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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

292 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 15

Hotel Sold for £20,000

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 3

Ecker's Hotel, in Liebeg-street, Warrnambool (V.) has been sold by Mr. W Kirkin to Mrs. M. V. Rowan involving £20,000, the transaction is easily a…

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Appeal in Tumut Case Successful Selling Liquor Without License

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 February 1939 · page 4

Albert Boss Harris a station hand at Tomooroma, appealed against his fine at the Tumut Police Court on December 7th, 1938, of 30 for…

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Hotel Fight Ends in Court

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 4

When the licensee refused to admit them to his hotel for drinks, a party of young men, accompanied by a girl, started a willing fight…

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Bus License Application for Various Routes Council's Decisions

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 4

Mr. Andrew Grainger made application to the Wagga Municipal Council for a bus license to ply an eight-passenger sedan motor car along Collins…

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Taxi Proprietors Urge No Mob" Licenses Request to Wagga Council

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 4

The Wagga Municipal Council, at its meeting last night, received a petition from Messrs. R. S. Kenyon, Laurie and Lonnie Hyland, K. E…

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Sergeants Attack on Hotels

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 2

"I have been so cut to the heart by the pitiful plight of little children deserted by their father and left to the care of a drunken mother, that I would…

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Dangerous Driving Man Bound Over License Not Affected Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Friday 24 February 1939 · page 3

Albert James Chant was charged at the police court to-day before Mr. J. A. Harris, P.M., with having driven a motor car In a dangerous manner in…

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Motor License Fees

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 25 February 1939 · page 9

At a recent meeting of the Ryde Council a letter was received from the Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. Neale, stating that the fee for a…

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Mr. Casey's New Air License

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 25 February 1939 · page 11

The Federal Treasurer (Mr. Casey) this week qualified for the endorsement of his air pilot's license to carry passengers. On Wednesday…

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Licensee Fined

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 3

Richard Herbert Bimrose pleaded guilty to a charge of being the licensee of the hotel premises on which a person was found at an unlawful…

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Police Court -THURSDAY, 33rd PED11UARY (Before Mr. T. A. Dootun, P.m.) Found on Licensed Premises

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 3

Edward Freeman and Walter Mu[?]olland were each fined 10/, together with 8/- court costs, in default two days, on charges of being found on…

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Fire in Wagga at Rear of Victoria Hotel Volunteers' Effective Work

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 2

A fire which broke out in some stables and outbuildings at the rear of the Victoria Hotel, Baylis-street, early yesterday morning destroyed a shed in…

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Fire at Wagga At Rear of Victoria Hotel WAGGA

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 28 February 1939 · page 1

A fire which broke out in some stables and outbuildings at the rear of the Victoria hotel yesterday morning destroyed a shed in the adjoining…

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Farmers' Relief Payment Under Act Direct to Consumer Filthy Hotel Practices SYDNEY

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 6

The Treasurer (Mr. Mair) said in the Legislative Assembly to-day that he believed it was the Intention of the Farmers' Relief Act that the money…

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No More Taxi Licenses

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 4

A petition from nine licensed taxi proprietors was received at the last meeting of the Wagga Municipal Council and referred to the works committee…

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Zane Grey on Australian Hotels

Daily Advertiser · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 7

Australian, and particularly Sydney hotels, came in for sharp criticism from Zane Grey when interviewed on the launch Sapphire, at Bundaberg, before…

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Halifax Horror 21 Burned to Death Five-Storey Hotel Destroyed HALIFAX (Nova Scotia)

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1939 · page 4

A huge fire, fanned by a strong wind, destroyed an old landmark, the Queen's Hotel, and two other buildings, and damaged a fourth…

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Transfer of Royal Hotel License

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 1

At the Licensing Court on Tuesday last, the transfer of the license of the Royal Hotel Gundagai, from Arthur J. Hogan, to Charles E…

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Redfern Hotel Murder Inquest Continues SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 1

The inquest on Eric Arthur Carlson, 50, seaman, whose body was found in bloodstained lavatory of the Glengarry Castle hotel, Redfern, was held…

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Murder Charge Man's Death in Hotel Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 2

Timothy Ryan aged 44 years, laborer, who had been charged with murder, was present in custody to-day at the inquest into the death of Eric Carlson…

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