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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1925

1,100 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 55

No License Hostel at Canberra MELBOURNE

Evening News · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 9

The report that a license has been granted to the hostel at Canberra is denied by the Assistant Secretary of the Home Territories Department…

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The Air Tragedy Pilot Did Not Have License to Fly Refused on Grounds of Ill-health Lynn's Disregard of Warning Before Taking Off "Man Has Only Got to Die Once" Melbourne

Evening News · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 9

COL. BRINSMEAD, Controller of Civil Aviation, said that Thomas Lynn, who, with his housekeeper, Mrs. Hickey, was killed through his plane crashing and catching fire at Orange, had no license to fly…

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Theft From Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 12

The sum of £25 and cheques valued at £60/9/1 were stolen from the Hotel Mansions, Bayswater-road, Darlinghurst, during Tuesday night. They were the property of Sir…

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Supreme Court. Banco Jury Causes. (Before the Chief Justice and jury.) Hotel at Balmain. Clarke v Markwell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 6

The plaintiff in this action, Samuel Clarke, sued to recover from Samuel John Markwell a sum of £2000 as compensation, alleging misrepresentations inducing him to purchase…

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£100 FINE Deprived of License Wine Merchant's Offence

The Sun · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 11

Frederick George Clifton, aged 49, wine merchant and saloon keeper, of Oxford-street, Woollahra, was fined £160 at the Paddington Court. to-day…

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For Marist College the Hotel Robertson Bowral

The Labor Daily · Thursday 30 April 1925 · page 5

The Marist Brothers are at present negotiating for the purchase of the Hotel Robertson property, which was erected last year at a cost of…

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Pilot Had No License the Orange 'Plane Crash "Medically Unfit"

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday. Officials of the Civil Aviation Department stated to-day that Thomas Linn, the pilot of the…

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Fined £100 and License Cancelled

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 May 1925 · page 8

Frederick George Clitsion, wine merchant, of Oxford Street, Paddington, was fined £100 at the local court yesterday, and disqualified from holding a license of…

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How "Squizzy " Got His Job Police Sanction Issue of Flat Clerk's License

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 9

SQUIZZY TAYLOR is now acting as a sliver clerk for a bookmaker on the flat at Richmond, Vic. The Victorian Trotting and Racing Association considered he might want to go straight, and that if he did he certainly ought to…

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Hard Times Hotel's Bad Day

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 9

Taxi-driver John Read told Mr. Pelsl[?]y, S.M. at the Central Police Court yesterday that [?]e drove Rose Rooney, the licensee of the Temple Bar Hotel,…

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Another Hotel for Mr. Greg McGIRR FORBES

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 May 1925 · page 10

Mr. Greg McGirr, the one-time ardent prohibitionist, has added another hotel to his string. His latest acquisition is the Post Office Hotel at…

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Cancellation of License Recommended

Sunday Times · Sunday 3 May 1925 · page 9

The stipendiary stewards were not satisfied with G. Caddy's handling of Sling Camp in the Hurdle Race at Randwick yesterday. After inquiring…

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O=U=T! Caddy in a Bunker His Riding License Withdrawn

Truth · Sunday 3 May 1925 · page 2

JOCKEY C. CADDY fell foul of the A.J.C. stewards at City Tatt's meeting yesterday and as a result he…

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Old Sydney Early Auctioneer, Samuel Lyons — Builder of Famous Terrace — Publican Who Locked His Wife in a Tower — Spurious Will— Forgers Imprisoned — First Attorney-General

Truth · Sunday 3 May 1925 · page 16

ONE of Sydney's early auctioneers was Samuel Lyons, who built Lyons Terrace in Liverpool-street He established a lucrative business on the site of the first Lieutenant-Governor's house in Grosvenor and George Streets, where one of the city's…

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Unusual Alliance Parson and Publican New Coogee Hotel

The Sun · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 7

Parson and publican were forced into a strange alliance in the District Court to-day. Both Were protesting against the…

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Hotel Transfers New Licensees

The Sun · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 11

The Licensing Court, which sat at the Water Police Court to-day, granted hotel license transfers as follow:-- A.S.N. Hotel, George and Argyle streets…

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Big Bar Argue About Hotel Coogee Proposal Court to Decide

Evening News · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 7

The proposed erection of a new [?] at the corner of Carr and [?] streets, Coogee, and the [?] of a publican's [?]…

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Hotel Sydney Damaged a Leaky Roof a Verdict of £237

Evening News · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 7

THIRTY-eight rooms at the Hold Sydney were damaged as a result of water p[?]colating through the flat roof, according to…

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Petrol Under Door Attempt to Burn Hotel Explosion in Night Bathurst

The Sun · Monday 4 May 1925 · page 7

A deliberate attempt to burn down the Gladstone Hotel, Newbridge, was made, at about 2 a.m. yesterday. Mr. E. O'Brien, the licensee, was…

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