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Hotels & licensing, 1954

211 stories in Riverina's papers · page 7 of 11

Health Inspector Loses License Convicted of Driving Under Influence

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 26 August 1954 · page 2

A court case which has lasted for almost a year, has been concluded at Gundagai, when health inspector, Norman Agnew, was…

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Resents Term “Slack Money” Local Publican Replies To Court Accusation (To the Editor)

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 26 August 1954 · page 1

Dear Sir, In your newspaper of 23rd instant you publish on your front page a report of…

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New Move on Hotels-clubs Executive of A.L.P. to oppose scheme

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 28 August 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday: If necessary, the A.L.P. Executive would direct State Parliamentarians to vote against any move to link club hours with hotel hours in the…

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10 o'clock for hotels, clubs urged

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 2 September 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.: Ten o'clock closing for hotels and clubs alike was tonight advocated in the…

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Railway Hotel Licence Before Court Transfer Sought by Orange Man

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 8 September 1954 · page 2

An application for a transfer of the publican's licence of the Railway Hotel, Cootamundra, from William Thomas Cawthorne to Eugene John Levingstone Mass was part heard in the Cootamundra…

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No License Plan for Retailers

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 September 1954 · page 1

The State Government was not planning to introduce a licensing system for retailers, the Minister for Labour…

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No Definite Statement on Hotel Hours

Daily Advertiser · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: The State Government had made no definite recommendation on what was the best closing…

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Thieves Disturbed Broke Into Office of Hotel Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 2

In the early hours of Wednesday morning thieves broke into the office of the Leeton Hotel…

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Traffic Cases in Junee Court Driver's Admission of No License

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 10 September 1954 · page 2

"I haven't got one," was the frank admission Edward Flakelar, of Temora, made to Constable K. F. Hermes when…

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Unattended Transport’s Wild Dash Careers Down Hill, Crosses Gundagai’s Main Street and Crashes Through Hotel Fence Three Pedestrians Have Lucky Escape

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 13 September 1954 · page 3

THAT nobody was killed or even injured on Friday afternoon last, is Indeed miraculous, for a heavily ladened unattended transport careered madly down the steep incline of Byron Street, crossed Gundagai’s main…

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Transport Careers Down Hill Crashes Through Hotel Fence

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1954 · page 1

Nobody was killed or even injured when a heavily-laden, unattended transport careered madly down the steep incline of…

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Liquor Application Still Part Heard Evidence in Railway Hotel Case

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 21 September 1954 · page 3

An applicant for the licence of the Railway Hotel, Eugene John Levingstone Maas, admitted in the Cootamundra Court House yesterday that he had committed quite a number of breaches of the…

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Board Suspends Hotel License Unusual Action at Young Court

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 3

At a special sitting of the Licensing Board at Young on Tuesday, Mr. R. Stewart L.M., suspended the license…

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Hotel Proposal Ridiculed by Church Ministers

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday — The proposal to close hotels for an hour at 6.30 p.m. if 10 o'clock closing becomes law, was…

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Labour M.l.a. Says City Hotels Want 6 P.m. Closing

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 5

Labour M.L.A. for Hartley, Mr. J. Chalmers, said that Sydney hotel licensees were giving “only lip-service” to…

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Local Sprit Merchant’s License

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 4

An application by C. B. Stribley to this week’s licensing Court for endorsement of a Spirit Merchant’s license…

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Gundagai District Man Was Tim of Practical Joke And it cost him the Cancellation of his Driver’s License

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 23 September 1954 · page 3

PRACTICAL JOKES can have cruel and consequences and to a young Gundagai district man, a practical joke culminated in his being convicted of driving whilst under the influence of alcohol, and thus losing his driver’s…

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Motorist's License Cancelled for Seven Years

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 2

At Narrandera Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, Arthur James Southgate of Yenda, was called up for sentence on a charge of…

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Motorist Appeals Against Suspension of Licensed for Speeding

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 2

A former Town Clerk of Narrandera, Reginald J. Barrett, who was convicted at the Leeton Court of…

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Hotel Licence at Young Is Suspended

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 24 September 1954 · page 2

At a special sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Board at Young on Tuesday, Mr. R. Stewart, L.M., suspended the…

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