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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1952

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N. Wagga hotel keeper charged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 2

The licensee of the Black Swan Hotel at North Wagga, Francis Noel Thomas, was charged at Wagga Court yesterday with having failed to close his bar at the stipulated time…

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Sold liquor without license Cafe Proprietor Fined

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 4 April 1952 · page 2

At the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday before Mr. K. Smith, S.M., Harold McNickle pleaded guilty to selling wine without being the holder of a license under the Liquar Act and was fined £50 with £2/7/0…

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Fire in Culcairn Hotel Room Gutted

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 1

ALBURY, Monday —A room at the Culcairn Hotel was gutted by fire and seven other rooms were badly damaged by…

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Rooms damaged in hotel fire at Culcairn

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 1

ALBURY, Sunday: A room at the Culcairn Hotel was gutted by fire and seven other rooms were badly damaged by water and smoke this afternoon…

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Licensing Court "In Error"

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 April 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: The State full Court found today that the Licensing Court had been in error in refusing to…

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Young Gundagai Man Loses Driving License Charge Of Driving Under The Influenc

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 17 April 1952 · page 4

At the Tumut Court last week, Brian James Jamieson, of Gundagai, was charged with driving a…

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Adelong Man Forfiets License Cannot Drive Car For Three Years

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 1

At the Tumut courts of Petty Sessions last week, William Percival Grain, of Bang[?]dang, was charged…

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Hotel Licences Fuller Inquiries to Be Made

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 22 April 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—The N.S.W. Licences Reduction Board ordered fuller inquiries in to hotel licence transfers and…

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Transfers of hotels: laws fighter

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 April 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: N.S.W. Licences Reduction Board has ordered strict investigation into the bona fides of people…

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Jockey Wins Appeal But Loses License

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 6

SYDNEY, Thursday: A jockey disqualified for 12 months at Gosford successfully appealed today against…

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Hotel Hours Today

Daily Advertiser · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 2

Wagga police said yesterday that hotels will not be opened until 12 noon today…

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Hotel Boycott Evidence for Minister

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: Evidence of a boycott on the Robin Hood Hotel, Blacktown, will be forwarded to the…

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Hotel Transfer Refused

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 2

There was an unusual happening at the Young Licensing Court when a request for transfer of a publican's licence was refused…

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Judge slates hotels' rush periods "DISGUSTING"

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Maxwell) today described drinking conditions in hotels between 4 and 6 pm…

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Country Hotels Evidence at the Liquor Inuqiry

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 13 May 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday — Commercial travellers were entitled to some consideration at country hotels at least, the Liquor Royal…

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Many District Hotels Mentioned at Liquor Commission Hearing

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 May 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: It was a notorious fact that the publiction that ought to be available, and the excuses offered for this liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Maxwell) said today. he did not believe half the stories told about rooms being unavailable to the public because…

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N.r.m.a. Inspector Gives Evidence on De-registered Hotels

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 14 May 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Because their standard had deteriorated, the N.R.M.A. had de-registered 106 N.S.W. hotels, a country inspector of the N.R.M.A. told the Liquor Commissioner (Mr. Justice Maxwell) today. He is James Robertson, who said the N.R.M.A. had 169 hotels registered in 1950,…

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Teachers' claim about hotels

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday: in the Liquor Royal Commission today, a Teachers' Federation official submitted a document containing evid­ence of complaints by schoolteachers of treat­ment they had received at some country hotels…

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Country Hotels Mentioned at Liquor Commission Bad Service” Alleged At Adelong

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 7

It was a notorious fact that the public was denied hotel accommodation that ought to be available, and the excuses offered for this lack were nonsense, the Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Maxwell) said on Monday…

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Wedding Nigh "Was Spoilt by Hotel's Accommodation

Daily Advertiser · Friday 16 May 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: The liquor Royal Commission was told today that a young bride's wedding night had been spoilt by the accommodation in a leading Sydney residential hotel. In a letter to the Commission, the bride said: "It was the poorest, meanest-looking room have ever seen in my life…

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