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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1923

985 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 50

Hotel Destroyed by Fire. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 June 1923 · page 10

The new Railway Hotel at South Queenstown, owned by Mr. W. Illingworth, of Queenstown, and occupied by the licensee, Mr. E. Morgan, and family, was burnt to…

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Queensland Fire Theatre and Hotel BRISBANE

The Sun · Thursday 21 June 1923 · page 10

The Palace Hotel and picture theatre adjoining at Sarina, near Mackay, were destroyed by fire to-day. A lecture will be given at the Royal…

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Licensing Fees. Increase in the Country. Quadrupled for Wine Shop. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 8

The Liquor Amending Act, 1922, makes material changes in the licensing law, especially in regard to fees payable by hotels and for colonial wine licenses. Under the…

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State Hotels. Under-proof Whisky Sold

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 2

The Western Australian Government has appointed Mr. Shapson a Public Service Commissioner, to make immediate inquiry late the supply of [?]…

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Cook's Theft From Tattereall's Hotel

Evening News · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 9

Thomas King. 39. charged with hav­ing stolen a quantity of crockery and glassware, valued at £8, the property of Randolph licensee of…

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Found in Hotel

Evening News · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 8

Claude Jenses was found unconacious in a city hotel yesterday with his forehead out open. He was admitted to the [?]…

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Assaulted in Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 8

Claude Jensen, of Gladesville, was in a city hotel at about 5.45 p.m. yesterday, when, it is stated, he was attacked. In the struggle which ensued, Jensen…

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Two Per Cent. of Liquor Bought the New Scale of Licensing Fees. Penrith District List

Nepean Times · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 4

The Liquor Amendment Act of 1923 provides a new wny of fixing the fees to be paid by licensees each year. Formerly these were based on the rental…

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New Solomon on Mudgee Bench Samaritans in Hotel Mudgee

Evening News · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 6

The wife of a [?] went to a church recently, but was taken ill there. Two members of the…

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Hotel License Fees Increased

Sunday Times · Sunday 24 June 1923 · page 7

WEST MAITLAND, Saturday.—Increases have been made in the majority of license fees in Maitland licensing district. One hotel at Cessnock has had…

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Licensing Fees Maitland District Increases West Maitland

The Sun · Sunday 24 June 1923 · page 2

The annual licensing of hotels revealed heavy purchases by most of the hotels in the north, especially in the Maitland district, where increases in…

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No-license for Leeton. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 June 1923 · page 9

Sir,—As the official representative of the Leeton no-license movement, I would ask for space to reply to a statement published inTuesday's "Herald" in reference to liquor…

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Wieeless Licenses. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 June 1923 · page 9

Sil,—Your correspondent, "Wireless," in last Saturday's issue misunderstands. Till recently the only licenses granted by the authorities wero "experimental," and were not intended…

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Fracas in Hotel Assaulted and Robbed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 June 1923 · page 5

A woman named Lillian Evans was viciously assaulted and robbed of her purse, which contained a £10 note, in on hotel in Alfred Street, North Sydney…

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Tumut Hotel Dispute Over Sale

Evening News · Wednesday 27 June 1923 · page 9

Allegation were made in No. 2 jury Court, to-day, before Mr. Justice Gardon and a jury of four that there had been a breach of contract…

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Billiards Keen Interest in the Tournaments. Big Guns Meet at Hotel Australia —Pros and Cons

Referee · Wednesday 27 June 1923 · page 14

A top pocket in-off that is very easy, but looks very difficult, is when the player's ball is in hand, and the red object ball…

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Council's Hotel. Cellar Flooded. Aldermen Indignant

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 June 1923 · page 12

The City Council last night decided that the Lord Mayor and Sir Charles Rosenthal should be empowed to take immediate measures "to make the cellar of the Gladstone…

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Sale of a Hotel £410 Verdict

The Sun · Wednesday 27 June 1923 · page 7

Sydney Bryant, of Castlereagh- street, Redfern, in No. 2 Jury Court, before Mr. Justice Gordon and a jury of four, to-day, sought to recover…

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Under the Lens a Licensed Coining Plant Modest Mr. J. H. CAMPBELL

The Sun · Thursday 28 June 1923 · page 12

Big. sleek, glittering, motor-cars roll noiselessly along its smooth and polished highways; public taxis, daring to enter the quiet and sacred…

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Motor License Fees

The Land · Friday 29 June 1923 · page 9

At the recent conference of Shire Councils several shires forwarded proposals regarding the collection and payment of motor license fees…

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