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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1925

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Good Templars Protest Concerning New Hotel State Governor Criticised Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 21 January 1925 · page 1

The Grand Lodge executive of the Order of Good Templars is criticising the action of Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, the…

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A Doctor Wounded at Townsville Hotel a Chemist Is Arrested

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

Lowth'a hotel at Townsville was the scene of a shooting affray on Saturday night, when Dr. J. Bourke was shot in the left leg. Stephen Lowth a…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1925 · page 2

In the Licensing Court this morning before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.M., Gordon Roy Clendinnen, licensee of the Border Gate Hotel, Burns, was granted…

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Hotelkeeper Stabbed Occurrence Took Place in Racing Club Rooms Assailant Escapes Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 February 1925 · page 1

There was a sensational occurrence in the rooms of the Victoria Park Racing Club, Castlereaghstreet, yesterday afternoon, which…

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Hotelkeepet Sta[?] Occurrence Took Place in Racing Club Rooms Assailant Escapes Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 February 1925 · page 10

There was a sensational occurrence in the rooms of the Victoria Park Racing Club, Castlereaghstreet, yesterday afternoon, which…

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Woodcarters' Licenses to Be Produced on Demand of Lessee or Representative

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 2

Mr. C. S. Wood, secretary of the Pastoralists' Association of West Darling, stated to-day that owing to wood carters in the past cutting, fences and…

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Booth License Granted

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 3

In the Licensing Court this morning, before Mr. G. A.Stevenson, S.M., Leonard James Green, licensee of the Royal Exchange Hotel, was granted…

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Drunken Motor Driver Fined £5 in Court To-day and License Cancelled

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 February 1925 · page 1

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.M., John Reid (25), was charged with having driven a motor car while under…

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Robbery at Hotel £200 and Watch Stolen Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 February 1925 · page 1

Guy Taylor, licensee of the Woolbrokers' Arms Hotel, Pyrmont, has reported to the police that £200 in notes and a gold watch were stolen from a…

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Damage in Hotel Bottles of Wine Broken by Man with Glasses

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 February 1925 · page 4

"I was just looking around. I study human nature a bit." So said Walter Henry Sammon, a dealer, at the Sydney Central Court on…

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Delicensed Hotel Signs (To the Editor.)

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 February 1925 · page 2

Sir,—When the Act for delicensing hotels was passed all the gentlemen in the talking shop were very tired. A stranger coming into this town,…

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Liquor Act Prosecutions Four Men and Licensee Fined in Police Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 February 1925 · page 4

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.M., George Thomas Fawcett, Percy F[?], William Hebbard, and Leonard…

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Hotel Changes Hands. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 1

The Balfour Hotel in Sydney has been taken over by Mr. Wally Weekes for £95,000…

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Serious Fire in New Zealand Hotel & Theatre Destroyed Wellington (N.Z.), Februarv 25

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 1

A destructive fire occurred at Westport yesterday morning when the Grand Hotel. King's Theatre, Gibbs's garage, and Radford's ofiice were destroyed,…

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Liquor Act Prosecutions Four Men and Licensee Find in Police Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 3

In the Police Court yesterday morning (as briefly reported in yesterday's Latest News Issue) before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.M.,…

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Robbery From Hotel Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 February 1925 · page 4

Last evening a thief broke into the saloon of the Prince Alfred Hotel and stole £60 in notes from two cash registers. A hole was cut in the…

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Motor 'Buses Two Licenses Are Granted by the City Council. One Application Refused

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 February 1925 · page 2

As a result of a special meeting of the City Council sitting as a committee to discuss applications for 'bus licenses, the following…

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Methodist Conference Closing of Hotels Urged at 1 O'clock on Saturday Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 1

At the Methodist Conference yesterday a letter was received from the W.C.T.U. urging the conference to support a scheme for the closing of all…

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Drunken Motor Driver Ordered Imprisonment License Is Cancelled Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 1

In the Adelaide City Police Court to-day a sentence of four weeks' imprisonment was imposed on Rudolph Olans Meyn, a country baker, for…

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Floating Hotels in the Atlantic

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 2

Hotels on floating islands in midAtlantic will be a feature of the new airway to be opened next spring which will make it possible to reach Buenos…

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