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Hotels & licensing, 1944

163 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 9

Beer Supplies Hotels Run Out in Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 January 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: The demand for beer was far greater than the available supplies to-day and many hotels in the metropolitan…

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Passes for Drinks Early Rush on Sydney Hotels

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: Except in isolated instances hotels in the metropolitan area had no beer available to-day, while a number…

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Sulky and Worse Taken From Hotel Yard

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 2

About 1.30 p.m. on Saturday last. Mr. Frank Shaw of Edward street. Wagga, left his house and sulky in the yard at the rear of the Pastoral…

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All District Hotels Up to Standard Quarterly Licensing Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 January 1944 · page 2

At the quarterly Licensing Court held in Gundagai yesterday, the Licensing Inspector (Sgt. Brindle) informed the Magistrate that all hotels…

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Bush Fires Threaten World-famed N.Z HOTEL

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

AUCKLAND (NZ), Thursday: The world-famed Waireka Hotel, now being used as a mental hospital, was gravely threatened by serious bush…

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Meal Prices Hotelkeeper Fined

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 2

BRISBANE, Friday.—For breaches of the price fixing regulation in regard to meals fines totalling £100 were imposed in the Summons Court…

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Hotel Brawl Policemen Injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Two policemen were injured In a brawl which started in the bar of a North Sydney Hotel and finished…

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Radio Service to Be Carried on Only Under License

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Monday, January 10, has been fixed under a control of radio service order as the date an and after which…

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Radio Service to Be Carried on Only Under License

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

January 10 has been fixed under a control or radio service order as the date on and after which a person shall not carry on business as a radio…

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Publican's Booth Building Shifted in One Piece

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 3

Mr. Tom Davenport, who has earned a renowned reputation in this town as the one man to shift a building intact, moved another structure of…

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Hotelkeeper Fined at Cootamundra Refused to Answer Question

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 3

Richard Patrick Boylan, aged is years licensee of the Star Hotel, Cootamundra. Pleaded guilty at Cootamundra court yesterday…

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Three Months' Gaol for Theft Sydney Hotel's Huge Losses

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Charles Swanweek. 27 a farmer waiter at the Hotel Australia, was at the paddington Court to-day sentenced to three…

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Cootamundra Publican Fined £20 Failure to Answer Question

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 5

In the Cootamundra Police Court on Tuesday last before Mr H. L. Sargeson PM, Richard P. Boylan, licensee of the Star Hotel, Cootamundra,…

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Drove Lorry Without License

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 2

At the Leeton police court on Tuesday, before Mr. Kelly. P.M., Samuel Southgate pleaded guilty to a charge of driving a motor lorry while not…

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U.s. Soldiers Ordered to Quit Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Because a city private hotel had been placed out of bounds. 20 U S. soldiers were ordered out at 11 o'clock last night. Some of…

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Refused License to Do Sewerage Work But Has Better Qualifications Than Others, Says Applicant (To the Editor)

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 5

Dear Sir— At the previous Council meeting I was granted a sewerage license subject to the Inspector’s approval…

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Licensing Court

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 2

The application of Tooth and Co., Ltd., to effect material alterations, estimated to cost £130, to the Globe Hotel, was Granted. The Commonwealth…

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Profits From Publican's Booth

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 3

The proceeds of the Wamoon Patriotic Gymkhana, held on New Year's Day holiday, have been enhanced by a further £46, which represents the…

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£150 Fine Forged Motor Fuel License

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.—On three charges arising from the forming of a motor fuel license, by which means he obtained 72 gallons of petrol a month…

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Hotel Licensees Acting As Bookmakers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday: Any representations made by the Licensing Board that hotelkeepers should be refused bookmakers' licenses would…

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