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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1925

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Sleep-walker Killed Fell Through Fanlight at a Sydney Hotel Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 9

Frederick Wright (41), a gracier, of Weabonga, near Tamworth, met his death through falling from a window through a fanlight into the marble bar…

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

Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 10

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 10

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

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Wireless License Fee Reduction. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 1

On July 1 the Federal Government will reduce to 30/ the license fee for wireless sets for listening-in. The Government may review the charges…

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Wireless[?] Licenses on Increase Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 4

Since the Postal Department instituted legal proceedings against listeners in who failed to pay license fees, the number of licenses issued…

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Broadcasting Two New E Stations Licensed in Melbourne Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 1

Two additional broadcasting stations in Melbourne of E class were licensed yesterday, O. J. Nilsen, of Bourke-street, being given a wave length of…

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Boadcasting Two New E Stations Licensed in Melbourne Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 10

Two additional broadcasting stations in Melbourne of E class were licensed yesterday, O. J. Nilsen, of Bourke-street, being given a wave length of…

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Row in an Hotel Woman Is Found Dying Male Companion Arrested Newcastle

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 9

Lying unconscious with her head in a pool of blood a woman was found d[?]ing in a bedroom of a Newcastle hotel at 8.30 o'clock last night. A…

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Liquor Act Prosecution a Licensee Fined

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 March 1925 · page 2

In the Police Court this morning, before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.M., Elizabath Topar Friend, licensee of the Mulga Hill Hotel, pleaded guilty to a…

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Police Sensation Melbourne Detectives Were Suspended To-day. Alleged Passing of Money Following Hotel Raid Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 March 1925 · page 4

A sensation was caused to-day when Chief Police Commissioner Nicholson announced that Detective Inspector Olholm, head of the railway detective…

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New South Wales the Hotel Robertson Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 4

A petition was to-day presented to Mr. Justice Long Junes in Equity for the winding up of the Hotel Robertson Limited on the ground that it is…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 March 1925 · page 2

In the Licensing Court this morning before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.M., William Lord Blake, licensee of the victoria Hotel, was granted permission…

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Wireless Listeners-in. Rush for Licenses Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 March 1925 · page 4

The department considers that prosecutions against unlicensed wireless listeners are responsible for the rush for licenses. To February 28 29,534…

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Alterations at an Hotel

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 March 1925 · page 2

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

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Theft From an Hotel £28 Stolen From Bar Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 March 1925 · page 4

Money amounting to £28 was stolen in a daring manner from the front bar of Coward's Prince Alfred Hotel, King William-street, yesterday. This is the…

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Delicensed Hotel to Close

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 March 1925 · page 2

The Barrier Club Hotel is to be closed as from 6.30 p.m. on April 2. This is the last of the local hotels to be closed under the direction…

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Theft From an Hotel £28 Stolen From Bar Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 21 March 1925 · page 8

Money amounting to £28 was stolen in a daring manner from the front bar of Coward's Prince Alfred Hotel, King William-street, yesterday. This is the…

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Girl-wife Missing. Was Used As Police Decoy by Licensing Police

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 3

Through a maze of theories regarding her actual fate, the police are making frantic efforts to trace Mrs. Jessie Winstanley, aged 14 years and nine…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 March 1925 · page 2

In the Licensing Court this morning, before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.M. the following matters were dealt with: Leonard James Green was granted…

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Women Taxi Drivers Two Licenses Granted by the City Council

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 March 1925 · page 3

At the monthly meeting of the City Council held last night a recommendation was received from the bylaws committee to the effect that…

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