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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1920

611 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 31

License Reductions Offences Which Bring Them About

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 November 1920 · page 5

The public generally is indifferent in the matter of the reduction of hotel licenses when it only affects small and apparently superfluous houses, and there is a section…

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Out on License But Left the District Man Goes Back to Gaol, CASINO

Evening News · Monday 8 November 1920 · page 1

An [?] was [?] at the [?] William [?] being the holder [?]…

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Melbourne Man Killed Fall From Hotel Window LONDON, November 6

The Sun · Monday 8 November 1920 · page 1

Charles Eric Harwood, a native of Melbourne, who, it is believed, was engaged in buying paper for the Brisbane "Courier," fell from a window…

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Drastic Methods Pussyfooter's Raid Smashes Hotel Bar LONDON, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 8 November 1920 · page 1

Declaring that Sylvia Pankhurst got votes for women by breaking the windows of Parliament House, a London prohibitionist set out to smash…

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Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 November 1920 · page 6

The following publicans' licenses were transferred at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday.—Gladstone Hotel, Regent-street, Sydney, Albert H. Blight to Francis H. Nordsvan; Albert Hotel, Mount-street, North…

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In Place of Liquor Woman Drinks Poison City Hotel Scene

The Sun · Friday 12 November 1920 · page 2

"She came to the hotel and said, 'Have you a chair for me to sit on?" I said, 'No, we don't serve ladies here.' Then she said, "If you won't…

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Sydney Meat Company's Licenses Big Petition Presented. Lidcombe Council to Re-Consider

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 13 November 1920 · page 2

A number of important matters were dealt with at a special meeting of the Lidcombe Council on Tuesday night. Amongst them was the question as to…

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Frank Wootton's License

Sunday Times · Sunday 14 November 1920 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—The committee of the National Hunt Club has not yet issued a license to Frank Wootton, the jockey…

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£3 a Week for Glasses How a Publican Suffers

Evening News · Monday 15 November 1920 · page 4

Arthur Norman Whalley, 38, a storeman appeared before Mr. Burton Smith, at the Central Police Court to-day, to answer's charge of stealing a decanter…

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Decanter and Glasses Losses from Hotels

The Sun · Monday 15 November 1920 · page 3

At the Central Police Court to-day Arthur Norman Whalley, a storeman, aged 39, was fined £5, and given the option of a month in gaol, on a charge…

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License Revoked Case of Maisie Williams

The Sun · Tuesday 16 November 1920 · page 8

Detective-Sorgeant Ramsay, of police headquarters, made an application to Mr. Burton Smith, S.M., at the Central Court to-day, in respect…

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Hotel Destroyed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 November 1920 · page 7

URALLA, Monday.--Tattoesall's Hotel was completely gutted by fire early this morning. The occupants escaped with their personal belongings only. The building was insured in…

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Licenses Withdrawn. Sixteen Hotels to Close

The Australian Worker · Thursday 18 November 1920 · page 4

The N.S.W. Licenses Reduction Board has decided that sixteen hotels in the Sydney district shall be closed, and their license's withdrawn. The majority of the…

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England's Brutality in Ireland. Licensed Savagery

The Catholic Press · Thursday 18 November 1920 · page 25

The following letter, has been received by a member of the Melbourne "Advocate" staff. Our readers will please hand it on to those who still doubt that the English…

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Publicans' Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 November 1920 · page 6

The following publicans' licenses were transferred at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:—Subway Hotel, Devonshire-street, Sydney, Ernest H. Armstrong, to River[?] A. Eliks; Town and Country Hotel,…

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The Western Pacific Hotel Hours Reduced

Sunday Times · Sunday 21 November 1920 · page 5

SUVA, Saturday.—Sir Cecil Hunter, High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, left last night on his yacht, Pioneer, for Tonga…

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Panic-stricken Dublin Horrified Tragedy at Gresham Hotel LONDON, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 22 November 1920 · page 5

Further details of the Dublin assassinations state that after murdering the two officers in a house in Morenampton-road the raiders met…

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Peaceful Maroubra Proposed Hotel Battle Before Licensing Court

Evening News · Tuesday 23 November 1920 · page 5

A keenly-contested battle over the proposal to erect a hotel at the corner of storey-street Long Bay and Maroubra Bay-road was tought out before the…

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Proposed Hotel At Maroubra Bay Application for License

The Sun · Tuesday 23 November 1920 · page 7

A petition for a liquor license for a hotel proposed to be built at Maroubra was heard by the Metropolitan Licensing Bench, sitting at the Water Police…

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Assembly Hotel Sold for £25,000

The Sun · Tuesday 23 November 1920 · page 8

The Assembly Hotel, with two houses adjoining, Nos. 64½ and 67 Hunter- street, changed hands at auction to-day for £25,000…

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