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Hotels & licensing, 1926

225 stories in Riverina's papers · page 11 of 12

Hotel Row Ends Fatally

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 November 1926 · page 2

John M'Namara (68) was struck on the face by another man in Surry Hills last night, end fell on the back of his head. He was rendered…

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Fire in Melbourne Hotel

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 5 November 1926 · page 2
Also in Daily Advertiser

Extensive damage was caused by a fire which broke out in the Orient Hotel, Melbourne, at an early hour to-day. Many of the occupants suffered…

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Robbery and Assault Hotel Bedroom Episode Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 November 1926 · page 2

At the Darlinghurst Sessions, to-day, two young men, John Barr and Edward Healey, were charged with having assaulted and robbed an old man,…

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To Shave a Kitten Man Pays for Hotel Joke Cessnock

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 November 1926 · page 3

Michael Hession’s queer sense of humor cost him £2 in the Ceesnock Police Court yesterday. He went into a hotel bar, opened a billycan, took a…

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Tasmanian Licensed Bookmakers Proposal

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 November 1926 · page 2

The Tasmanian Cabinet this week will consider a bill providing for the licencing of bookmakers. The principal Tasmanian rating bodies have…

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The Wrong Whisky Hotel Licensee Fined Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 November 1926 · page 2

In the Central Court to-day, Albert V. Costin, licensee of the Covent Garden Hotel, City, was proceeded against [?] Thomas Patrick, Lee, officer of the…

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Hotel Transfers

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 November 1926 · page 2

At the Licensing Court this morning, before the P.M., the license of the Globe Hotel, Cootamundra, was transfered to Mrs. Loch, widow of…

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Killed in Hotel Charge of Manslaughter Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 November 1926 · page 1

The City Coroner to-day inquired into the death of John M'Namara, who died through striking his head on the floor of an hotel at Surry Hills. The…

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Auctioneers Licenses

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 23 November 1926 · page 3

We direct the attention of those auctioneers whose licenses expire on December 31, to the necessity of applying for renewals at least a…

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Local and General Refused Hotel for Springdale

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 29 November 1926 · page 2

Before the Licenses' Reduction Board—comprising Messrs. F. V. Adrian (chairman), W. S. Arnott and D. Le Brun Brown—an unsuccessful…

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Drunk on Hotel Premises

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1926 · page 4

Thomas Peter Albert Jenkins, 60, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having been found drunk in the bar parlor of the Uranquinty Hotel on Sunday…

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Licensing Court

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 1 December 1926 · page 4

William James Grouse, licensee of the Alfredtown Hotel, was granted permission of effect material structural alterations to this hotel, including the…

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On Licensed Premises

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1926 · page 4

Several men pleaded guilty to charges of having been on the licensed premises of the Union Club Hotel and the Terminus Hotel and were each…

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Licensing Court

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 7 December 1926 · page 4

An application for the transfer of the licence of the Federal Hotel from Colin Campbell to Mary Ellen M'Glynn was granted…

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Deaf Persons Refused Car Licenses SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 December 1926 · page 2

When two youths, both deaf, applied to Mr. Bliek, S.M., at the city court yesterday, for motor drives licenses, he refused them on the grounds that…

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Hotel for Quandialla

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 9 December 1926 · page 2

Quandialla, a thriving township on the Forbes-Stockinbingal line, and the centre of a big wheat district, is to have an hotel. The application for…

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Travelling Hotel

Ariah Park News · Thursday 9 December 1926 · page 4

An idea of how grandly equipped the liners are that trade between England and Australia may be gleamed from…

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Liquor From Hotel Carrier Fined

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1926 · page 3

A case of interest to travellers and citizens was dealt with in the Vagga Police Court yesterday before Mr. H. L. Adams, P.M. Henry Emil…

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Tenders for Occupation License

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 16 December 1926 · page 1

It is notified under the Crown Lands Consolidation Act, 1913, that tenders will be received not later than 3 o'clock (3 p.m.) on Wednesday, 16th…

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