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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1925

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Smoke Screen Thefts From Hotel Gaol for "Barber" Parkes

Evening News · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 3

William Arthur Williams, who took advantage of the excitement crested by an alarm of fire to visit several of the bedrooms at the…

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Vagaries of Law Hotel Board Unpaid Man Is Gaoled Orange

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 1

IN the Orange Police Court George Field was proceeded against for failing to pay his board account at the Great Western…

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Society Woman's Loss Pearls Worth £650 Left in Hotel Bathroom Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 January 1925 · page 4

The theft of a string of pearls, valued at £650, the property of Mrs. Law Smith, a well-known society woman, who is on a visit from…

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Gun and Rifle Licenses

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 2

Possessors of guns and rifles are reminded that licenses are due on 1st January, 1925…

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Infection Feared From T.B. Patients Hotel Drinking Wollongong

Evening News · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 1

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Auctioneers' Licenses

Evening News · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 7

The new regulations in connection with the issue of auctioneers' licenses allow of applications being received by clerks of petty sessions at any time…

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T. C. Trautwein Trenchantly Castigated New Year's Gift Which Didn't Find a Place on the Honor List—Scathing Judgment on Signatures Apparently Forged With the Aid of Carbon Paper—Mr. Justice Harvey Refuses to Believe the Word of Trautwein or Detective Stuart Robson—"Tightening Up a Document' in Trautwein's Interests" Abortive Attempt to Alter Agreement of Belfield's Hotel Company

Truth · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 13

WHO doesn't know Theodore Charles Trautwein, strong supporter of the ponies, spreader of the gospel of Bacchus—for the usual monetary consideration—whose heart bubbles over with the wines of philanthropy, whose one great joy in life is handing out presents to poor punters? WHEN all others are forgotten, Mr. Trautwein's name will be handed down to posterity like a…

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WHEN Js.P. Evade Law How Unwanted Aliens Pour in Pedlars' Act Voided Through Sheer Neglect of Magistrates Licenses Without Inquiries

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 5

AVER' FIVE HUNDRED ALIENS from Southern Europe and Asia have entered the State of New South Wales during the past week. 'MANY OF THESE UNFORTUNATES have entered upon…

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The 'Seventies Some Ancient Hotels II

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

A relic of the really old days of nascent Sydney was the Dog and Duck Inn, in George Street, opposite the railway station, a long one-story…

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License Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 7

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench yesterday granted a transfer of the publican's license at the Camelia Grove Hotel, Henderson-road, Alexandria, from Andrew H. M'Clymont to Alfred Flankelar. An…

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New Licensees

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1925 · page 7

At the Water Police Court yesterday the Metropolitan Licensing Bench granted the following transfer of hotel and wine licenses:…

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License Suspended Cars in Collision

Evening News · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 8

William Morris Victor Mulready, the driver of a car which collided with another at the intersection of Marrickville and Victoria Parades,…

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Hotels and the Woman Traveller

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 January 1925 · page 5

There is need of a change in regard to hotel conveniences on the travelling public. The cheap motor car has made the family the unit of travel where of old it…

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Fined for Speeding License Suspended

The Sun · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 3

Before Mr. Jennings, S.M., at the Manly Police Court to-day, Norman Railton was lined £5 for having driven a lorry at an excessive speed along…

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Christmas Beer Lambton Publicans Fixed Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 3

At the Wallsend Police Court Yesterday, before Mr. A. Flyon, S.M. two Lamb ton publicans were fined for having sold liquor during prohibited…

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Hotel Near Public School

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 10

The New South Wales Alliance has written to the Minister for Education, entering an emphatic protest against the granting of an hotel license for…

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Electrical Licensing Board Chairman Appointed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1925 · page 10

The State Cabinet yesterday appointed Mr. Arthur Waddell as chairman of and Government representative on the Electrical Contractors' Board at a fee of…

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Gun License

The Land · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 10

"Subscriber" asks: If A is a holder of a gun license and has to renew it, must he pay the sum of five shillings (5/-) each time he has it…

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"A Fair Fight." Quarrel at a Hotel. Who Struck First Blow?

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 9 January 1925 · page 4

Charged with riotous behaviour, he Pleaded "guilty under provocation." What was the provocation? Well, someone had "Jobbed" him…

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