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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1924

1,255 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 63

A.j.c. Committee More Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 June 1924 · page 5

At a meeting at the committee of the Australian Jockey Club yesterday jockeys' licenses were granted to H. E. Reed, E. Flynn, J. Anderson [?] Whalen and W. Pike[?] No 2…

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Liquor Laws Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 June 1924 · page 4

Under the amending liquor legislation of last session, the Licensing Court in each licensing district throughout the State will be constituted after Monday…

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The Last Sitting. Licensing Magistrates Retire

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 28 June 1924 · page 1

For thirteen years, Mr. W. F. Jago has been a member of the Licensing Bench at Parramatta, his confrere, Alderman A. H. Collect, having a record of eight or nine…

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Liquor and Lodgers in Big City Hotels Appeal Against Convictions Recorded by Stipendiary Magistrate--A K.C.'s Little Mistake

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 June 1924 · page 5

Farther argument was hear is Mr. Justice Jame in Chambers yesterday in the applications on behalf of the increases of the Hotel Australia and…

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Eastern Extension Coy. Wants Wireless License London, June 26

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 June 1924 · page 4

Presiding at the annual meeting of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Sir John Denison-Pender said tho company had…

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Licensing Private Detectives

Truth · Sunday 29 June 1924 · page 8

CHIEF JUSTICE McCAWLEY, of Queensland, presiding in the Brisbane Divorce Court recently, criticised the methods of private detectives somewhat acidly. He said:— "I wish to say that evidence as to the methods and…

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Licensing Bench

Evening News · Monday 30 June 1924 · page 7

The Metropolitan L[?] Board sat for the last time at the Central Court this afternoon. Mr. Glies Shaw, chairman of the…

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Some Bexley Folk Want a Hotel

The Labor Daily · Monday 30 June 1924 · page 8

Bexley is a "dry" municipality, but there are some of its residents who are anxious to slake their thirsts. A petition asking that a hotel…

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Publicans Are Not Always Sinners Hotelkeepers are Tempted, Says Albury Sergeant -- And Some of Them Have Fallen

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 1 July 1924 · page 1

ALBURY, Monday. -- When some licensing eases were being heard at the Police Court to-day Sergeant Constantine, who prosecuted, requested the…

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In Hotel Room Man and Two Women

Evening News · Tuesday 1 July 1924 · page 8

The information against Thomas Edward Love, the licenses of the York Hotel, King-street, Alleging that he permitted drunkenness on his…

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Bookmakers at Randwick What is the Value of a License in the Paddock?

Referee · Wednesday 2 July 1924 · page 4

The A.J.C. is again examining the strength of the ring at Randwick and making sure that their registered fielders are financial…

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Steals a Sulky with Locked Wheel Man of 58 While in Drink Drives Away Turnout -- Trip Ends at Callan Park Hotel

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 2 July 1924 · page 6

A Quarter Sessions jury at Darlinghurst yesterday afternoon found William George Capstick -- a man of 68 years, with a crime record extending…

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Sudden Death At Hotel Metropole

Evening News · Thursday 3 July 1924 · page 9

The death occurred suddenly at the Hotel Metropole to-day of John Bumford Horton, 85, of Crowoah Park, Lawson, Blue Mountains. At breakfast…

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Polo Umpire Motor License Suspended

Evening News · Thursday 3 July 1924 · page 6

Frank Osborne Dowling a grazier of Coonamble, who was an umpire at the polo yesterday, was fined £5, and had his motor licence suspended for…

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Hotelkeeper's Death. Crookwell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 July 1924 · page 10

Charles R. Shepherd, owner and licenses of the Grabben Gullen Hotel at Grabben Gullen, eight miles from Crookwell, was found in a bedroom at his home with his throat cut…

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Revolver and Razor Publican Found Dead GOULBURN

The Sun · Thursday 3 July 1924 · page 10

With his throat cut from ear to ear, a blood-stained razor in his right hand, and a revolver lying nearby, C. R. Shephard, licensee of the Albion…

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After the Polo Grazier's Erratic Driving License Suspended

The Sun · Thursday 3 July 1924 · page 12

One of the umpires at the polo matches yesterday, Frank Osborne Dowling, aged 40, a Coonambie grazier, was fined £5 at the Central Police Court…

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Live Union Does Big Things for Members Hotel, Club and Restaurant Workers £1265 Better Off--Through Viligance of Union Satisfied with Award

The Labor Daily · Thursday 3 July 1924 · page 6

At the half-yearly meetings at the Hotel, Club Restaurant Employees' Union on Tuesday night, the secretary (Mr. Sherwin) announced that…

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The World of Boxing North Sydney Turns Down License Should Dope Be Given to Boxers ?: Uren and Collins for Welter Title To-morrow : Doings in the Camps

Arrow · Friday 4 July 1924 · page 14

Another council has turned down permission to hold boxing. This time it is North Sydney. Boxing, in itself, is not the reason that permission was not granted. It is that the people that boxing attracts are not all that is to be be desired. Certainly, those that witness boxing do not all come from the…

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Licensing Court Publicans' Transfers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 July 1924 · page 17

A number of applications for publicans' transfers were dealt with in the Licensing Court yesterday. The following were granted:--"White…

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