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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1925

119 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 2 of 6

Beware Forbes Hotel Keepers!

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 2

At the Warren Court last week, an hotel keeper was fined £1, and 8- costs for having one bug on his premises. Evidence was given that…

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Cyclone at Cloncurry. Churches and Hotels Suffer Brisbane

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 2

A terrific cyclone struck Cloncurry on Saturday night. The Methodist Church was lifted and carried thirty feet away, where it collapsed. Two…

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A Liquor Case Licensee’s First Offence in Twenty-five Years. an Enviable Record

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 3

Before Mr. Walter Scott, S.M., this morning. Mrs. Catherine Desmond was charged with allowing unauthorised persons on the licensed premises…

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Hotelkeeper Fined Allowing Person on Licensed Premises

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 13 March 1925 · page 1

Warren Wheatley Cullen was charged with being the licensee on whose premises a person was found after hours…

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Commercial Hotel Case. Appeal Upheld

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 March 1925 · page 10

Garfield Theodore Du Rieu, licensee of tho Commercial Hotel, Forbes, who was convicted recently by Mr. Shepherd. P.M., had his…

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Refusing Police Admission Licensee Heavily Fined. an Elusive Thirst Quencher Alleged to Make a Good Get-away

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 17 March 1925 · page 3

Catherine Addison, licensee of the Railway Hotel was to-day charged with refusing to admit the licensing inspector to a room on her licensed…

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On Licensed Premises Police Case Fails. Bench Holds Defendant Was a Traveller. Licensee and Two Others Fined

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 24 March 1925 · page 3

Before Mr. Walter Scott, S.M., this morning James McKenna was charged with having been found on the licensed premises of the Court House…

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Hotel Thieves Raids at Young Lodgers Loose Heavily

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 6

A thief, or thieves, raided the Royal Hotel in the early hours of Monday morning, and robbed three lodgers, as well as paying fruitless…

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Poor Jack Corbett’s Sad End Falls From Railway Hotel Balcony. While Walking in His Sleep

Cowra Free Press · Monday 6 April 1925 · page 1

When the news was heard on Wednesday morning last that poor ‘Jack’ Corbett had received frightful injuries as the result of falling from the…

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Hotel Thief in Temora

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Tuesday 7 April 1925 · page 1

About 2 o'clock last Tuesday morning a sneak thief visited the Royal Exchange Hotel, Temora, and helped himself to some money belonging to…

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Alleged Gaming on Licensed Premises Case from Girral Information Dismissed

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 17 April 1925 · page 8

At the West Wyalong Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Cleeve, P.M., Edward James Wallis was charged that being the holder of a…

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(Published by arrangement) What We Miss Under License

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 17 April 1925 · page 2

"The psychology of the American nation is, indeed, an amazing thing," says the London "Dally Despatch", in a leading article. "The cold-blooded…

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Local & General Transfer of Canowindra Billiard Room License

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 28 April 1925 · page 2

This morning the license of a billiard room at Canowindra was transferred from Ernest E. Murray to Reginald Fletcher. Mr. Finn…

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Town Progress Extensive Additions to White Tank Hotel

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 1

Mr. R. D. Gorman, proprietor of the White Tank Hotel, is determined to move with the times. He is finding that his commodious two-storey brick…

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Local & General a Question of Hotel Tariff

Cowra Free Press · Tuesday 5 May 1925 · page 1

An interesting case was heard at West Maitland Court the other day when Emily Moarty, licensee of the Caledonian Hotel, was charged with…

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W. Licensing Court Two Hotels Change Hands

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 15 May 1925 · page 1

At the West Wyalong Licensing Court on Wednesday, before Mr. W. H. Cleeve, P.M., the license of the Wyalong Hotel, Wyalong, was…

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On Licensed Premises During Prohibited Hours

The Wyalong Advocate and Mining, Agricultural and Pastoral Gazette · Friday 15 May 1925 · page 1

At the West Wyalong Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. W. H. Cleeve, P.M., George Morris, Charles Morris, and…

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Forbes Court Matters Victoria Hotel Charged. Charge Dismissed

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 29 May 1925 · page 8

At the Forbes Police Court on Tuesday before Mr. T. M. Coben, relieving P.M., William H. Baker, licensee, of the Victoria Hotel, Forbes, was…

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Gladstone Hotel Transfer

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Wednesday 3 June 1925 · page 9

We take the following from the Orange "Leader" The J. MacEwan mentioned is well-known in Condobolin, being familiarly known as…

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Eugowra in Embryo The District's First Settlers Eugowra's First Building Notes on the Early Days. of Course It Was an Hotel

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 5 June 1925 · page 5

Eugowra's first kick over the Slippery Rock that landed the first goal for Eugowra was the building of its first house in the…

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