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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

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Famous Hotel Burned (Reuter Service) QUEBEC, January 15

The Daily Express · Saturday 16 January 1926 · page 1

Damage estimated at 2000,000 dollars was done by a fire at the Chateau Frontenac, one of the premier hotels of Canada…

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Increase in Hotel Tariffs

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 20 January 1926 · page 3

The Residential Hotels Association, which represents most of the leading hotels in Sydney, endorsed the adoption of an increased tariff to…

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Industrial Law Question of Wages Hotel-keepers Fined

The Daily Express · Tuesday 26 January 1926 · page 2

Mr. J. B. Gibson, P.M., sitting in industrial juri[?]diction at Wagga yesterday, dealt with a number o[?] prosecutions by Mr. Hugh McEvoy,…

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Burglars Raid Hotels and Houses

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1926 · page 6

Burglars who entered five residences at Christchurch, N.Z., last night, set two of them on fire but the brigades prevented their destruction. The but…

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Licensing Court

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 February 1926 · page 2

Inspector Parker presented his quarterly report for the Wagga district in the Licensing Court on Saturday, Mr. J. B. Gibson being on the…

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Country Hotel Thief Captured by Ruse of a Canny Scot

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1926 · page 5

For some time past, boarders and lodgers at the Court House Hotel, Narromine, have been robbed of spare cash, clothing etc., and so acute…

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Exciting Hotel Fire

Daily Advertiser · Monday 8 February 1926 · page 2

Six persons had exciting escapes when fire destroyed several bedrooms at the Cambrian Hotel at Maryborough, Victoria, early on Saturday…

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Adelong Hotels Close ADELONG

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1926 · page 1

The hotels here closed to-day. owing to a shocking dust storm. The sky was overcast with rain cloudy; but only a few tantalising drops fell…

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The Beer Strike Lithgow Publicans Yield Lithgow

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 February 1926 · page 3

The beer strike at Lithgow [?]termindated, to-day, when the publicans caved in, [?]ad reverted to the old prices for all liquors…

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Haul at Hotel Auckland (X.z.)

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 12 February 1926 · page 1

A number of wealthy residents, also sonic overseas visitors, who are staying at the Teraces Hotel, Taupo were robbed of many valuables and…

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Licensing Court

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 12 February 1926 · page 6

At the Temors Licensing Court last week W. J. Lavies applied for the license of the Springwood Hotel [?] Mr. Jameson appeared for the…

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Hotel Thefts Gang Busily Employed. Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 February 1926 · page 6

A number of wealthy residents, and also some overseas visitors, who are staying at the Terrace Hotel, Taupe, were robbed of many valuables and…

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Gippsland Holocaust Harrowing Stories From the Burning Bush One Township Completely Licked Up by the Flames. a Hundred Women and Children Saved by Hotel Water Supply. Victorian Government Taking Prompt Measures for the Relief of Sufferers by Providinc Clothes and Food Melbourne

The Daily Express · Wednesday 17 February 1926 · page 1

An estimate of dead and missing in the bush fires raging in the mountain ranges of Gippsland gives the [?]tal as 32, made up as follows:…

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TO-DAY Appeal Against Licensee's Conviction Conviction Confirmed

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 19 February 1926 · page 2

William Benjamin Lavelle, [?] [?] of the Empire Hotel, Young, appealed against a conviction at Young on account of a person found…

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Hotel Balcony Fire

The Daily Express · Monday 22 February 1926 · page 2

In Fitzmaurice Street yesterday afternoon Messrs J. F. O’Regan. M. L.C.. and C. Fuller noticed smoke rising form the balcony of the…

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The Fallacy of Truth Hotel Licensee and After-hour Trading

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 23 February 1926 · page 6

That the truth is often fallacious was demonstrated at the Murrumburrah Police Court last week, when the police proceeded…

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Coogee Objections to Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 24 February 1926 · page 4

An appeal was today lodged against the erection of an hotel at Coogee on the ground that it was too near a church. It was also alleged that the…

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Motor Licenses. Interstate Complaints. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 25 February 1926 · page 3

In the Legislative Assembly to-day the Minister for Justice promised Mr. Doe that he would look into complaints that had been made that the police in…

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Out On License Released Prisoner's Lapse. Magistrate's Lenient Action Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 1

An unusual case came before the Central Court to-day, when Walter Howard, who, is was said, had been released on license after he had been…

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Down Hotel Cellar

Daily Advertiser · Monday 1 March 1926 · page 1

James Smith (62), of a fixed abode, booked a room at the George Hotel, Albury on Saturday night. At 11 o'clock the licensee, Mrs…

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