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Hotels & licensing, 1926

225 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 12

Jewellery Stolen American at City Hotel Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 July 1926 · page 1

Saul Newbury, a reputed millionaire from Chicago, who is staying at the [?]lbtel Australia informed the police that jewellery, consisting of a…

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A Change of Publicans

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Tuesday 3 August 1926 · page 2

Local hotel-kerper are on the more. Only recently Mr. George Holm started the bill rolling by selling out his Criterion Hotel…

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On the Wrong Side Jockey's Drivers' License Suspended Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 August 1926 · page 3

In the Burwood Police Court to-day, Reginald Marsden, a well-known jockey, was fined £5, and had his [?]cense suspended for two months, for having driven…

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"No License for Crime" Returned Soldier Sentenced. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1926 · page 3

"Because a man went to the war he has not been given a license to live by crime," said Judge Rolin, at the darlinghurst Sessions, to-day, in imposing…

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F.S.A. Conference Farmers' Dog Licenses Separate Entity of Country Party SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1926 · page 1

At the Farmers and Settlers' Conference to-day, a resolution was carried unanimously urging the conference to enter an emphatic protest against the…

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Hotel Theft Detectives Make Arrest Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1926 · page 1

While Defectives Kennedy and Watkins were inquiring into a number of thefts from one of the city hotels, to-day, they saw the name of a man…

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Hotelkeeper Charged with Perjury

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 11 August 1926 · page 3

Arising out of evidence given by him before the Adelaide Police Bribery Commission, a writ has been issued on a charge of perjury against Walter…

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Ownerless 'Plane in Country Hotel Yard Licensee Asks Leave to Sell Aberdeen

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 August 1926 · page 2

In the Aberdeen Court to-day, P. G. Preston, licensee of the Victoria Hotel, applied for leave to dispose of an aeroplane which had been left on his…

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The Java Murder Hotel Servants Confess How Mrs. Macfie Met Her Death Weltevreden (Java)

Daily Advertiser · Friday 13 August 1926 · page 2

Entjim has confessed to killing Mrs. Macfie. Ruben and Rachman, he said, assisted in the murder. Entjim narrates that a certain Ruben…

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Ganmain Police Court. “Hotel Barber.”

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 August 1926 · page 6

At the Ganmain Police Court on Friday last, August 6th, before Messrs. L. F. Ledgerwood and W. H. Rowston, J’s. P., Samuel Murphy (26) was…

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Town and Country J Smith, representing MAPLES, is at Wynyard Hotel, TUMUT, Inquiries promptly attended to

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 13 August 1926 · page 2

Mr. and Mrs. Alf. Curtis and family, lately of Adelong, are now resident at "Kiaree" Weetawaa, North-bridge, Sydney…

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Dempsey Refused a License New York

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 August 1926 · page 4

The State License Committee today refused Jack Dempsey a license to meet Tunney on September 16, until he has agreed to meet Wills…

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Jack Dempsey Refused a License New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 August 1926 · page 3

The State license committee to-day refused Jack Dempsey a license to meet Tunney on September 16, until he has agreed to meet Wills…

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"Five Rums" Row Shots Fired in Hotel Hurried Flight to Safety Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 26 August 1926 · page 5

Five rums are stated to have been the cause of an exciting incident which occurred in the Rosedale Hotel. The story was recounted to-day when…

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Hotel Licenses Cancelled

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1926 · page 4

The License Reduction Board announced yesterday that the following hotels in the Murrumbidgee electorate will be deprived of their licenses after…

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Referendum Day Hotels Will Not Close Riverina State Scrutineers Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1926 · page 4

The Minister for Justice (Mr. M'Kell) says there is no necessity for hotels to close on September 4, when the Federal Referendum will be taken…

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Licenses Lost Country Hotels

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Monday 30 August 1926 · page 3

The Licenses Reduction Board decided last week that the following premises in the Murrumbidgee Electorate [?] be deprived of their…

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DELICENSED Twelve Hotels Murrumbidgee Electorate

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 2 September 1926 · page 3

The Licensing Reduction Board, at its sitting on Saturday announced the names of 12 hotels in the Murrumbidgee electorate that will be delicensed…

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'I Didn't Refuse' Hotelkeeper Charges Lodger

The Gundagai Independent and Pastoral, Agricultural and Mining Advocate · Thursday 9 September 1926 · page 3

AT THE local police court on Tuesday, before Messrs Elworthy and Sullivan, J'sP., a young man, named Walter Edwards, was charged…

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The "Gipsy" Heckled Rowdy Auckland Meetings "Organised Gamblers and Publicans" Auckland

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 September 1926 · page 2

"This is a disgrace to Auckland. It is organised resistance. The publicans and gamblers are behind it. I have never met in any part of the world…

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