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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1945

157 stories in Riverina's papers · page 1 of 8

Tied Hotels Opposition by Mr. Geraghty. M.l.a

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Mr. J. L. Geraghty, M.L.A. for North Sydney, to-day advocated the return of hotels to private ownership and…

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Arson Suspected Pikes in Three Geelong Hotels

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Deliberate attempts to burn down three Geelong hotels were made last night within half an hour. The…

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Prosecution of Publicans

Daily Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thur.: The prosecutions against 20 publicans on charges of having failed to sell bottled beer on demand were…

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Free Hotels From Brewery Tie-up —Says M.l.a

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 2

Abolition of the system under which breweries own most of the hotels in NSW was advocated by Mr J. L. Gerahty, ML A for North…

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Correspondence Closing of Hotel Lounge (To the Editor)

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 3

Sir.—I wish to have expressed a protest at the high-handed, self-conferred judgment of our local publicans in debarring women from…

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Doctor and Nurse Found Dead at Hotel Believed Suicide Pact

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday: Dr. Norman Anderson Longden, 45, of Ballarat, and Clarice Suttie, 30, nurse, of Queensland, were to-day…

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Cloudburst at Jugiong Water Rushes Foot Deep Through Hotel Car and Motor Cycle Saved by Tree

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 8

Water rushed a foot deep through the Jugiong Hotel, following a cloud-burst at 1.30 p.m. to-day. The rain fell in torrents, and a sheet…

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Cloudburst Damage at Jugiong Water Rushes Foot Deep Through Hotel Car and Motor Cycle Saved By Tree

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 4

Water rushed a foot deep through the Juglong Hotel, following a cloudburst at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday. The rain fell in…

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Race Club Licenses

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 8

SYDNEY, Friday: Licenses were issued by the Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) to-day for Rosehill and Rosebery Racing Clubs for 1945…

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Cloudburst at at Jugiong Water Rushes Foot Deep Through Hotel Car and Motor Cycle Saved by Tree

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 3

Water rushed a foot deep through the Jugiong Hotel, following a cloud burst at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday last…

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Hotel Employee's Revenge

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 January 1945 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday: Frequently reprimanded by his boss, a hotel employee, Kenneth Glover, decided to get even by setting fire…

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Fire at Tatts Hotel

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 18 January 1945 · page 2

About midday on Saturday a fire broke out in a room at the rear of the bar of Tatersalls Hotel at the lower end of High Street…

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Leeton Hotel Lounges (To the Editor)

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 19 January 1945 · page 4

Sir,—Please allow me to express in your paper the disgust of a number of my sex on behalf of whom I wish to protest against the lack of…

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Crossey-olsen Granted Licenses by V.r.c

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1945 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday: Caulfield trainer Mick Crossey and jockey H. Olsen, who were disqualified for 12 months after an inquiry into the…

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Anzac Day R.s.l. Wants Hotels Open

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 January 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Returned Soldiers' League is to campaign for open hotels on Anzac Day, and for an increased liquor…

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Poker Machines Seized in Tumut Police Raid Cafe And Hotel

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Monday 29 January 1945 · page 2

Plain-clothes police from Goulburn and Cootnmundra raided tho Majestic Cafe in Russell-st. and the Oriental Hotel, Tumut, on…

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Poker Machines Seized in Tumut Police Raid Cafe and Hotel

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 January 1945 · page 3

Plainclothes police from Goulburn and Cootamundra raided the Majestic Cafe and the Oriental Hotel, Tumut, on Saturday taking possession of…

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Poker Machines Seized in Tumut Police Raid Cafe and Hotel

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 1 February 1945 · page 3

Plain-clothes police from goulburn and Cootamundra raided the Majestic Cafe in Tumut, and the Oriental Hobei, Tumut, on…

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Hotel Licensee Fined £70

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 2

SYDNEY Monday: Because he over-charged for liquor. Harris Burnham, licensee of the Wool-brokers' Arms Hotel, Pyrmont,…

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Community Hotel Meeting of Committee

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 6 February 1945 · page 2

THE meeting was held on Monday, January 21, in very pleasant surroundings The evening was hot, and although the meeting…

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