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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1921

809 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 41

Hotels To Go

The Sun · Sunday 29 May 1921 · page 4

The Licenses Reduction Board is calling upon 31 hotelkeepers in the Bathurst district to show cause why their licenses should not be cancelled…

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The Last Month 16 Hotels to Close The [?]

Evening News · Monday 30 May 1921 · page 5

The hotels which are affected and in respect of which compensating amount [?] to [?] was [?]…

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State Hotels. to Be Leased at Darwin. Government Control Not Popular. Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 May 1921 · page 9

The Government "Gazette" to-day calls tenders for the leuso or purchase of all State hotels. Reyerslon to private enterprise is welcomed by even local socialists, who…

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Running Hotels Darwin Experiment Government Admits Failure MELBOURNE

The Sun · Monday 30 May 1921 · page 6

Confirmation has been received of a statement telegraphed from Darwin that it is the intention of the Commonwealth Government to…

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Hotels to Close

The Sun · Monday 30 May 1921 · page 7

The following hotels, in respect of which compensation totalling £35,850 was recommended, will close on June 30, the licenses having been cancelled…

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Live Mills Bomb Found in City Hotel

Evening News · Tuesday 31 May 1921 · page 7

Mrs Scott, [?] on the Fountain Hotel George-street West, received a shock to-day when she found a live Mills bomb on the premises…

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Bomb at Hotel Found on Shelf Taken to Police Headquarters

The Sun · Tuesday 31 May 1921 · page 7

A bomb was found this afternoon in a room at the Fountain Hotel, George-street West, with the result that Constable Robertson, of Police…

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Hotel on Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 May 1921 · page 5

Several fire brigades quickly extinguished an outbheak, which threatened to be serious, at the University Hotel, in Broadway, yesterday afternoon…

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Hotel License. Unusual Transfer Application. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 June 1921 · page 12

At the Bathurst Licensing Court to-day John Badley asked for the transfer of the license of the Sawmills Hotel to Stephen Doulman, his cousin…

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City-owned Hotel. Alderman Meagher's Charges. Weekly Revenue £1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 June 1921 · page 11

Alderman Meagher, at the City Council last evening, said that the Gladstone Hotel, in William-street, owned by the council, was one of the greatest scandals in civic…

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The Gladstone Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 1 June 1921 · page 1

Whim has chunked hands live times since 1919. It was concerning this hotel that Alderman Meagher made remarkable allegations at last night's meeting of the City Council…

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Frequent Transfers Gladstone Hotel Alderman Meagher's Charges

The Sun · Wednesday 1 June 1921 · page 1

The Gladstone Hotel, one of the licensed houses that remain outstanding on corner sites along the resumptions on William-street, about which…

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Bonus of £3500. Serious Allegations. City Hotel Property

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 June 1921 · page 8

Serious allegations were made by several aldermen at last night's City Council meeting regarding the Gladstone Hotel, in the William Street resumption area. A motion was…

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Famine in Eggs Hotels Rationed To-day Sussex-street Trade

Evening News · Thursday 2 June 1921 · page 5

The seasonable [?]…

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Unhappy Caucus. Labor Aldermen Differ Gladstone Hotel Matter

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 June 1921 · page 4

There have been indications at recent meetings of both the City Council and the various committees that all was not well in the ranks of the aldermanic Labor Party. This was…

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Hotel Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 June 1921 · page 7

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench granted the following transfers of publicans licenses yesterday.— Lord Roberts Hotel, Riley and Stanley street, from Ernest Alexander Cox to Carl Richard Wickman; While…

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Hotel Disturbance Racing Men in a Row a Police Court Sequel

Evening News · Friday 3 June 1921 · page 6

Further evidence was given at the Central Police Court to-day, before Mr. Hawkins, S.M., in the case [?] out of the arrest of a young man in…

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Midget Convicted Thefts in Hotel Bars

The Sun · Friday 3 June 1921 · page 7

Robert Widgery, aged 33, probably the smallest man who has ever graced a dock--his shoulders barely reached the railing, which is only 3ft. high--…

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