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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1952

182 stories in Riverina's papers · page 8 of 10

Beer Boils As Hotel Burns

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 September 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—The entire population of the little town of Brocklesby, near Corowa, turned out late last night to…

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Theft From Hotel Room

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 1 October 1952 · page 2

A thief or thieves last night entered a room at the Tattersall's Hotel and stole a man's suit and a travelling clock…

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Fire in Gresham Hotel Bedroom Prompt Action Prevents Conflagration

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 2 October 1952 · page 1

Prompt action stopped a fire from spreading from a bedroom of the Hotel Gresham Hotel, on Tuesday night…

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Body in Hotel Yard Not Murder Victim Shearer Believed Accidentally Killed

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 7 October 1952 · page 2

Police do not suspect that the man who was found dead in the yard of the Hotel Cootomundra on Saturday was murdered. They believe that the man a shearer, may have…

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Found Betting in Hotel Yard. £20 Fine in Junee For S.P. .Bookie

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 10 October 1952 · page 7

Because the defendant, James (Reginald McLean, was in Sydney consulting an eye specialist, the Stipendiary…

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Modern hotel for Kosciusko

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 October 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday: A group of Sydney businessmen intend to build the most modern hotel in…

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Leeton Community Hotel Application to Court

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 14 October 1952 · page 2

The application of the Leeton Shire Council for a Community Hotel License will come before the Licensing Court at Leeton, at…

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Wants extended hours for hotels

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 15 October 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: The Olympic Games did not enter into the question of drinking hours—the hours should be extended even if we were not having the Games, said Sir Harold Luxton…

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Found on Licensed Premises

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 3

Donald Stewart Sumpter, John Bowes, Keith Teale, Leslie Botten, George Noble and Ernest James Clark were charged with being found…

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New Kosciusko Hotel

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 16 October 1952 · page 2

A decision to call applications for the construction and management of a new hotel, at Mt. Kosciusko, has been made…

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Application for Community Hotel Evidence before Licensing Court Additional Accommodation Needed for Expanding Population

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 1

Before the Licensing Court at Leeton on Tuesday the application by Leeton Shire Council for the granting of a Community Hotel license was heard. The Bench comprised their Worships V. H. Wells (chairman), S…

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Extended' Hotel Hours Urged

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 2

The Olympic Games did not enter into the question of drinking hours—the hours should be extended even if we were not…

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Community hotel for Griffith

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 October 1952 · page 1

GRIFFITH, Thursday : A licence for a community hotel was granted yesterday to the shire clerk (Mr. F. B…

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Community Hotel for Griffith

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 20 October 1952 · page 1

A licence for a community hotel was granted to the Shire Clerk (Mr. F. B. O'Brien) on behalf of the Wade Shire Council when the Licensing…

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Licensing Court

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 6

At the Liensing Court at Tumbarumba on Friday last Julius Phillip Heinecke applied to transfer the publican's license…

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Young Local Driver Loses His License

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 October 1952 · page 6

In the Gundagai Court last Tuesday, an 18 year old Sth. Gundagai resident, Albert George Veitch pleaded guilty…

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Hotel Cootamundra Death Inquest Begins Two Local Men on Murder Charge

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 27 October 1952 · page 2

The inquest into the death of James Anderson (also known as Gilligan), who was found dead in the yard of the Hotel Cootamundra on October 4, opened this morning…

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Melbourne Hotel Sold for £450,000

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 29 October 1952 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tues.: After being passed in at £380,000 at auction this afternoon, the Hotel Alexander was later…

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Gift Offer Refused. Op Royal Mail Hotel-license

The Hillston Spectator and Lachlan River Advertiser · Thursday 30 October 1952 · page 2

The license of the Royal Mail Hotel, Hillsion, has been offered as a Gift to Carrahool Shire Council, or any…

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Witness Faints at Today's Inquest the Hotel Cootamundra Yard Case

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 31 October 1952 · page 2

"Harold Grant was greatly shocked when I told him that the man with whom he had been drinking at the Royal Hotel had died overnight," said Mr. William Mott at the Anderson inquest which…

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