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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

277 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 14

Charges for Radio Licenses

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 19 April 1937 · page 2

"There are in Australia nearly one million people holding wireless licenses. Every one of these people pays more for his license than he should, or is…

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American Strikes Hotel Employees to Cease Work San Francisco

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 April 1937 · page 1

Officially sanctioned by the City Labor Council, a strike of more than 300 employees in 15 large hotels has been ordered to start to-night…

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Bandit Crimes Hotel Guests Robbed New York

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 4

Three bandits entered the fashionable Delmonica Hotel in Park Avenue and menaced four guests and a lift operator before they took 15,000…

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W. Duncan May Again Seek Jockey's License Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 6

W. Duncan, who was at the head of the Victorian jockeys' list when a fall put him out of the saddle lour years ago, is considering making a…

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No More Licenses Until Gaming and Betting Act Reviewed Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1937 · page 8

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) announced to-day that no new greyhound racing licenses would be issued by the Government, until Parliament…

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Wade Hotel an Up-to-date Building

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 2

WADE Hotel, situated in Pine Avenue, which was opened this week, is an up-to-date building in every respect…

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Free Beer! Wade Hotel Packed

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 2

BEER, beer, glorious beer! Fill yourself right up to here! Make a good meal of it, Take a good deal of it…

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Wireless Licenses

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 4

“There are is Australia nearly one million people holding wireless [?] Every one of these people says more for his license than be…

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BURGLARY At the Wynyard Hotel Cash-box Rifled and Goods Stolen a Defendant Before the Court Other Alleged Offences Involved

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 30 April 1937 · page 2

Some time during Monday night last Mrs. Spencer's Wynyard Hotel was entered and 129 in small change that had been left in the…

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Shots in Hotel Two Men Wounded at Redfern Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 May 1937 · page 2

Two men were wounded when a revolver was fired in the bar of a hotel at Redfern yesterday. They were peter Davis, aged 27 yean, of Redfern, a…

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Motor Licenses

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 May 1937 · page 4

The name of the Deputy Commissioner of Transport (Mr. Neale) will be printed on new motor car licenses, registrations, windshield stickers, and…

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Hotel Transfer

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 4 May 1937 · page 2

Sitting as a Licensing Court, Mr. Beavers, P.M., granted the application made on Wednesday at Lockhart of Mr. Charles Frederick…

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N.s.w. Hotels

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 5 May 1937 · page 3

The report of the Licenses Reduction Board, which has just been handed to the Minister for Justice (Mr. Martin) estates that the standard of hotel…

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Fewer Hotels Standard Higher in N.S.W. Increased Expenditure on Improvements SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 5 May 1937 · page 2

The report of the Licenses Reduction Board, which has just been handed to the Minister for Justice (Mr. Martin) states that the standard of hotel…

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Charge of Negligent Driving Local Man’s License Suspended Until August Sequel to Hospital Hill Car Crash

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 May 1937 · page 2

As a result of being convicted on two charges, the first being of driving a motor vehicle in a negligent manner, and the second, driving a…

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Hotel Disturbance Licensee Fires Pistol to Save Barman Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 May 1937 · page 2

When charged to-day with having, on March 3 used a pistol without holding a license, Thomas James Lavelle, licensee of a hotel at…

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Charge of Negligent Driving Gundagai Man's License Suspended Until August GUNDAGAI

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 7 May 1937 · page 5

As a result of being convicted on two charges, the first being of driving a motor vehicle in a negligent manner, and the second, driving a motor vehicle…

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Hotel Manager Guilty of Larceny SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 May 1937 · page 1

At the Sydney Quarter Sessions to-day Francis Joseph Raferty, 28, hotel manager, who had pleaded guilty to larceny as a servant, was sentenced to…

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Man Found Dead In City Hotel SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 10 May 1937 · page 1

Detectives are inquiring into the death at the Hotel Australia, Sydney, yesterday, of Maurice McPhillamy, 46, a well-known Kelso dairy farmer, who…

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Betting Shops in S.A. Hotel Men Oppose Closing on Race Days Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 May 1937 · page 1

Whether betting shops should be abolished, or should, at least, be closed on race days to increase attendances at courses, are two questions still…

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