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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

1,153 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 58

Wild Scene. in a Hotel. Fight with Mounted Man. Foster (Vic.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1926 · page 10

A sensation was created here last night when a man rode down from the bills surrounding the township and created a disturbance in the Exchange Hotel. He rode his horse in to the…

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Hotel Theft

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1926 · page 9

Five diamond rings, valued at £200, were missed from the Hotel Sydney early yesterday morning. They were the property of Mrs. Alice White, who is staying at the hotel…

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Park-street. Erection of a Hotel. Council's Resolution

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1926 · page 8

Alderman Walder, at the finance committee of the City Council yesterday, asked that before offers were accepted for the proposed Coronation Hotel, in the resumed area of…

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Wild Fight Man Rides Into Room Constable Chased Riot in an Hotel Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 3 June 1926 · page 14

A vicious hotel brawl, a constable backing the crowd at revolver point, an assault on a constable from the rear, shots, a threat to blow the…

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Hotel Garages

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 15

The N.R.M.A. has been active in the matter of having adequate garaging facilities provided at country hotels, catering for tourist traffic, as it has been…

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New Hotels. North Sydney and Earlwood. Proposals Refused

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 12

The licensing magistrates, Messrs. F. G. Adrian (chairman), and W. Le Brun Brown and W. S. Arnott, after a protracted hearing at the Parramatta Licensing Court on Tuesday…

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PARK-STREET. Coronation Hotel Scheme. Opposed by Reformers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 June 1926 · page 12

Alderman Walder said yesterday that the Reform aldermen would object to the decision of the Labour caucus to re-erect the Coronation Hotel in the centre of the resumed…

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License Transferred

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 1

AT Penrith Licensing Court, on Monday, the license of the Federal Hotel, Penrith, was transferred from Herbert Mandelson Davis to Ernest…

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"Hard on Butchers" New Licensing Fee Discussed by St. Marys Council

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 1

Aldermen at St. Marys Council, at their meeting on Monday evening, espoused the cause of the local slaughtering butchers with…

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St. Marys Council Petrol Pumps Licensed

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 6

The regular monthly meeting of St. Marys Council was held on Monday evening, when there were present:—The Mayor (Ald. T. W. Brooker) and…

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The Forum-- and Agin-um Devoted to the Terse Discussion of Claims, Grudges, Grievances, and Complaints. Cheap Hotel Sites

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 21

IN W.A. a Government servant can own half-a-dozen hotels by choosing sites when townships are surveyed. He gets the picked block at…

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At the Hotel Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 June 1926 · page 2

Miss Ruby Egan entertained a party in the winter garden of the Hotel Australia on Thursday afternoon. Her guests included Mrs. Claude Rutter,…

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Driving License Test Severe in Germany

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 June 1926 · page 14

It is no simple little formality to get a driver's license in Germany. Every applicant must first take a three-months' course in a driver's school, then he must…

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Tale of a Ticker Taken in Xypos' Hic—hotel Even a Boiler Sealer May Carry a Lawyer's Brief in His Mouth Jensen's Joke Proves a Boomerang

Truth · Sunday 6 June 1926 · page 21

"I DID not take it, I never saw it, and I did not know it was gone" declared Alfred Ranger, boiler sealer, when defending himself at the Central Police Court on Thursday on a charge that implicated him in the theft of a watch…

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Liquor and License Gay Girls Entertain Guests for a Consideration

Truth · Sunday 6 June 1926 · page 11

SYDNEY has the reputation of giving the country visitor more surprises than he thought possible. There is a hotel right in the heart of Sydney which gives even the hard boiled native some distinct shocks…

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Goldfields Horror Two Men Arrested Licensee; Barman Grisly Find in Shaft Charge of Murder Perth

Evening News · Monday 7 June 1926 · page 9

TWO MEN were arrested yesterday, and charged with the wilful murder of Inspector Walsh, whose body, together with that…

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Designed in New York Tall Paris Hotel

Evening News · Monday 7 June 1926 · page 11

The [?]scraper hotel to be [?] in Paris will be designed in New [?] Major David M. O[?] engineer and builder, has [?]…

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Alleged Murderer Chats and Plays Billiards Hotelkeeper's Story "Unflurried and Calm" Perth

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 June 1926 · page 6

Royston Rennie, who was charged with killing John Roger Greville. bank employee, last Thursday afternoon in a train travelling between Maylands…

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Dramatic Turn in W.A. Murders Two Arrests Publican and His Barman Boulder Sensation Perth

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 June 1926 · page 1

Detectives to-day arrested Evan Clarke, licensee of the Cornwall Hotel, Boulder, and his barman, Phillip Triffene, on the charge of…

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Goldfields Crime Two Men Arrested Hotelkeeper and Barman KALGOORLIE

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 June 1926 · page 1

Great excitement was caused today when it became known that two arrests had been made in connection with the Kalgoorlie…

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