Bingara

Mrs S. Rose ran a boarding residence in Finch Street by August 1892 and by March 1899 Mrs C. Bennett conducted the boarding house in Finch Street, Bingara near the bridge.  Mrs Horne later occupied the house.

Peters and Co.’s Guest House with its red roof, green shelters and cover boards was constructed in 1934 and situated opposite the Oddfellows Hall. Pitter and Co. also renovated the building that year.

J. Smith’s Royal Boarding House was enlarged and renovated by May 1934.

Warialda

W. Parker opened a new boarding house in Market Street in May 1900. By February 1902, A. Collins had taken over the Boarding House and American Bar from J. Rae.  Mrs Hart operated a boarding house in Hope Street, Warialda opposite Discher’s Store, by May 1918 and was still there in June 1921.  The Central Boarding House situated opposite Discher’s Store in Hope Street, Warialda operated during the 1920s and another boarding house, ‘Arlington’ was operating in February 1932.

New South Wales Government Gazette

1865

Warialda Licensing District

Samuel Turner                        Bingara Inn                 Bingera

S. Hogg                                 Royal Hotel                 Bingera

G. Bowman                             Race Horse Hotel         Warialda

J. Geddes                               Gwydir Hotel              Warialda

Sarah McGee                           Gwydir Arms               Warialda

Mary Traynor                           Moree Inn                   Warialda

1875

Warialda Licensing District

John Bridges                           Square Hotel               Cobbedah

John Hartwell                          Bushman’s Hotel        Big River, Bingera

Henry Miller                           Commercial Hotel       Bingera

George R. Miller                     Bingera Inn                 Bingera

Charles Miller                         Gold Digger’s Arms   Bingera

John George Small                  Court House Hotel      Bingera

Henry Aumuller                      Gwydir Hotel              Warialda

Charles Magee                        Gwydir Arms              Warialda

John Mannix                           Race-horse Inn            Warialda

1885

Bingera Licensing District

Terence Brady                         Square Hotel               Cobbedah

Elizabeth Agnes Doyle            Gwydir Hotel              Maitland Street, Bingera

Mary Ann Miller                     Bingera Hotel              Maitland Street, Bingera

Henry Reading                        Post Office Hotel        Maitland Street, Bingera

James Smith                            Commercial Hotel       Maitland Street, Bingera

Alexander Jones                      Plume of Feathers       Five miles from Bingera

James Neal                              Gold Diggers’ Arms   Upper Bingera

Warialda Licensing District

Charles Russell                       Gwydir Arms              Warialda

Henry Searle                           Royal Oak Hotel         Warialda

Marion Horne                         Royal Hotel                 Warialda

Thomas Howes                       White Swan Hotel       Warialda

William St. C. Whiteoak          Reedy Creek Hotel      Reedy Creek

Alexander Allison                   Stockman’s Arms       Old Gunyerwarildi

1890

Bingera Licensing District

William Fletcher                      Square Hotel               Cobbadah

Edward Lanagan                     Myall Creek Hotel       Myall Creek

William Foster             Commercial Hotel       Maitland Street, Bingera

Mary Ann Miller                     Bingara Hotel              Maitland Street, Bingera

Mary Murray                          Post Office Hotel        Maitland Street, Bingera

William Sinden senr.               Gwydir Hotel              Maitland Street, Bingera

Warialda Licensing District

Thomas A. Adams                  Royal Hotel                 Warialda

Thomas S. Howes                   White Swan Hotel       Warialda

Thomas Lanagan                     Royal Oak Hotel         Warialda

1895 Licenses

Bingara Licensing District

William Fletcher                      Square Hotel               Cobbadah

Mary Ann Miller                     River View Hotel        Maitland Street, Bingera

Henry H. Miller                      Imperial Hotel             Maitland Street, Bingera

William Sinden senr.               Imperial Hotel             Maitland Street, Bingera

Warialda Licensing District

William H. Crane                    Royal Hotel                 Hope Street, Warialda

John Ferry                               White Swan Hotel       Warialda

Caroline Lanagan                    Commercial Hotel       Warialda

The local newspaper always reported the local Licensing Court and the numerous transfers of licences.  One such example is the list of licences that was published in the Warialda Standard, 6 June 1922: ‘Commercial Hotel’, Warialda- W.M. Burke; ‘Graman Hotel’- G.F. Phifer; ‘White Swan Hotel’, Warialda- S.G. Kerrigan; ‘Royal Hotel’, Warialda- William Scutt and ‘Coolatai Hotel’- Francis Marshall

The thematic history of hotels reveals a complex story of owners, investors and licensees.  To this day, some of the more significant heritage buildings in country towns are the hotels.  Many have undergone extensive changes and remodelling over the years but all of them ‘reveal a story’.