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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1922

795 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 40

Australia Hotel Co., Ltd

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 August 1922 · page 4

Accounts of the Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., for the year ended June 30, 1922, show a profit for the period of £28.954, as against £27,990 for the preceding 12…

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Wentworth Hotel Pays £8000 for Freeman's Journal Premises To Extend Smoke Lounges

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 August 1922 · page 4

Mrs. Maclurcan, of the Wentworth Hotel, has bought the premises next door, occupied under lease by Freeman's Journal, for £8000 in round Figures…

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The World of Finance Shareholders in Pitt, Son, and Badgery Wool Co. Get 10 Per Cent, and 2/ Bonus, With Offer of 15,000 New Shares Hotel Australia Has Completed £150,000 Building Plan and Pays 10 P.C. Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Limited

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 August 1922 · page 4

The published accounts of Pitt, Son and Badgery, wool and fat stock salesmen, station agents, etc., for the twelve months ended June last reflect the…

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The Bickering Bickfords. Concerning Some Sojourns in Sydney, and Hobnobbing at the Hotel "Horstralia". Respondent Mrs. Bickford in the Witness-box. Was She Only "Gay, Fond of Amusements and Indiscreet" ? "Not the Letters of an Abandoned Woman", Says Counsel

Truth · Sunday 6 August 1922 · page 4

The Bickford Divorce is still the main topic of interest at Adelaide. Harold Bickford, managing director of the firm of A. M. Bickford and Sons,…

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Shots in Legs Publican Wounded Trouble Near Barrier Broken Hill

The Sun · Sunday 6 August 1922 · page 2

Lost night the police inspector at Broken Hill received a telephone message from Yanco Glen that John Swanson, licensee of the hotel at that place,…

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Novel Menu Hotel Bill of Lading Satire for Shipowners

The Sun · Sunday 6 August 1922 · page 3

Considerable amusement was caused at the dinner held on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Vancouver Merchants' Exchange last month by…

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Just in Time Hotel Thief Stopped

Evening News · Monday 7 August 1922 · page 3

A man was seen by the proprietor of the Austral Hotel, Bourke and Foveaux streets, Surry Hills, on Saturday, walking through the front door with…

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Wanted to Fight Hotel Incident

Evening News · Monday 7 August 1922 · page 3

When a constable was called into the Hotel Australian on Saturday evening he found that Leonard Molloy, 33, and Roy Miller, 24 had cleared a space in the…

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In Hotel Australia Ring Cleared for Fight

The Sun · Monday 7 August 1922 · page 3

For having behaved in a riotous manner in the vestibule of the Hotel Australia on Saturday evening, Leonard Molloy, aged 33, and Roy Miller,…

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Fine of £20 Betting in Hotel

The Sun · Monday 7 August 1922 · page 9

In the No. 2 division of the Central Police Court to-day, Alexander Copeland, aged 60, appeared before Mr. Jennings, S.M. on a charge of having…

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Shot in the Legs Publican Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 August 1922 · page 9

BROKEN HILL.--As the result of ail altercation at Yanco Glen on Friday night John Swanson, licensee of the local hotel received a gunshot wound in the legs, and…

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No Offer Longham Hotel

Evening News · Tuesday 8 August 1922 · page 6

The Langham Hotel, at the corner of York and Margaret streets, City was submitted at auction to-day by Station and Son, Ltd., but there was no…

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Man Who Lived Well On £1000 a Year Spent Much in Hotels

Evening News · Tuesday 8 August 1922 · page 5

Giving evidence before the Registrar in Bankruptey a bankrupt and said he had stayed at the Narrabri Hotel, and was a good customer of…

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New Event Wanted Licensing Grievance Vexatious Delays

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 8 August 1922 · page 7

Complaints of delays in slanting applications for licenses as riders and drivers and the refusal to give licenses to competent horsemen who train their…

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Over the Bar Lost at the Races Paid Publican £1500

The Sun · Tuesday 8 August 1922 · page 9

Mr. Palmer: Did you live at the Narrabri Hotel?--Yes. I owe the publican £105. I spent a lot of money there…

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Australia Hotel Co

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 9 August 1922 · page 5

In the experience of the Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., as revealed in the balance sheet for the year ended June 30, expanding business has…

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License Transfers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 6

The Meteropolitan Licensing Board yesterday granted the following transfers of licenses:--Publicans' Licenses.--Darling Point…

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Kensington's New Hotel

The Sun · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 7

Kensington is to have another hotel On resumption of the adjourned quarterly meeting of the Licensing Court today. Richard Wootton was granted a…

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Motor Car Driving. How to Obtain License

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 12

Cherry Gully asks how he must set out to learn to drive a car. Answer.— You can learn from anyone that has a car, and when you have…

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Summer Token Coo-ee Wandering Australians Invading London's Hotels LONDON, June 28

The Sun · Sunday 13 August 1922 · page 17

Mrs. de Castro, who before leaving New South Wales was given a "sendoff" by the Women's Club, is at present living at the Pioneer Club,…

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