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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1921

809 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 41

Hotel Profits Return on "Nips."

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 August 1921 · page 6

BATHURST, Tuesday.--Giving evidence before the Licenses Reduction Board, which sat to-day for the purpose of estimating the amount of compensation to be allotted the nine Bathurst…

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Hotel Licenses Drastic Change Mooted Liquor With Meals Till 8 Government Takes Percentage

The Sun · Thursday 18 August 1921 · page 7

The amending bills to be introduced at the forthcoming session by the Government include one regarding the Liquor Act…

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Value of an Hotel Effect of a License Improved or Unimproved ?

The Sun · Thursday 18 August 1921 · page 7

A test case arising out of the divergence of opinion as to how the license of a hotel is to be regarded in assessing the value of licensed premises…

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Improved Value of Hotel Site Another Test Case Taken Judge Says "Licence Must Be Taken Into Account"

Evening News · Thursday 18 August 1921 · page 1

Judge Scholes, sitting in No. 2. District Court as a Valuation Court, recently decided in a test case that the unimproved value of land did not…

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Publicans' Profits. Rum Yields 140 Per Cent. High Rates All Round. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 August 1921 · page 7

The profits made by hotelkeepers in the retailing of liquers were investigated at a sitting of the Licenses Deprivation Board which is engaged fixing the compensation to be paid to…

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"Damnation Saloon " Challenge Accepted Publican's New Sign Pluck of the O'briens Casino

The Sun · Thursday 18 August 1921 · page 7

Mr. Tennyson Smith, a Prohibition lecturer, while addressing an audience at Alstonville, had beside him a banner on which was emblazoned the words…

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Hotel Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 6

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday the following applications for the transfer of publicans' licenses were granted:—Abercromble Hotel, Abercrombie-street Redferm, from john Brosnan to…

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Hotel Properties. Improved Land Values. License to Be Taken Into Account

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 8

Judge Scholes has decided in a test case that in assessing the improved value of hotel properties the fact that there is a license must be taken into…

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Value of an Hotel. Effect of a License. Improved or Unimproved?

The Propeller · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 2

A test case arising out of the divergence of opinion as to how the license of a hotel is to bo regarded in assessing the value of licensed premises was…

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Hotel License "Must Be Considered" When Assessing Improved Value

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 8

Judge Scholes, silting in No. 2 District Court yesterday, was called upon to determine whether the value of a license should be added to the improved value of land on which an…

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Delicensed Hotels Remarkable Drop in Values ORANGE

Evening News · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 8

Before the [?] Board sitting at Orange yesterday for guidance in fixing compensation in respect to seven [?]…

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Theft From City Hotel

Evening News · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 5

"I am sorry to see you, a returned man, hare on this charge." said the magistrate (Mr. Gale) to Norman Smart Wright (38), at the Central Police Court…

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6 O'Clock Closing Time for Hotels

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 1

Six o'clock is still the legal closing hour for hotels. This, in effect, was decided by the Full Court on Tuesday. The Crown had appealed against a…

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Hawker's Ill-health. Flew Without License. London, Aug. 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 9

The Secretary for the Air stated in the House of Commons that the Air Ministry was aware that the late Harry Hawker was suffering from tubercuiosis, but an examination…

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Liquor Profits Effect of De- Licensing Remarkable Figures ORANGE

The Sun · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 5

Striking figures were submitted at the sitting of the Licenses Reduction Board to six the compensation of de -licensed hotels. The principal witnesses were…

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Late Harry Hawker Flew Without License LONDON, August 17

The Sun · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 1

In the House of Commons to- day, answering Lieut. Col. Sir George Elliott, who asked why the late Harry Hawker, with a tubercular spine, was…

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Stealing in Hotel Man Sent to Gaol

The Sun · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 7

Norman Smart Wright, aged 38, was sentenced to two months' hard labor by Mr. Gale S. M., at the Central Court to- day, for having stolen two bottles…

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Gun Without License

The Propeller · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 1

Charles Clarence Macrae was proceeded against for having in his possession a gun which had not been licensed. Sergeant Tracey gave evidence that…

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Licensing Laws Statement by Premier

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 August 1921 · page 4

It was reported yesterday that the State-Government proposed, in the coming session, to amend the Liquor Act in certain important particulars. Two amendments were said to be--…

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Licensing Court. An Interesting Case. Returned Soldiers and "Shell-Shock."

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 20 August 1921 · page 6

At a special meeting of the Parramatta Licensing Court, on Wednesday, 17th August, 1921, Mr. A. J. Piesley, S.M., and Mr. W. F. Jago, L.M., considered a petition for…

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