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Hotels & licensing, 1949

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Man Found Dead at Hydro Hotel

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 July 1949 · page 6

A well-known business man from Sydney, who frequently made visits to the irrigation area in the course of his…

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Damaging Hotel Plate-glass Window Local Man Fined

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 12 July 1949 · page 1

At the Tumut Police Court last Thursday Mr. W. Finlay, S.M., fined Alfred John Spicer £3 and ordered him to pay £11/10/-…

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Hotel Licensee Fined at Leeton

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 16 July 1949 · page 2

LEETON, Friday: Ernest Virtue Hall, licensee of the Hydro Hotel, Leeton, was fined £5, with £4/8/ costs, by the…

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Rights of Travelling Public To Hotel Meals Case of Public Interest in Licensing Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 19 July 1949 · page 1

A case of public interest was heard in the Licensing Court at Leeton on Friday when Ernest Virtue Hall, licensee of the Hydro Hotel was charged with a breach of the Liquor Act in refusing to provide meals for bona fide travellers on…

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Hotel Bar Is a Street Interesting Point in Betting Case

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 22 July 1949 · page 6

When William Thomas Adams was charged at the Leeton police court on Friday with betting in a street, to wit, the bar of the…

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Coursing Murrumburrah Dog Case W. Fisher Debarred From Holding License

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 25 July 1949 · page 8

The NSW Greyhound Racing Control Board has decided that W Fisher; one of the patries in the recent Murrumburrah case will…

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Hotel Bar is a Street Point in Betting Case

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 28 July 1949 · page 2

When William Thomas Adams was charged at the Leeton Police Court last week with betting in a street, to wit, the bar of the Leeton…

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Coaching Scene for Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 1

EIGHTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD JAMES LAITY, a. former driver for Cobb and Company, pointing to the mural of a Conn and Company coach which he unveiled in the bar of the Victoria Hotel, Bourke Street this week. Mr. Laity was 16 when he first…

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After Hours Prosecution Publican and Footballers Fined

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 2

At the Lectern police court yesterday morning before Mr. Debenham. S.M., a number of men were fined for being on licensed…

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Gundagai Royal Hotel Was Leased for £6 Per Week in 1913 Remarkable Contrast to Rents Paid To-Day

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 4 August 1949 · page 2

Realising the heavy financial burden borne by those hotelkeepers who at the present time are forced to pay big weekly rents to breweries it is interesting to note that thirty-six years ago the Royal Hotel at Gundagai was leased for a ten year period at £6 per week…

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Secondhand Car Dealers May be Licensed

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday: State Cabinet may soon consider legislation to license service stations and secondhand car…

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Tumut's High Percentage of State Trout Licenses

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 2

986 of the 5,600 trout licenses issued in New South Wales last year were issued at Tumut, and it is reasonable to assume that at…

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Next Week's Annual Wagga Show Promises to Be Best in History Hotel Accommodation Already Booked Out

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 3

The 78th annual Wagga Show, which opens next Tuesday promises to be the most successful ever conducted by the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Record entries, totalling almost 5000, have been…

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licensed Victuallers' Golf Day Today

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 16 August 1949 · page 5

The Wagga. licensed victuallers' monthly golf day will be held at the Wagga Country Club this afternoon. The tournament…

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West Wyalong Hotel Mentioned in Court Action

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 17 August 1949 · page 1
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—It was alleged in the Equity Court that after a man had given his fiancee more than 2,300 to…

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Angling—tumut’s High Percentage of State Trout Licenses

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 8

Nine hundred and eighty of the 5,600 licenses issued in NSW last year were issued at Tumut, and it is reasonable to assume that at least one…

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Saw Mill License Wanted for Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 1

Mr. Nelson, proprietor or a local wood yard, waited on the Leeton Shire Council meeting last week, with a request that it support him in his…

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Man Who Bid £418,000 for Hotel Sued for Divorce

Daily Advertiser · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday: A country publican who bid £418,000 for the freehold of a hotel at Young was today ordered by the Registrar in Divorce (Mr. Doughan) to pay his wife alimony of £5 a week…

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Big Bidder for Hotel Sued for Divorce

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 29 August 1949 · page 3

A well-known country publican who bid £418,000 for the freehold of a hotel at Young was ordered by the Registrar in…

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