licensing magistrate…

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Hotel Transfers

National Advocate · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 2

Matters to come before the Bathurst Licensing Court on Monday Include applications for the transfer of the licence of the Victoria Hotel,…

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Dispute Over Mortgage Hotel "Tie" Case

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Action to establish that it hotel was no longer "tied" to a brewery was taken in the equity Court today…

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Hotel Transfers Adjourned

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 2

An application by John Barnett Wade for the transfer of the licence of the Victoria Hotel. Bathurst, from Bruce E. D. Robertson was adjourned…

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Police Inspection of Hotels

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 5

Inspector W. E. Lind, Licensing Inspector for the Hartley sub-district, and Sergt. A. E. Sheldrick have completed an inspection of all hotels in…

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Luxury Hotel for Pacific Highway

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--A West Wallsend hotel licensee plans to build a new luxury hotel costing £140,000 on Pacific Highway…

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Attack In Hotel Alleged

Central Western Daily · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 5

MOLONG, Friday —An account of an alleged attack on him in the bar of a hotel was given to…

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Fewer Hotel Licenses 500 Less than in 1920

National Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday: An interim report on the liquor trade in N.S.W., prepared by a committee set up by the executive of the N.S.W. Liberal Party,…

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