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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1910

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Jewellery Missed from a Hotel. Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1910 · page 2

Two Melbourne ladies staying at the Wentworth Hotel, Wynyard, report to the police that £100 worth of jewellery and notes was stolen from their bed…

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The Licensed Victuallers

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 14 May 1910 · page 4

MR. WADDELL, speaking at the Licensed Victuallers' annual picnic, said the country derived an enormous revenue from the trade. It would be unjust to do anything injurious ton the hotel…

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After Hours in a Hotel. a Leaky Place in the Liquor Act

The Wellington Times · Monday 16 May 1910 · page 3

At the Wellington police court on Friday before Mr. Oslear, P.M., James Madden, William, Pulbrook, Valentine Madden, and George Sinclair were…

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Interesting Cases, the Publican’s Booth at the Late Show

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 24 May 1910 · page 3

Two interesting cases, arising out of the late Coonamble Show and the management of the publican’s booth on the ground at that function were called on at the…

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The No License Campaign

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 25 May 1910 · page 2

WE have been informed by the secretary of the local branch of the New South Wales Alliance that Mr. J. N. Bruntnell having broken down in health, will nob be able to visit Dubbo and…

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The No-license Campaign

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 25 May 1910 · page 4

The Prohibition party has issued an election manifesto, in which it states that the attitude taken up by the party is an absolutely non-party one, but it…

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The Royal Hotel

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 June 1910 · page 4

It will be learnt with pleasure that the sale of the Royal Hotel which was reported in last issue has not taken place, and that Mrs. Campbell will…

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Tragedy at an Hotel. Attempted Murder and Suicide

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 3

WHAT appears to have been a deliberate attempt to commit murder, followed by suicide, occurred at the Sir Walter Scott Hotel, Melbourne, on Tuesday morning…

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The Court House Hotel to Change Hands

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 4

AFTER about eight years' control of the Court House Hotel, Mrs. A. Simms has completed arrangements for retiring from the business. The purchaser is Mr. W. Kither, of Sydney,…

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A Martial Quarrel. Tragedy in a Hotel

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 3

What appears to have been a deliberate attempt to commit murder, followed by suicide, occurred at the Sir Walter Scott Hotel, Melbourne, on…

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The Court House Hotel

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 4

Many of our readers will learn with real regret that Mrs. Si[?] has disposed of the license of the Court House Hotel, and that she will [?]ever her…

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In a Swiss Hotel a Miracle of Seven Storeys

The Bligh Watchman and Coonabarabran Gazette · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 6

In Switzerland the hotels occur in all conceivable and inconceivable situations. The official guide of the Swiss Society of Hotelkeepers gives…

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No-License Campaign. Address by Mr. James Hurst

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 2

ON Friday evening Mr. James Hirst, organizer of the New South Wales Alliance, delivered an address at St. Andrew's Hall in support of the No-license campaigin in connection with the…

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The Court House Hotel

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 2

The change in the proprietorship or this well-known hostelry hardly needs to be mentioned here, but Mr. W. Kither, the new proprietor, elsewhere…

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The Temperance Campaign. Mr. James Hirst's Meetings. What the Swedes Think of No-license

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 22 June 1910 · page 4

Mr. James Hirst, an agent of the Temperance Alliance of N.S.W., arrived in Dubbo on Friday morning to conduct a series of meetings in support…

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Licensing Court. Tuesday, July 6. (Before Mr. C. E. Oslear Dr. Burkitt, and Mr. T. Baird.) RENEWALS

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 3

Renewals were granted of the following hotels:--Gradstone, Dubbo; Federal Narromine; Collie Hotel, Collie; Royal Da[?]doo (asse[?]ment £130); Mundooran Hotel,…

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Poor Men's Hotels Lot for a Little

The Western Herald · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 3

How to live on ten and sixpence a week and make a profit of L17,000 a year. This is not a riddle, but a sober fact, as you will see if you accompany…

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Mr. Utley Turning Boniface. An Hotel for Eumungerle

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 4

SOME interest was caused this week when it became known that Mr. E. H. Utley proposed to start a large hotel on the rising settlement at Eumungerie and was seeking to obtain a…

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License for Eumungerie. Application by E. H. Utley Granted

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 3

The Dubbo Licensing Bench was occupied on two days of this week[?] ing evidence in support of and in opposition to an application by Edwin…

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Licensing Court

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 4

On Tuesday Mr. C. E. Oslear, P.M., Dr. Burkitt and Mr. Thomas Baird, Licensing Magistrates, granted the renewal of the license of the Royal Hotel,…

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