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Hotels & licensing, 1925

1,100 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 55

Hotel Licensee's Death. Coff's Harbour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 October 1925 · page 8

Mr. Parker, late licensee of the Lion Hotel, Grafton, was found shot on Friday afternoon. He was travelling to Sydney by "motor car with his four children, and when about 8…

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Hotel Entered. Attempt on Safe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 October 1925 · page 7

The Palace Hotel, at the corner of Flinders and Dowling streets, Darlinghurst, was entered by thieves last evening during the absence of the licensee and his family. The thieves…

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Graziers' Requests No Tax-free Loans Licensing Wool Buyers

The Sun · Tuesday 6 October 1925 · page 15

The Premier (Mr. Lang) told a deputation from the Graziers' Association to-day that he would analyse certain resolutions passed at the…

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Development in Java Murder Property Recovered Hotel Boys Being Questioned Weltevreden, October 5

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 October 1925 · page 1

A half-burnt trunk, belonging to Mrs. Campbell Macfie, who was murdered recently in an hotel at Garoet, has been found, unrobbed,…

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Dwyer As Hotel-keeper

Referee · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 10

The retired unbeaten lightweight champion of Australia, Hughie Dwyer, will, ere this edition goes to press, be mine…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire. Collarenebri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 October 1925 · page 14

A disastrous fire occurred at Pokataroo, resulting in the total destruction of the only hotel there, owned and conducted by Mr. L. Quinlan. The outbreak commenced in the…

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Hotel Accommodation at Lithgow. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 October 1925 · page 16

At the Licensing Court, before Mr. A. E. Prior, S.M., Sergeant Madden said that there was not sufficient accommodation in Lithgow for the travelling public. People frequently…

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Fortunes in a Lease Melbourne Hotel Jumps £43,000 in Seven Years

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 October 1925 · page 9

OWNED by a Sol Green syndicate and leased by Sol. Soloman Pty. Ltd., Phair's Hotel, in Collins Street, Melbourne, changed hands last week,…

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Not Enough Hotels Lithgow's Plight Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Saturday 10 October 1925 · page 6

At the quarterly Licensing Court at Lithgow. Sergeant Madden. Reasing inspector, mentioned that there was not sufficied accoin[?]dation in…

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The Younger Set Australian Abroad Travellers Returning Home: Martin Donohoe's Silver Wedding: Former Sydney Traffic Chief's Views of English Hotels

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 October 1925 · page 15

In the following interesting letter, dated September 1, Miss Isabel, Ramsay, Special Correspondent for "The Sunday Times" at Paris, tells of the movements of very well-known Sydney people. Miss Ramsay, who married Dr. Rudolfe Foa, a prominent Italian…

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Liquor Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 October 1925 · page 6

The following applications for the transfer of publicans' licenses were santioned by the Metropolitan Licensing, Bench yesterday:—Grand Central Railway Hotel, Elizabeth street, Sydney, from Mark Anthony…

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In a Gale Riflemen's Task Hotel Blown Fiat Dust-storms at Anzac Anzac

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 13 October 1925 · page 5

A terrific gale swept the Anzac Range from end to end for several hours to-day. Great driving clouds of dust flung a continuous pall of…

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Big Hauls New York Hotel Robberies Crook's Offer Will Return Lady's Jewels for £20,000

The Sun · Wednesday 14 October 1925 · page 1

Two sensational hotel robberies, in which jewels and cash totalling huge sums were stolen, have occurred in New York within a few days. The latest victim is a brother of the famous Cardinal Merry del Val…

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North Shore's Thirst Hotel Transfer How to Find a Drink

The Sun · Thursday 15 October 1925 · page 11

A learned judge and several counsel in those wigs which suggest. Intellectual profundity sat this morning in earnest consultation on the best way…

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Beers or Beds? Hotels' Functions a Judge's Opinions

Evening News · Thursday 15 October 1925 · page 9

"I CANNOT help thinking." [?] Judge Rolin, in the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court to-day, "that If botch [?] decently kept, and not…

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Is It Charity? Refunds to Hotels Botany's Dilemma

The Sun · Thursday 15 October 1925 · page 11

A peculiar position has arisen at Botany over the refund of rates to hotelkeepers. The Valuer-General increased the value of hotel properties…

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North Shore License

The Labor Daily · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 8

Judge Relin yesterday began the hearing of the appeal of a number of North Sydney residents against a decision of the Metropolitan…

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The Hotel Porter "Sorrell and Son," by Warwick Deeping (Cassell and Co.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 9

Although lacking in many of the finer points of characterisation, this story conveys a profound sense of reality, and possesses a tender human…

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APPEAL (Before Judge Rolin.) a North Sydney Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 October 1925 · page 11

Hearing is part heard of the appeal by a number of North Shore residents against the decision of the Licensing Court, granting to George Barton,…

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