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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 8 of 10

Greater Population, Fewer Hotels

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon. -- Five hundred and eleven hotels in N.S.W. were closed down between 1920 and 1950, although…

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Molong Hotel Mentioned in Royal Commission Inquiry

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 2

Molong Freemasons Hotel was mentioned in the Royal Commission inquiry into the liquor trade at Sydney, on…

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Busy Licensing Session

National Advocate · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 2

Applications before the Bathurst Licensing Court yeterday included: From Tooth and Co., Ltd, owner of the Park Hotel, Bathurst, seeking…

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Case Against Salvation Army Officer Fails Hotel Incident

National Advocate · Tuesday 18 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: In the Parramatta Court this afternoon a charge of disorderly conduct against a Salvation Army officer, Capt. Ivan…

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Huge Sums Paid for Sydney Hotel Licences

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 18 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Aft. -- Documents produced at the Royal Commission into the liquor question to-day…

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329 hotels in State “tied” by one brewery

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 18 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — Tooheys Ltd. has ties over 329 hotels in N.S.W., the Royal Commission into the liquor trade was told this afternoon. Both Tooths and Tooheys…

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Big Money for Hotel Leases Liquor Inquiry Evidence

National Advocate · Wednesday 19 September 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Big sums paid for Toohey's hotel leases in N.S.W. were disclosed in documents before the Liquor Royal Commission…

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Hotel Used at Brothel Woman Licensee Gaoled LONDON

National Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1951 · page 8

Lawyer Sir John Cameron told a court at Newmarket. Surrey, that British inn-keepers, in areas where there were American servicemen, were…

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Hotelkeeper's Big Estate

National Advocate · Thursday 20 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Robert Howard Graham, an hotelkeeper, who died in May aged 50. left an estate of £22,104 to his widow, Isabel Violet…

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Liquor Inquiry Hotelkeeper Tells of Loan

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday: A hotel keeper at the Liquor Royal Commission admitted today he borrowed £8000 from a man who…

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Hotels Transferred

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 2

An application by Ronald Sutherland Kay for the transfer of the licence of the Victoria Hotel, Bathurst, from John Bernett Wade was granted…

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Hotel Murder Case Death Sentence on Hungarians WOLLONGONG

National Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 4

Three Hungarians were tonight sentenced to death after they were found guilty of murder. They were charged with the…

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Hotel Licensee Fined

National Advocate · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 2

Pleading guilty to a charge of being the licensee of premises on which a person was found after hours, Oswald Clive Nash, of the Kelso Hotel,…

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Admits Interest in Hotels Saffron Changes Earlier Evidence Liquor Case Sydney, Thursday

National Advocate · Friday 28 September 1951 · page 5

Abraham Saffron, Roosevelt night-club owner, at the Liquor Royal Commission today changed earlier evidence and admitted that he had a financial…

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Hotel Transferred

National Advocate · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 2

Mr. C.W. English, S.M., at Bathurst Licensing Court yesterday, granted an application by George Arthur Bright for the transfer from Walter…

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Big Offers Refused for Hotels Sydney

National Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1951 · page 1

At an auction sale in Sydney today L. J. Hooker Ltd. refused bids totalling almost £90,000 for two country hotels. In no case did the highest bid reach…

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Tax Offence Publican Fined £500 SYDNEY

National Advocate · Wednesday 10 October 1951 · page 1

A Surry Hills publican who allegedly blackmarketed American cigarettes in 1945 and 1646, was penalised £500 today for a taxation breach…

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Licensing Court at Mudgee

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 11 October 1951 · page 1

At the Mudgee Licensing Court last week: — F. H. V. Williams, licensee of the Court House Hotel,…

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Used Indecent Language in Hotel Bar Pine Of £5 Imposed

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 12 October 1951 · page 11

For using indecent language in the saloon bar of the Telegraph Hotel, on September 29, Ernest Godfrey…

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German Publican "Grub-Staked" Polish Miner To Become “King” Of Fabulous Hill End

Central Western Daily · Friday 12 October 1951 · page 7

One hundred years ago next Sunday alluvial gold was found at Hill End. But Hill End’s real history was nade not on this day, but five days later when the Beyers-Holtermann Nugget-largest gold specimen ever mined - was discovered 130ft. below the…

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