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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

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Hotel Gordon Long Law Suit Ends Verdicts For Both Sides

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 17 September 1928 · page 8

After lasting for four days the claims of Herbert Charles Manfred and John Joseph Piggott were settled by Judge Coyle in the Goulburn…

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Into An Awkward Position. Where People Land When They Don't Tell Truth. Licensing Magistrate Sermonises. a Married Man Who Wasn't

The Young Chronicle · Friday 21 September 1928 · page 1

This year, next year....... Thus the licensing magistrate (Mr. Harrison) ruminated on Wednesday, when Albert Richards, applying for…

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Licensee Fined Drunk on Premises Referendum Day Echo

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 25 September 1928 · page 4

On Referendum Day Sergeant Mc Neely made several visits to the Carlton Hotel, and found drunken men on the premises. In one instance three…

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Lost His License Bookmaker-Financier Punished SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 26 September 1928 · page 2

At the Burwood Police Court this morning Frank Ridle, financier and bookmaker was charged with having driven a motor car…

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Radio Rockets Radio in Hotels

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 26 September 1928 · page 4

Following American practice, the Coronation Hotel, Sydney and the Carlton Hotel, Brisbane, have been equipped with elaborate radio…

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Waterside Dispute Licensing of Wharfmen Unions Move For Peace SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 27 September 1928 · page 2

Regulations under the Transport Workers' Act, providing for the licensing of wharf-labourers, are to be applied immediately in…

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Drunken Motorist. Magistrate's Duty to Suspend License

The Young Chronicle · Friday 28 September 1928 · page 5

"I believe it is my duty to suspend the license of a man who drives a car while under the influence of intoxicating liquor and appeals to me…

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Unionists Submit Licenses Taken Out Melbourne Volunteers Attacked SYDNEY

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 October 1928 · page 2

Amid orderly scenes, unionists in Adelaide and Newcastle yesterday complied with conditions of the Transport Workers' Act and…

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Solicitor's Suicide Hotelkeeper's Discovery BATHURST

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 2 October 1928 · page 4

Alfred Gordon Thompson (48) solicitor, and a native of Bathurst, was found in tile bathroom at "Braemar,' a boarding establishment in Keppel…

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"Wet" Canberra Issue of Licenses Delayed CANBERRA

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 3 October 1928 · page 2

It is likely that another two months will elapse before liquor licenses are issued in Canberra in accordance with the result of the recent referendum…

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Found on Licensed Premises

The Young Chronicle · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 2

Pleading guilty to being found on the licensed premises of the Australian Hotel after hours. Albert Miller was lined £2 by Mr. Harrison at…

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Well Dressed Thieves. Play Trick on Koorawatha Licensee. Took Bottles of Whisky

The Young Chronicle · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 1

Three well dressed and apparently educated young, men entered Kennelly's Hotel, Koorawatha, on Friday and asked for drinks. They were…

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Told Him Not to Swear. and Got Knocked Down for His Trouble. Scene in Hotel Yard. Unemployed Man Fined at Young

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 16 October 1928 · page 1

A rush whack! and E. J. McIllhatton, who had dared to warn Edward Roy Feeney not to use had language, lay stretched out…

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Licensing Law Efforts to Enforce It Hotel Keepers' Resolution

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 17 October 1928 · page 2

In order to assist the police to enforce the provisions of the Licensing Act, the Goulburn Licensed Victuallers' Association at its meeting…

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Hotelkeepers and the Law

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 October 1928 · page 2

We published yesterday an extraordinary document, and one that will be welcomed generally. It is all agreement…

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Items of Interest Watersiders Take Licenses

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 18 October 1928 · page 2

A message from Melbourne states that a large number of waterside works took out licenses under the Transport Workers' Act this…

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Fined £5 Licensee of the Australian Hotel. Persons on the Premises After Hours

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 October 1928 · page 1

Mrs. Hassall, licensee of the Australian Hotel, was fined £5 at the court on Wednesday for permitting a person on licensed premises after…

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Mosquitoes Bad at Harden. Report to Licensing Magistrate at Young. Inadequate Hotel Lighting

The Young Chronicle · Friday 19 October 1928 · page 1

"I've heard a lot of complaints about mosquitoes in the Harden hotels" said the Licensing Magistrate (Mr. Harrison) on Wednesday, when…

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Betting Charge on Hotel Premises Case Against Bookmaker

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 23 October 1928 · page 6

In the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, after hearing evidence in the case in which Charles Thompson is charged with using the saloons bar of…

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Took Suit Case And Left His Own Theft by Boarder at Great Eastern Hotel. Said He Was Going to Return It. Smart Mechanic with Good References Pleads for Leniency

The Young Chronicle · Tuesday 23 October 1928 · page 1

Yesterday it cost George Frederick Schuler £10 to find out that the law does not take cognisance of the old adage, "Exchange is no robbery."…

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