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Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Japanese Raid Hotel at Shanghai British Official Alarmed Shanghai

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 1

A high British settlement official regards the Japanese raid on the Great Eastern Hotel in Shanghai as enormously serious. Japanese police…

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Scott Cup Hotelkeepers v. Travellers To-day

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 2

The much-talked of cricket match between the Wagga Hotelkeepers and Wine and Spirit Travellers will take place at the Wagga Cricket Ground…

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Hotelkeepers and Travellers' Dance

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 2

The dance to be held at the New Moon to-night to wind up the effort by the hotelkeepers of Wagga and wine and spirit travellers in aid of…

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Car Manufacture Sir Henry Gullett's Attack Charge Against Treasure Duties to Replace Import License Canberra

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 8 December 1937 · page 4

Sir Henry Gullett (former Minister: for Trade Treaties) moved the adjournment in the House of Representatives to-day to enable him to attack the…

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Old Eagle Hotel at South Gundagai Historic Coins and Emblems Found MR. T. A. Woodbridge’s Latest Purchase

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 9 December 1937 · page 5

A building that has been associated with the early history of Gundagai is disappearing Recently Mr. T. A. Woodbridge,…

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Woolpack Hotel New Licensee

Adelong and Tumut Express · Friday 10 December 1937 · page 5

Recently we reported that Mr. Charles Alexander, the licensee of the Woolpack Hotel. Tumut, had sold out, and on Wednesday the…

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Wireless Licenses £981,108 Paid in Fees Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 11 December 1937 · page 5

For the year ended June 30 last, £981,108 was paid for wireless licenses by listeners. Of this amount £562,796 went to the Australian Broadcasting…

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Hotelkeeper Fined

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 11 December 1937 · page 13

At Wagga Police Court on Monday, Mrs. Lena M. Andrews, licensee of the Pastoral Hotel, was fined £5, with 8 costs, for having…

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Wireless Sets at Rosehill Races Clerk's License Cancelled Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1937 · page 8

The A.J.C. stewards to-day concluded their inquiry into the alleged use of [?] wireless set at Rosehill on Saturday, and decided to refer the facts to…

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Alligator in Bed; Found by Hotel Maid

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 7

When a chambermaid in a Prague hotel went to make a bed in a room just vacated by a visitor, she got a shock. In the bedclothes she…

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Shot in Hotel Bar Victim in Critical Condition Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Friday 17 December 1937 · page 3

Detectives so far have been unable to obtain the depositions of Arthur Kinsley Taplin, aged 23 years, barman, of Sydney, who was shot in the saloon…

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Mrs. Ruth Madigan's Commercial Hotel

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Tuesday 21 December 1937 · page 2

In offering to the people of Tumut and district seasonal greetings, Mrs. Ruth Madigan, proprietress of the Commercial Hotel, reminds them…

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Bold Robbery at London Hotel £16,000 in Diamond Rings. LONDON

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 3

Booking a room in a West End hotel, three fashionably dressed and well spoken men telephoned a firm of Bond street jewellers, asking for a…

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Bold Robbery at London Hotel £16,000 in Diamond Rings LONDON

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 4

Booking a room in a West End Hotel, three fashionably dressed and well-spokt-n men telephoned a firm of Bond-street jewellers, asking for a…

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Removal Of Hotel Lincence

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 23 December 1937 · page 14

At a special sitting of the Licensing Court at Albury an application by Patrick Norman Hore for the [?]anoval of the license of the Victoria…

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Betting Laws Complaints From Country Licensed Shops Wanted

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 23 December 1937 · page 15

The new Acts to regulate betting and racing is most disappointing, and is likely to have bearing on the result of the forthcoming State…

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Adulterated Meat Threat Cancel Butchers' Licenses After Three Convictions SYDNEY

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 24 December 1937 · page 1

A threat to cancel the licenses of butchers convicted more than three times for meat adulteration has been made by the Health Department…

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