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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1924

1,255 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 63

"Corruption Rife" Licensing Prosecutions Grave Charges Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 20 April 1924 · page 5

Affidavits sworn by former members of the Licensing Police, dismissed for participating in the police strike, allege that…

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Thief at Hotel

The Sun · Monday 21 April 1924 · page 4

The office at the Gresham Hotel, York and Druitt streets, city, was entered on Saturday by a thief, who stole £18 from the cashbox…

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Licensing Police Talk of Corruption Grave Allegations Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 April 1924 · page 5

Affidavits have been sworn by ex-members of the licensing police who were dismissed for taking part in the police strike, alleging that corruption,…

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Licenses

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 22 April 1924 · page 4

Granted by New South Wales Turf club: trainers and riders and drivers:—M. J. Kenny from Hrisbaney L. I. O. Smith, sydney: W. MeNickle and W.R…

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Trembling Prisoner Death of Hotelkeeper Sensations Expected London, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 22 April 1924 · page 14

Vaquier, the black-bearded Biarritz inventor, who is charged with the murder of Alfred Jones, the proprietor of the Blue Anchor Hotel at Byfleet,…

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The Liquor Law Licenses Cancelled Country Hotels Closed

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 24 April 1924 · page 4

Twenty-six licenses of a total of fifty-nine (including two wine licenses) have been cancelled by the Licenses' Reduction Board in the Goulburn…

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Licensing Police Corruption Charges Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 April 1924 · page 6

"If prima facie evidence can be produced there will be a full inquiry into the methods of the licensing police," said the Chief Secretary (Dr. Argyle)…

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Licensing Court Transfers Granted

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 April 1924 · page 2

Mr. Jennings, S.M., in the Licensing Court yesterday, granted the following applications for transfers of licenses:-- Publicans' transfers: Fortune of war…

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Metropolitan Hotels Change Proprietors

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 April 1924 · page 6

The following transfers of publicans' [?] were granted by the Metropolitan Licensing Bench yesterday:-- Fortune of War Hotel. George Street,…

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Spur to Boarder Traps Publican Gaol or Nothing Par[?]

Evening News · Friday 25 April 1924 · page 3

The provision [?]…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 25 April 1924 · page 8

The Metropolitan Licencing Bench yesterday granted the following transfers of hotelkeepers' licenses. Fortune of War Hotel. George-street,…

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"Drunk as Cloey." Driver's License Suspended

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 2

At Parramanttia Police Court on Thursday, April 17, John Edward Andrews, a young man, pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving a motor car in…

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Transfer of Wine License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 8

At the Ryde Licensing Court on Thursday, of last week an application by William Henry Glenn to transfer the license of his wine saloon from Woolwich to…

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Will They Be Licensed? The Bookmakers In South Australia What the Advent of Labour Means

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 5

The bookmakers, or the totalisator agents, as they please to call themselves in South Australia, have taken fresh hope from the fact that the…

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Women Want Peace of Nations Significant Resolution at Sydney Conference-- Cruiser building Condemned the Workers' Hotel

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon and evening a conference on international peace was held in the Friends' Meeting House. Devonshire Street, the chairman and…

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Bother Over Balmain's Beer Industrial Suburb Flouts Licensing Act— Many Publicans in Trouble—Beerless Good Friday Leads to Breaches of the Law. Thirsty Crowds at Court

Truth · Sunday 27 April 1924 · page 9

"And blow their eyes, If ever they tries To rob a poor man of his beer." Balmain heartily echoes this sentiment of the British working…

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Frank Burge—Publican

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 April 1924 · page 9

There has been, no greater forward in the Rugby League game than Frank Burge, one of the famous family of brothers. Frank retired from the frame last year, but it was confidently…

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Hotel Closed Brewers' Claim

Evening News · Monday 28 April 1924 · page 5

The first appeal under the amended Liquor Act against a decision of the Licences Reduction Board, in regard to compensation,…

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Licensed Victuallers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 10

The annual conference of the United Licensed Victuallers' Associations of Australia, will open in Sydney to-day…

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Land Court. (Before Mr. Justice Pike.) Licenses' Reduction Board. Appeals Against Compensation Awards

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 6

This was an appeal, the first of its kind to come before the Court under the recent amendment of the Liquor Act, by Tooth and Co., Ltd., against the determination of the…

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