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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1923

985 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 50

No More Wireless Licenses. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 10

Until the regulations governing the broad casting of wireless messages have been completed it is not the intention to issue any more licenses to amateur wireless operators…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 5

The Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday granted the following transfers of public-house licenses:—University Hotel, Broadway, Glehe, Thomas William Bud to Percy B. Lomax; Wolseley Hotel. Quarry-street,…

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More to Pay Hotel Fees in Ryde District

The Sun · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 11

One of the first courts since the new licensing amendment came into force was hold at Ryde yesterday. The [?]censees have to pay under the new…

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Hotel Burnt

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 June 1923 · page 5

ADELONG. -- The Gilmore Hotel was totally destroyed by fire early on Thursday morning Tho proprietor. Mr. Bland Beck who owns several well-known…

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Betting Tax. Customs Board Scheme. Licensing Offices. London, June 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 June 1923 · page 13

The Bettlag Tax Committee of the House of Commons to-day listened to an expert witness from the Customs Board to explain the scheme of collecting the tax suggested last…

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Hard on Publicans New License Fees

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 June 1923 · page 1

KEMPSEY, Saturday.—Publicans are getting a taste of the increase in license fees under the new Act. The Board in Sydney now fixes the fees, based on the…

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Guard Our Food Forfeit the License After Third Offence; Why Not Gaol!

Sunday Times · Sunday 17 June 1923 · page 6

Charles Still, pastrycook, of Camper-down, was fined £10 and 8/ costs because: "In an outhouse was a quantity of dough covered with dirty bags…

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Name Omitted Hotel Guests' Register Licensee Fined Bathurst

The Sun · Monday 18 June 1923 · page 7

A case in which a hotel-keeper was fined for not entering in his register the name of a boarder, was heard by Mr. Walter Scott, S.M., at the…

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400 Per Cent. license Fee Increased TENTERFIELD

Evening News · Monday 18 June 1923 · page 6

The who is of the liquor licenses in the tenterfield notice district were renewed at the tenterfield Licensing Court under the new regulations…

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State Hotels. Under-proof Liquor. Inquiry in Western Australia. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 June 1923 · page 9

The Government has appointed Mr. Simpson, Public Service Commissioner, to make immediate Inquiry into the supply of liquor to the State hotels. Recently the police seized [?]…

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Robbery From Hotel. an Exciting Chase. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 June 1923 · page 10

While the occupants were asleep thieves removed a panel from a door of the Inverness Hotel, Bulla-road, at about half-past 2 o'clock on Saturday morning, and ransacked the bar…

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'Community' Hotel Griffith Wants One Sly-grog and Wine

The Sun · Monday 18 June 1923 · page 7

A "community" hotel, run by a comm[?]ttee of citizens, the profits to be set aside for improvements or other benefits…

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Too Strong State Hotels' Liquor Perth

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 June 1923 · page 5

Cabinet has appointed Mr. Simpson, the Public Service Commissioner, to make a full and immediate inquiry into the supply of liquors to the State hotels…

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Licenses May Lapse Hotels That Don't Pay MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 15

An extraordinary position is arising regarding licensed accommodation in the city of Melbourne, according to statements made to-day in the…

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Irrigation Area. Proposed Community Hotel. Minister Favourable

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 9

There Is much sly grog-selling in the Murrumbidgee irrigation area, according to representations made to Mr. Ley (Minister for Justice) by deputations and police offi[?]…

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Hotel Boarders. Registration of Names. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 8

For falling to enter the name of a boarder in his hotel register, A. V. Reid, licensce of the Grand Hotel, was to-day fined £2. Mr. W. Scott, S.M., said that he regarded the…

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First Offenders Act Applied to Paddock Book J. Moody Re-licensed

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 19 June 1923 · page 9

Bookmaker J. Moody has had the First Offenders' Act extended to him for an offence he never committed under A.R.C. rules. To ask a man to…

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Cross Roads Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 20 June 1923 · page 5

At the Licensing Court, Liverpool, on June 7, the application for renewal of the license of the Cross Roads Hotel was opposed by Sergeant Gibson, on the ground…

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Watched Her Room Slander Alleged Actress in Hotel Claim for £400

Evening News · Wednesday 20 June 1923 · page 7

The quickest way to circulate a story it to telegraph, telephone, or tell a woman. The last named, however, is the quickest and surest…

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Goulburn Licensing District. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 June 1923 · page 14

At a special Licensing Court at Goulburn the license fees of the hotels of the Goulburn licensing district were fixed for the 12 months commencing on July 1. Under the new…

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