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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1921

809 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 41

Hotelkeeper's Loss £287 Stolen From Wardrobe West Maitland

The Sun · Thursday 31 March 1921 · page 7

A handbag containing £257 10s was stolen from the wardrobe in the licensee's bedroom at the Caledonian Hotel, West Maitland…

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The Licensing of Guns

The Land · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 7

A.W. asks: Would you kindly inform me (a farmer and grazier) whether I must pay 5/- each for two of three guns which I have, and keep solely for noxious animals and…

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Home-Killed Mutton Hotelkeeper Fined

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 12

An inspector of the Metropolitan Meat Industry Board, Tom South, proceeded at Burwood Police Court, against William M'Hughs, licensee,…

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Supreme Court. Banco Jury Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pring and Juries.) Sale of an Hotel. Salway v Thomas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 7

The plaintiff in this action was Samuel Edward Salway, motor car proprietor, and the defendant John Owen Thomas, publican, and the suit was brought to recover £100 paid…

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Gun Licenses. Advice To Applicants

The Propeller · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 5

The Acting Premier, Mr. Dooley, states that it is desired to render the procedure of issuing gun licenses to reputable persons as simple as possible,…

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Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Pring.) a Redfern Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 9

In the action in which Samuel Edward Salway, motor-car proprietor, sued John Owen Thomas, publican, to recover £100. representing a deposit for the purchase of the Star Hotel,…

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Coastal Trade. Operation of Navigation Act. Necessity for Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 April 1921 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Minister for Customs yesterday intimated that 78 sections and four schedules of the Consolidated Navigation Act, 1912-20, would operate an from July…

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Guest or Lodger? a Licensing Prosecution

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 12

BATHURST, Friday.--A case of vital importance to hotelkeepers came before the magistrate. Mr. Crane, at Bathurst Police Court yesterday, when a returned soldier, Denis Roy…

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Licensing a Gun. Procedure Being Made Easier

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 April 1921 · page 17

Referring to criticism of the Gun Licenses Act which had appeared in "The Daily Telegraph" the Acting-Premier (Mr. Dooley) said that it was the object of his department to…

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Prickly Pairs in the Garden of Life. Sigh-press, Orange Blossoms, Buds, Blooms and Bloomers. Wittner's Wife. Hotel Steyne Tragedy Recalled

Truth · Sunday 3 April 1921 · page 5

The echo of a two years' old tragedy was sounded in the Divorce Court, presided over by Mr. Justice James on Wednesday last, when David…

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Fires in Three Hotels Sinn Feiners in Manchester Casualties in Police Raid London

Evening News · Monday 4 April 1921 · page 4

Police raided a club in Erskine-street, Manchester, and encountered a [?] of shots. Three police were wounded. One civilian was killed…

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Latest in Strikes Madras Hotelkeepers Out Mob Attacks Police [?]

Evening News · Wednesday 6 April 1921 · page 1

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Charge Against Hotel Manager

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 April 1921 · page 10

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--At the City Police Court yesterday, Leslie Wilson Welch, manager of an hotel in Brisbane, who was charged with having unlawfully killed John James Hogan,…

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Transferred Licenses

The Sun · Thursday 7 April 1921 · page 7

The following transfers of publicans licenses were granted by the Metropolitan Licensing Bench this afternoon.-- Bourke Hotel, George-street. Sydney,…

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The Farmer's Gun How to Bet a License Shire Council's Trick Bathurst

The Sun · Thursday 7 April 1921 · page 11

The secretary, Mr. B. Thompson, told a meeting of farmers at Cowra that when he applied for a free gun license, so that he might be able to shoot…

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Old Man Injured Rumpus in a Hotel

The Sun · Thursday 7 April 1921 · page 11

Patrick McCauley, aged 26, was charged at the Central Court, before Mr. Edwards. S.M., to-day, with having assaulted John Thomas Bristol,…

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Hotel Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 5

The following transfers fo publicans' licenses were granted at yesterday's sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court:—Bourke Hotel. George-street. from Ernest C. Clifton to Patrick J. O'keefe: Central…

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The Licensee's "Wife " Kept Hotel at Windsor

The Sun · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 6

Adultery was the ground on which Jeanie King relied in petitioning Mr. Justice James to- day for a divorce from Rodger King…

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Gun Licenses

The Land · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 14

"Perplexed" writes: (1) I have a gun which I use for shooting crows, hawks, other birds, and snakes, which are damaging my crop, mostly at sowing time. I applied for…

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Gun Licenses. More Advice

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 18

The Acting-Premier, Mr. Dooley, stated that it was desired to render the procedure of issuing gun licenses to reputable persons as simple as…

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