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

Hotels & licensing, 1953

198 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 1 of 10

License Transferred

National Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 2

A Bathurst: Licensing Court application for the transfer of the publication's license of the Royal Hotel. Obe[?]on from John Fredrick Moore to…

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Praise for Blind Publican Court Tribute

National Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.— A blind publican was congratulated by the magistrate and police at the Licensing Court today for the manner in which…

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Broken Hill Liquor Hours Hotels May Close Earlier

National Advocate · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Every hotel in Broken Hill closed on Sunday at 1 p.m. when the temperature, was over the 100 mark…

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Bathurst Hotels Amongst the Best in the Country

National Advocate · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 2

A survey of the Bathurst hotels during the Festive season showed that for accommodation service and comfort the Bathurst hotels,…

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Hotel Transfer Refused

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1953 · page 2

Mr. Dash, SM, yesterday refused, a Bathurst Licensing Court application for the transfer of the Publican's License of the Georges Flains Hotel from…

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Bathurst Hotels Much Improved Standard Licensing Inspector's Report

National Advocate · Tuesday 13 January 1953 · page 2

"The standard of accommodation is improving very gradually and within the means of the licenses." the Licensing Inspector for the Licensing…

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Presentation To Popular Hotel Licencee

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 13 January 1953 · page 2

Lithgow had proved itself to be a very friendly city in which he and his wife had found much enjoyment and…

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Free Meals at Hotels — If the Diner Can Dodge the Waitress

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 7

A woman appeared before the Bathurst Court last week, charged with refusing to pay for a meal in a hotel…

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Hotel Strike at Wollongong

National Advocate · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 4

WOLLONGONG, Sunday: Two conferences today failed to settle a staff strike at Wollongong's largest residential hotel, the Hotel Wollongong…

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Hoop Loses License

Central Western Daily · Monday 19 January 1953 · page 12

An inquiry into the running of Worthy Gold in the Improvers’ handicap at the Wellington races…

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Hotel Improvements

National Advocate · Tuesday 20 January 1953 · page 2

At the sitting of the Bathurst Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. Cash approved an application by Lily Adtam, licensee of the Railway Hotel…

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Hotel Proprietor Gets Kick Out Of Life

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 20 January 1953 · page 4

Sly grog and other hotel rackets exposed in the recent Royal Commission on Liquor would be virtually wiped out if the liquor laws were amended and drinking hours extended on English or African lines, the…

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Gun Battle in Hotel Safebreakers Caught

National Advocate · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 5

NEW YORK, Wednesday: Seven gunmen and a police squad yesterday fought a gun battle in a New York Hotel…

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Driver Had No License

National Advocate · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 3

INQUEST EVIDENCE ORANGE, Wednesday: Donald Curtis, 23, of Cremorne, driver of a car involved in a fatal accident on the Bathurst road on January 7, told the…

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Hotel Hours for Mine Workers W.A. Custom

National Advocate · Saturday 24 January 1953 · page 2

PERTH, Friday: Eastern goldfields cities, Kalgoorlie and Boulder have hotel trading hours to suit mine-workers…

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S.M. Won't Tolerate 'Background' Hotel Control

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 28 January 1953 · page 3

Lithgow's Stipendiary Magistrate yesterday refused to transfer the license of a Wallerawang hotel until he was satisfied a "man in the background" would not be in control…

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Enter The Pharisee And The Publican

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 30 January 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, This Afternoon.-- Sin was not particularly rife in Sydney it was merely pagan, Dr. S. Barton Babbage said…

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Woman Bit Publican

National Advocate · Wednesday 4 February 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A woman who bit a publican was fined £2 in Central Court today. The publican, Sidney Howard,…

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Former Hotel Licensee Farewelled

Molong Express and Western District Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 10

Mr. W. Lavendar, former licensee of the Royal Hotel, Manildra, and his wife, were honored by the Manildra…

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Hotels Complaint

National Advocate · Friday 6 February 1953 · page 2

In reply to a Bathurst Chamber of Commerce complaint regarding the state of the Kings' and the Cosmopolitan Hotels, the licensing…

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