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Hotels & licensing, 1946

240 stories in Riverina's papers · page 4 of 12

Referendum on Hotel Hours To Be Held This Year

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 21 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: A referendum on hotel trading hours will be held this year soon after the passage of the Amending Liquor…

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Marriage License Found at Scene of Junee Burglary

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 21 March 1946 · page 5

After Messrs J. S. Taylor's Ply Ltd Broadway Stores, Junee, had been rifled on February 15, police investigating the incident made a…

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Hotel Hours Referendum This Year

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 1

A referendum on hotel trading hours will be held this year, soon after the passage of the Amending Liquor Act through both Houses of…

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Referendum On Hotel Hours to Be Held This Year

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 22 March 1946 · page 3

A referendum on hotel trading hours will be held this year soon after the passage of the Amending Liquor Act through both Houses of Parliament this…

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Items of News Hotel Intruders Disturbed

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 2

At an early hour yesterday morning two intruders were disturbed in the kitchen block of the Exchange Hotel, Wagga. The alarm…

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Police Warn Hotelkeepers

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1946 · page 2

The Wagga police issue a warning to hotelkeepers that thieves who have been operating on hotels in the near-metropolitan area in…

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Vote on Hotel Hours Referendum Bill in Assembly

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 3 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A bill to provide for a referendum in New South Wales on the hours of liquor sales, and to amend the Liquor Act, 1912…

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Gundagai District Hotels Up to Standard Licensing Court Report

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 4

The quarterly Licensing Court was held in Gundagai yesterday, when the report of the licensing inspector (Sgt Brindle) was presented to the…

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Supervision of Hotel Hours Ballot

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 4 April 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: There will be strict supervision over voting at the referendum on trading hours for hotels, it was announced…

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Anzac Afternoon Sports Luncheon and Publican's Booth

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 5 April 1946 · page 2

COUNTRY people who come into Leeton on Anzac Day to view the march and attend the Memorial Service in the…

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History of Hotel Ownership Yass Licensing Court Told Of Difficulties Caused By Will Demolition Application Adjourned

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 6

The history of the ownership of the Royal Hotel, Yass, was told in the licensing Court last Thursday, revealing an extraordinary tangle…

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Mr Greg McGIRR Purchases Bathursh Hotel

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 April 1946 · page 8

The Club House Hotel at Bathurst and which for over half a century was in the hands of the Smith family, has been purchased by Mr Greg McGiri…

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Language & Assault Charges Dismissed Against Talbingo Hotelkeeper 'Phone Calls To Ships in Sydney Harbor Gun Shots In The Dark

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 9 April 1946 · page 1

Mine host of the Talbingo Hotel, William James Matchett, was before the Tumut Court last week to answer charges brought against him for alleged abusive language and assault, but verdicts were given in his favor in each instance, costs being…

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Assault Charge Against Hotel Keeper Dismissed Evidence of Mysterious Gun Shots In the Dark

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 11 April 1946 · page 6

In the mountain country, not far from Tumut, nestles the Talbingo Hotel. It is famed as a tourist resort, and has received the patronage of people from near and far. Recently the peaceful scene was rudely rudely interrupted, and as a result the proprietor of the hotel,…

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Beer Flows Again in Sydney Hotels

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 1

Scene in a Sydney hotel, when supplies of beer ware again available, as a result of the settlement of the strike at Tooth's Brewery. Beer supplies are not expected in Wagga until to-day…

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Local Councils and Community Hotels

Daily Advertiser · Friday 12 April 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: The Liquor Bill would have to be amended [?] provide for co-operatives to [?]gage in liquor sales before…

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MR. J. Warren to Leave Urana Lifetime Spent in Hotel Business

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 13 April 1946 · page 4

Mr. James Joseph Warren (affectionately known as "Uncle Joe"), one of the best known hotelkeepers in Riverina, has announced that he…

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Community Hotel Agitation at Griffith

Daily Advertiser · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 4

Members of the Griffith Community Hotel and Liquor Reform Association at their recent meeting expressed perturbation over the…

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Local Councils and Community Hotels

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 15 April 1946 · page 6

The Liquor Bill would have to be amended to provide for co-operatives to engage in liquor sales before community hotels could be established,…

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Licensed Victuallers' Social Day

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 17 April 1946 · page 8

The Wagga licensed victuallers have decided to have a social day at the Wagga Country Golf Club links on May 7. The organising…

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