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Hotels & licensing, 1924

313 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 16

Additions to Hotel Hydro

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 June 1924 · page 1

Messrs. Kell and Rigby, of 15 Castle-roagh Street, Sydney, were the successful tenderers for the building of additions to the Hotel Hydro, Leeton,…

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Wine License for Griffith

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 June 1924 · page 1

A petition for an Australian wine license for promises to be erected in Banna Avenue, Griffith, for Constantions Comines, was heard by the…

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The Hotel Sites. Will They be Forfeited?

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 10 June 1924 · page 4

The "Area News" says :— The burning question as to whether, beaten elsewhere, the Commission will finally endeavour to…

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The Publican's Pull. Who is Sugardoodle? "You Swore a Falsehood"

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 12 June 1924 · page 4

Richard Winslett, a well-known jockey about these parts, asked Judge Bevan, at Gundagai on Tuesday, to quash the…

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Items of News. Leeton Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 12 June 1924 · page 2

Tenders have been accepted for the erection of a public bar room and other additions to the Hotel Hydro, at Leeton, running into between £13,000 and…

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Licensing Court

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 2

The Narandera Licensing Court (Mr. Chippendall, P.M., chairman) started an inquiry at the "Narandera Police Court on Tuesday last with…

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Items of News. an Old Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 2

The old Comet Hotel, at Hartley Vale, near Lithgow, has just been sold for £100 to M. M'Mullen. The huoel contain 17 rooms, and, in the boom days…

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Griffith Progress Association the License Question

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 1

There was a good attendance at the meeting ot the Griffith Progress Association on Monday night, Mr. Morel occupied the chair…

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Another License Recommended

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 13 June 1924 · page 3

At the Narandera Licensing Court on Wednesday, James Alexander applied for a hotel license to be granted to the block of land adjoining the…

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The Old and the New. Licensing Bench Disbands

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 17 June 1924 · page 1

In referring to the fact that yesterday's special meeting of the Wagga Licensing Bench would be the last held under the present Liquor Act, as the…

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Hotel Inspection in Progress

Daily Advertiser · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 2

Mr. W. LeBrun Brown, a member of the Licensing Reduction Board which is inspecting the hotels in the Bathurst district, states that from July 1 the…

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Wagga Licensing Court

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 4

A quarterly Licensing Court for the Wagga Licensing District will be held at the Court House on July 21, commencing at 10 a.m. This will be the…

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Unique Court Experience. Bedroom as Licensing Chamber

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 24 June 1924 · page 2

Gundagai still keeps up its name by unique happenings. Last week the Deputy Licensing Magistrate was ordered to bed suffering from…

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Narrow Escapes Hotel Destroyed Be Fire Sydney

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 24 June 1924 · page 1

When the Farmers' Arms hotel at Crows' Nest caught fire yesterday morning, the licensee (Fogan) and his wife and children and a woman…

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Hotels to Be Built

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 June 1924 · page 1

The commission have decided to adopt the recommendation of the Land Board and waive forfeiture on the town lands blocks in respect of…

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Licensing Business

Daily Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1924 · page 2

Although the present licencing bench system will be abolished from the end of this month, when a new licensing bench of three, magistrates will take this…

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Honorary Licensing Bench. City Control Opposed at Junee

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1924 · page 6

Monday is the last day of the Junee honorary licensing bench. Yesterday Messrs. J. F. Quilter and W. J. Hiscock, the members of the bench, were…

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Plucky Woman. Holds Up Intruders. City Hotel Scare

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 June 1924 · page 8

Under exciting circumstances, Mrs. Paulsen, proprietress of Prahlert's Hotel, was responsible for the arrest of two alleged thieves a few days ago…

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Hotel Fire

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 July 1924 · page 2

The Steam Packet Hotel, at Nellingen, wan completely destroyed by fire on Sunday. The occupants barely escaped with their lives, losing a considerable…

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Women in Hotels. Minister Threatens a Census. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 July 1924 · page 2

The Rev. R.C. Nicholls, vicar of St. Mark's, Fitzroy, says that he has been astonished at the number of women he had seen going into city hotels. "Some…

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