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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1920

611 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 31

Big Flats Project Replacing Old Hotel

The Sun · Thursday 9 September 1920 · page 8

The Licenses Reduction Board yesterday considered, among others, the case of the Royal Motel, on the corner of William and Crown streets…

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Saw-milling Formation of a Company a License Needed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 September 1920 · page 10

Dawson Valley (Q.) informs me that his father contemplates purchasing a saw mill, and he asks whether it will be [?] to have it [?]. He…

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Sudden Darkness Shot Fired in Hotel

Evening News · Friday 10 September 1920 · page 3

Henry Fonton Dowling 25 [?] peared before Mr. Baton South, at the Contral Police Court, to-day, on charges of [?] in the bar of…

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Man with a Gun Allegations Against Carter Hotel Bar Incident

The Sun · Friday 10 September 1920 · page 5

A case of alleged robbery, by a man armed with a revolver, in the bar [?] a city hotel yesterday, in circumstances said to have been exciting…

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Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 September 1920 · page 9

The Metropalitan Licensing Bench granted the following transfers of publicans' licenses on Thursday:— Clifton Hotel, Waterloo, from John D. Cumming to James B. Hoban; Courthouse Hotel, Newtown, from…

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New Licensing Inspectors

Evening News · Saturday 11 September 1920 · page 5

The following police offices have been [?] as Sub-Inspectors under the [?] the Metropolitan [?] District:—…

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Licences Reduction Character of Hotels Case of the Albury

Evening News · Monday 13 September 1920 · page 4

The first case dealt with by the Licences Reduction Board to-day was the Albury Hotel Oxford-street. Mr. Ralston, K.C., instructed by…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 September 1920 · page 5

Deprivation Sittings.—At Water Police Court, Phillipstreet, at 10 a.m.—The licensees of the undermentioned hotels are to show cause:—Albury Hotel, Oxford-street, Sydney: S[?]rry Hills Hotel, Crown and…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 5

At the deprivation sitting of the Licenses Reduction Board yesterday, the licensees of the following hotels were called upon to show cause:—The Albury Hotel, Oxford-street, city;…

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Hotelkeeper Attacked. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 10

While George Suffolk, licensee of the Royal Hotel, South Murwillumbah, was proceeding along the balcony of his hotel last night, carrying a considerable sum of money from…

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Hotel Cecil Scene Wife's "Uncle" Ejected Husband's Story

The Sun · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 8

The story of a wife's alleged relations with a man whom, she termed, "uncle" and His removal from the Hotel Cecil, following a scene with the…

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"Fire and Be Damned" An Hotel Drama Man Sent for Trial

The Sun · Tuesday 14 September 1920 · page 2

At the Central Police Court yesterday morning Henry Fenton Dowling, 28, a carter, was committed for trial on a charge of having, whilst armed with a…

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State As Hotel Owner Can License be Cancelled? Board Thinks it Can

Evening News · Wednesday 15 September 1920 · page 7

Mr the meeting of the Licences Reduction Board to-day, consideration was given to the objection to the Court's jurisdhlion in the case of the Three…

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Sydney's Hotels. Licenses Reduction

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 September 1920 · page 12

Strange and contradictory Ideas on the cleanliness, upkeep, convenience, and necessity of certain hotels, and the character of the people who frequent them, were given at yesterday's…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 September 1920 · page 9

The Licenses Reduction Board, which han been sitting for several weeks past inquiring into the question which hotels in the Sydney electorate shall be closed under the…

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Beer on Sunday Hotel Licensee Fined

The Sun · Thursday 16 September 1920 · page 5

Two separate charges of having kept his premises open for the sale of liquor on Sunday, August 20, were brought against Charles Henry Sorlie, at the…

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Crown-owned Hotels. De-licensing Question. a Question of Law

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 September 1920 · page 8

The Licenses Reduction Board yesterday considered the point raised in the cases of the Three Crowns Hotel and the Hit or Miss Hotel, that, as the State Government was the owner…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 September 1920 · page 5

Argument took place on a point of law raised during the hearing of evidence while the licensees of the Three Crowns Hotel and the Hit or Miss Hotel, situate in the Rocks…

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Licenses Reduction Board Government As Owner

The Sun · Thursday 16 September 1920 · page 5

At a further meeting of the Licenses Reduction Board at the Water Police Court yesterday, Mr. E. F. McDonald (instructed by the Crown Solicitor)…

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