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

Hotels & licensing, 1938

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Alleged Betting on Licensed Premises

The Burrowa News · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 7

Sidney Arthur Thane was charged with allowing a room on his licensed premises to be used by Benjamin George Littlefield for the purpose of…

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N.S.W. Hotels Big Decline Since 1920

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY; Tuesday:. The report of the Licensing Bench and the Licenses Reduction Board for 1937 shows that hotels in…

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License Taken for Three Years

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: On February 21, John Francis Dobbie, 28, drove a motor car along Oxford Street and collided with a tram…

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Commercial Hotel License To Change Hands Mrs. Beatrice Johnston Leaving Yass

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 5 May 1938 · page 2

Mrs. Beatrice Johnston, who has been licensee of the Commercial Hotel for the last sixteent years relinquishes business in Yass on the…

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N.s.w. Hotels Big Decline Since 1920

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The report of the Licensing Bench and the Licenses Reduction Board for 1937 shows that hotels in N.S.W…

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Wagga's Hotels Drastic Recommendations £50,000 on Renewals and Renovations

The Burrowa News · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 4

WAGGA, Thursday: An Inspector under the Licensing Act recently inspected all the hotels in Wagga, and made drastic recommendations…

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Hotel Licenses Drop of 428 “Since 1920

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 9 May 1938 · page 1

The report of the Licensing Bench and the Licensing (Reduction! Board for 1.937, just made available by the Minister for Justice (Mr. Mairtin)…

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Lost License Intoxicated Lorry Driver Fined As Well

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 10 May 1938 · page 2

When Albert Lehmann, 40, was convicted at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday on a charge of having 'driven a motor lorry in…

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Auction Sale Commercial Hotel Furniture

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 12 May 1938 · page 2

Reader are reminded that the auction ,sale of the furniture and effects of the Commercial Hotel, will be sold on the premises on…

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New Line of Attack on S.P. BETTING Three Hotels Are "Declared" Common Gaming Houses

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday: A sudden and drastic move in the campaign against starting-price betting in Sydney hotels was made by the…

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After Hours Hotel Trading Case Six Fined

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 1

At the Goulburn Police Court yesterday. Ernest Edgar Harten Goulburn hotelkeeper, was fined £1 with 8/ costs, or three days,…

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500 Hotelkeepers Decide to Prevent S.P. BETTING Broadcasting To Be Kept To Description of Running

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 18 May 1938 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A meeting of 500 hotelkeepers last night decided to take all steps to prevent 5.p. betting on their premises, and to restrict race bro adcasts to a description of the running…

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Commercial Hotel Under New Management

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 1

The well-known Commercial Hotel has changed hands, having been taken ever by British Breweries…

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Hotelkeepers and Their Duty Bound To Be Of Good Behaviour

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Mr. N. H. Connolly of the U.L.V.A., said yesterday that hotelkeepers were in the position of being on a bond to be of good…

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Licensee Wins Goulburn Men Were "Travellers" "After Hours"

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 1

At the Goulburn Police Court yesterday, Claude Louis O'Brien, licensee of the Southern Railway Hotel, successfully…

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On Licensed Premises Police Court Fines

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 8

When Sergt. Germer entered the bar of the Royal Hotel at 8.20 o'clock on the night of Friday, April 8, he found the licensee…

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Our Sydney Letter Licensing S.p

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 3

When Parliament reassembles a move will be made by some members to induce the Government to license a limited number of S.P. betting shops…

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FINED £10 Unlicensed Pistol Ex-hotel Manager

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 8

On two charges relating to a revolver, Charles Hogarth Johnston, former hotel manager of was fined £10 and £5…

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Licence of Declared Hotel Renewal Sought

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday; an application for the renewal of the license of the North British Hotel, Loftus Street, Sydney, one of the four hotels…

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Allowing Betting on Licensed Premises Boorowa Publican Fined £10 and Costs Boorowa Police Court Thursday, 26th MAY. (Before Mr. F. W. Britz, P.M.)

The Burrowa News · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 9

Sydney Arthur Thame was charged with wilfully and knowingly allowing betting on his premises, to wit, the Royal…

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