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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

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Sportsman Refused by Hotel

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wednesday: The Italian champion cyclist, Enzo Sacchi, was banned from Adelaide's leading hotel,…

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Sequel to Assault on Publican Two Men Committed For Trial

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 8

Two strangers who were charged with the assault and rogbery of South Gundagai publican, Harry Attwod, were…

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Angling—angler’s 87 Yard Cast From Hotel Roof

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 8

Grey-haired Esmond. Drury, 43, a keen amateur fisherman, stood on the roof of the Savoy Hotel, London, recently,…

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Taxi Licenses Issued

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 2

Subject to the vehicles complying with the provisions of the Department of Road Transport council decided to issue taxi…

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Liquor License Granted To Gundagai Ex-Servicemen’s Club

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 1

In the Gundagai Licensing Court yesterday, over which Mr. R. N. Stewart, S.M. presided, the license for the…

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Queen and Duke Walk Back to Hotel Cheered by thousands after church service

Daily Advertiser · Monday 18 January 1954 · page 1

NELSON, N.Z., Sunday (A.A.P.-Reuter): A crowd of several thousand. people cheered the Queen end the Duke of Edinburgh as they walked back to their hotel after attending church today…

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Police opposed application for wool, hide and skin dealer's license Magistrate Grants License

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 3

At the Leeton Court of Petty Sessions on Friday, before Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., an application for a wool, hide…

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Fined for Insulting Words in Hotel Bar

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 19 January 1954 · page 3

Wallace James Marks, of Farm 51, Leeton and Kevin Seaburn of 13 Mulga Street, Leeton, were proceeded against by Gabrielle…

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Four People In Ten Licensed To Drive

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 29 January 1954 · page 7

According to a recent Gallup Poll survey, drivers’ licenses are held by more than six out of ten men over…

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Ransport and Food [?] LICENSES Renewed by Council

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 2

Over forty food vendors, transport and advertising licenses were renewed by the Leeton hire Council at Thursday night's…

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Another Hotel Has Its Own Picture Show

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 5 February 1954 · page 4

A movie and sound projector has been installed at the Commercial. Hotel at Young…

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Holiday hotel plan for polio patients

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday: A Sydney schoolteacher has returned to Australia hoping to establish an organisation like…

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Film Unit Installed at Young Hotel

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 2

A movie and sound projector has been installed at the Commercial Hotel at Young…

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Loses License on Driving Charge Defendant Had Been OF Help To Police

Junee Southern Cross · Monday 8 February 1954 · page 6

Charles Cecil Edge (31) of Wambidgee. via Cootamundra,. was charged at the Narrandera Court with driving a…

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More Hotels for Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 9 February 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA. Monday: More hotels may be built in Canberra as a result of a motion adopted by the A.C.T…

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Liswmore's Great Welcome to Royal Couple Rivals Sydney Overnight Stay at Hotel Is Only One of Tour

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 10 February 1954 · page 1

LISMORE, Wednesday— More than 50,000 rain-soaked people from every town and district village in the top corner of N.S.W. packed this beautiful garden city today to see the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. Weil before dawn every vantage point along the Royal progress route had been…

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Licensing Court Sits in Junee Hears First Part of Coolamon Case

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 12 February 1954 · page 4

There was a special sitting of the Licensing Court in Junee yesterday, with Mr. R. Stewart acting as Licensing…

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Hotel Bathroom Water and Garage Car Wash Cause Problem at South Gundagai Happenings At February Meeting Of Gundagai Shire Council

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 February 1954 · page 5

The bad state of the roadway at South Gundagai in the [?]inity of the Star Hotel, was the cause of considerable scussion at this week’s meeting of the Gundagai Shire [?]uncil. It was held, that the reason for the constant state…

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Extension of Liquor Hours for Gundagai Hotel

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 18 February 1954 · page 3

In the Gundagai Licensing Court this week, an extension of the hours for the serving of liquor with meals was…

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Licensees Must Make Sure of Travellers No Mark In Local After Hours Case

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 19 February 1954 · page 5

Despite the fact that a publican may know full well that a potential customer lives outside the required…

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