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Illawarra · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1946

26 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 2

Allegedly Sold Gin Without License

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 4 January 1946 · page 1

Charged at this Wollongong Court yesterday, with selling a bottle of gin on December 24 without holding a license, and with…

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Sale of Old Hotel

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 1

Bellair's Commercial Hotel at Wagga was bought for £35,000 by Mr. A. O. Romano, owner of Romano's Restaurant, Sydney, and of the champion…

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Bulli Hospital Seeking Dog Racing License

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 1

Bulli Hospital Board, on Tuesday night, decided to supply to the Chief Secretary's Department for a daylight dog racing license for…

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Local Government Control of Hotels

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 6

At a recent meeting of the Balmain Municipal Council, scathing reference was made to the apparent inability of the present licensing authorities to…

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Hotel Cook Gaoled

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 1 March 1946 · page 22

Leslie James Tomkins (25), hotel chef, pleaded guilty at Wollongong Court on Monday to (1) knowingly having in his possession at Dapto, a…

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Hotel Robberies

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 15 March 1946 · page 1

Thieves who entered the Dapto Hotel, Dapto, during Tuesday night, removed the hotel's safe and cash register. On the same…

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Three Motorists Fined and Lose Licenses

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 5

Three motorists appeared before Mr. Bryant, S.M., at Wollongong Court on Monday on charges of driving motor cars whilst under the…

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Trotting License Sought for Slacky Flat

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 1

Permission is to be sought from the Chief Secretary to conduct trotting at Slacky Flat, Bulli. Bulli Council on Monday night…

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Fined and Loses License

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 29 March 1946 · page 11

John Best (31), colliery shiftman, charged at Wollongong Court yesterday with driving a motor car in Crown street on March 25th…

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Licensing Court on May 2

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 3

The Licensing Court will sit at Wollongong on May 2 to deal with a number of applications for wine and spirit merchant's licenses…

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Not Licensed Electrician

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 7

Maxwell F. Cadell was fined £2 and £1/9/0 costs at the Wollongong Court yesterday for having carried out electrical work without holding a license…

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Seven Applicants for Wholesale Liquor Licenses

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 20

Several applications for wine and spirit merchants' licenses were mentioned at Wollongong Court on Monday…

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Brawl Outside Hotel

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 3

The allegation that after a man had hit her son, knocking him to the ground, he had [?] was made by a Wonoona in the…

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Combined Application for Liquor License

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 4

Thirroul, Austinmer and Coledale Sub-branches of the Returned Soldiers' League are combining in an application for a liquor license for the…

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Application for Club License

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 31 May 1946 · page 1

A meeting of representatives of Coledale, Austinmer, Thirroul and Bulli-Woonona Sub-branches of the R.S.L. on Sunday to discuss a…

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Trotting License for Bulli

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 1

Bulli Trotting Club was advised by the Chief Secretary on Tuesday that a trotting license had been granted for Slacky Flat, Bulli…

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Theft from Hotel Alleged

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 21 June 1946 · page 9

A charge alleging the theft of property valued at £256 from the Hotel Illawarra on the night of June 10th, was heard at…

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Twelve Applications for Wine Licenses

Illawarra Mercury · Friday 25 October 1946 · page 9

The hearing of 13 applications for wine and spirit merchants' licenses, for premises within the Illawarra district, was began on…

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License for Port Kembla

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 25 October 1946 · page 13

After hearing the six applications for wine and spirit merchants' licenses at Port Kembla, Mr. Scobie of the Licensing Bench, granted…

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Licensing Court Applications

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Friday 25 October 1946 · page 8

Mr. J. B. Scobie, of the Licensing Bench, sat at Wollongong during the week dealing with a number of applications under the recently…

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