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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

1,153 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 58

Country Hotels Twelve Delicensed Murrumbidgee Electorate

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 September 1926 · page 2

The N.S.W. Licenses Reduction Board, at its sittings last week, announced the names of twelve hotels in the Murrumbidgee electorate that…

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1,644,325 Licensed Receivers in Great Britain

The World's News · Saturday 4 September 1926 · page 19

Although there are a number of "radio pirates," whose failure to secure a license would decrease the official total of British radio fans, there have been, nevertheless,…

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Hotel Burnt Outlived Its Day Murwillumbah

The Sun · Saturday 4 September 1926 · page 3

The Junction Inn, North Tumbulgum, owned by Mrs. M. McLeod, of Tumbulgum and Mr. P. Logan, of East Murwillumbah, has been burnt to…

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Big Sydney Hotel Built on a Raft Architects Strike A Subterranean Tide

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 September 1926 · page 3

IF Sydney architects cared to they could say that the City's traffic confusion could be lessened by a fleet of subterranean gondolas…

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Fighting Bob Hankinson Hotel Rouseabout to Riverina King

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 September 1926 · page 13

WITH a big storekeeping business at its peak, a fine home, a heap of property, and sitting on a fortune, Bob Hankinson, Narrandera's Mayor and town pusher, is able to lake his family on a European tour every five years…

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Featureless Poll in Queensland Hotels Open, But No Spirit Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 September 1926 · page 5

There was no sign of animation or enthusiasm in connection with the Referendum Poll yesterday. The quiet that prevailed at the…

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Licenses for Horse and Bullock Drivers

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 September 1926 · page 9

Sir,--This day I had to part with 10 for a motor driver's license. This Is to show that I can drive. a car, and each year I do the same kind of…

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General News Tweed Landmark Old Hotel Burned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 September 1926 · page 11

MURWILLUMBAH --The Junction Inn, North Tumbulgum, owned by Mrs. M. M'Leod,' of Tumbulgum, and Mr. P. Logan, of East Murwillumbah,…

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Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 September 1926 · page 8
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench yesterday granted an application for the transfer of the publican's license at St. Leonards Hotel, Crow's Nest, from Michael Skehan to Percy Joseph Skeban…

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License Suspended Car Collides with Sulky Magistrate Quotes Doctor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1926 · page 1

"Did you see what Dr. Pockley said at a meeting of the N.R.M.A." Magistrate Shepherd thus questioned Solicitor Kemp at the Parramatta…

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Hotel for £9900

Evening News · Tuesday 7 September 1926 · page 10

The Royal Oak Hotel at the corner of Erekine and Sussex street, was sold to-day Tooth and Co., Ltd, for £9900. S. C. Smith and Co., offered…

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On the Outer Jockey Can Get Neither A.R.C. Nor AJ.C. License Political Pressure

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 7 September 1926 · page 2

A CURIOUS position has arisen over Jockey Barney Hayes's attempt to get a license from the A.J.C. UP till about eight months ago Hayes was one of the leading pony jockeys, but he relinquished his connection with the…

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Hotel Proposed to Be Built on Bulli Pass (N.s.w.) H. E. Ross and Rowe, Architects

Construction and Local Government Journal · Wednesday 8 September 1926 · page 7

This is to be built upon the splendidly placed area owned by Captain Maer facing Prince's Highway on Bulli Pass which is being taken over by a new company, the Bulli Pass Land Company Ltd…

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Evicted Waitresses Throw Up Their Jobs Canberra Hotel

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 September 1926 · page 5

Ah the result of their mistreatment at the Government hostel at Canberra last week six of the twelve waitresses employed there…

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A Country Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 September 1926 · page 11

Catherine Edith Hardman brought an action before Mr. Justice Gordon in the Banco Court yesterday, against Arthur, Lvthgow M'Leod to recover…

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Supreme Court. Banco Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Gordon and juries.) Hotel at Narrabri. Hardman v. McL[?]d

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 September 1926 · page 8

In this action Catherine Edith Hardman sued Arthur Lythgow McLeod, claiming £292/15/11, alleged to be due for goods sold by the plaintiff to the defendant in connection with the…

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Can't Sleep N.z. Interjectors Worry Gipsy Arrest Them" He Blames Publicans

The Sun · Thursday 9 September 1926 · page 5

Gipsy Smith says that because of interruptions by his New Zealand audiences he has not slept properly for four…

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A Country Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 September 1926 · page 11

In the action in which Catherine Edith Hardman sued, before Mr. Justice Gordon, in the Banco Court yesterday, Arthur Lythgow M'Leod to…

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Liquor Laws. Alliance Campaign. Hotel Licensee Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 September 1926 · page 12

Crawford Vaughan, formerly Premier of South Australia, and now secretary of the Professional Business Men's Prohibition League, proceeded against Mrs. Hanna…

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