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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1916

194 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 10

Reduction of Hotels. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 8 August 1916 · page 3

The Licenses Reduction Board of Victoria closed 110 hotels during the current year. It was decided that 29 hotels in the metropolitan area were…

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1000 Hotels Closed. a Decade in Victoria. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 August 1916 · page 2

Under the licensing law as it at present stands the Licenses Reduction Board will cease to operate at the close of the present year. As the…

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Broken Hill Hotels. Want to Shut at Nine. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 August 1916 · page 3

In the Legislative Assembly Mr. Jabez Wright presented a petition from the electors of Sturt and Willyama, praying that hotels be allowed…

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Hotel Bars. No Women Customers. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1916 · page 4

The regulations under the Act which has just been passed will absolutely prevent women from entering or being served with liquor in hotel bars…

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Licensing Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 19 August 1916 · page 4

At a sitting of the Licensing Court yesterday, when Messrs. C. J. B. Helm, W. Purtell and L. A. Fosbery, licensing magistrates, occupied the…

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Verdict for Is. Publican Sued for Alleged Libel

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 21 August 1916 · page 2

The most interesting case which Judge Rogers had to decide at the District Court on Friday was that in which John Gardiner,…

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Licensed Victuallers' Races

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 22 August 1916 · page 2

The Show and Racing Carnival will extend over Tuesday and Wednesday. 29th and 30th. August, when the Licensed Victuallers' meeting will be held…

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Publicans. Deputation to Premier. Moratorium Sought. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 August 1916 · page 2

A deputation of a number of hotelkeepers waited upon the Premier this afternoon urging the modification of the responsibilities of certain hotelkeepers…

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Hotelkeeper Fined. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 August 1916 · page 4

A hotel licensee was fine £5, in default one month's imprisonment, for having persons unlawfully on her premises during prohibited hours…

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An Hotel Assault

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 29 August 1916 · page 3

A young man named Arnold Box was charged with having inflicted grievous bodily harm on Frank Richards, an elderly man and a laborer…

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Licensing Court. Tuesday 29th August. (Before Messrs. C. J. B. Helm, L.M., and F.L. Sugden and Cyrus Culley, Js.P.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1916 · page 4

Michael Joseph Gleeson applied for permission to Add a billiard room to his hotel at Darlington point. The application…

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Hotel Hours in Queensland. a Six O'clock Bill. Carried in the Council. Brisbane

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 September 1916 · page 1

In the Legislative Council on Wednesday Mr. Fowles moved the suspension of the standing orders to enable the Six o'Clock Closing Bill to be put…

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THAT "6" VOTE Publicans Organise

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 4 September 1916 · page 2

There was a meeting of the newly formed association of Licensed Victuallers for the Southwestern districts at Wagga on…

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Hotelkeepers Beware Trading After 6 O'clock

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 4

At the Albnry police court, before Mr. Laidlaw, P.M., the first local prosecutions under the Liquor Act since the advent of G o'clock closing…

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Licensing Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 3

At a sitting of the Licensing Court yesterday, when Mr. C. J. B. Helm adjudicated, a transfer was granted of the Boundary Hotel from Hedwig Bertha…

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Hotel Safe Stolen. Money and Jewellery Extracted. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 September 1916 · page 3

A gang of safe-breakers broke into Riley's Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills, early this morning and removed a safe from the building and carried it some…

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Export of Woollen Goods. Issue of Licenses. London

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 September 1916 · page 3

At the wool trade conference with the war trade department to-day it was stated that a committee is considering the issue of licenses to export…

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No Billiards After 11 P.m Hotel, Rents, Fees and Debts

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 7 September 1916 · page 1

One clause of the Liquor Law Amending Bill, which the Attorney-General intends to introduce into Parliament this week, provides for the…

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Early Closing of Hotels. Abuses in Country Towns. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 8 September 1916 · page 3

A deputation from the New South Wales Alliance interviewed the Chief Secretary to ask that steps be taken to ensure the observance of the…

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Victorian Hotels Bill Read First Time

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 9 September 1916 · page 3

When moving ro leave to introduce a bill dealing with the earlier closing of hotels, the Premier (Sir Alexander peacock) stated in the Legislative…

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