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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

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Ban Lifted From Sydney Hotels

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 21 June 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In the Supreme Court declarations of four hotels recently as common gaming houses were rescinded by Mr…

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Drivers' Licenses and Dept. Refusal

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 July 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. Percy Spender, K.C., M.H.R., commenting on the power, of the Transport. Department to cancel drivers licences…

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Comments Of Readers Questions-on Licensing Laws

Barrier Miner · Saturday 9 July 1938 · page 3

To the Editor, Sir.— Arising out of a discussion at our meeting on the Stephens Creek Hotel I am directed to ask if you…

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Palace Hotel for S.A. FOOTBALLERS Accommodation Provided

Barrier Miner · Friday 15 July 1938 · page 3

The accommodation trouble for the visit of the South Australian League team next month has been met, and there is no danger of the trip being…

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Manager of Hotel Found Dead

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 2

SYDNEY, Saturday.—Harold Frank Harris (48), manager of the Oriental Hotel, King's Cross was found dead late last night in the Domain. A…

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Failed to Pay Board at Hotel Man Ordered 14 Days' Gaol

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 10 August 1938 · page 6

FOURTEEN days' imprisonment for failure to pay board due at the Palace Hotel was ordered Wilbur…

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Police Raids on Hotels

Barrier Miner · Monday 15 August 1938 · page 3

Following spontaneous, raids on two hotels by police officers on Saturday night it is expected that 30 men will appear before the Police Court…

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"Everyone Was Drunk" Visitor Criticises Darwin Hotel SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 16 August 1938 · page 1

MR.R. King, a member of the staff of the aviation magazine "Flight" in London, who came to Australia to study flying conditions, said in an…

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Seven Years' Gaol For Setting Fire to Hotel

Barrier Miner · Thursday 18 August 1938 · page 7

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), August 18. —An admission that she had set fire to the Waipiro Bay Hotel while a woman she did not like was inside…

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After Hours in Hotel Fines Inflicted On Four Graziers Kooringa (S.a.)

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 August 1938 · page 6

FOUR well-known pastoralists and their wives and two others were each fined £2 with 10/- costs in the Redruth Police Court for having been…

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Confession by Minister Coffee After Hours In Hotel SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Saturday 27 August 1938 · page 6

The Minister for Justice (Mr. Martin) admitted in the Legislative Assembly that he had broken the law recently by taking a cup of coffee…

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Sequel to Raids on Local Hotels Two Licensees And 46 Men Fined

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 September 1938 · page 1

FORTY-SIX men appeared in the Police Court today before Mr. R. Donaldson, S.M., charged with being found on licensed premises during prohibited hours on Saturday night, August 13. Raids were made on the…

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Boy Leaps From FlFTH FLOOR Fire In Hotel Causes Panic SYDJIEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 September 1938 · page 3

FIRE broke Out on the fourth floor of the Wentworth Hotel late last night and spread quickly to the fifth floor and roof…

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Hitler Plan Not Acceptable in Hotel Yard for Purpose of Betting Man Fined £20

Barrier Miner · Monday 26 September 1938 · page 1

CHARGED with having been found in the yard of the South Australian Hotel on Saturday for the…

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Hotel Bath Mystery Suicide Theory Discounted SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 October 1938 · page 3

MR. and Mrs. McGregor, stepfather and mother respectively of Miss Alma Levina Bate, whose body was found in a bath at Menzies Hotel…

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Dead Girl Was From Brisbane Hotel Mystery Has Deepened MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 October 1938 · page 4

THE young woman who was found dead in a bath attached to an upstairs suite at Menzies Hotel on Friday is believed by the police to be Miss Alma Levina Bate, aged 24 years, of Wooloongabba, Brisbane…

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Hotel Tragedy Inquest No Reason To Take Her Own Life Says Girl's Mother MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Friday 14 October 1938 · page 4

EVIDENCE that Elma Lavina Bate (24), of Hawthorneroad, East Brisbane, the girl whose body was found in a bath at Menzies Hotel on Friday, was "highly strung and inclined to be run down," was given by her mother,…

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Licensing of Missions Church Protest To W.A. Gost SYDNEY

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 October 1938 · page 1

THE Western Australian Government recently passed legislation prohibiting churches from establishing mission stations without the…

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Amazing Story Told Police Murder Finding at Inquest; Hotel Tragedy Dunolly

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 October 1938 · page 6

AFINDING that Robert McCourt Gray and Charles Adam Bunney died at Dunolly on or about October 3 from wounds suffered when they were struck with an axe by Thomas William Johnson (40), and that Johnson…

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AMUSEMENTS "Hollywood Hotel" At Ozone

Barrier Miner · Saturday 29 October 1938 · page 2

"Hollywood Hotel," the most lavish musical comedy of the year, will be screened at the Ozone Theatre to-night. It presents Dick Powell in the…

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