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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

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Negotiations for the Sale of Freemasons' Hotel

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 1

Negotiations for the sale of the license and freehold of the Freemasons' Hotel to a Sydney buyer have been well advanced, and it is expected that…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 2

In the Licensing Court this morning, before Mr. C. W. Swiney, D.S.M., George Castleman was granted the transfer of the publican's license…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 January 1928 · page 3

In the Licensing Court this morning, Superintendent F. W. Dimond presented the quarterly licensing report. Mr. C. W. Swiney, D.S.M., in receiving the…

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Hotel License Transferred

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 January 1928 · page 2

In the Licensing Court this morning, before Mr. C. W. Swiney, D.S.M., John Morgan was granted the transfer of the publican's license…

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Hotelkeeper Stabbed Italians Are Arrested with Knives in Possession Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 January 1928 · page 1

During a disturbance among a number or Italians at Woodend last night the licensee of the Victoria Hotel was stabled in the thigh while…

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Addition to Hotel

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 January 1928 · page 2

In the Licensing Court this morning, before Mr. C. W. Swiney, D.S.M., Michael Kerrison, owner of the Oriental Hotel, was granted…

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New South Wales Sydney Hotel Sold

Barrier Miner · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 3

Pfahlert's Hotel was sold on Thursday to the British Imperial Oil Company for £103,500 (says a Sydney message in the "Advertiser"). The…

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Queensland Man Drops Dead in Hotel After Drinking Whisky Brisbane

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 1

Albert Staples (42), an English navy fireman, strolled into an hotel yesterday and exclaimed: "I'll show you fellows how they drink whisky in…

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Big Fire in New Zealand Several Hotels and Shops Destroyed at Reefton Auckland (N.Z.), February 3

Barrier Miner · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 1

A fire at Reefton destroyed three hotels and several shops. The damage is estimated at £25,000…

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Safe Taken From Hotel Contained About £150 Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 1

Entering the Rising Sun Hotel at Port Wakefield early, this morning through an unlocked window, burglars picked up a large safe containing…

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Robbery at Hotel

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 February 1928 · page 2

When Mr. L. Lever, licensee of the Bull and Mouth Hotel, Bourke-street, City, went to his room on the second floor on Saturday afternoon, he…

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Argent-street Incidents Salvation Army Meeting Held on Hotel Balcony

Barrier Miner · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 1

The rain locally was not without its incidents. Yesterday evening when gutters in Argent-street had water flowing in them two of a group of three…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 3

In the Licensing Court this morning, before Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.M., the application of Roy E. S. Tonkin for the transfer of the publican's…

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Unionists at Darwin Boycott Hotel Bars Objection to Aborigines

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 14 February 1928 · page 3

At a well-attended meeting of members of the North Australian Workers' Union at the Town Hall on Sunday night, it was resolved to boycott…

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The Labor Party Proposal to Exclude Licensed Victuallers Some of the Men Affected

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 February 1928 · page 4

The metropolitan provincial conference of the Australian Labor, Party has decided to recommend to the annual general conference at Easter that…

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Board of Censors Refuse a License (A.p.a. Message.) London, February 20

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 February 1928 · page 4

The Board of Film Censors after a long sitting refused to license the film "Dawn," which centres round the execution of Nurse Cavell…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 February 1928 · page 2

In the Licensing Court this morning, before Mr. R. C. Atkinson, S.M., the application of Roy E. S. Tonkin for the transfer of the publican's…

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Country Hotels Supervision to Be Made of Sanitary Accommodation Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 February 1928 · page 2

Mr. J. R. Lee, Minister for Justice, intends to ask the Cabinet to appoint two inspectors under the Licensing Act to supervise the sanitary…

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Death of a Grazier Found in Hotel Room Clasping a Revolver Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 23 February 1928 · page 4

Edgar James Hunter (55) a grazier, of Dunglare Station, Walgett, was found dead in his room at the Hotel Sydney this morning with a bullet…

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Boxes in Hotel Bars Collect 11/9 in Three Weeks

Barrier Miner · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 1

Members of the unemployed committ[?]e reported this morning that from six collection boxes which had been in hotel bars for three weeks the sum of…

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