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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

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Hotel Closing Prosecutions SYDNEY, April 24

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 1

The Minster for Justice. Mr. Downing announced today that prosecutions pending against hotelkeepers for not keeping their bars open between 2 p.m. and 6…

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Check on People in Hotel Lounge Sydney, May 1

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 2 May 1944 · page 1

Manpower officers are now making a check of 100 men and women who were found in the vestibule and the Winter-garten sections of the Hotel Australia…

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Court Sequel To Incidents In City Hotel

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 3 May 1944 · page 3

INCIDENTS which occurred at the Willyama Hotel on the night of December 30, 1943, were outlined to Judge Berne and a juty…

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Overcrowding At Local Hotels

Barrier Miner · Friday 5 May 1944 · page 1

For weeks now leading hotels have been crowded out. On some occasions extra beds have had to be put up. Hotel licensees can give no reason…

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Imperial Hotel to Change Hands

Barrier Miner · Saturday 6 May 1944 · page 4

Mrs. G. Martin, who is in charge of the Imperial Hotel in Oxide Street, will hand over the business on May 21 to Mr. Daley, formerly of the…

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Imperial Hotel Change

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 2

Mrs. G. Martin, who has had the Imperial Hotel in Oxide Street for the put 10 years, has decided to leave, and on May 31 will hand the business…

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Fined For Closing Hotels SYDNEY. May 8

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 3

The first prosecutions since the High Court of Australia ruled in favor of the regulations requiring hotels to keep their bars open between the hours of 2 and 6…

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Manpower Raid on Sydney Hotels

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 May 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY.—When manpower officials raided three King's Cross hotels, 83 women were instructed to report to the National Service Office…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Monday 22 May 1944 · page 3

In the Licensing Court this afternoon, before Mr. C. P. Dentou, S.M., Frank John Hardy applied for the transfer of the licence of the Theatre…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 23 May 1944 · page 3

In the Licensing Court yesterday transfer of the licence of the Theatre Royal Hotel to Frank John Hardy was granted by the S.M., Mr. C. F. Denton…

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Hotel Change

Barrier Miner · Thursday 25 May 1944 · page 1

The Crown Hotel will change managership next Monday. The present licensee is Mr. R. S. Coates, who has been in charge for the last four and…

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Hotel Change

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 26 May 1944 · page 1

Mr. W. M Daley, former licensor of the London Inn Hotel, Adelaide is to take over the Crown Hotel. Mr. Daley was to have taken over the Imperial Hotel…

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Hotels to Close

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 26 May 1944 · page 1

All hotels in New South Wales will be closed tomorrow—Election Day. It was thought by many that because there was no contest for the Sturt seat…

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No Wide Discretion for Publicans

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 27 May 1944 · page 1

Melbourne, May 25. — Mr. Justice Starke told Mr. J. V. Barry, K.C. in the High Court today that seven ounces of beer was quite enough for anybody…

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Linemond At 10's Scores In Licensed Victuallers' Cup Race at Victoria Park

Barrier Miner · Saturday 3 June 1944 · page 1

VICTORIA PARK.—Birthday Cup candidates raced over a mlle and a quarter in the Licensed Victuallers' Cup of £800 at Victoria Park this afternoon, and one of them, Linemond, starting at 10 to 1, scored easily from Royal Decree and Garfield by three lengths in 2.8…

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New Manager for Grand Hotel

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 7 June 1944 · page 2

Mr. and Mrs. A. Ravner, of the Grand Hotel are leaving within a fortnight and Mr. and Mrs. R.S.Coates, who recently left the crown Hotel, [?] to take over…

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Mr. A. Rayner to Go Into Sydney Hotel

Barrier Miner · Saturday 10 June 1944 · page 4

Mr. A. Rayner, licensee of the Grand Hotel, will transfer to Sydney and take over a hotel there. Mr. and Mrs. Rayner expect to leave…

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Sydney Hotel Fire Causes Panic

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY.—An oil fire in the basement at the Hotel Metropole, corner of Bent and Young Streets, City, last night sent dense clouds of smoke to…

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Licensing Court

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 7

In the Licensing Court this morning, Walter Cetinich was granted a billiards room licence covering premises in Patton Street, South Broken Hill…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 June 1944 · page 1

Robert Sydney Coates was granted the transfer of the licence of the Grand Hotel from Stanley Allan Rayner in the Licensing Court this…

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