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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1923

196 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 7 of 10

Bourke Licensing District

The Western Herald · Saturday 30 June 1923 · page 2

There are 27 hotels in the Bourke Licensing District. Under the new system of charging 2% on the purchases of liquor the total license fees amount…

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Dubbo Licensing Court Monday, July 2, 1923. (Before Mr. G. Meeson P.M.)

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 3 July 1923 · page 4

J. A. Coyne applied for the transfer of the license of the Railway Junction Hotel from H. E. Jennings. When the question of the necessary…

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Four Hotels Close

Western Age · Friday 13 July 1923 · page 2

On the 30th June the following hotels in the Cobar Licensing District, having surrendered and having been paid their compensation, closed by virtue of the…

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Licensing Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 17 July 1923 · page 4

At the Dubbo Liconsing Court on Monday, before Mr. G. M[?]cson, P.M. Thomas Hailstone applied for a transfer of the license of the Royal Hotel. Genric…

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Licensing Court. a Correction

Western Age · Friday 20 July 1923 · page 2

In our last issue we intimated that fear hotels within the Cobar Licensing District had closed by virtue of the determinations of the Licenses…

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Licensing Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 24 July 1923 · page 2

The quarterly Licensing Court sat on Monday at the Dubbo Court House. Messrs. G. Meeson, P. M. and K. N. Wilkins were on the Bench. The…

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Hotel Reduction Compensation Board

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 July 1923 · page 4

On Tuesday, at the Court House, the Hotel Reduction Board sat to take evidence in regard to compensation to be paid to the hotels that has been…

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Licensing Inspector's Report

Western Age · Friday 27 July 1923 · page 2

The licensing inspector's quarterly report was received by the Licensing Court on Tuesday. The report was to the effect that everything in connection…

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Local and General Licensing Reduction Board

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 27 July 1923 · page 4

On Tuesday next, July 31st, the Licensing Reduction Board will sit in the Dubbo Court to deal with the claims for compensation to be given to the…

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Licensees' Compensation

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 31 July 1923 · page 2

The matter of the compensation' to be paid in the Wammerawa to the licensees whose hotels were delicensed by the Licenses Reduction Board, is…

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Royal Hotel Tilpa

The Western Herald · Wednesday 1 August 1923 · page 2

Mr. Job a Roland Blake wishes to notify the residents of Tilpa district that he has taken over the above well, known hostelry on the Louth…

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Tatts. Hotel Changing Hands

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 2 August 1923 · page 6

Mr H Foran, the genial proprietor of Tattersalls Hotel, Gilgandra, has disposed of the goodwill to Mr S A Hence [?] of Homebush who will take over early in…

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Licensing Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 2

Before Mr. G. Meeson, P.M., and Mr. K. N. Wilkins on Monday. An application was made by Charles Dutfield, of the Club House Hotel…

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Hotel "Barbers."

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 August 1923 · page 2

Hotel "barbers," men who prowl about hotel bedrooms and steal anything that comes their way, paid two Wellington hotels a visit during last…

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Licensing Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 2

Before Mr. G. Mecson, P.M., on Monday, at the Dubbo Court House. W. R. Fisher applied for a booth license for the Caledonian sports to be…

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Compensation to Delicensed Hotels

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 2

The Licenses Reduction Board has announced the compensation assessed in respect of hotels in the Wammerawa electorate deprived of their licenses…

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Police Court. Monday, August 20th. (Before Mr. G. Mceson, P.m.) on Licensed Premises

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 2

Timothy MeSweeney and Henry Jas, McAuliffe were charged with having been found on the licensed promises of the Railway Junction Hotel during…

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Not Quite So Dry Another Break in the Drought Mudgee Hotel Re-instated

Western Age · Friday 24 August 1923 · page 1
Also in Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent

Mudgee is not to be quite as dry as was anticipated, and seekers after stimulant have brightened up considerably as a result…

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A Building Record. the New Castereagh Hotel

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 24 August 1923 · page 3

Faithfully to contract time, namely five months, the Castlereagh Hotel was [?]anded over last Tuesday, by the contractors, E. Beale and Co., of 117…

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