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Hotels & licensing, 1921

809 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 41

Country Gun Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 8

The inconvenience caused by the inability of clerks of potty sessions to issue gun licenses, owing to the delay in providing the required forms, has been a subject of complaint in…

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License Reduction

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 8

LITHGOW, Wednesday.--The chairman and two members of the License Reduction Board visited Lithgow yesterday afternoon, and with the licensing inspector made a thorough…

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Selling Butter and Cream Without a License

The Land · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 15

H.S. writes: Please let me know what is the penalty for selling cream to a factory without a license. Also, selling butter without a license…

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An Audacious Thief. a Lismore Publican's Loss

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 4

The licensee of the Lismore Hotel, at Lismore (N.S.W.), Mr. Lynch, was the victim of a daring robbery last week. Mr, Lynch had a refreshment…

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The Duck-shooting Season. Gun Licenses and Limited Bags

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 4

The duck-shooting opened on Tuesday morning, and many parties visited the swamps an lagoons where the wild fowl abound. The limit of…

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Gun Licenses Permits for Farmers. The Destruction of Pests

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 4

Complaints have been received from time to time to the effect that farmers and others are being hampered in thier efforts to destroy bird and animal pests…

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Squiggins' Gun Why it is Not Licensed Looking for a C.P.S.

Evening News · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 4

Ordinarily S[?]gins in the mildest of man, but his [?] in the tram concerning the new Gun Licensing Act have Ga[?] him the un[?] admiration of…

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Palestine Day by Day. Penned by Solomon Pechter. Especially for "The Hebrew Standard." Hotel Herzlia Tel-Aviy, Jaffa, December 27th, 1920. Ancient Jewish Castle Unearthed

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 3

Professor Nahum Slush, Director of Excavation at Tiberias, on behalf of the Jewish Archaelogical Society, published the following statement in the local…

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Kogarah Police Court. Wednesday, February 2. (Before Mr. Gates, S.m.) Sold Prawns Without a License

The Propeller · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 2

Inspector Bardsley, of Kogarah Council, proceeded against Norman Douglas for selling prawns without having at first obtained a license…

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Marriage Licenses. Stamp Duty Objected To. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 13

At a meeting of the council of the Anglican diocese of Goulburn it was decided to suggest to the next meeting that the synod meet this year in Wagga…

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Gun Licenses. Free of Charge to Farmers. Application Forms Ready

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 12

A special license, it was stated yesterday by Mr. Dooley, Chief Secretary, would be issued free of charge for men on the land to enable them to carry guns…

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Darwin's Drink Bill £27 Per Head a Year State Hotel's Loss Darwin

The Sun · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 7

To-day's "Government Gazette" contains the balance-sheet of the State hotel, which shows tho takings for the year at £110,930, stock in hand £15,000,…

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Country Licenses Reduction at Bathurst BATHURST

The Sun · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 5

The Licenses Reduction Board has begun a preliminary inquiry in Bathurst. where eight of the existing 22 liquor licenses are expected to be…

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Gun Licenses. the Act in Force

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 9

Yesterday, with the gazettal of the regulations under it, the Gun License Act came into practical effect. It became an Act at the end of last year, but without license forms, books…

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Jupp's Jugglery. Would Whisk Whisky 'Way. And Assaults the Licensee

Truth · Sunday 6 February 1921 · page 10

Cyril William Jupp. 30, a laborer, was charged before Mr. Giles Shaw, S.M., at the Newtown Police Court on Monday last, with having attempted to steal a…

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A Publican Punched No Shield far Shields

Truth · Sunday 6 February 1921 · page 7

Frederick Arthur Shields, 22. an ironmoulder, stood before Mr. Giles Shaw. S.M., at the Glebe Police Court on Tuesday last, to answer to a charge of…

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An Unwelcome Guest. McLeod Mucks Up and Riles Robinson, Who Requires No License For His Fire-Iron. to Wit a Poker

Truth · Sunday 6 February 1921 · page 7

"I said to him. I don't want your beer, and I don't want you'". Thus deposed William Robinson, a carter of 282 Hereford-street, Forest Lodge, to…

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Appeal Upheld Licensee Succeeds

Evening News · Monday 7 February 1921 · page 5

Judge Cohen in the Quarter Sessions appeal Court Queen Square heard the appeal of Carl Johans Christensen against a conviction by Mr. Adrian at…

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Hotel License Record. 84 Years by One Family. Original Furniture Still Used

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 6

WEST MAITLAND, Monday.-- In a Sydney paper recently there appeared an article in which reference was made to the fact that members of one family had held the licence of…

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To Purify the Stage Bill to Be Introduced Licenses for Employers LONDON, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 8 February 1921 · page 1

A bill designed to purify the stage by licensing employers is to be introduced in the House of Lords. It provides that from March 31 theatrical…

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