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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1920

611 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 31

"A Burglar Alarm" Bell on Hotel Door FORBES

The Sun · Sunday 18 April 1920 · page 2

At the Quarterly licensing court Inspector Cupitt stated that at one of the hotels in Forbes a contrivance was ordered to be removed from the front…

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Hotels, Wet and Dry The Difference

Evening News · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 4

George [?] and A.E.E., writes. W.B.D. Creagh says the reason to…

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Welsh Troops Fire on Irish Crowd. Tanks and Armoured Cars in Streets. Publican Shot Dead in Limerick

The Catholic Press · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 7

The following remarkably outspoken messages from its own correspondent in Dublin appeared in the London "Daily News" of Wednesday, February 4:…

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Found in His Hotel Charge That Failed

The Sun · Thursday 22 April 1920 · page 8

James Davidson, aged 31, a clerk, was charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with being found at night in Williamson's Hotel,…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 April 1920 · page 5

The following transfers of publicans licenses have been granted:—Charles Benjamin Finemore to Leslie William Johnstone, Warwick Castle Hotel, Darling-street, Balmain; John Gallen to Kate Dinan, Unity…

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Motor Car License

The Land · Friday 23 April 1920 · page 6

Case.—A motor car licensed under the Stage Carriages Act, on a defined route by the police, travels from one Shire into another. "A" Shire has not…

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Thief at Hotel £40 Worth of Jewellery Stolen

The Sun · Friday 23 April 1920 · page 5

George Murdock, staying at Petty's Hotel, was robbed yesterday of a quantity of jewellery worth close on £40. The thief got into his room, and was…

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The Man Who Vanished the Tattersall's Hotel Case. Onus of Proof on the Licensee

Nepean Times · Saturday 24 April 1920 · page 4

The difficulties of a licensee with regard to some phases of the liquor law were illustrated in a case that came before Mr. T. B. Clegg, P.M., at the…

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License Restrictions English Protest Withdrawn LONDON, April 22

The Sun · Saturday 24 April 1920 · page 1

The Sheffield Chamber of Commerce has withdrawn a resolution of protest, in view of the Australian Government's discontinuance of important…

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Grand Hotel, Melbourne. Sydney Capital Invested

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 April 1920 · page 10

Mr. Arthur Richard has purchased the Grand Hotel, Spring Street, Melbourne, and has obtained an option over the old White Hart Hotel adjoining, which he intends to exercise. Both…

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New Melbourne Hotel Largest in Australia

Sunday Times · Sunday 25 April 1920 · page 2

Referring, yesterday, to the purchase of the White Hart and Grand hotels, Melbourne, made by him on behalf of a Sydney syndicate. Mr. Arthur Rickard…

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City Hotel Shooting Death, of George O'Regan

Evening News · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 4

George O'Regan, who was found shot in a lift at the Hotel Grand Central yesterday afternoon, died at midnight in Sydney Hospital from the effects of his…

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Hotel Porter Stabbed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 8

William Porter, employed at tha Hotel Australia as a porter, was stabbed last night by an unknown assailant. Porter was ejecting a man from the Hotel Australia, and had cause to chasse him into Rowe-street,…

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Hotels Robbed

The Sun · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 5

Three hotels at Woollahra were robbed during the weeklend Thieves opened the grating on the footpath at the Prince of Wales Hotel,…

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Bar Wages. Perth Hotelkeepers Grant Increase

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 April 1920 · page 5

PERTH, Monday.--One of the threatened Perth strikes has been settled. The Barmen and Barmaids' Union has accepted the licensed victuallers' offer to increase their pay from…

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Buildings and Works. the Australia Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 April 1920 · page 8

Work has been commenced on the additions and alterations to the Australia Hotel. When these have been finished, many months hence, the building will stand 130 feet high,…

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Don't Want It Prohibition in N.S.W. Unser[?] licensees Warned Making the Trade Clean

Evening News · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 7

"We believe that the people of this state are opp[?]d to the prohibition [?] but, at the [?] are strongly [?] fever of…

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If Equity. (Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Street.) Albury Hotel Business. Reid v Reid

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 April 1920 · page 4

An application was made on behalf of the plaintiff in the suit of Elsie Reid against her husband, Thomas Reid, to continue the interim injunction granted on the 22nd instant…

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Pfahlert's Hotel £28,000 Refused at Auction

Evening News · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 4

Richardson and Wrench refused £23,000 at auction to-day for Plahlert's Hotel, situated at the corner of Wynyard Square, Carrington, and Margaret…

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Hotel Ablaze Boarders Nearly Trapped Cook Overcome by Heat AUCKLAND

The Sun · Friday 30 April 1920 · page 3

A fire occurred in the Metropolitan Hotel early this morning. The flames spread with great rapidity, and the boarders were nearly trapped. They…

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