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Hotels & licensing, 1953

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Ganmain Hotel Changes Hands

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 2 January 1953 · page 4

Mr. Patrick Walsh, after a tenure of ten years as licensee of the Ganmain Hotel, has…

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Not Interested in Hotel Gift

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

A formal decision that it was not interested in a proposal to transfer the licence of the Royal Mail Hotel al Hillston to Carrathool Shire, free…

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Blind publican congratulated

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: The Metropolitan Licensing Court and police today congratulated a blind publican for the…

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How Two Gundagai Streets Were Named Doctor Staged Punch And Judy Show In Family Hotel

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 10

For more than 300 years the puppet show “Punch and Judy” has thrilled the hearts of millions of children. It was, the performance of one such show that led to the naming of two Gundagai streets…

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Trotting License Suspended

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 4

S. W. Bray, driver of Australla's champion pacer, Avian Derby, had his reinsman's licence suspended for one month…

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Closure of Australia's Small Hotel

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 7

Australia's smallest hotel, at Allendale, near Ballarat, has closed its doors. The hotel measured 24ft. by…

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Free Meals at Hotels If the Diner Can Dodge the Waitress

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 16 January 1953 · page 4

A woman appeared before the Bathurst Court this week, charged with refusing to pay for a meal in an hotel. Evidence was given that…

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Town and District Hotels Up to Standard

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 7

The quarterly report by the District Licensing Inspector submitted to the Gundagai Licensing Court this week,…

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Driver’s License Suspended For Further Three Years Gundagai Grazier Drove Car Whilst Under Suspension “There’ll Be No Fine Next Time” Says S.M.

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 22 January 1953 · page 1

As a result of Magistrate W. Finlay’s decision in the Gundagai Court last Tuesday, local grazier. Stanley H. R. will not be able to hold a motor driver’s license until August 1956…

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CORRESPONDENCE Shire Council's Community Hotel proposal (To the Editor)

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 4

Sir—It seems that the dream child of our Civic Fathers, the Community Hotel is going to be an expensive infant to bring into…

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Local Rules for Hotel Hours Junee Man Joint in City Controversy

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 23 January 1953 · page 4

Mr. John Green, of Junee, has contributed a letter to the Sydney "Morning Herald" arguing that an intolerable…

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Hotel Startled As Blonde Eats Raw Meat

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 2 February 1953 · page 1

Residents and kitchen staff at Reid House. Canberra were astonished one evening last week when an…

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Woman Who Disliked Communists Threw Water Over Speakers From Junee Hotel Balcony

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 2 February 1953 · page 1

A WOMAN THREW WATER OVER COMMUNIST PARTY SPEAKERS WHILE THEY WERE ADDRESSING AN ELECTION STREET MEETING IN JUNEE ON SATURDAY MORNING LAST IN FRONT…

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Fined for Biting Publican

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 4 February 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A woman was fined £2 in Central Court today for biting s publican…

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Robbery and Attempted Robbery Rural Bank and Narrandera Hotel Visited by Burglars

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 5 February 1953 · page 2

Last night burglars visited the Rural Bank and the Narrandera Hotel. At the hotel the attempt was successful, but at the Rural Bank it…

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Community Hotel Building in Stages

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 2

The Wade (Griffith) Shire Council will support an application by the Leeton Shire to the Minister for Local Government for amendment of…

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Knife drawn in hotel bar New Australian Sentenced to 14 Days Gaol

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 17 February 1953 · page 3

Before Mr. W. R. Cox, J.P. at Leeton Police Court on Monday, Michael Skorenko, 24 years old labourer from the…

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Money Stolen at Hotel

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 23 February 1953 · page 2

Aircraftsman first class Charles Jones, of Wagga, reported to police last night that £3/10/ was taken from his…

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Hillston May Lose Hotel License

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 27 February 1953 · page 1

A letter to the last meeting of Carrathool Shire advised that Tooheys Ltd., had no intention of rebuilding the burned out…

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Junee G.O.T. and B. Assn. May Seek Transfer for Greyhound Race License Issued to Ambulance

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 2 March 1953 · page 1

The Junes branch of the Greyhound Owners, Trainers and Breeders' Association will write to the secretary, Jones Ambulance Mechanical Hare Racing Club (Mr. F. Worth) and give him fourteen days to indicate what…

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