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Hotels & licensing, 1925

1,100 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 55

License Suspended "Not Used to Drink"

Evening News · Thursday 16 July 1925 · page 7

On a charge of having driven a motor cycle along Newland-street, Waveley, at 6.15 p.m. on July 11. while he was under the influence of…

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Hotel Prospect, Prospect

The Catholic Press · Thursday 16 July 1925 · page 35

Mr. Thomas Williams, late of the New Brighton Hotel, Manly, and of Glen Innes. har taken over the Hotel Prospect, formerly the Prospect Inn at Prospect, and…

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Woman Assaulted. in City Hotel. 12 Months' Imprisonment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 July 1925 · page 13

A story of violent assault on a woman by a man, in a city hotel, on Tuesday evening, was related at the Central Police Court yesterday, when Arthur Newman, aged 36 years, a…

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Melbourne Hotel. Conduct Questioned. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 July 1925 · page 8

The Licensing Court, which is considering a reduction of the number of licenses in the Collingwood district, to-day heard evidence regarding the Londonderry Hotel, the licensce…

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Radio Notes Costly License Fees the Trade Slump

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 13

Traders in wireless blame the high cost of radio license fees to a large extent, for the marked depression in the trade, and a petition signed by…

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Law Report. in Chambers. (Before Mr. Justice Ralston.) Booth Licensee Convicted. Ex parte Doyle, prohibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 8

An ex parte application was made on behalf of P. T. Doyle, licensee of the Royal Albert Hotel, Commonwealth-street. Sydney, for a rule nisi for prohibition to restrain…

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Hotel Metropole, Limited

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 July 1925 · page 13

Hotel Metropole, Ltd., in its annual report for the year ended June 30, shows a profit of £19,446, compared with £19,212 for the previous year. A dividend of 10 per cent.,…

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Indirectly Asked. a member of the tramp fraternity visited a public-house. The kind-hearted publican, wishing to take a rise out of him. said:—

The World's News · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 6

"Well, my man, what sort of trade are you?" "Begorra, Sir," replied the tramp. "I'm a journeyman drunkard out of employment…

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More Blankets P.M. Shivers in Hotel Bed Police Take Action Lithgow

The Sun · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 9

Mr. A. E. Prior, Lithgow's visiting Police Magistrate, has to travel a good deal, and, in the past, he has often shivered when attempting to…

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Hotel Trading Hours

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 4

Sir,--A correspondent, signing himself "Hotelkeeper" writes considering that it was time that the hotels were allowed to be open later…

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Hotel "Barber" Wagga

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 5

A stranger looked a room at the Federal Hotel, and went to bed early in the evening. In the morning he could not be round. Two blankets…

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General News Quick Work Thieves Raid Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 4

DUBBO. -- While the guests were at tea on Thursday thieves visited all the principal hotels in the town, and stole articles of jewellery and money from…

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The Hotel Domain Sydney's Thames Embankment I.

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 July 1925 · page 10

For years and years the outsider has thought of Woolloomooloo at night as a sort of seething cauldron of crime and license, where anything of a lawless…

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BOOKMAKERS Tas. Police Want Limited Number Licensed HOBART

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 July 1925 · page 1

At the third annual conference of the Tasmanian Police Association, the matter of licensing bookmakers came up for discussion, and Sergt. Kirkham…

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Old Sydney An Historic Corner — The Old Club House Hotel—A Picturesque Building—The Bennetts of Tom Ugly's Point—A Famous Old Parrot

Truth · Sunday 19 July 1925 · page 20

One of the most popular buildings at the intersection of Hunter, Bligh and Castlereagh streets in the forties was the Club House Hotel…

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Two Girls, Two Bedrooms, and One Man Peculiar Predicament They Participated in at Hotel One Night at Newcastle Business Manager in Trouble

Truth · Sunday 19 July 1925 · page 11

HUMAN frailties land many people in dire predicaments. Sometimes the victims of these frailties have only themselves to blame for their plights; sometimes they are unfortunates whom the wheel of fate has rolled into an incriminating maze, from which they find it difficult to extricate themselves…

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Why License was Missing

Truth · Sunday 19 July 1925 · page 13

"WHERE is your license?" asked the deposition clerk at Burwood Court on Tuesday, after William Relton had been fined…

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Unwelcome Guest at the Cafe Francaise Licensee's Wife Thrown Down the Stairs by Desperate Intruder

Truth · Sunday 19 July 1925 · page 8

WHEN Mrs. Rath Thompson, wife of the licensee of the Cafe Francaise, wandered into her bedroom on…

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Not Missed Americans and Liquor Hotels Pay Without It Victoria (B.c.), July 17

The Sun · Sunday 19 July 1925 · page 1

Messrs. William Proud and Fred Burley, of Sydney, who attended the world Rotary Club Convention at Cleveland, are returning by the…

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Transfers Granted Publicans' Licenses

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 21 July 1925 · page 6

The following transfers of publican licenses were granted yesterday by the Metropolitan Licensing Bench: Royal Oak Hotel, Curtis [?]d,…

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