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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1923

985 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 50

Motorist's License Suspended

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 August 1923 · page 10

Flank Melntyre was enarged at the Parramatta Police Court with driving a taxi-cab while under the influence of liquor. The Police evidence was that he was very drunk,…

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Builders, Buyers and Building Land to Cost £383,000 Hotel Macquarie Twelve Storeys

Evening News · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 4

The Hotel [?] on the [?] of Bur[?] modelled on the latest American hotels; and when [?] will be [?] the [?]…

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"Squizzy's" New Role Motorist Without License MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 14 August 1923 · page 16

"Squizzy" Taylor seems fated to be frequently in the public eye. Yesterday he was fined £2 on each of two charges of having broken the motor…

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Another License Cancelled

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 15 August 1923 · page 2

"I had a touch of the 'flu, and I had a couple of brandies with my friends.' Thus spake Leslie Alfred Kells, at the Parramatta Police Court, on Monday…

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Hotel Accommodation Mudgee

The Sun · Thursday 16 August 1923 · page 11

Messrs. F. G. Adrian, R. Skelton, and R. P. Reliant, sitting as a Licenses Reduction Board in Mudgee, re-heard evidence in favor of continuing the…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 8

The Metropolitan Licensing' Court yesterday granted the following transfers of publicans' licenses:—M[?]politan Hotel, Pitt-street, Sydney, from Christina A. Williamson to Thomas Blanchfield; Commercial Hotel…

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Supreme Court. Full Court. (Before Sir William Cullen, C.J., Mr. Justice James, and Mr. Justice Campbell). Hotels Compensation Fees. Tooth and Co., Ltd. v The Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 8

This was a special case stated by the Licenses Reduction Board for a direction of the Court, on a question arising in connection with an application by Tooth and Co., Ltd.,…

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Hotel Profits Worth Sharing

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 August 1923 · page 10

Commanding the picked position of the city's finest residential area, Macquaric-street, adjoining the new extension of Martin Place, accommodation…

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Wentworthville. Electricians' Licenses

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 11

Applications for licenses from electricians, subject to the approval of the electrical engineer of the capabilities of the applicants, were approved by Prospect…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 9

Compensation Sittings, Wammerawa Electorate.—At the Board Room, 3rd floor, Dalton House, 115 Pittstreet.—At 2 p.m.: The Board will announce the amonts of compensation awarded…

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Sum of £3742 Alleged Omission to Pay Sale of Hotel

The Sun · Monday 20 August 1923 · page 11

Charged with having received the sum of £3742 on July 27, under authority upon terms requiring him to pay Shiloh Wrate Standing that sum, and…

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COMPENSATION Licenses Reduction in Wammerawa

Evening News · Monday 20 August 1923 · page 5

The Licenses Reduction Board this afternoon announced the compensation [?] in respect of hotels in the Wammerawa…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 August 1923 · page 5

Compensation Sittings, Wammerawa Electorate.—At the Board Room, 3rd floor. Dalton House, 116 Pitt-street.—At 2 p.m.: The Board will announce the amounts of compensation awarded…

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Dividends for City Hotel Investors

Evening News · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 11

It is a widely known fact that with ordinary management exceedingly good profits are conn[?] made from trade over the bar Good class…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 6

The Licenses Reduction Board sat yesterday, Mr. F. G. Adrian presiding. The board, having previously decided that certain licensed premises in the Wammerawa electorate should…

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Hotel Ablaze Guests Dead or Missing Sunday Disaster Vancouver, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 1

Fire on Sunday morning destroyed at Huntsville, Ontario, a summer hotel containing 150 guests. Three girls were killed and nine…

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"I Was Desperate" Robbery at Hotel Statement in Court

The Sun · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 11

"We're making inquiries about a robbery at the New Hunter River Hotel, Sussex-street, on July 12. Do you know anything about it?"…

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His Birthday Glasses Stolen From Hotels

The Sun · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 11

Pleading guilty to two charges, of having stolen a glass mug valued at 1s, the property of Isaac Tarry, and of having stolon a tumbler, valued at…

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Land and Valuation (Before Mr. Justice Pike.) Carrington Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 2

Reserved judgment was delivered in the objection by J. Joynton Smith against the valuations by the Municipal Council of Katoomba of the Carrington…

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Taxation File In Hotel Bar Accountant Committed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 8

Federal taxation affairs are concerned in the case against John Everistus O'Regan (44), accountant and taxation assessor, which opened at…

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