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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Licensing Reduction Board

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 12 May 1937 · page 4

The Licensing Reduction Board, with Mr. J. W. Laidlaw presiding, will sit at the Courthouse on Friday to hear an application for the surrender…

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Alterations To Grand Hotel To Cost £4000

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 May 1937 · page 3

Permission to carry out extensive alterations to the Grand Hotel, costing over £4000, was granted the licensee of the hotel by the Licences…

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Surrender of Licence Bancannia Hotel Case

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 May 1937 · page 1

THE licences Reduction Board, at the Courthouse, to-day, decided to give consideration to the application of the licensee of the Bancannia…

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Miners Declare Hotel "Blaek" SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Monday 17 May 1937 · page 1

BECAUSE the proprietors of Corrimal's only hotel refused to reinstate a dismissed barman, miners have declared the hotel…

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Appeal for Police S. P. Commission Inquiry Hotel Raid Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 3

A STATEMENT made to the Starting Price Commission by the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Mackay) was referred to…

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Licensing Act Breaches 30 Men on Premises After Hours Fined No Conviction Against Hotel Licensee

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 1

A LIGHT fine was imposed and no conviction was recorded when the licensee of the Grand Hotel appeared before Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court, to-day on a charge of having been the licensee of premises on which a man was found…

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Alleged Assault on Hotelkeeper Hearing Adjourned

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 4

A CASE in which a young man is charged with alleged assault on a hotelkeeper arising out of a disturbance at the Southern Cross Hotel…

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Six Months of Litigation Hotel Disturbance Cases Dismissed

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 6

AFTER more than six months' litigation and adjournments the cases arising out of a disturbance in the Southern Cross Hotel last…

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Radios Takens From Hotels Deters Belting At Newcastle

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 June 1937 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—According to Mr. Chaffey, the Chief Secretary, the removal of radio sets from hotel bars on race days in the Newcastle…

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Radios Taken From Hotels Deters Betting At Newcastle

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 June 1937 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—According to Mr. Chaffey, the Chief Secretary, the removal of radio acts from hotel bars on race days in the Newcastle…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 2

Forty-eight applications for the renewal of publicans' licences, six applications for Australian wine licences, five applications for spirit…

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Of New South Wales Police Pay Night Visit To Hotel Licensee and 20 Men Fined

Barrier Miner · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 1

A FINE of 20/-, with 8/- costs, was inflicted on Albert George Brown, licensee of the Wilcannia Club Hotel, by Mr. R…

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More Versions of Alleged Assault in Bar of Hotel Bookmaker Principals

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 3

FURTHER, evidence of a fight" which allegedly took place in the Southern Cross Hotel was given to-day in the Police Court before Mr. R.Donaldson, S.M. The case is one in which Thomas Dickie Young,…

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Bookmaker to Pay £20/81- in All Court Sequel To Assault In Southern Cross Hotel

Barrier Miner · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 6

FINES and costs totalling 20/8/— were imposed on Thomas Dickie Young, a licensed bookmaker, by Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Police Court Young had been charged by Charles Edward…

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Police Chief Saves Hotel

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 July 1937 · page 1

HAD it not been for a decision of Supt. Chinner, superintendent of police in the Western Division, and Constable Shelley,…

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Failure of French Hotel Strike

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 July 1937 · page 8

PARIS, July 13.—The hotel strike has been conspicuously ineffective. All houses have been able to serve their guests, and only 32 cafes have been…

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Broke Windows in Hotel 3 Months' Gaol For Two Men

Barrier Miner · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 3

TWO men were committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions to be held in Broken Hill on September 7 by Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the…

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Hotelkeeper's S.a. Legacy

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 July 1937 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Estate in Victoria sworn for probate at £52,086 (all personalty), and property in South Australia valued at…

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Reshuffle of Hotel Licensees

Barrier Miner · Friday 30 July 1937 · page 3

Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Foulds, of the Grand Hotel, have received notification of their transfer to Sydney. They are to take over a big modern hotel…

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Hotel Transfers

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 August 1937 · page 3

Transfers of licences of two hotels were granted by Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., in the Licensing Court. The licence of the Rising Sun…

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