Kandos Hotel

1915

15 November 1915
KANDOS HOTEL.
Evidently it is the intention of the successful applicant for an hotel license for Kandos to go on with the work of erecting a substantial building on the hotel site opposite the railway station in that newly laid out township. The daily papers of last week contain a notification that tenders are invited for the erection of a brick hotel of the new city of cement. Messrs. Copeman and Lemont, of Sydney, are the architects1 .

1917

20 December 1917
The Kandos Hotel.
The Kandos Hotel is really an eye opener. The building is one of the finest hotel buildings outside of Sydney, and is magnificently finished. The popular hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Hanson, are very homely and sociable to the traveller, and they strain every point to make one comfortable2 .

The Kandos Hotel - The Kandos Hotel is really an eye opener to the stranger. Not only is the building one of the finest in the country, but it is beautifully furnished, and contains a large number of large-sized rooms. The licensee and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Hanson, are a sociable and entertaining couple, and do all in their power to make everybody happy. A fire trade is done at the hotel, both in the bar and accommodation departments. The hotel is really a home away from a home3 .

1919

20 February 1919
KANDOS WINE LICENSE.
CONTINUANCE GRANTED.
An appeal was made against the continuance of a wine license held by Mr. Jones at Kandos, which was granted some months ago by Mr. H. Malone, P.M., at the Rylstone Licensing Court.
Mr. Handwick (instructed by Mr. Smithers) for the appellant, Mr. C. Davidson {instructed by Mr. G. Davidson) for the defendant.
F. Oakden, general manager of the N.S.W. Lime, Cement, and Coal Co., deposed: I reside in Sydney; visit Kandos about every ten days; Kandos is 4½ miles from Rylstone, which has developed during the past 5½ years by my company; have been manager since the inception of the company; know the hotel at Kandos; the hotel has been built about two years; it is a first class hotel, built to accommodate the travelling public; there are about 23 bedrooms; it will compare with any thing in the State as a country hotel; there are 13 or 14 outside rooms for workmen; in my opinion the hotel is sufficient for requirements; it is a well designed hotel upstairs and downstairs; there is half an acre of land adjoining for enlargement if required; there has been an increase of employees during the past 12 months; we have doubled our output; the population is about the same as when the wine license was granted; have never been in the bar; do not know of anyone not being able to get accommodation.
Cross-examined: My company subdivided the whole township; we had a covenant that no other hotel could be erected; I personally called an applicant and threatened him with equity proceedings; the covenant did not cover a wine license; have no concern of a monopoly; we do all we can to protect the hotel, our obligation is to prevent a wine license; my company had no transaction with the Sydney brewers; we have spent a lot of money in Kandos; we forecast a big future for Kandos; the copper works are up, but are unprofitable at the present time; the C.S.A. Co. have spent between £30,000 and £40,000; the property was subdivided into about 320 building allotments; believe there will be more than 5000 people before very long; the colliery will employ a lot of men; may stay a day when I go to Kandos.
Charles P. Hansen deposed: I am licensee of the Kandos Hotel; there has been no extension of the premises; an increase of population was expected, but there has been a decrease; never had any trouble in supplying the needs of the community; hold a lease from Tooth and Co.
Cross-examined: Tooth and Co. are paying portion of the costs of the appeal; do not know whether they are running the whole of the appeal; I consider £25 a week a good wine trade{FOOTNOTE()}Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative. ‘Kandos Wine License’. 20 February 1919. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article157147805.
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1920

30 June 1920
KAND0S.
A BEER STRIKE.
(From our own Correspondent.)
On Saturday afternoon a most orderly and businesslike meeting was held. Its purpose was to reduce the price of liquid refreshments. A. chairman having been elected, the business was got on to. It was decided that the price of beer should be reduced from 6d to 4d per "pot"; spirits to 6d per drink, and bottled ale from 1s 6d to 1s 3d. A deputation of four waited upon the hotel proprietor. There was, it is alleged, a rapid fire interview, and a quick exodus of the four representatives who informed the meeting that there was "nothing doing." All drinks were thereupon declared "black," and it was intimated that if any man was found drinking the others would refuse to work with him. The meeting then broke up, many of the men finding solace in the local wine bar, and some of the more thirsty souls walking into Rylstone4 .

1936

5 November 1936
Owner
Tooth Co. Ltd., Sydney 1/1/20

Licensees
Charles Peter Hansen, Bellambi, via Wollongong 1/1/20
Abram Max Falstein 1/1/20
Bernie Norman 4/4/22
Leslie John Couper 14/2/23
Patrick Thomas Goulding 13/7/27
John Robert Stokes 31/7/28
Matthew Regan Cranney 3/10/28
Patrick Thomas Goulding 11/9/20
John Stirling Croll 7/8/31
Margaret Goulding 6/11/31

Sub-Lessee Booth Licenses
13/12/24, 14/4/26, 13/11, 15/3/27

General
15/5/31. Order 40A made - Complete by 31/12/31. Approx. Cost £75.
5/11/36. Mat. Alterations - Complete by 23/12/36 - Approx. Cost £485 .

1938

16 June 1938
HOTEL LICENCE RENEWED
At the Rylstone Police Court on 9/6/38; Kandos Hotel, Kandos, for Margaret Goulding6 .

1952

13 November 1952
Kandos Hotel Changes Hands
At the Bathurst Licensing Court last week, the licence of the Kandos Hotel was transferred from Cecil Drinkwater to Ronald Bonvente. The new licensee was formerly in the hotel business at Newcastle. He informed the Bench that he paid £6,360 for a lease of the premises, including furniture7 .

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