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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1947

287 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 15

Woman Grapples With Man in Hotel Room

Daily Advertiser · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 2

A woman boarder at Bonegilla House, the Y.W.C.A. hostel for business girls at Albury, was awakened on Saturday morning by a man in…

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Pioneer Gundagai Doctor Was the Father of Ambrose Pratt Performed Serious Operation In The Criterion Hotel (Reprinted from “The Medical Journal of Australia, November 16th)

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 10 February 1947 · page 7

A pretty little [?]nde, firm of mouth, stubborn of chin, and aged but twenty-one years, Miss Caroline Kershaw, advertise I as follows in…

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Referndum On Hotel Hours

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 1

Voting is compulsory in the referendum to be held on February 15, to determine the hotel closing hour for N.S.W…

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Jim Broadbent to Take Out Additional Training License

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 13 February 1947 · page 8

Gundagai hotel proprietor, Jim Broadbent, is considering taking out a license as a public racehorse trainer…

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Hotel Lounge Disturbance Licensee Charged with Assault Dispute Over Drinks

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 3

A DISPUTE over payment for drinks ordered by a man and his wife in the ladles' lounge of the Hotel Leeton led to a struggle, in the course of which it was subsequently alleged by the customer, he was gripped in a headlock by Mr. James Frazer, the licensee, and repeatedly…

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A.w.u. Organiser Fined for Assault in Hotel

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 14 February 1947 · page 2

Dudley R. Tierney, A.W.U. organiser pleaded not guilty at Leeton police court on Tuesday, to a charge of assaulting John…

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Man Fined For Stealing From Albury Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 15 February 1947 · page 2

ALBURY, Friday: A men admitted that he had had a shower in the Y.W.C.A. Hostel at Albury last Sunday night, it was stated in…

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Hotel Hour Referendum Two-to-One Vote for 6 O'Clock

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 18 February 1947 · page 2

On Saturday last the electors confirmed the vote cast in 1917 for 6 o'clock dosing; of hotels. Practically every electorate in the…

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Culvert Railings Smashed By Drunken Driver Fined for Driving Under the Influence and Without License

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 18 February 1947 · page 4

THE escapade of a driver of a motor car already disqualified from holding a license, who smashed down the railings on a…

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New Hotel for Tullibigeal

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 28 February 1947 · page 3

Tulliblgeal is to have a new and modern brick hotel, which will be erected on the site or the premises previously destroyed by fire. The…

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Leeton Council Offered Hydro for Community Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 1

LEETON, Friday: The directors of the Hydra Hotel Pty. Ltd. have offered to negotiate with the Leeton Shire Council for the purchase, by the council, of the licence, goodwill and fittings of the Hydro for a community hotel…

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No Discussion on Tied-house Hotel System

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: The tiedhouse hotel system is not likely to be discussed by the New South Wales Labor Caucus before the next State…

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Hypocrites Over Country Racing, Says Junee Solicitor Licensing Would Give The Police Proper Control

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 4

"I always feel that we are a lot of hypocrites when we are dealing with cases like this," said Mr A. H. Crawley, in his address to…

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Hotel Bathurst Sold for £71,000 “Fictitious Price”

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 1

The 'freak' sale of the Hotel Bathurst in Sydney last week when it was knocked down to a syndicate, representative for the extraordinary…

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No Decision on Tied-house Hotel System

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 2

The tied-house hotel system is not likely to be discussed by the New South Wales Labour Caucus before the next State elections, said a senior…

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Shire Council's Proposal for Community Hotel Reply From Mr. Gleeson

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 2

REPLYING to a letter from the Leeton Shire Council on the subject of the purchase of the Hydro Hotel to be conducted as…

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Fur Coats Missing From Wade Hotel

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 2

Mrs. Effie Verrill, a bookkeeper employed at the Wade Hotel, went to Wagga at the week-end and when she returned, she found that a lady's…

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Correspondence the Community Hotel Offer? (To the Editor)

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 7 March 1947 · page 2

Sir.—The questions asked the Shire Council by the Company which controls Leeton's hotels, as recorded in your last issue, are pieces of gross…

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£25,000 Renewals to Wagga Hotel Approved

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 8 March 1947 · page 2

THE Wagga City Council last night received an application from Mr. A. O. Romano to renovate the Commercial Hotel…

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Talbingo Publican Heavily Fined Convicted on Two Charges Assault and Refusing to Supply a Meal Insulting Language Charge Dismissed

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 4

At the Tumut Court on Thursday last before Mr. R. A. Hardwick, P.M., William J. Matchett, licensee of the Talbingo Hotel, was charged, firstly, by the police with on 7th February, being the holder of the licence, refusing to supply a…

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