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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1924

1,255 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 63

Was Liquor Act Strained ? Judge Thinks So Soft Drinks in Hotel

Evening News · Wednesday 23 January 1924 · page 9

"It seems pretty hard of a man cannot go into a hotel for a [?] of water during prohibited [?] Mr. Justice James said [?]…

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Complicated Hotel Tangle Brewers Deposed Wagga

Evening News · Wednesday 23 January 1924 · page 9

An unusual complication was disclosed at the Wagga Licensing Court when Era Jane d'Hudson, Guner of the Golden Age Hotel,…

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Grafton District Hotels. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 January 1924 · page 14

At the Grafton Licensing Court yesterday the chairman, Mr. W. B. Geddes, commenting on the licensing inspector's report, said it appeared that there were three hotels with…

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New Licenses

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 23 January 1924 · page 3

There have been many applications for trainers, riders, and drivers' licenses at Sydney during the past month. The following licenses were taken out…

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Breeding Mosquitoes The Lake for Puddle Hotel in University Park--A Scandal And a Menace

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1924 · page 4

What is euphemistically known as University Lake or University Pond is in reality the finest breeding ground for mosquitoes Sydney…

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Empire Exhibition Hotel Accommodation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1924 · page 10

Visitors to London during the period of the British Empire Exhibition are strongly advised to make arrangements, without delay, to reserve the necessary hotel…

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Hotel Accommodation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 January 1924 · page 4

GRAFTON.--When Sergeant M'Alpin, Licensing Inspector, presented an adverse report upon three local hotels to the Licensing Court, Mr. W. B. Geddes…

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Disputed License. Wagga Hotel. Complicated Law Suit. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1924 · page 6

A peculiar position has arisen regarding the transfer of the license of the Golden Age Hotel. Several points had been raised, until the whole legal position became so involved…

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Soft Drink at Hotel After Six Man Has Quinine and Soda--He is Not a Lodger--Or Traveller Decision Reserved

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 January 1924 · page 10

Mr. Justice James reserve a judgment yesterday morning to deside whether a man may enter an hotel during prohibited hours to obtain a…

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Champagne Causes Street Collision Horse and Cab Barged Into-- Magistrate's Warning to Drivers--License Suspended

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 January 1924 · page 10

A motor car driven by Alexander James Blackwood, crashed into a horse and cab standing near the Parramatta wharf. Circular Quay,…

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Wine Merchant Fined for Selling Beer But It was in Small Quantities-- Not Authorised by License

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 January 1924 · page 10

Although he had pleaded not guilty to a charge of having sold liquor in quantities not authorised by his license Claughton Roberts, a wine and…

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Publicans' Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 10

The Quarterly Licensing Court for the metropolitan district was held yesterday, when the following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted:--Bristol…

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Publicans' Licences Are Transferred

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 3

The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted by the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:…

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After 6 O'clock Selling Liquor Hotels Complain

Evening News · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 8

A charge that the liquor law was being flagrantly broken was made at a deputation to Mr. Lay today…

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A Real Live Party for Clancy Kids At the Wentworth Hotel--Through Mrs. Maclurean's Generosity--Who Wants a Doll?--Tinsel and Brocade

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 9

Everything went well at the Clancy Kids party at the Wentworth yesterday--until the band struck up "Yes, we Have No Bannas."…

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Rise Obtained by Hotel Workers

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 6

To-day the first payment of the increased wages for country hotel employees falls due. A variation of the award of this…

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Hotel Lottery Prizes £10; Tickets Sold £22

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 January 1924 · page 10

Cornelius A. Manders was charged at the Faddington Police Court yesterday with having, on December 23, promised to dispose of certain goods--…

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An Important Purchase Acquisiton of Site at the River Tourists' Hotel [?]o be Erected

Nepean Times · Saturday 26 January 1924 · page 4

An important business transaction was completed on Monday, as the result of which the old building at the river now occupied by Mr. A. Bennett has been purchased, with a view to its demolition and the erection on the site of a fine tourists' hotel…

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Publican Fined for Breach of Act

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 January 1924 · page 8

Francis James Bede Hines, licensee of the Iron Duke Hotel, Cleveland Street, Redfern, at the Redfern Police Court yesterday was fined £5…

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Oscar Asche's New Chu Chin Chow Amazing Invention That Will Revolutionise Cooking Economical Contrivance Will Make Picnickers and Motorists Independent of Hotels

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 January 1924 · page 12

History tells us that some form of Cookery has existed from the earliest times, and its progress from the quaint period when the gods loved the smell of…

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