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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1942

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Publican Treats Recruits As Guests

Western Grazier · Friday 9 January 1942 · page 1

Many Wilcannia soldiers who have had occasion to pass through Ivanhoe on their way to and from their units have expressed their appreciation of the action…

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Brutal Assault in Newtown Hotel

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday. — George Leslie Causer (50), of Drummoyne, a returned soldier war worker, was brutally attacked in a King Street,…

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Licensing Alien Doctors

Barrier Miner · Thursday 12 February 1942 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday.—Alien doctors will be licensed to practise in Australia after having satisfied an examining committee and a…

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Robbed Of £154 At Hotel Door

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 February 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday. — Miss Maude Violet Hardy, manageress of the Hyde Park Hotel, was robbed of £154. She had made a parcel of £400 in…

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Tasmanian Government Ban on Hotels

Barrier Miner · Saturday 7 March 1942 · page 4

HOBART, Saturday.—An order prohibiting any person remaining on hotel premises after 10 p.m. has been issued by the Tasmanian Government…

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Hotelkeeper Drowned

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 10 March 1942 · page 2

PORT LINCOLN, Tuesday.—No inquest will be held into the death of Stanley Mitchel Rosewarne, licensee of the Port Lincoln Hotel, who was…

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Hotel Out of Bounds Commandant Is Seeking Snob ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 17 March 1942 · page 2

BRIGADIER Bundock, Military Commandant for the Fourth District, is looking for the snob who banned A.I.F. and Militia…

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Hotel Cellars Not Suitable As Shelters "Death Traps"

Barrier Miner · Thursday 19 March 1942 · page 2

THE deep, dark, cool cellars of the city's hotels, which have been good enough to provide protection for maturing stocks of wines and beer[?]…

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Cutting Down On Beer Sales In Some City Hotels

Barrier Miner · Friday 20 March 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—A shortage of bee[?] in some Sydney hotels tomorow is expected, according to the U.L.V.A. president (Mr. N. H. Connolly). This…

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Trading Hours For Hotels 10 a m. To 6 p m

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 March 1942 · page 1

Official advice of new regulations effecting hotels and other licenses has been received by Inspector C. J. Homann, officer in charge of the…

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Curious Mishap At City Hotel

Barrier Miner · Monday 30 March 1942 · page 1

Glass is a wonderful building material. It is also "very tricky. If it has a hidden flaw it may shatter on the, slightest provocation, or it…

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Stop Press New Hotel Hours Likely

Barrier Miner · Thursday 2 April 1942 · page 1

CANBERRA.—It is expected that regulations will shortly be gazetted restricting hotel hours in all States to six a day…

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Another Cut in S.a. Hotel Hours

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 April 1942 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Tuesday. — Another hour a day will be[?]cut off trading hours in South Australia beginning on Monday. This will limit them to…

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Stop Press Limiting Hotel Hours

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 7 April 1942 · page 1

CANBERRA. — Although State Governments will be given power to decide what the new trading hours will be, it is understood, that the…

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Hotel Trading Hours Cut

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 8 April 1942 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. — On behalf of the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin), the Minister for War Organisation of Industry (Mr. Dedman)…

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Affray in Hotel Murder Is Alleged ADELAIDE

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 4

A 21-year-old soldier was charged in the Adelaide Police Court yesterday with the murder on Tuesday of James Hampton,…

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New Hotel Trading Hours Postponed

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—It was revealed last night that the Federal Government's plan to restrict liquor trading hours to a total of seven…

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Hotels Evade Liquor Laws

Barrier Miner · Thursday 9 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A claim that some of Sydney's leading hotels were evading the new liquor laws restricting drinking by transferring their…

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W.a. Plans to Keep Hotels Open

Barrier Miner · Thursday 16 April 1942 · page 4

PERTH, Thursday.—An effort to have hotels' closing time fixed at 7 p.m. and more stringent policing of liquor laws carried out is to be made…

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Licensing Court

Western Grazier · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 1

The Licensing Magistrate this week granted an application for the transfer of the Court House Hotel, Wilcannia, from the Estate of R. H. Simpson…

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