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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

1,153 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 58

Radio Music. Not Permissible in Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 June 1926 · page 9

Questions relating to the use of radio on licensed premises are again engaging attention, in view of the activities of the broadcasting stations in giving sporting information…

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Coronation Hotel. Suggested Site for Library

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 June 1926 · page 10

The City Council has appointed a special committee to consider and report on the advisability or using the valuable land in the central portion of Park-street, between…

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Sale of an Hotel Commission Claim

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 June 1926 · page 7

An action was brought before the Chief Justice the Banco Court yesterday by Thomas Gerald Fitzgerald against Charles E. Greaves, to recover…

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Licensing Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 6

At Ryde Police Court on 22nd instant, Mr. G. S. Shepherd, Stipendiary Magistrate, renewed the license of the various hotels in the district, the police report…

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License Suspended

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 9

Norman Mason, at the Parramatta Police Court on Wednesday, pleaded guilty to a charge of having driven a motor car while under the influence of intoxicating…

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Law Report. Banco Jury Causes. (Before the Chief Justice and Juries.) Sale of Forbes Hotel. Fitzgerald v Greaves

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 8

Thomas Gerald Fitzgerald sued in this action to recover £236/6/ commission from Charles E. Greaves, which he alleged was due to him in respect of the sale of the…

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Benzine Iron Blows Up Beach Hotel Damaged Coff's Harbor

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 3

A terrific explosion occurred at Beach House Hotel this morning. Mrs. Berne, wife of the licensee, left for a few minutes the room where she…

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Sale of an Hotel Commission Claim

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 June 1926 · page 15

The hearing was concluded of the action brought before the Chief Justice in the Banco Court yesterday by Thomas Gerald Fitzgerald…

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Who Bets S.P. for You? Butcher, Liftman and Bank Clerk Who Book Wagers Hotel Rouseabout's £1000 a Year!

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 26 June 1926 · page 5

THE SCENE IS A CITY LIFT. Enter a tenant who on the way to his floor hands the liftman a sum of money and remarks, "Good Boy." TO THE UNINITIATED it looks like a tip, it is nothing of the…

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Sport by Radio in Hotel Bars Now Declared Legal

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 June 1926 · page 4

THE Crown Law Office has decided that hotel licences may use a radio act Coud speaker or headphones) in any part of their…

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A Scone Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 June 1926 · page 9

The suit of William Joseph Bowen against Tooth and Co., Ltd., was again before Mr. Acting-Justice Davidson, in the No. 2 Equity Court yesterday,…

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Park Street Coronation Hotel Site Aldermen Surprised

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 June 1926 · page 18

The Coronation Hotel, when re-erected, will have a Park Street frontage 22ft. shorter than the present one. That area was sold with an…

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Proposed Hotel to Be Erected at Collaroy, N.s.w., for Capt. J. Robertson

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 June 1926 · page 5

This hotel is being named after a well-known hotel in Honolulu—The Moana—and it is anticipated to run it on a somewhat similar high standard. In the general layout of the hotel, the architects—Messrs. Prevost,…

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Her Fourth Marriage Mae Murray Obtains a License Los Angeles

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 June 1926 · page 1

Mae Murray, aged 33 years, and David Diva[?], aged 27, an artist and a native of the Georgian Republic, obtained a license on Friday, It is…

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Drivers' Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 June 1926 · page 5

The N R.M.A recently approached the Traffic Department with a request that the regulation governing the production of his license by a motorist on demand by a polic"…

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Forty to Go Melbourne Hotels MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 June 1926 · page 11

The Licensing Court to-day decided that 40 hotels in the licensing districts of Albert Park, Port Melbourne. Prahran, St. Kilda, Williamstown,…

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Ex-hotelkeeper's Bankruptcy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 June 1926 · page 12

Examined by Mr. C. F. W. Lloyd, official assignee, before the Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. N. C. Lockhart) to-day, Thomas Patrick Coffey stated that be had been a botelkeeper…

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Hotel Manager's Salary Application in Divorce

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 June 1926 · page 3

Mr. Justice Owen, in the Divorce Court yesterday, held that he had the power to increase permanent alimony allowed on dissolution of a marriage…

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Robbed of Money Ex-Hotel-keeper's Failure

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 June 1926 · page 5

The affairs of Thomas Patrick Coffey, formerly licensee of the Macq[?]irie Hotel, Wentworth Avenue, city, were investigated before the Registrar…

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Hotel License at Ramsgate. Meeting in Opposition

The St George Call · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 5

The attempt "that is being made to. obtain an Hotel license at Ramsgate has aroused determined opposition. In this, the local Women’s Christian…

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