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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 March 1939 · page 3

An application by Lillian Maud Beck for the transfer of the licence for the Junction Hotel from William James Maittlen to herself was…

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Brisbane Hotel Fire

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 22 March 1939 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday.— The Royal Mail Hotel, Tewantin, a two-storey building, containing 42 rooms, was destroyed by fire. For a time a whole…

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Threat to Boycott Melbourne Hotels

Barrier Miner · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.— The Victorian branch of the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Union intends to launch a boycott of Melbourne…

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Bomb Damage to Hotel Bar

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1939 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—A bomb thrown on to the roof above the bar of St. Andrews's Hotel, Queenstown, blew a hole in the corrugated…

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Fatal Fall From Hotel Roof Garden

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 12 April 1939 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday.— James Hart (60), a retired member of the firm of Wilson, Hart and Co. Pty. Ltd., timber merchants, of…

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Sequel to Police Raid on Hotel Licensee And Eight Men Fined

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 April 1939 · page 2

A POLICE raid on the Commercial Hotel on the night of March 10 had its sequel in the Police Court today when the licensee, John Morgan, and eight other men were fined…

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Hotelkeeper Fined

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 19 April 1939 · page 4

Westbury Heryet Morris, licensee of the Theatre Royal Hotels was fined £3 with 8/- costs by Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M. in the Police Court today for…

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Suffered Betting On Hotel Premises Licensee to Get Behavior Bond

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 April 1939 · page 6

FINDING a charge proved against the licensee. George McKay, of having suffered the licensed premises of the Oriental Hotel to be used for gaming.Mr. A. B. Collins S.M., in the Police Court yesterday discharged him conditional on his entering…

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Hotelkeeper Liable for Car Theft

Barrier Miner · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 4

It was recently decided in England that the proprietor of an hotel was legally responsible for the loss by theft of any motor vehicles left in…

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Licensees in Court Hotelkeeper Is Fined £4; Six Men Also Fined

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 1

SIX men who were found on the premises of the Exchange Hotel after hours on March 24 and the licensee of the hotel…

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Sydney Club Case Police Story Of Visit; Fine For Licensee

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 1

THE story of a police visit to the Sydney club Hotal at 8.35 p.m on March 20 was told to Mr. A. B. Collins S.M:, in the Police Court…

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Men Found in Hotel Yard After Hours Licensee Fined

Barrier Miner · Monday 8 May 1939 · page 1

THE licensee of the Rising Sun Hotel, William John Crosby, was fined £2, with 8/- costs, for allowing unauthorised people to be on his premises…

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Attack By Officer On Hotels

Barrier Miner · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thursday.— It was stated by a health inspector at a meeting of the Lithgow Council that only one of the eight hotels in the…

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Dramatic Rescue In Burning Hotel

Barrier Miner · Friday 26 May 1939 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—A fue occurred this morning in a room, on the second floor of the Hotel Belvedere at the corner of Kent and Bathurst…

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Dangerous Driving Alleged Hotelkeeper In Court

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 3

THE licensee of the Mount Gipps Hotel, Sidney Albert Fahlbush, appeared before Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today charged with having driven a motor car in Oxide Street in a manner dangerous to the…

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Strange Reason for Hotel Suicide

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 June 1939 · page 2

KALGOORLIE, Thursday.— The story of a prospector who drank poison in an hotel bar when he found he had lost his mate's letters which…

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Hotel Licences Renewed

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 20 June 1939 · page 4

Forty-eight hotel liquor, licences were granted by Mr. A. B. Collins. S.M., at the quarterly sittings of the Licensing Court at the Courthouse…

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Rebuilding Plans For Exchange Hotel

Barrier Miner · Thursday 6 July 1939 · page 3

THE Chairman of Licensing Magistrates (Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw) had a discussion'with representatives of the South Australian Brewing Co. in connection with the proposed rebuilding of the Royal Exchange Hotel in Argent Street. The formal hearing…

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Transfer of Hotel Licence

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 July 1939 · page 1

An application for the transfer of the licence of the Gas Works Hotel from Patrick Joseph Concannon to James Allan Hale was granted by Mr. A. B…

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Transfer Wanted of Hotel Licence Palace Hotel Case

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 3

AN unusual application by the owners in possession to the exclusion of the licensee came before Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Licensing Court today. This unusual position arose following the death of William Hunter Heslop, licensee of the Palace…

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