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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

332 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 17

10 O'clock Closing Of Hotels Forecast for Mainland

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 26 February 1938 · page 4

The view that all the mainland States would eventually follow the example of Tasmania and adopt 10 o'clock closing of hotels was…

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South Australian Elections Betting Shops and Hotel Hours Adelaide

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 4

Two issues at the State elections, to be held on March 19, will be the question of licensed betting shops and early closing of hotels. Opinion on…

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After Hour Trading Conviction to Stand Against Harden Hotel Keeper

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 1

At the Harden Quarter Sessions last week, before Judge Coyle, L. M. Foley, licensee of the Carrington Hotel, Harden, appealed against the…

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Disasterous Blaze at Tumut Commercial Hotel Destroyed TUMUT, To-Day

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 28 February 1938 · page 3

The most disasterous blaze in Tutnut’s history occured here this afternoon, when the Commercial Hotel, in Wynyard St.,…

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Mail-coach Headquarters in Riverina's Early Days Romantic History of Narandera's De-licensed Royal Hotel

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 4

USED in its time as a church, post office and a court, an historic link with the early days of the district is severed with the…

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Is Hotel Bar a "Place"

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 1

By way or a stated case from the magistrate (Mr. Stevenson. P.M.) in Chambers on Thursday last, Justice Sir Thomas Bavin was asked to…

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Big Fire at Tumut Commercial Hotel Destroyed Over £3000 Damage Tumut

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 4

The Commercial Hotel, on the corner of Wynyard and Russell streets, Tumut, was destroyed by fire this afternoon…

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£420,000 Outlay Mr. J. Kouvelis Plan New Brisbane Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 March 1938 · page 6

Owner of two motion picture theatres at Tamworth, the most recent of which, the Regent, was opened early this year, and also owner of…

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Commercial Hotel Fire

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 4 March 1938 · page 2

Mr. Spark, one of the N.S.W. Fire Commissioners, arrived in Tumut by Tuesday morning's train and consulted with Captain H. W…

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Wife's Ordeal Husband with Revolver Suicide at Hotel Katoomba

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 8

The coroner to-day returned a finding of suicide while mentally abnormal at the conclusion of the inquest into the death of Jack Walton…

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Mr. J. Kouvelis to Build Palatial Hotel in Brisbane

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 5 March 1938 · page 5

Mr. J. Kouvelis, who conducts the Capitol and Plaza Theatres at Wagga, is going for building on a big scale in Brisbane, where he…

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Hotel Robbed Perth

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 6

The Hines Hill Hotel was broken into by burglars last night and £112 in notes and silver stolen from an ice chest, in which the licensee kept it…

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£17,000 Hotel for Cooma Mr. J. A. Downey, of Kiandra, to Be the Licensee

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 2

Cooma is to have a £17,000 hotel, in spite of opposition expressed before the Licensing Magistrate by publicans in the town…

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£17,000 Hotel for Cooma

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 2

An application by John Arthur Downey, licenses of the Alpine hotel, Kiandra, for a transfer of his license to a modern hotel, to be erected at…

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Liquor Act Licensed Victuallers Demand Changes Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 9 March 1938 · page 1

At a conference of the United Licensed Victuallers Association to-day, the chairman (Mr. N. H. Connolly) made demands for sweeping…

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Liquor Act Licensed Victuallers Demand Changes

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 11 March 1938 · page 3

At a conference of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association in Sydney on Tuesday, the chairman (Mr. N. H. Connolly) made demands…

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Vale! Narandera's Royal Hotel Some Incidents of the Early Eighties a Genial Hostess

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 4

In the early eighties the old Royal Hotel, with Mrs. Phillips as proprietress, was the leading hostelry in Narandera. "Ma," as she was…

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Shots Outside Hotel When Men Refused Admittance Dubbo

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 1

When two men were refused admittance to the Pastoral Hotel, Dubbo, yesterday, one of them drew a revolver and fired two shots into the air…

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Trial for Murder Brawl in Melbourne Hotel Accused Pleads Self-defence Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 4

Presenting Harcourt Lee for trial in the Criminal Court to-day on a charge of murder, the Crown alleged that, after a brawl in the bar of the…

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Hotel Hours in N.s.w

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 19 March 1938 · page 9

The Premier (Mr. Stevens), replying to a question, at an erection meeting near Bathurst said that the hotel closing hours, would not be…

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