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Hotels & licensing, 1920

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Dublin Raids Hotel Guests' Unpleasant Surprise Soldiers Search Bedrooms Sinn Fein Resources Dwindling London, October 27

The Sun · Saturday 30 October 1920 · page 1

What visitors in Dublin occasionally have to expect was startlingly illustrated this morning, when the troops, who are most active, turned their…

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Oxford Hotel Closed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 October 1920 · page 13

At the sitting of the Licenses Redaction Board yesterday Licensing-Inspector Fullerton informed the chairman (Mr. S. B. Gunn) that the Oxford Hotel, King Street, Sydney, had been…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 October 1920 · page 14

The Licenses Reduction Board (Mr. S. B. Gunn, chairman, Mr. P. P. Shelton, and Mr. R. Sellors) continued its sittings in connection with hotels in the Sydney electorate in the…

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Licenses Reduction Hotel and Children's Court

Evening News · Monday 1 November 1920 · page 4

The Licenses Reduction Board at the Water Police Court to-day heard Mr Sullivan, on behalf of the Club, Friendship, and president Lincoln Hotels. He…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 November 1920 · page 7

Deprivation Sittings (Sydney Electorate).—At 10 a.m.— At Water Police Court, Phillip-street: Addresses of counsel…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 November 1920 · page 7

Counsel for the various hotels the lessess of which were recently called upon to show cause why their licenses should not be cancelled yesterday addressed the Licenses Reduction Board…

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Lockett Separation Deed Not a License for Misconduct Judgment in Divorce Court

The Sun · Tuesday 2 November 1920 · page 6

Mr. Justice Gordon, in the Divorce Court to-day, delivered reserved judgment in the application of Annie Elizabeth Lockett (formerly Wildgoose) for…

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Hotel Licenses

The Sun · Thursday 4 November 1920 · page 8

The Licenses Reduction Board, which has been sitting for the last six or seven weeks, is to meet at noon tomorrow, at the Water Police Court, to…

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Armidale. Farewell to Popular Residents. Tattersall's Hotel Changes Hands

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 November 1920 · page 27

The esteem and respect in which Mr. T. C. De Courey, proprietor of the Tatter-sald's Hotel for ,the last nine years, and. his manageress, Miss…

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Fire in City Hotel Barmaid Severely Burnt

Evening News · Thursday 4 November 1920 · page 1

Rita Ryan, 26, a barmaid, living in the Star Hotel, George-street North, was severely burned about the face, body and bands last nigh, while attempting to…

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Fire in Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 November 1920 · page 10

A fire occurred in the front room on the second floor of the Star Hotel, 228 Georgestreet, shortly after 10 o'clock last night, but was extinguished by the fire brigade before…

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Meat Trust. Armour's Refused a License. to Export From New Zealand Wellinoton (N.z.), Oct. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 November 1920 · page 8

A determined effort has been made by Armour and Co., to get an export license in New Zealand. It sent a petition to Parliament, signed by a number of business men, and…

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Local Option Poll. Scottish Districts. One in Four for No-license. London, Nov. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 November 1920 · page 9

The first returns of the licensing polling in Scotland show that about one district in four is in favour of the abolition of licenses. Three-quarters of the…

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DISTRICT. (Before Judge Backhouse.) Sale of Country Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 November 1920 · page 7

A dispute in connection with the sale of a country hotel, formed the subject of an action before his Honor, when George Leslie Merriman and Michael Joseph, trading as Maurice…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 November 1920 · page 7

The following publicans' transfers were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Cout yesterday:—Reservoir Hotel, Riley[?]street, Sydney, John Judah Barnett to Agnes Jessie Palliser; Army and Navy Hotel, Bourke…

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Going Dry License Reduction Board 16 Hotels Closed

The Sun · Friday 5 November 1920 · page 7

The License Reduction Board, sitting at the Water Police Court to-day, decided to close 16 hotels in the Sydney electorate. They are chiefly in the…

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Sixteen Hotels Lose Licences Reduction Board's First Decisions Result of Inquiry in Sydney Electorate

Evening News · Friday 5 November 1920 · page 6

The Licenses Reduction Board to-day announced that the following hotels in Sydney electorate should be cancelled from June 30 next:—…

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Fewer Hotels. Reduction in Sydney Electorate. Sixteen Licenses to Go

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 November 1920 · page 12

The decision of the Licenses Reduction Board was awaited by publicans with considerable interest when the chairman of the board, Mr. S. B. Gunn, and the two other members. Messrs…

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Hotels to Close. Sixteen Licenses Withdrawn. Reduction Board's Decision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 November 1920 · page 13

The Licenses Reduction Board yesterday delivered its decision with regard to 46 licensed premises, It decided that the licenses should be…

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Licensing Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 November 1920 · page 6

At the Parramatta Licensing Court on Wednesday the license of Creasey's Family Hotel was transferred -from. Henry Myers to William Alfred Hansford,…

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