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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1955

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

radio Listeners’ 762,584 Licenses

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 January 1955 · page 3

The Postmaster-General’s Department announced today that there were 762,584 Broadcast Listener’s Licenses in force in NSW at the…

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Some Bards and Lounges are being Brightened District Hotels Are Ready for Later Closing Next Week

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 January 1955 · page 1

All district hotels, including those at captain’s Flat, Bungendore and Bredbo, will observe the new hotel trading hours of 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with a meal break between 6.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m…

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Death of Former Yass Hotelkeefer

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 January 1955 · page 3

Mrs. Rachel Duddleston, who died in Sydney. last Saturday was a former licensee of the Royal and Club House Hotels in Yass…

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10 P.m. Closing of Hotels Starts Tonight

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 February 1955 · page 1

All Queanbeyan hotelkeepers have adopted a “wait and see what happens” attitude toward the 10 o’clock closing of hotels,…

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How Qbn Greeted 10 pm Closing A.c,t. Visitors Boost Hotel Night Trade

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 February 1955 · page 1

Later hotel trading hours hare brought with them a more leisurely attitude among drinkers in Queanbeyan. Hotelkeepers, however, report trade…

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Three Apply Fob Canberra Hotel Sites

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 February 1955 · page 2

Three applications ha re been received for both hotel sites being offered for lease at Canberra. -The are at Braddon and…

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Canberra Drinkers Here in Force Hotels Packed on First Saturday of Late Closing

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 February 1955 · page 1

Saturday night was the busiest trading [?] Queanbeyan hotels since the later lossing hours were introduced a week ago. All bars were crowded soon…

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Canberra Hotel to Cost £300,000

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 February 1955 · page 1

One of two new hotels to be built in Canberra is to cost about £300,000. It will be built by Rex…

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Hotel Fracas Cost Man £10

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 February 1955 · page 1

A Canberra man was arrested by Queanbeyan Police and charged with using indecent language and resisting arrest following a…

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Drivers Had NO Licenses, Vehicles Unregistered

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 February 1955 · page 3

At Queanbeyan Petty Sessions on Wednesday a man was fined 7/4/- and a youth £6/9/- for driving an unregistered vehicle,…

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26 Fined for Failing to License Radios

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 25 February 1955 · page 1

Twenty-Six. Queanbeyan. residents were fined at Queanbeyan Petty Sessions on Wednesday, for having unlicensed wirelesses in…

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Poll Urged on ACT Hotel Hours

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 April 1955 · page 2

The ACTT branch of the Liquor and Allied Trades Union will ask the ACT Trades and Labor Council to conduct a…

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No Decision Yet on ACT hotel Hours

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 May 1955 · page 6

The Minister for the Interior (Mr. kent Hughes) told parliament that no decision had yet been reached on the question of later hotel hours at…

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Talk of March on Hotel Hours

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 May 1955 · page 5

Dissatisfied with the delay in deciding the question of later hotel trading hours in Canberra, the ACT TRADES AND Labor…

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Police Approval Expected Soon No Parking on Corner Near Hotel Q’beyan

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 7 June 1955 · page 1

Portions of both Crawford Street and Uriarra Road at their intersection near Hotel Queanbeyan may soon be declared no parking areas. An induction of this was given…

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Qbh Golf Club Gets License

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 June 1955 · page 2

Of the four applications for club liquor licenses before Queanbeyan Licensing Court this week the application by Queanbeyan…

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No Parking Signs for Hotel Qbn

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 July 1955 · page 2

The Department of Motor Transport has gazetted portions of Uriarra Road and Crawford Street, in the vicinity of Hotel…

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Opposed to Later ACT Hotel Hours

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 19 July 1955 · page 2

A deputation from the NSW Temperance Alliance in Sydney yesterday urged the Minister for the Interior (Mr. Kent Hughes)…

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Canberra Poll On Hotel Hours

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 August 1955 · page 1

A referendum on hotel hours Canberra and. Jervis Bay is to be held In conjunction with ACT Advisory Council…

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10 pm Closing for Canberra Hotels No Meal Break

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 September 1955 · page 1

An early announcement by the Minister for the Interior (Mr. Kent Hughes) is expected as a result of the referendum vote favoring ten…

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