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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1923

985 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 50

In the Suburbs Driver's License Suspended

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 November 1923 · page 8

Sidney H. Kitchen, of Ramsay Street, Haberfield, was fined £2 at the Newtown Court yesterday, for driving a motor cycle at a speed dangerous to the public. His…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 November 1923 · page 7

The Metropolitan Licensing Court yestcrday granted the following transfers of publicans' licenses:—Royal Sovereign Hotel, Liverpool-street, Darlinghurst, Charles Hernon to Isidore M. Ovens; Grand Hotel, Rocky Point[?]…

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Broadcasting. Receiving Licenses. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 November 1923 · page 6

The Postmaster-General (Mr. Gibson) amplified his statement that licenses for receiving wireless messages to be broadcasted in New South Wales were now available…

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License Suspended Wealthy Motorist Punished

The Sun · Friday 2 November 1923 · page 7

Stanley Francis Patterson Jobbins, who said he wan a mail of Independent means, was convicted, before Mr. A. J. M. Peisley, S.M., at the Newtown…

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City Hotel Sold

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 November 1923 · page 10

The Hotel Castlereagh, at the corner of Park and Castlereagh Streets, has been sold by Hardie and Gorman Proprietary for £24,000…

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Motorists Fined License Suspended

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 November 1923 · page 7

Mr. Peisley, S.M., at the Newtown Court yesterday, suspended for six months the motor driver's license held by Stanley, brands Patterson Jobbins, who…

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Melbourne Hotels, Ltd

The Sun · Monday 5 November 1923 · page 13

The gross revenue of Melbourne Hotels, for the year ended June 30 last, was £60,012, but, owing to a new wages award, expenditure (after writing 20 per cent, off…

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Melbourne Cup. Hotels to Close. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 November 1923 · page 9

It has been decided that the hotels within five miles of Elizabeth-street Post-office shall be closed to-morrow—Cup Day—from 2 o'clock. This arrangement was made this afternoon…

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Liquor with Meals Big Hotels Move

The Sun · Tuesday 6 November 1923 · page 8

A plea was put to Mr. Ley this afternoon by the Residential Establishments' Association, comprising big hotel interests, that residential hotels…

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No Beer! Brewers Penalise Publicans MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 6 November 1923 · page 11

The Victoria Brewers' Association to-day decided to stop supplies of beer for an indefinite period to four hotels in the city, on the ground that the…

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Publican's Compensation Licenses Reduction Board

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 November 1923 · page 5

A special case, stated by the Licenses Reduction Board, upon an application, for compensation by John Henry Vincent, of the Army and Navy Hotel, Bourke and…

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Licensing Applications

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 7 November 1923 · page 2

Before the Parramatta Licensing Court on Monday further evidence was tendered in connection with the applications for permission to transfer the license of the…

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Quarter Sessions Appeals. (Before Judge Scholes.) Hotelkeeper's Conviction Quashed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 November 1923 · page 10

Charles James Kay, licens[?]e of the Royal Albert Hotel, Darlington, appealed against his conviction by Mr. Camphin, D.S.M., on a charge of delivering liquor during prohibited hours…

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NO. 2 Full Court. (Before Mr. Justice Ferguson, Mr. Justice Campbell, and Mr. Acting Justice Ralston.) Hotelkeeper's Compensation. Re J. H. Vincent, special case

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 November 1923 · page 10

A question of law, arising in connection with the Liquor Amendment Act 1917-22, was submitted for the determination of the Court in a special case stated by the Licenses…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 November 1923 · page 9

Particulars have come to hand of a fire at Herrick, the terminus of the north-eastern railway, where a large wooden building of over 20 rooms, known as the…

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Liquor with Meals. Residential Hotels. Deputation to Mr. Ley

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 November 1923 · page 12

A deputation representing the Residential Hotel Owners' Association waited on Mr. Ley (Minister for Justice) yesterday, and urged that the Liquor Bill should be so framed as to…

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Melbourne Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 November 1923 · page 11

On its activities during the year ended June 30, 1922, Melbourne Hotels. Ltd., sustained a net loss of £2709. The scale was tipped in the opposite direction in…

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Robbery At-hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 November 1923 · page 11

Jewellery and clothing valued at between £60 and £70 were stolen on Tuesday night from the Oddfellows' Hotel, George-street, city…

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Licensee Fined

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 November 1923 · page 2

COWRA.--At Cowra Police Court. Alexander Steedman, licensee of the Great Western Hotel, pleaded guilty to permitting a drunken man on his licensed…

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Old City Hotel Closed Yesterday

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 November 1923 · page 6

The Commercial Hotel, a familiar landmark at the corner of King and Castleroagh Streets, within the recollection of Sydney's oldest citizens, ceased trading…

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