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Hotels & licensing, 1925

1,100 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 55

Innocence Abroad. Liberties with English Hotel Notices

The Sun · Thursday 10 December 1925 · page 19

As a student of hotel notices in various parts of the world, I have often longed to have H. M. Bateman or Heath Robinson to illustrate some of…

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Missing Publican Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Thursday 10 December 1925 · page 2

Charles Frank Mathieson, 45. hotelkeeper of Broken Hill, while paying a visit to Adelaide, disappeared. He booked a room at the Grand Coffee…

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Carlton Hotel, Limited

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 December 1925 · page 13

The report of the Carlton Hotel, Limited, for the year ended October 31, discloses a net profit of £7630, after providing for taxation and depreciation, as against £3118 for…

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Woman Falls 60 Feet From Hotel Window Walks to Ambulance

The Labor Daily · Friday 11 December 1925 · page 1

Florence May Anderson, 32, of Tintern 'Road, Ashfield, after cashing nearly sixty feet from a window at the Creacent Hotel,…

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Licensing Wool Dealers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 December 1925 · page 19

A deputation will wait on the Minister for Agriculture next Wednesday to ask that legislation be introduced for the compulsory registration of stock…

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Doctor Mobbs Doctors the Mob! Battle Against Odds in Elizabeth-St. Hotel

Truth · Sunday 13 December 1925 · page 13

STANLEY WEYMAN, the author of many a delightful swashbuckling hero, never quenched his thirst in the Hyde Park Hotel, or he might have given the world another breathless tale of tavern bullies and doughty battlers fighting in the…

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Hotels--or Hovels ?

The Sun · Sunday 13 December 1925 · page 3

Licensees of hotels are not necessarily students of our older literature, but some seem to hold that their guests are all of the type described in…

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Haul of Spirits Two Hotels Raided

Evening News · Monday 14 December 1925 · page 9

A quantity of spl[?]s was stolen from two hotels during the week end. A [?] who [?] the A.L.C. H[?] Alf[?] cord. Ranowtch week…

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Died at His Hotel

Evening News · Tuesday 15 December 1925 · page 7

Denis Cortege, 45, proprictor of the Three Crown's Hotel, York, and Grosvenor streets, city, collapsed near his hotel this morning. The Central…

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Park St. Hotel a Question of Policy

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 December 1925 · page 7

Apropos of the City Council's resolve to rebuild the Coronation Hotel, in the centre of the remodelled Park Street section, between George and Pitt…

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A Drink Question Duty of Licensees

Evening News · Wednesday 16 December 1925 · page 6

Reference to "grasping licenses" was made in the Legislative Assembly to-day by Mr. Aldis in the course of a question addressed to the Chief…

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Collapsed and Died Hotel Proprietor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 December 1925 · page 9

Mr. Dennis Cortese. aged 45, the proprietor of tho Three Crown Hotel, at the corner of York and Grosvenor Streets, City, collapsed near the hotel…

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The Old Hotel Sundowner's Regret Bathurst

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 December 1925 · page 4

"A fortnight ago some 15 clergy were robing in what used to be a bar, and two bishops and an archbishop were in a one-time select private…

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Scenery on Hotel Shelves Goulburn

Evening News · Thursday 17 December 1925 · page 12

MR. E. A. EETTS, president of the Goulburn Chamber of Commerce, wants to have Goulburn labelled. He suggested at the monthly meeting last…

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Licensee's Application Refused. Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 December 1925 · page 12

An application by Lillian Annie White, licensee of the Carrington Hotel, West Maitland, for the removal of the liconse to premises proposed to be erected at the corner of…

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"Flagrant Perjury" S.m. Commits, Woman Liquor Without License

The Sun · Thursday 17 December 1925 · page 15

"I'm going to commit her for trial for perjury. It is the most flagrant perjury I ever heard in court." Mr. Macdougall, relieving S.M.,…

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Licensing of Restaurants. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 December 1925 · page 8

Sir,—In your issue of 15th Inst. Mr. Murdooh, M.L.C., criticises the City Council on their neglect to license restaurants, cafes, etc., and states that it is an urgent matter,…

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Money at Colombo Clerk's Hotel Bill

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 December 1925 · page 7

"I HAVE money waiting at Colombo, but haven't the means to cable for it. If a cable could be sent it would be quite all…

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Exchange Hotel Proposed Improvements

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 December 1925 · page 11

In an originating summons, Air. Justice Harvey, in Equity, was asked to determine, among other things, whether the devise of the Exchange Hotel,…

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Equity the Exchange Hotel. (Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Harvey.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 December 1925 · page 11

A report of this mailer appears in another column. Mr. J. M. Sanderg (instructed by Mr. L. S. Wootcott) appeared for the…

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