15 July 1901
At the Licensing Court this morning, William Endacott was granted a new licence for a hotel at Cooyal. The premises are in every way suitable for a hotel, and as the new licencee is a thoroughly straight goer, we have every reason to. believe that he will succeed1 .
1 August 1901
A party of Mudgee gunmen last week made Host Will Endacott's Cooyal Hotel their headquarters for a few days, and speak most highly of the accommodation afforded, and the attention which was shown to them by Mr. and Mrs. Endacott. Travellors will find this hostelry a great convenience, for it is run by a real white man2 .
1 October 1903
Mr. Albert Cameron, son o£ Mr. Hugh Cameron, our popular commission agent, has taken the lease of the Cooyal Hotel3 .
23 January 1905
It is stated that Mr. Jas. Brennan, of Wollar, has purchased the Cooyal Hotel from Mrs. Millis, and that one of his sons will in future conduct it. The hotel is at present closed. Mr. A. S. Cameron, the late licensee, had a rough time during the late bad seasons, and his affairs have been placed in the hands of his creditors4 .
9 March 1905
Mr. Jas. Brennan celebrated the reopening of the local hotel by a day's races on- Saturday last. The meeting was a great success and everything passed .off most satisfactorily5 .
4 September 1913
Mr. F. McGrath, the popular host of 'the Cooyal Hotel, has disposed of the business to Mrs. Smith., of Derowen. who will take possession during the coming week. Mr. McGrath intends to go in for farming pursuits as he has a large area of land near the hotel. He was tendered a 'send off'.' by the Cooyal and Wollar people on Saturday night, at .which there was a large gathering, and a jolly time put in6 .
8 February 1923
Mr. Francis McGrath has sold the goodwill of the Cooyal Hotel to Mr Jeremiah Wall, junr., of Cooyal. We wish the new proprietor and his good wife luck in their new business venture7 .
8 March 1923
Owner, Francis McGrath; licencee, Jeremiah Wall; mortgagor, Australian Bank of Commerce, against the house. police Inspector Bond gave evidence that there were no convictions against the house. The hotel was in a good state of repair and had four bedrooms for the use of the public. The total number of rooms was 11. It was 11 miles from the Mudgee Hotel, and 14 miles from Wollar Hotel. It was used by travelling public, and was well conducted. Within a radius of five miles there was a population of 254. The distance from Mudgee was 17 miles. It was a useful hotel.
Francis McGrath gave evidence showing the use that was made of the hotel by the travelling public. His average income for the past 12 months was £22 per week.
Jeremiah Wall also gave evidence8
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24 May 1923
A few weeks ago' Mr. Jerry Wall took over the Cooyal Hotel. He has now purchased that hostelry and effected good improvements to the building. Mr. Wall, assisted by his good wife, is conducting the Cooyal Hotel very well, and is doing a good trade9 .
6 August 1925
For a home away from home, try Cooyal Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Wall Iook after their guests in a very satisfactory way. Civility and cleanliness are the leading features of this well known hotel, and every effort is made to please10 .
26 January 1931
Cooyal Sensation,
SYDNEY, Monday.
Cooyal, a small town 17 miles from Mudgee, was the scene of an extraordinary double shooting affair, on Saturday afternoon.
About 3.15 p.m., a man, who subsequently gave an address in Rozelle, Sydney, walked into a store and obtained a quantity of groceries, and tobacco. It is said he refused to pay, and with a sawn-off shot gun in his hand backed towards the door.
The man then jumped on to a horse and rode to the Cooyal Hotel, where, the police say, he demanded a drink.
The hotel, licensee, Mr. Hall, tried to take the weapon from the man, and in the struggle Hall was shot in the neck. The stranger then rushed across to a. nearby paddock and shot himself in the left breast.
Hall was subsequently, admitted to a private hospital, while the gunman is in Mudgee Hospital under police guard11
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19 March 1931
The Cooyal Hotel has once more changed hands and the new license (Mr Dunlop) is expected to take over the business, on March 22. Mr A???? who has conducted the hotel for the past twelve months intends entering into business in the city12 .
23 May 1932
At the Licensing Court this morning, before Mr H. H. Farrington, D. Rapaport applied for the transfer of the license of the Cooyal Hotel from the present licensee, Mr A. O'Neill. After the usual questions and satisfactory answers the application was granted13 .
21 Nov 1932
Cooyal Hotel
At tile Mudgec Police Court today Keith Linden Manning, of Hexham was granted an application for the transfer of the license In respect of the Cooyal Hotel, Cooyal, from David Rapaport to himself14
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1934
4 October 1934
TRANSFER OF HOTEL LICENCE
AT the Mudgee Licensing Court on Monday James Sheehan, of Dulwich Hill applied for the transfer of the licence of the Cooyal Hotel from Christopher Boland to himself. The application was granted15
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8 April 1937
Cooyal Hotel Case
FiVE men were fined £1 with 8/ court costs each at the Mudgee Police Court on Monday on charges of having been found on the licensed premises of Cooyal Hotel during prohibited hours on March 6.
They were William Mahon, Henry Blackman, Michael O'Brien, Michael Hamilton, and Roland Shield. Police Inspector Armstrong said that the police visited the hotel on the night In question. A dance was in progress not very far away. Mr. Garry F. Spring, of the firm of Garry F. Spring and Spring, of Mudgee, appointed for the defendants16
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22 October 1953
Opposition at both ends
People at Cooyal, in the Mudgee district, are opposing the proposed removal of the licence of the Cooyal Hotel to a hotel proposed to be erected at Kingswood, and a petition containing 400 names of residents at Kingswood has been lodged in opposition to the establishment of the hotel as proposed at Kingswood.
The Licensing Board (Messrs. Bliss, chairman, Kelly, and Stewart) sat at Mudgee recently to hear an application by the licensee, Richard Watkins, for removal of the licence of the Cooyal Hotel to Kingswood.
Evidence was given by the owner of the premises, the licensee, an architect from Sydney, and the district licensing inspector, Police Sergt. W. J. Hodges.
The architect stated that the construction of the proposed hotel would cost £20,000.
Sergt. Hodges said that Cooyal Hotel was 18 miles from Mudgee and 12 miles from Wollar and the modern means of transport did not warrant continuance of the hotel, considering the small population of Cooyal and district.
ORDER TO DEMOLISH
An order under Section 40A of the Liquor Act was issued on June 26, 1947, to demolish the existing building and to erect a new building In its place.
The present building was an old piese building in a very bad state of repair.
The owner stated that it would not pay to spend £20,000 on a building of eight rooms ordered by the licensing magistrate.
Cyril E. Baker and Adolphus J. Barton, both Councillors of the Cudgegong Shire, and Mr. Donough, teacher of the Cooyal .school, gave evidence objecting to the transfer of the licence. They stated that if the hotel was moved the district would deteriorate as there would be no drinking facilities for the travelling public or local residents, tennis players, cricketers, and members of the local rifle club. It would probably mean that the Rifle Club would go out of existence (reports "Mudgee Mail").
A petition containing 400 names of residents at Kingswood was received, objecting to the transfer. They did not want a hotel there.
The Licensing Board will take evidence on the matter at Penrith on November 317
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