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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1920

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Dog Averts Tragedy. Gives Warning of Fire. Old Hotel Destroyed. COLLARENEBRI

Daily Observer · Saturday 29 May 1920 · page 2

One of the oldest land marks on the Upper Barwon disappeared on Wednesday morning, when the Mogil Mogil hotel was completely destroyed by fire. The lessee…

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Mogil Hotel Burned. Dog Gives Warning of Fire

The North Western Courier · Monday 31 May 1920 · page 2

One of the oldest land marks on the Upper Barwon disappeared on Wednesday morning, when the Mogil Mogil hotel was destroyed by fire. The…

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Transfer of License

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 2

At the Licensing Court yesterday morning, before Mr. J. Laidlaw, Licensing Magistrate, the transfer of the license of the billiard roam at East…

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License Reduction. Effect in Namoi Electorate

Daily Observer · Thursday 10 June 1920 · page 1

Captain F. A. Chaffey[?] M.L.A., has received the following letter from the secretary of the License Reduction Board:— In reply to your letter of the 2nd inst.,…

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Found on Licensed Premises

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 10 June 1920 · page 3

R. W. Trotter was charged with being found on the licensed premises of the Criterion Hotel on 10th December in contraction of the prevision of…

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Tamworth Licensing Court

Daily Observer · Tuesday 15 June 1920 · page 1

At the Tamworth Licensing Court yesterday, Thomas Bernard O'Shea was granted a renewal of his publican's license for the Railway Hotel, Attunga…

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Sale of Hotel Freehold

Daily Observer · Wednesday 16 June 1920 · page 1

Attention is directed to an announcement in this issue regarding the auction sale of the freehold of the Imperial Hotel, Tamworth. This is a well and…

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In a Scotch Hotel

Manilla Express · Thursday 17 June 1920 · page 3

A traveller tells how once, when staying at a hotel in Scotland, he a woke at dawn to find another head on the pillow. His first intention was to kick out the…

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Shooting in Hotel. Sydney

Daily Observer · Friday 18 June 1920 · page 2

William Bourke, husband of Mrs. Grace Bourke license of the Union Hotel, Blackall, Queensland, was shot in the cheek. It is surmised the shot was fired…

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Fell From Hotel Balcony. Tamworth Boy Seriously Injured

Daily Observer · Monday 21 June 1920 · page 1

Arthur Henry Page, 18, fell a distance of 20 feet from the roof of the bar balcony of the Commercial Hotel, Marius-street, Tamworth, on Friday…

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Visit to Federal Capital. The Royal Train. Fitted up like Modern Hotel SYDNEY

Daily Observer · Monday 21 June 1920 · page 2

The last embellishments are now being made to the Royal train at Eveleigh, in readiness for the Prince's trip to Queenbeyan to-night. Two big N N…

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The Greyhound Hotel

The North Western Courier · Monday 21 June 1920 · page 1

The fact that tenders are to be called for the re-election of the Greyhound Hotel, Narrabri, reminds one that first hotel of the name to…

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Tamworth News. Non-return of Motor License

Daily Observer · Tuesday 6 July 1920 · page 1

Willie Ming, of Tintinhull, Tamworth, was lined 10/ under the Motor Traffic Act, at Tamworth Police Court yesterday, for not returning a license which…

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Refused to Pay Hotel Bill

Daily Observer · Wednesday 7 July 1920 · page 1

At the Tamworth Police Court, yesterday, Harry Schmitt, 30, was charged that on July 6 he refused to pay the sum of £1/10 to the licensee of the…

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New Type of Hotel Thief

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Thursday 8 July 1920 · page 3

A new and embarrassing form of hotel thief has of late very greatly increased as the direct result of the enormous rise in the price of every…

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Licenses Transferred

Daily Observer · Tuesday 13 July 1920 · page 5

At the Tamworth Licensing Court yesterday, before Mr. A. Ormonde Butter P.M., Patrick John Sweeney applied or a transfer of the publican's license…

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Tamworth News. Auctioneers' Licenses Granted

Daily Observer · Tuesday 13 July 1920 · page 5

Thomas Davies and William Robert Lord were granted auctioneers' licences at the Tamworth Police Court yesterday…

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New Management of Royal Hotel

Daily Observer · Wednesday 14 July 1920 · page 2

Mr. M. J. Hughes, who succeeds Mr. R[?] Solomons as licensee of the Royal Hotel Tamworth, has bad considerable experience in the management, or…

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Hotel Under New Management

Daily Observer · Thursday 15 July 1920 · page 1

Mr. F. M. Donald has taken over the Post Office Hotel, from Mr. Sweeney. Mr. Donald is not a stranger to Tamworth, for some years ago he often…

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Mannix Denounced. "Passport not Agitator's License." LONDON

Daily Observer · Monday 19 July 1920 · page 1

The "Times," in a lender, denounces Dr. Mannix's New York speech, and asks whether he can conceivably be justified, under the cloak of tolerance…

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