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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

1,153 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 58

A Country Girl's Tragic End Body Found in Bedroom of Adelaide Hotel Alice Kerr Charged with Murder

Truth · Sunday 4 April 1926 · page 15

HUSHED silence broods over the little town of Riverton (S.A.), for the news is still fresh of the tragedy of Doris Keast, who left her home town to meet death in an Adelaide hotel. ALL who knew Doris Lilian Keast loved her for her bright and…

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Took More Than Mountain Air Hotel Thieves Busy

Evening News · Monday 5 April 1926 · page 3

Among the large number of people who visit the Mountains for the Easter holidays were many thieves from the City, who have…

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WIRELESS. Trans-Pacific Tests. Wireless Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 April 1926 · page 5

The Postmnster-General (Mr. Gibson) whe[?] in Sydney last week stated that the reduction which had taken place in the number of wirslers licenses in New South Wales in…

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Man Races Dog— Ancient "Hotel Collapses"

Evening News · Tuesday 6 April 1926 · page 14

MAN v. DOG.— At Los Angeles, U. S.A., a unique race was Staged between Ktith Lloyd, well-known sprinter, and a whippet dog. Lloyd won the 75 yards dash by eleven yards. £20,000 WORTH OF INSTRUMENTS,— A complete quartette of Stradivarius instrument, the property of Mr. H. N. Strauss, of New York…

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Motor Smash One Killed, Four Injured Car Crashes Into Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 April 1926 · page 1

A man was killed and four people were injured seriously in a motor smash in the city early this morning. The car was travelling along…

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Drunk in Motor License Suspended

Evening News · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 11

Charged with having been under[?] of intoxicating liquor [?] a motor car in Prince's High [?] Arncliffe, Ralph Loftus French…

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Bribery Charges Police and Hotelkeeper Adelaide

The Sun · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 17

The Bribery Commission to inquire into the allegations against the police, probably will open next week. Inspector Nation has been called from his…

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Famous Hotel Gone Sir F. Heath Runs Victoria (B.c.)

The Sun · Thursday 8 April 1926 · page 1

The Banff Hotel, a famous resort in the Canadian Rockies, was burned down this morning. Sir Frank Health, the British…

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Historic License Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 April 1926 · page 1

The new hotel recently opened at Kitchener provided for the continuance of an historic license transferred from the old Central Hotel at Morpeth…

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Orient Hotel Sold

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 2

Mr. T. Hailstone, who, only quite recently, took over the Orient Hotel at Emu, has disposed of his interests to Mr. W. Hill, of Orange…

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My Life Story Quest for a New Racecourse -- I Have a Hunch--£125 an Acre for a Swamp--Buying Sydney's First Water Supply--Become my Own Engineer--Fight for a License--How I Discomfited my Opponents

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 14

HOW to find another racecourse and how to get a change of venue from Epping to it, so that I might continue in the game, was now my…

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Hotel Gets Injunction Noises at Night

The Labor Daily · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 7

Mr. Justice Long-Innes, sitting in Equity, yesterday granted an injunction till Wednesday next, restraining Arthur Hancock, of Scott street…

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In Equity. (Before Mr. Justice Long I[?] an Alleged Nuisance. Great Northern Hotel Co., Ltd., v Hancock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 12

This was an ex parts application by Mr. Ernost W. Street [?] by Messrs. A. A. Rankin and [?] of Newcastle, by their Syndey a[?] Messrs, Minster,…

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Driver's License. Suspended at Epping. a Sensational Win

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 15

Patrons of trotting have become accustomed to interesting interiudes at metropoiltan meeting. but at the New South Wales club's meeting on the Epping…

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Hotel Bars Violate Law Which Requires Washing of Glasses

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 April 1926 · page 3

Six of every dozen hotel licensees in Sydney daily flagrantly break the Pure Food regulations by not seeing to it that their employees wash in running…

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The Compleat Hotel Pool and Gymnasium

Evening News · Monday 12 April 1926 · page 11

A six-[?] apartment hotel, the [?] and of which will be 1,250,000 [?] is to be [?] on Bedford [?] New York…

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Publican Abrested. Struggle with Police. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 April 1926 · page 12

When the police were called to a hotel in Collingwood on Saturday night by the wife of the licensee, they were met at the door by the [?]nsce himself, John Leonard…

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Whose Was the Whisky? Dewar's and Licensee Injunction Sought

Evening News · Tuesday 13 April 1926 · page 7

BEFORE Mr. Justice Long Innes, in the Equity Court to-day John Dewar and sons, Limited sought an interim injunction to restrain…

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Unwelcome Stranger at Hotel Australia

Evening News · Tuesday 13 April 1926 · page 7

MR. A. G. HENDERSON, a bank manger who is on a visit to Sydney from New Zealand, on opening Dig door of has room at the Hotel…

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Quarter Sessions Appeals. Publican's Application

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 April 1926 · page 6

John Laurence Flynn, licensee of the Central Courthouse Hotel, George and Liverpool Btreets, Sydney, appealed against his conviction bv Mr. H. H. MacDougall. R.S.M.. at the…

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