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Hotels & licensing, 1938

332 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 17

Forty-four Hour Week in Hotels Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 May 1938 · page 6

The Arbitration Court to-day reduced the working hours of hotel employees in Victoria and Tasmania from 48 to 44 a week. The variation…

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S.P. BETTING (Continued from Page One) "Declared" Hotels and Country Visitors Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 14 May 1938 · page 12

Inspector Keefe, head of the squad concentrating on starting price betting, said to-day that there was no means of publicly displaying that a hotel had…

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S.P. Betting Ban Fourth Hotel Named Part of Government Move

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 May 1938 · page 14

A sudden and drastic move in the campaign against starting price betting in Sydney hotels was made by the police on Thursday, when they…

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Breach of Promise Action Wagga Hotelkeeper Obtain Verdict

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 14 May 1938 · page 6

At the Sydney Supreme Court this week in a breach of promise suit, in which Freda Flecher, at one time a nurse at the Sacred Heart Hospice…

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Australianalities When Simpson Sobered Up—old Time Pubs and Publicans—then and Now—in the Streets a Cute Publican When Simpson Sobered Up

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 2

Bill Simpson lived at Soakerville Where father Bill, before him. Had built a home with Uncle Bill For Mother Bill, who bore him…

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S.P. Betting Bar Radios Silent Hotels Take Ho Risks SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 8

Radio sets were silent in no[?]eis throughout the city and suburbs this afternoon. A few hotelkeepers followed the…

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24 Killed and 10 Injured in Hotel Fire New York

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 1

At least 24 Were killed and 10 injured in a fire at Atlanta, Georgia, due to an explosion in the basement kitchen of a five- storey hotel…

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Auctioneers' Reports Application for Wine License Transfer Thursday's Proceedings at Narandera

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 3

F. G. Semmens, Leeton and Young-husband Ltd. Griffith, report having held their usual monthly stock sale on 13th inst., when they offered a THE hearing of the application for a transfer of the wine license from Narandera to Leeton in premises situated in Pine Avenue, was continued at Narandera on Thursday. Evidence was concluded and the court was adjourned to the Water Police Court…

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Wine License Application Judgment Reserved

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 May 1938 · page 2

AFTER hearing the addresses of counsel, at the Water Police Court yesterday, Mr. Cohen, a member of the Licensing Board…

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Hotels and S.P. U.L.V.A. President's Views SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 18 May 1938 · page 1

Mr. N. H. Connolly, president of the U.L.V.A. said today that the hotel trade at the moment was like a man on good behavior bond. If it…

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S.P. Betting License Holders Meet in Sydney Race Broadcasts to be Restricted SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 May 1938 · page 3

A meeting of more than 5.00 hotel-keepers of the metropolitan Area, and a few from country districts, was held under the auspices of the United…

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24 Killed in Fire Explosion in American Hotel New York

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 18 May 1938 · page 3

At least 24 persons were killed and 10 injured in a fire at Atalanta, Georgia, due to an explosion in the of a five-storey brick…

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Racing Broadcasts Descriptions Only Received at Hotels SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 4
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Metropolitan hotelkeepers yesterday accepted the advice of the United Licenced Victuallers Association and broadcast descriptions only of racing…

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Second License May Be Granted to Sydney Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 19 May 1938 · page 3

It is believed that the Government will shortly allot a second greyhound racing license in the metropolitan in area. This license, has been held in…

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Tooth's Take Over Last Free-house Hotel Narandera's "Murrumbidgee" Bought Out

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 4

THE last of the free houses in this district came under the control of Tooth and Co., recently, when Mr. Geo. Evans…

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Suspension of Licenses Minister Replies to Magistrate Loss of Life on Roads Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 1

Criticism by a magistrate of the provisions in the law concerning the automatic suspension of motorists licenses upon conviction for certain…

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Suspension of Motor Licenses

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 1

Criticism by a magistrate of the provisions in the law concerning the automatic suspension of motorists licenses upon conviction for certain…

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S.P. Betting Eliminated From Nearly All Sydney Hotels Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 1

Inspector Keefe, who is in charge of the police anti-betting squad, said to-day that from observations made by his men on Saturday he was quite…

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No Wine Bar for Leeton Application for Transfer Rejected in Public Interest Bottle License to Remain at Narandera

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 1

IN reserved judgment in the Sydney Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. Cohen, a Member of the Licensing Board who heard the evidence, rejected the application of Kery Cordato for the transfer of the Australian wine license from Narandera to Leeton. He…

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