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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

186 stories in Riverina's papers · page 5 of 10

Burglars Carry Safe of Money from Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Monday 24 May 1948 · page 2

WOLLONGONG. Sun day: Burglars broke Into the Commercial Hotel early this morning and stole a safe containing…

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Television Keeps Hotel Guests in

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 24 May 1948 · page 3

Television has brought with it a new type of hotel guest—the person who takes off his or her shoe? to see the sights (says a New York…

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Licensing Court Monday, May 17 (Before Mr. A. V. Wells, Chairman of the Licensing Board) Application Refused

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 2

Anthony B. C. Wood applied for the grating of a spirit merchant's licence in respect of the Yenda Producers' Cooperative Society Ltd., at…

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Hotels Open on Referendum Day

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: when the Prices Referendum is held next Saturday all hotels in N.S.W. will be open…

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Hotels Open On Polling Day

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: All N.S.W. hotels will be open as usual next Saturday during polling on the Rents and Prices Referendum…

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Minister Opposes Liquor Licenses at Junee

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 9

The Junee Golf Club and the Junee Bowling Club Were granted club licenses at a sitting of the Licensing Court in Junee last…

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Liquor Licenses Granted to Yass Clubs

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 6

Two Yass Clubs—the Soldiers' Club and the Golf Club — each have been granted certificates of registration under, the Liquor Act…

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Ex-boxer Publican Fined

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 31 May 1948 · page 2

Former boxing champion, Fred Henneberry, now an hotelkeeper at Goulburn, was fined £20 and costs for charging 1/- for a nip of whisky…

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Hotels Must Serve Meals Judge's Comment

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The former champion boxer, Sydney George Godfrey, licensee of the Horse and Jockey Hotel,…

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Hotels Must Serve Meals, Says Judge

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: The for[?] champion boxer, sydney George Godfrey, licensee of the Horse and Jockey Hotel…

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Man Fined for Hotel Picketing

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: For the first time in N.S.W., a man was today charged with picketing a hotel…

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£5 Fine for Gundagai Publican Six Locals to Pay £2 Each

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 10 June 1948 · page 7

The time was 9.25 p.m. on March 20th, last when Sergeant S. A. Hinde paid a call on the Hume Hotel, at South Gundagai…

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Swiss Prosper in Middle of Poor Continent Hotels Called World's Best

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 28 June 1948 · page 5

People visiting. Switzerland this summer will see "striking evidence of opulence in the heart of an impoverished Continent” says Joseph…

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Liquor Licence Renewal Barellan May Lose Hotel

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 2

The Federal member for Riverina, Mr. Joseph Ignatius Langtry, M.H.R., 61 Barellan, was the successful applicant for renewal of a liquor licence…

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Child Injured in Fall From Hotel Balcony

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 1

KERRY RILEY, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Riley, employees of the Hotel Leeton, (Mrs. Riley being the…

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A Temora Hotel Bought £12,000

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 2

After nearly half a century in the Corbett family, the freehold of Temora Railway Hotel was bought by the present licensee,…

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Publican-m.h.r. Not Complying with Act Police Unsuccessfully Fight Licence Renewal

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 7

There has teen some extraordiary aspects revealed in evidence when Riverina MHR, Joseph Ignatius Langtry, successfully applied to…

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Shops, Hotels Close While Bega Protests

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 3

All business ceased and seven hotels closed of. Tuesday write 3,500 people from many towns on the far South Coast met in the main street of Bega…

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Local Items Record Licensing Fees

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 2

Licensing fees in Wagga during the past year reached the all-time high of £3190/12/1. The fees were paid by all…

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£50 Fine Over Work on Hotel at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: For having work completed on a building in excess of that authorised by the Department of Building…

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