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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1922

795 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 40

Big Hotel Robbery Melbourne Thieves' Haul Well-Known Actress's Loss Night Porter Stunned Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 5

An audacious hold-up, accompanied by violence to a night porter, and leading to a big haul by burglars, occurred early this morning…

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Hotel Robbery Actress and Guests Victims Porter's Futile Call

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 March 1922 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A sensational robbery occurred at the Grand Hotel, Spring-street, at 1.15 this morning, when four thieves bound and gagged…

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Melbourne Hotels Raided Sensational Early Morning Crime Actress Loses £550 Clever, Well-planned Coup Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 5 March 1922 · page 2

An audacious hold-up; accompanied by violence to a night porter, and leading to a big haul by burglars, occurred early this morning…

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Hotel Employees' Award

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1922 · page 9

The Industrial Court has varied the award of the female waitresses employed for three-quarter day at railway refreshment rooms, increasing the wages from £1/16/9 to £2/1/ per…

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Daring Robbers. Masked and Armed Raid on a Hotel. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 March 1922 · page 9

With swifeness that denoted carefully-laid plans and expertness that showed that they [?] experienced and daring criminals, four masked and armed robbers raided the Hotel…

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More Outrages Murders in Belfast and Tipperary Hotels Commandeered Exciting Developments Feared London, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 1

The week-end casualties in Belfast were two killed and 25 wounded. The commandeering by the extremists of the Irish Republican Army of Limerick hotels is regarded very seriously by the British…

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Current News. Licensing Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 2

At the Parramatta Licensing Court on Monday, Walter Francis Furlong, of the Royal Hotel, Auburn, was granted permission to effect improvements to the…

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The Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 4

At Tuesday's meeting of the council, plans for a 5000 building for the construction of a new hotel to be built in Merrylands-road, near the station, were…

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Canberra. Political Control. Mr. Hughes Favours Change. Tourist Hotel for Cotter. (By Our Special Representative.) Queanbeyan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 March 1922 · page 9

The abolition of the present system under which the construction of the Federal capital at Canberra is subject to all the crosscurrents of Federal politics is incvitable…

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Hurstville Fish License. Another Summons to be Issued

The Propeller · Friday 10 March 1922 · page 2

The matter of a fish license for an agent of the State trawlers was again referred to at last night's meeting of Hurstville Council. The inspector reported that the case heard…

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Licensed Victuallers

Evening News · Tuesday 14 March 1922 · page 8
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the annual meeting yesterday of the N. S. W. branch of the…

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Ministers Differ Hotels and Bookmakers COWRA

The Sun · Tuesday 14 March 1922 · page 7

Speaking here the Minister for Lands (Mr. Loug[?]n) said he Would not favor a referendum on prohibition until measures had been devised to enable the…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Thursday 16 March 1922 · page 7

A Metropolitan [?] Bench—[?] Shaw, [?] Central Police Court this [?] granted the…

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Baffling Crime Lady White Murdered Hotel Mystery Housemaid's Shocking Discovery LONDON

The Sun · Thursday 16 March 1922 · page 1

Scotland Yard is completely baffled by one of the most mysterious and startling crimes in modern times. Lady White, the sweet, silver-haired…

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Hotel Keeper Fined

The Sun · Thursday 16 March 1922 · page 6

Wilfred Thomas, licensee of the Cronulla Hotel, was proceeded against at the Kogarah Police Court yesterday, on a charge of selling liquor after…

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State Beer Passing at Darwin Licenses Regranted Adelaide

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1922 · page 6

The Darwin Licensing Bench this morning granted a hotel license to Mr. J. A. P. Hunt, formerly a mounted constable, and latterly a lieutenant in the Flying Corps, a partner of…

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The Search for Oil Licenses and New Commonwealth Regulations

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1922 · page 7

The Commonwealth Government has endorsed an agreement made between the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) and the Premier of Queensland (Mr…

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Hurstville Fish License. Council Loses Again

The Propeller · Friday 17 March 1922 · page 2

At the Kogarah Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. Gale, S.M., Inspector Allsopp, of Hurstville Council, proceeded against William Alexander Cartwright…

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Hotel Workers. Effects of Award. Employers Retrench. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1922 · page 13

Bathurst hotelkeepers are seriously perturbed over the new award for hotel employees, which means a substantial increase in the wages of most employees. In some instances…

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