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Hotels & licensing, 1948

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Put Fist Through Hotel Window Unable To Get Drink

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 2 January 1948 · page 2

Unable to get served with a drink in Tumut at [?] on December 27th, Arthur William [?] at who described himself [?] master…

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Serving After Hours Hotelkeeper Fined On Two Charges Conviction Not to Be Recorded

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 9 January 1948 · page 2

At the Tumut Police Court jester, day before Mr. Finlay, S.M., Thomas Malone, licensee of the Oriental Hotel, Tumut, was charged with failing…

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Hotels Close in Wollongong Area

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 January 1948 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday: Following a meeting of the South Coast U.L.V.A. today all hotels to the greater Wollongong area closed…

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Licensing Court

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 20 January 1948 · page 4

Sitting as a Licensing Court, Mr. Quiggan adjourned three applications by the licensing inspector for structural alterations to be made to…

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Gundagai’s Thirst Grows Bigger Publicans Pay £1548 in License Fees Review of the 1947 STATISTICS

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 22 January 1948 · page 1

Licensing fees paid by the Gundagai hotels increased by over £500 he year 1947. In 1946 the sum paid out was £1048, whilst the 1947 tally reached £1548. This information is obtained from the just complied by the Clerk of Petty Sessions, Crown Land…

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Council Correspondence Requests From Progress Assn. the Community Hotel; Dangers to Pedestrians

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 1

A lengthy list of requests from the Progress Association, a proposed public telephone box and mail box in the new…

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License Charged

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 30 January 1948 · page 2

Thomas Patrick Kennedy, was charged on two counts, with allowing persons on his licensed premises the Coolamon Hotel, during prohibited…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 4

Before Mr. A. O. Quiggin, sitting as a Licensing Magistrate, on Wednesday at Lockhart, the transfer of the licence of Wm. G. Moffat, of the…

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Thieves Captured After Game of Hide and Seek Hotel Office Raided and Money Planted

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 2

A NUMBER of youths wearing sailors white jackets, with blue collars, were conspicuous about the streets of Leeton on the…

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Wagga Hotels Up to Standard

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1948 · page 2

Conditions in Wagga hotels compared favorably with those in other country towns in the State, said Mr. L. C. Beck, a police…

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Local Man Loses Driving License Drunken Drivers are Menace to Public, Says Magistrate

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 5

A well known local young man Edward John Blake, lost his motor or driver’s license yesterday when in the Gundagai Police Court, he…

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Licensing Court Several Applications Granted

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 2

A Licensing Court for the Tumbarumba District was held at the Tumbarumba Court House on Wednesday last,…

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Robbed in City Hotel Temora Victims

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 1

When thieves, entered their room at the Arcadia Hotel through an open fanlight on Tuesday afternoon, Messrs. John and Arthur Bradley, of the…

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Gundagai Hotels to Be Painted and Repaired Licensing Court Makes Orders Totalling £1800

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 1

Orders were made in the Special Licensing Court at Gundagai this morning calling upon several local hotel proprietors to effect repairs…

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Hotel Accommodation Improves

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. reports "a refreshing lack of complaints" this summer against country hotel accommodation and service and declares the obvious…

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Liquor License Granted to Gundagai Services Club

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 1

In the Special Licensing Court held at Gundagai this morning which Mr S. J. Bliss, SM, presided, a liquor license was granted to the Gundagai Services Club, When the case was called for…

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Gundagai and District Publicans on Parade

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 1

"Drink, drink, drink, brothers, drink" or tome such rousing song could have been well and lustily sung this morning when seven…

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Licensing Court Before Mr. S. J. Bliss, L.M. Country Club Granted Conditional License

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 10 February 1948 · page 2

An application by the Cootamundra Country Club for registration under the liquor act was granted conditionally on the club completing alterations…

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Man's Death After Fire in Wagga Hotel

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 1

A street photographer, who was shockingly burned when a room in which he and a woman assistant were working caught fire yesterday, died…

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Cootamundra R.s.l. Victory Club Given Favorable Decision for Liquor License

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 2

Under the amended liquor Act, licenses can only be granted to one returned soldiers' body in each electorate, and yesterday the Cootamundra R.S.L…

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