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Hotels & licensing, 1954

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Transfer of South Gundagai Hotel Licence

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 1

In the Gundagai Licencing [?]ourt last Tuesday, the trans[?] of the licence of the Hume [?]otel at South Gundagai,…

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Gundagai Publican Fined Trading Daring Prohibited Hours

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 6

W. J. Hogan, licences of the Gundagai Family. Hotel, was fined £10 with 12/- costs in the Gundagai Court last Tuesday…

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Plenty of hotels for the Games

Daily Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday: "I am confident that all the hotel accommodation needs of all visitors to Melbourne for the 1956 Olympic Games will be met,"…

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Half & Century Back Being Reminiscences of Tumut Over Approximately a Quarter Century. Beginning in the Nineties Two Hotel Sensations

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 3

Tumut has had its share of sensations--its drownings, its murders. Two early incidents occurred within a comparatively short time, bringing two hotel cooks into the limelight…

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New Manager of Leeton Hotel

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 2

Mr. P. J. Murphy, from Rollevue Hill (Sydney) arrived in Leeton yesterday, preparatory to taking over the management of…

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Licensee Fined

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 2

Stanley Victor Graham licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, was fined £3. with 12/ costs, for having…

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Longer Hotel Trading Hours for A.c.t.?

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 1

CANBERRA, Tuesday—The Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council unanimously decided to recommend an…

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Hotel trading hours extension for A.C.T.?

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday: The Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council today unanimously decided to recommend an extension of hotel trading hours in the A.C.T. They will recommend to the…

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Leeton Hotels Change Hands

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 1

At the Licensing Court held in Leeton on Friday, before Mr. K. W. Smith, S.M., the license of the Leeton Hotel was transferred to…

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Longer Trading Hours for N.s.w. Hotels Sought

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday —The U.L.V.A. is believed to be planning a proposal for the extension of N.S.W. drinking hours…

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Hotel Moved

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 1
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AUCKLAND, Friday—Customers stayed in the bar and went on drinking when the Waiwera Hotel, near Auckland,…

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Wagga Hotel Accommodation "Poor Indeed"

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 2

Secretary of the Picnic Race Club (Mr. W. H. Stillman) last night criticised a shortage of hotel accommodation in Wagga…

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Deputations to See Minister on Hotel Hours

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday— A deputation from the U.L.V.A. will today urge the Minister for Justice, Mr. Downing, to…

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Historical Hotel Re-named

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1954 · page 3

For centuries one of the "honors" to be earned in Britain has been to be immortalised in the name of an inn. That…

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Petrol Mystery at Bendigo Eighty Gallons So Far From Hole in Hotel Yard

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 1

BENDIGO, Thursday—Bendigo has struck petrol—but there is no rush to peg out claims. It is in the yard of a main street hotel. No refining is Deeded. You just haul it up in a bucket,…

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Counter Lunches on the Way Back?. Goulburn Hotel Revives An Old Custom

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 11 June 1954 · page 2

"Counter lunches" are now the order in at least one Goulburn hotel, and it is possible other local hotels…

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Referendum on Hotel Hours A.L.P. Policy

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday—The Government will be asked to take a State-wide referendum on the trading hours of hotels, State…

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To Seek Referendum on Hotel Hours

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: The Government will be asked to take a State-wide referendum on the Trading hours of hotels, State, conference of the A.L.P…

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Burrumbuttock Hotel Gutted £12,000 Fire Damage

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 2

ALBURY, Wednesday: Damage estimated at £12,000 was caused to the Burrumbuttock Hotel early this morning when fire completely gutted the building…

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