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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

187 stories in Riverina's papers · page 3 of 10

"Schooner King" Fined Publican's Claim Drank Eight Quarts at Party

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 2

"They call me the 'Schooner King' in Rozelle. I have drunk up to 20 schooners of beer in a few hours," said Mark David Deveridge, licensee of…

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Licensing Potato Growers Bill Approved at Batlow

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 6

A representative meeting of potato growers at Ballow expressed approval of the bill now before the State Parliament providing for the licensing of…

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Football Harden Publicans Want Football

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 3

That the hotel-keepers at Harden-Murrumburrah desire footfall, is clearly indicated. Mr. W. H. Whittaker of Murrumburrah, and Mrs…

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Fletcher Bros. Licensed Plumbers

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 4

ALL sanitary and plumbing arrangements are represented in an advanced form in the work of Messrs Fletcher Bros., sewerage contractors…

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Post Office Parcels Application of Import Licensing Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1940 · page 2

All goods imported through the post office from non-sterling countries will be subject to the import licensing regulations, with the exception of goods…

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Woman Found Shot in City Hotel Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 2

With blood pouring from gaping wounds in the chest, arm and abdomen, Jean Cox, 26, married, was found to-night in a passageway of the…

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Hotel Fire at Woodstock

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 3

At the Commercial Hotel at woodstock a fire broke out in the travellers' sample room—£100 worth of damage being caused…

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Found Dead at Hotel Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 4

The body Of Henry George Woods, aged 38 years, of Potis Point, was found in a room at the Hotel Australia to-night. He had a bullet wound…

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Potato Growers Criticism of Licensing Bill

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 4

"The Government has been in office for nearly eight years and if this is the best that it can do for the potato growers of N.S.W…

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Fined for Being on Licensed Premises Heavy Penalties in South Australia

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 4

It is just as well the liquor laws are not carried out as rigorously in this State as they are in South Australia…

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Local & General the Albion Hotel

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 23 April 1940 · page 2

Some indication of the extensive improvements to the Albion hotel can be obtained from the fact that the new furnishings recently put in cost £3500…

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Motor Vehicle Licenses

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 4

On March 31 there were 321,753 motor vehicles registered in New South Wales. 112 or 03 percent less than on March at last year. The…

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Hotel Precedent Single Woman Granted License Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 27 April 1940 · page 2

A decision without parallel in the history of the Licensing Court of New South Wales was made to-day when the chairman granted the transfer of…

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Hotel Precedent Single Woman Granted License

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 29 April 1940 · page 2

A decision without parallel in the history of the Licensing Court of New South Wales was made last week when the chairman granted the…

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Jute Goods Licenses Canberra

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 May 1940 · page 1

It was announced by the Minister for Supply; Sir Frederick Stewart, today that from today the importation of jute goods, will be subjected, to…

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Albion Hotel Opening

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 2 May 1940 · page 2

The Cootamundra and District Ambulance will benefit by £24 as the result of the official opening of the renovated and refurnished Albion Hotel…

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Import of Jute Goods to Be Licensed Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 May 1940 · page 3

Woolpacks in Australia are sufficient to meet the season's requirements, said the Minister for Supply (Sir Frederick Stewart) to-day, when announcing that…

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Tumut Shire Hotel Improvements Improvements to Royal Hotel, Tumut £8285 to Be Expended Work to Commence on 1st September Application for Postponement of Work Refused

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 4

The Chairman of the Licences Reduction Board, Mr. Laidlaw, held a sitting of the Board at Tumut on Tuesday, when several…

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Licenses for Drovers

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 1

The Urana Pastures Protection Board irs asking the next Conference of Pastures Protection Boards to discuss the question of licences for…

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Licensed Victuallers to Hold Ball

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 16 May 1940 · page 2

A Licensed Victuallers' Ball will be held in Wagga this winter to raise funds for the Wagga Base Hospital, Lewisham Hospital and the Wagga…

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