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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1925

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Supervision of Hotels

The Sun · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 10

At the last meeting of the Traffic and Tourist Committee of the National Roads and Motorists' Association a letter was read from the…

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The Methodist Conference Earlier Closing of Hotels Women's Appeal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 18

An appeal was received from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union yesterday morning at the Methodist Conference for co-operation in an…

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Company News Hotel Sydney, Ltd. Improved Profits

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 20

Hotel Sydney, Ltd., reports net profit of £15,251 for the year ended December 31 last, after providing for depreciation, proportion of sinking fund to cover cost…

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The Humor' of Serious Things Living in a Hotel Quarrels with a Head Waiter

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 March 1925 · page 6

It is my lot to live a great deal in holds. And the hotels in which I live arc of the sumptuous order, with marble pillars and rubber trees and with two girls with waving golden hair sitting at a…

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Cootamundra Ex-boniface Williams Objects to Wife's Motor Jaunts and Picnic Trips Erstwhile Printer and Publican Fails to Substantiate Charges Mrs. Williams Counters with Cruelty Allegations—Conflicting Evidence in Divorce Suit—Housemaid Relates Stories of Park Promenades and Good-night Kisses Station Manager Kiley as Co-respondent

Truth · Sunday 1 March 1925 · page 13

AFTER a lengthy hearing that lasted for several days, the divorce suit in which Oswald St. Clair Williams, an ex-boniface of Sydney and Cootamundra, who was formerly a printer, proceeded against his wife, Hilda May Williams, nee Stubbs, terminated unsatisfactorily for both parties. OSWALD ST. CLAIR had charged his wife with unfaithfulness, citing William Maurice Kiley, a…

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A.r.c. Licenses

Evening News · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 5

The afternoon the A R C issued jockeys' licenses to the following:—H.J. Miscrfield, H. F. Fonton, A. C. Thomas E Dawson, W. A. Simpson H.C…

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Wireless Licenses

Evening News · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 4

Sir,—It was very pleasing to read in one of the dally papers that Postmaster-General, Mr. Gibson, has at last thought the time opportune to reconsider that percentage of…

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License Transfers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 7

The following transfers were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:--Publicans' Licenses: Club House Hotel…

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Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 6

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench granted the transfer of the following publicans' licenses yesterday:- Club House Hotel, Abercrombie-street, Sydney, from Ruthven A. Young to Walter Ernest Atkins; Duke…

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New Hotel at Coogee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 5

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench, by a majority, yesterday consented to an application by Rodney Davies Whyte for a new hotel at Coogee, at the corner of Arden and Bream…

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New Coogee Hotel

The Sun · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 11
Also in The Daily Telegraph

A decision has been announced in connection with the application for a new hotel licence for proposed premises at the corner of Arden-street…

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Another Hotel for Coogee Bay

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 5

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench yesterday, after lengthy consideration, granted an application for permission to erect another hotel at Coogee Hay…

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Licensed Premises Position of Manager-lessees

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 9

A most important question relating to the position of manager-lessees of hotels and other premises, licensed for the sale of liquor, where they are not…

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In Equity. (Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Harvey.) Lease of Surry Hills Hotel. [?]ooth and Co., Ltd. v Coombes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 12

Hearing was commenced of the suit of Tooth and Co., Ltd. against William Charles Coombes, in which the plaintiffs asked, among other things, for a declaration that they had…

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An Unusual Case Wine Licensees and Compensation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 4

A somewhat unusual case, stated by the Licenses Reduction Board, tinder section 28 of the Liquor (Amendment) Act of 1919, for the opinion of the…

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EQUITY (Before the Chief Judge. Mr. Justice Harvey.) Surry Hills Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 March 1925 · page 4

In the suit, begun before his Honor by Tooth and Co., Ltd., against William Charles Coombes the plaintiffs asked, among other things, for a declaration…

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In Equity. (Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Harvey.) Lease of Burry Hills Hotel. Tooth and Co., Ltd., v Coombes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 6

Hearing was concluded of the suit of Tooth and Co., Ltd., against William Charles Coombes, in which the plaintiffs asked, among other things, for a declaration that they had…

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Wireless Licenses. More Than 13,000 in Victoria Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 March 1925 · page 10

Since the Postal Department instituted legal proceedings against listeners-in who had failed to pay the license fees the number of licenses issued in Victoria has…

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