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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

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Second License in Metropolitan Area Fifty Applications Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1938 · page 3

The Acting-Chief Secretary (Mr. Gollan) has received 50 applications for a second greyhound license in the metropolitan area. It is believed that…

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Hotel Shooting Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 2

Harcourt Lee, aged 38 years, hair-dresser, of no fixed abode, who is charged with the murder of Arthur Kingsley Taplin, aged 23 years,…

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Blind Barman Manages Own Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 January 1938 · page 3

Blind from birth, Mr. Roland Hewitt runs and manages his own public-house in Cannock-road, Wolverhampton, states "People." In the…

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Licensing Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 2

J. C. B. Leary was granted a lisence for a boo[?] on January 26th, when a race meeting will be held at Gundagai…

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Tumut Courts Licensing Court

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 2

The Licensing Inspector, Sergt. Kennedy, submitted his quarterly report, all hotels being satisfactory, with the exception of Talbingo,…

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Radio License Fees £86,000 Goes to Consolidated Revenue Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 1

Although official figures have not yet been compiled, it is indicated that, following the big contributions made to the A.B.C. and to the P.M.G's…

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Brawl in Hotel Melbourne Shooting Sydney Hairdresser for Trial on Murder Charge MELBOURNE

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 1

After the inquest into the death of Arthur Kingsley Taplin, of Sydney, who was fatally shot following an affray in a hotel bar in Melbourne on…

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Sleepwalker at Tumbarumba Man Walks Off Hotel Balcony Tumbarumba

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 January 1938 · page 1

Mr. Rupert Masters, of Tumut, suffered shattered leg and several cuts and bruises when he walked off the balcony of a hotel in his sleep last night. He…

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Drove Motor When Drunk Man Fined £20 Disqualified From Holding License for Three Years P.M's Comment on New Law

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 3

The first to be tried under the amended motor traffic law, John Davis was fined £20 and disqualified from holding a license for three years…

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New Traffic Laws Helpful Resume by Wagga P.M. Automatic Cancellation of License Fine of £100 and Imprisonment for 12 Months

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 5

At the conclusion of a case at Wagga Police Court on Monday, when a truck driver was fined £20 for having driven his truck whilst…

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FINED £20. Intoxicated Track Driver License Cancelled for Three Years

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 15 January 1938 · page 8

Referring to him as a deliberate, barefaced liar, Mr J. A. Harris, P.M., on Monday fined John Davies, labourer, of Wagga. £20 at the…

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Water Shortage During Recent Heat Wave Leeton Hotels Without Water

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 1

SINCE the commencement of the heat wave last week the Willimbong Shire Council has been inundated with complaints regarding the…

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Restaurant Lockout Serious Inconcenience in Sweden Hotels Closed in Stockholm Stockholm

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 1

As a result of a restaurant lockout in Sweden, even Parliamentarians must take their food with them to work. Trains are running without dining…

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Second City License Fresh Applications to Be Called Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 8

Because it is thought that the views of some, of the applicants for a second metropolitan greyhound license may have changed as a result of the…

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Licensee Fined

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 22 January 1938 · page 6

Michael Quilligan, licensee of the Farmers Home Hotel, pleaded guilty at Wagga Police Court on Monday to having permitted persons to…

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Urana's New Hotel An Acquisition

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 4

Ideally situated, commodious, well appointed, Urana's new hotel, which was officially opened this week, is bound to prove an acquisition to the…

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Pot-pullers at Play Hotel Leeton Tennis Winners

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 2

Fresh from a victory over the Cannery team, the Hotel Leeton tennis players had a narrow victory over their confreres of the Hydro…

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New Criterion Hotel Fine Modern Building Now Complete

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 6

This week the New Criterion Hotel is receiving its finishing touches and will be complete within the course of a few days…

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Wine License Transfer Fitzmaurice-street to Baylis-street Some Interesting Rulings

Daily Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 2

A Licensing Court was held at the Wagga Court House yesterday, and Mr. Laidlaw, chairman of the Licensing Board, presided. The removal of the…

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Hotels Stocked Petrol in Early Motor Days

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 8

THE automobile has become an essential in practically every part of the Australian Continent and to-day, facilities are…

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