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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

1,153 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 58

Armed Youth. Hotel Lodger's Story

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 June 1926 · page 10

An allegation that a 16-year-old boy had prevented him from entering his bedroom at the Club House Hotel, Abercrombie-street. city, by pointing a revolver at him, was made…

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"Sent by Gods" Money From Widow Publican to Pay

Evening News · Wednesday 9 June 1926 · page 12

"YOU ACCEPTED £250 from this widow without say condition whatever, placed it is your bank, and were ready to take as much…

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Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1926 · page 10

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench yesterday granted the following applications for the transfer of hotel licenses:— Adelaide Hotel, Moore Park, Sydney, from Gordon…

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Hawkers' Licenses

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 9 June 1926 · page 4

The reduction of hawkers' licenses will be considered at next meeting of the Finance Committee. Aid Shannon, at last night's, meeting, drew…

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Fined £3 'Couldn't Catch Up at 50 P.h.' Publican's Car

The Sun · Thursday 10 June 1926 · page 13

Charged with dangerous driving in Pittwater-road, Dee Why, on May 2, Arthur James Costin, keeper of the Markets Hotel, Haymarket, was fined…

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£10,000 Claim Engineer's Complaint Hotel Mansions Sued

The Sun · Thursday 10 June 1926 · page 2

A claim for £10,000 damages for alleged wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution to-day engaged the attention of Mr. Justice James and a…

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Goldfields Crime Two Men Arrested Hotelkeeper and Barman KALGOORLIE

The Land · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 7

Great excitement was caused to-day when it became known that two arrests had been made in connection with the Kalgoorlie tragedy. Abqut 1 o'clock this afternoon the licensee of an hotel at…

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NO. 2 Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice James and juries.) Plaintiff Nonsuited. Moir v Hotel Mansions, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 June 1926 · page 8

An action for alleged wrongful Imprisonment and malicious prosecution, in which damages wera laid at £10,000, was brought by Alexander Joseph Moir, an engineer, of New…

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Goldfields Man Hunt Has Sensational Climax Boulder Publican and His Barman Arrested the Stabbing of a Man Who Knows Too Much

Truth · Sunday 13 June 1926 · page 18

HAS the solution of the mystery surrounding the murders of Detective— Inspector Walsh, and Detective-Sergeant Pitman been found at last? THE licensee of a Boulder hotel, and his barman have been arrested and charged with the murder of Walsh, and the…

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Hotel Mansions Sued for £20,000 Guests from New Zealand Get Gusty Judge's Comment on Manager's Action

Truth · Sunday 13 June 1926 · page 15

THE Hotel Mansions in Bayswater Road, controlled by the Joynton Smith Trust, figured as defendant in two claims of £10,000 each in the Supreme Court this week when two New Zealand visitors, Alexander Joseph Moir and his wife, took…

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Hotel License Transferred. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 12

At a meeting of the Licensing Benrh, C. P. Hausen was granted permission to transfer tge license of the Mount Keira Hotel, Figtree, to modern premises, which it is…

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Employee's Meals Hotel Appeal Is Upheld

Evening News · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 8

The Industrial Commissioner, Mr. Piddington, upheld an appeal by the Cooges Bay Hotel. Ltd., to-day, from a decision by the Chief Industrial…

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Here and There Fire at Hotel

The Sun · Monday 14 June 1926 · page 15

A fire broke out in a laundry on the top floor of the Waratah Hotel, on the corner of Bayswater- road and Woolcott- street, Darlinghurst, at 9…

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Motorist Fined Another License Suspended

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1926 · page 1

"I don't drink as a rule; but I had a few friends out, and I went over the odds." So said Edward Roy Haines at the…

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Hotel Diners. Liquor with Meals. High Court Appeal. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1926 · page 9

Hugh Claude Stitt, State superintendent in New South Wales for the Prohibition party, some months ago entered the dining-room of Tattersalls Hotel, in Sydney, and ordered…

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Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 June 1926 · page 7

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench granted the following applications for the transfer of hotel licenses at its sitting yesterday:— Golden Grove Hotel, Alma and Raglan streets,…

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Objections to Licenses Greg. McGIRR'S Hotels Bathurst

The Sun · Wednesday 16 June 1926 · page 2

On the grounds that, in both cases, necessary improvements had not been effected, objection was raised at the Buthurst Licensing Court to-day to…

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Coronation Hotel. Rebuilding Objected To. Estimated Loss £3000 a Year

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 June 1926 · page 14

The Labour party unanimously voted, at the works committee meeting of the City Council yesterday, against a proposal by Alderman Walder (Reform) that estimates…

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Nigger in Woodpile? Reformers and Hotel Ald. Clapham's Bomb

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 16 June 1926 · page 5

Charges of hypocrisy were levelled by Ald. Clapham against Civic Reform aldermen, at the Works Committee meeting yesterday, owing to the…

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Coronation Hotel Re-erection Opposed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 June 1926 · page 10

Another assault on the Labor aldermen's plan to raise a new Coronation Hotel on its land in Park Street, after the present building has been…

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