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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

16 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

Bench Disagrees Three for Conviction and Three for Dismissal Case to Be Heard Again Riverstone Hotel Prosecutions

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 1

There was a full Bench at Windsor Police Court on Monday, when an important case under the Licensing Act was heard. On the Bench were: Mr. H. H, Chippindall…

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Riverstone Hotel Case Heard Over Again the Informations Dismissed

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 February 1926 · page 1

On January 25th a Bench of five honorary magistrates and the Police Magistrate heard three cases at Windsor Police Court for infringements of the Licensing Act…

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Listening-in Licenses

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 2

Mr. A. G. Manning, M.H.R., for Macquarie, brought the following matter before the Postmaster-General in the House recently:—…

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Over Hotel Balcony Mysterious Fall Old Man Seriously Injured

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 March 1926 · page 3

An extraordinary accident happened about 9 o'clock, on Saturday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown board at the Fitzroy Hotel. Mrs. Brown was away posting a…

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Windsor Road Smash Doctor Settles It Driver Fined and License Cancelled

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 April 1926 · page 1

The motor smash that occurred on the Windsor-road, Rouse Hill, on March 7, when a car ran into a heap of gravel and capsized, had its sequel at the Parramatta…

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After Hours Found on Hotel Premises Convictions at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 April 1926 · page 7

Reginald Murray and George Riley were proceeded against before Mr. H. H. Chippindall, P.M., and Mr. A. Matheson, J.P., at Richmond Police Court on Tuesday, for…

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Posed As Travellers at the Black Horse Hotel Two Men Fined

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 May 1926 · page 1

Two men were each fined £5 and costs at Richmond Police Court on Tuesday, for falsely representing themselves as travellers at the Black Horse Hotel…

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Licensing Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 2

Mr. William S. Arnott, Licensing Magistrate, made a special visit to Windsor on Tuesday to take some cases under the Liquor Act…

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Publican Fined Where Did Beer Come From?

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 6

Before Mr. Chippindall P.M. and Messrs. J.J. McLeod and W.H. O'Brien, Js.P., at Windsor Police court on Monday, Thomas Nagle was charged with…

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Had 8 Rums! and Passed a Valueless Cheque Publican Victimised

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 1

"It was all through drink, your Worship. I've been so muddled that I don't know what I've been doing." ARRAIGNED in the dock at Richmond…

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Sport by Radio Licensees' Position Crown Law Viewpoint

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 July 1926 · page 2

The Crown Law Office has decided that hotel licensees may use a radio set (loud speaker or headphones) in any part of their premises—including the bar—for receiving…

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Fined £20! Motor Driver Without a License Sequel to Magrath's Hill Smash Coroner Records Verdict of Accidental Death

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 August 1926 · page 1

Ernest Maul, the driver of the motor car in which his father, John Charles Maul, met with a fatal accident, at the foot of Magrath's Hill, early on Sunday evening, August 1, when it collided with a stationary motor lorry, was fined the maximum penalty of £20, at Windsor Police Court on Monday, for…

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Hotel For Kurrajong Heights Application to Licenses Reduction Board Historic Black Horse May Lose Its License

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 1

A syndicate has been formed, several members of which are influential residents of the Hawkesbury district, for the purpose of building, and obtaining the license for, an up-to-date residential hotel at Kurrajong Heights. In view of the fact that the licensing inspector has recommended the…

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How Hotels Get Caught Magistrate Explains

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 October 1926 · page 1

"YOU are just the kind of man liable to lead a licensee into trouble. I'm sure half the hotelkeepers would not be brought to Court only for men of…

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"Hotel Kurrajong Heights" Historic Black Horse License Transferred Modern Residential to Cost £25,000

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 November 1926 · page 1

ANOTHER link with the past is to be severed by the transfer of the license of the historic Black Horse Hotel, Richmond, to a proposed new modern residential hotel at Kurrajong Heights, which is to be erected by a syndicate at a cost of £25,100…

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Publican Assaulted Row at Magrath's Hill Military Medallist Fined

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 November 1926 · page 9

George Constance O'Cass, licensee of the Australian Hotel, Magrath's Hill, proceeded against Arthur Horace Olive at Windsor Police Court on Monday for unlawful…

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