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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

33 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 2

Licensing of Pistols New Provisions in Force

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 1

Important alterations to the Pistol License Act came into force on January 1. After that date any weapon…

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Greyhound Racing the Local Position Bookmakers Re-Licensed Public’s Viewpoint Sought

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 2

The position as far as the Queanbeyan and District Coursing Club is concerned (following the abandonment of last Saturday night’s mechanical…

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Lower Fees Sought for Trout Licenses

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 19 January 1937 · page 2

Queanbeyan Municipal Council at its last meeting decided that other Councils interested be circularised with the object of inducing them to…

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Wireless Licenses Reduction of 3/6 Likely

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 29 January 1937 · page 2

A reduction in the amount of the annual broadcast listener's license fee, which is now 21/- a year, can be expected with confidence in the next…

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Hotel Licensee Fined Permitting Drunkenness on Premises

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 February 1937 · page 1

In the Queanbeyan Police Court this morning, before Mr. F. W. Britz, P.M., Robert Albert Snow, licensee of the Hotel Queanbeyan, pleaded not guilty…

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Trout Fishing Licenses

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 4

Some weeks ago Queanbeyan Municipal Council decided to approach local governing bodies throughout the State where trout fishing la carried…

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Theft of Whisky Tourists Hotel Premises Entered

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 1

When the licensee of the Tourists Hotel, Monaro Street, opened the bar on Wednesday morning, it was discovered that an entrance had been effected…

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Bird Hotels in England

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 3

An Englishman visiting Australia recently told of the bird-hotels that are being established by bird lovers, who possess gardens in England. The…

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Hotels' Obligation to House Travellers Remedy If It Is Not Fulfilled

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 2

The Licenses Reduction Board, commenting on a letter published in a Sydney paper, stated that if a traveller, who had been refused…

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Wireless License Fees

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 4

"There are in Australia nearly one million people holding wireless licenses. Everyone or these people pays more for his license than he should,…

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Liquor Act Breach Hotel Licensee Fined

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 2

In the Queanbeyan Police . Court on Tuesday last, before Mr. Britz, P.M., Arthur Bede Sullivan was proceded against on a charge of having permitted…

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Man's Death in Hotel

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1937 · page 7

Detectives are inquiring into the death at the Hotel Australia, Sydney, yesterday of Maurice McPhillamy, aged 46, a well-known Kelso dairy…

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Building Progress Queanbeyan’s Advance New Hotel Opened

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 May 1937 · page 1

The fine new Tourist Hotel, constructed at a cost of about £16,000, was officially opened yesterday afternoon in the presence…

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Hotel Alcestan Sold

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 2

Alter negotiations extending over four days, Mr. A. W. Oldfield has disposed of the freehold, license and goodwill of the Hotel Alcestan to Mr…

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License Refused to Carry Machinery by Road

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 3

Application was made to the Trans port Regulation Board in Melbourne last week for a licence to carry 50 tons of gold-mining machinery from…

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License Refused To Carry Machinery By Road Victorian Transport Board and Captain’s Flat Company MELBOURNE

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 2

Application was made to the Transport Regulation Board for a license to carry 50 tons of goldmining machinery from the Homebush mine, near…

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Drawn Knife Trouble at Hotel

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 1

Before Mr. S. A. Thornton, F.M., at the lcoal Police Court this morning, Thomas J. Paton, aged 18, was charged with behaving in a threatening manner…

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Hotels Conducted by Churches

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1937 · page 8

If necessary, the Anglican Church should conduct hotels in Sydney just to show how they should be run, says the Rev. G. Stuart Watts. His ideal…

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Hotel Cases

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 9 July 1937 · page 2

Lionel Keith McDonald was charged with being on the licensed premises of the Elrington Hotel, Major's Creek, during prohibited hours…

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Licensee Fined £5 Failed to Keep Bars Closed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 July 1937 · page 1

At the Court of Petty Sessions this morning before Mr. Britz. P.M., George Behn, was charged with failing to keep the bars of his licensed premises…

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