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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1947

287 stories in Riverina's papers · page 13 of 15

General Items Orange and Licenses—

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 6 October 1947 · page 1

The four most [?] clubs in Orange were granted licenses under the Liquor Act when they made application at a special…

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City, Country Hotels to Be Prosecuted

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 October 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday: About 26 hotels in Sydney and in the country are to be proceeded against by the police for alleged failure…

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Country Hotels Condemned By Inspectors

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY. Friday: Orders are to be sought for the demolition and rebuilding of more than l50 hotels throughout New South Wales…

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Bond for South Gundagai Native Took Bath Towels From Cootamundra Hotel

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 October 1947 · page 1

At the Court of Petty Sessions, Gundagai, on Saturday last, Robert Roy John Jamieson, a labourer, appeared before Messrs J. I. R…

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Unusual Hotel Case Heard at Wagga

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 1

Twenty-two men were charged at the Wagga police court with having aided and abetted the licensee of a Wagga hotel in his failure to close and…

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Small Fire at Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 October 1947 · page 2

Heavy smoke rose into the temporary bar of the Commercial Hotel shortly before 6 p.m. yesterday when an electric motor in the…

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Liquor Licenses for Temora

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 October 1947 · page 7

Under the amended liquor legislation, club licenses are to be allotted to each licensing district in the proportion of one to each six…

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Robbery From Hotel Room

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 16 October 1947 · page 1

On Monday last a sum of money and a watch the property of Miss Maisie Miller, an employee of one of the local…

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Local Taxi Proprietors Protest Against Any Further Licenses Shire Council To Investigate If Public Is Satisfied

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 20 October 1947 · page 2

An emphatic protest against the granting of any further hire cars taxi cab licenses being granted the the Gundagai district was…

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Commercial Hotel Cricket Club Inaugural Meeting

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 21 October 1947 · page 2

A meeting or those interested in the formation of a cricket club to complete in the Narandera Cricket Association's Howell Cup matches…

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Batlow Community Hotel Suggested Worthwhile, But Many Difficulties

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 21 October 1947 · page 8

The successful establishment of community hotels in New South Wales has been made more difficult by the recent…

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Licensing Court Cases Adjourned

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 23 October 1947 · page 5

An application for a wine and spirit merchant's license at Batlow by Angelo Vanzella, and a complaint for suspension or…

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The World of Sport Gundagai Coursing Club Granted Renewal of License Local Body Will Now Push On With Plans To Resume Racing

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 October 1947 · page 10

The Gundagai United Charities "Coursing Club has been granted renewal of the license it hold some years ago. The club will now move quickly to prepare plans for the resumption of racing on Anzac park…

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Licensing Court

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 23 October 1947 · page 8

In the Licensing Court on Thursday last the transfer of the license of the Miners Arms Hotel at Laurel Hill was granted from…

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Greyhound Racing Gundagai Coursing Club Granted Renewal of License

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 24 October 1947 · page 4

The Gundagai United Charities Coursing Club has been granted a renewal of the license it held some years ago. The club will now move quickly…

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Hotelkeeper Fined £15; Meal Refused

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 28 October 1947 · page 2

HAY, Tuesday: Failure to supply a guest with a meal cost the licensee of the Royal Hotel. Balranald, Mary Josephine Merrett,…

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Hotelkeeper Fined £15 for Refusing Meal

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 30 October 1947 · page 6

Failure to supply a guest with a meal cost the licensee of the Royal Hotel, Balranald, Mary Josephine Merrett, £15 in the Balranald Court…

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Fire Destroys Garage at Harden And Badly Damages Hotel HARDEN, To-day

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 30 October 1947 · page 1

A fire, which broke out at 10.40 p.m. last night, completely destroyed a garage and caused considerable damage to an hotel. It is estimated the total loss exceeds £7,000. The garage which was owned by…

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Four Licensees Fined at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 November 1947 · page 2

Two Wagga publicans, a Wagga wine saloon licensee and a Uranquinty publican were fined at the Wagga Court yesterday for offences…

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Many Country Hotels Condemned

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 6 November 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: About one-third of the hotels in the western districts visited by the Licensing Squad recently had been condemned, it was…

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