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Hotels & licensing, 1946

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27 Country Hotelkeepers to Be Sued Alleged Prices Offences

Daily Advertiser · Monday 20 May 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Recent thorough investigation of the western area of New South Wales will result In 27 prosecutions against…

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Warning to Hotel-keepers

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.: In the Licensing Court to-day Mr. Scobie, S.M., warned about 300 hotelkeepers that under the new Liquor Act they…

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£120,000 Profit From Community Hotel in South Australia

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 6

Profits used from a community hotel in Junee could be utilised to make Junee a tourist resort and a health centre, according to the opinion of…

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Woman Gets Taxi License Despite R.s.l. Protests

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 1

Despite protests 'by the 'Cowra sub branch of the Returned Soldiers’ League, a woman has been granted permission to operate a taxi in…

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Lack of Ground May Lose Dog License for Wagga Local Body to Aid Greyhound Club

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 May 1946 · page 2

Unless the Wagga Diggers' Greyhound Racing Club is shortly provided with a ground on which to stage races, the club may lose its…

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Coursing Lack of Ground May Lose Dog License for Wagga

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 8

Unless Wagga Diggers Greyhound Racing Club is shortly provided with a ground on which to stage races, the club may lose its license…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 2

At Wagga yesterday Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, P.M., granted the transfer of the licence of the Criterion Hotel, Wagga, from George…

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52 Dead in Chicago Inferno Skyscraper Hotel Ablaze

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 1

CHICAGO, Wednesday (A.A.P.): Fifty-two persons perished in a disastrous fire in the 23-storey La Salle Hotel, in the centre of Chicago's financial district, early…

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Magistrate Rules No Jurisdiction Golf Club Liquor License Application

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 6

The application by the Temora Golf Club for a liquor licence under the proposed new amendment to the Liquor Act came before the…

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Forbes R.s.l. Declares Hotel "Black"

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 1

The Forbes branch of the RSL has declared “black” the Albion Hotel while it is held by the present licensee. Mr Roy Staff…

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A Ned Kelly Victim Lives Was Once Herded Into Hotel Room

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 1

There are not many of Ned Kelly's “victim” alive to tell the tale, but one is Mr Peter Stephens, of Warren. Born at Jerilderie in 1860 he…

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Hotel Licenses Due

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 2

Because of the public holiday on Monday next the Court of Petty Sessions will be held at Wagga on Tuesday. Most of the applications…

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59 Dead in Chicago Hotel Fire Rotten Hoses and Inadequate Escapes

Daily Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 1

CHICAGO, Thursday: At least 59 persons were killed and 230 injured in the early morning fire that swept…

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25 Feared Dead in U.S. FIRE Hotel Guests Trapped

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sunday: Fifteen are known to be dead, and it is feared that at least 25 have perished, in an early morning fire…

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Talbingo Publican Loses His Driver’s License Driving Under The Influence

The Gundagai Independent · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 4

For the next twelve months William John Matchett ,the man who turns on the cheer at to Talbingo Hotel, will have to be a back seat…

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Thrilling Rescues in U.S. Hotel Blaze

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 1

DUBUQUE (Ohio), Monday: Like the fire in the Chicago La Salle Hotel tragedy, panic contributed to the death roll in Dubuque's greatest tragedy in which at least 15 persons lost their lives in the…

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Community Hotels Plan for M.I.A. Leeton and Griffith Shires to Confer

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 3

A conference is to be convened between representatives of the Shires of Wade (Griffith) and Leeton and the Community Hotel…

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Former Gundagai Hotel-keeper’s Death Widow’s Claim For Damages Fails

The Gundagai Independent · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 2

In the Supreme Court, Sydney, last Thursday, before Mr Justice Street and a jury, Hilda Ethel Blessel, 51, sued the Commonwealth for damages for the death of her husband, Eric William Bleasel, hotel manager, who was run down by a Royal Navy truck at King’s…

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Licences Renewed for Two Hotels in Wagga Despite Prices Convictions

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 12 June 1946 · page 2

Although the police opposed the granting of a renewal of licences to two Wagga hotelkeepen yesterday on the grounds that the…

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Forbes Diggers Declare Hotel Black

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 14 June 1946 · page 5

Forbes R.S.L. has declared "black" the Albion Hotel, at Forbes while it remains under its present licensee. Mr. Roy Staff…

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