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Hotels & licensing, 1926

1,153 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 58

Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 December 1926 · page 8
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Compensation Sittings. Murrumbidgee Electorate At the Water Police Court Phillip street, Sidney, at 10 a.m.—On Monday December 13, 1926, the Board will announce its determination in regard to the…

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Wireless. Licenses Cancelled. Over 2000 Last Month. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 December 1926 · page 12

Investigations made by the Postmaster-General's Department with a view to discovering the cause of the large number of cancellations of wireless receiving set licenses…

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Fewer Hotels Murrumbidgee Reductions

The Sun · Monday 13 December 1926 · page 11

Many hotels in the Murrumbidgee electorate are to be deprived of their licences. The Licences Reduction Board…

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Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 December 1926 · page 7

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench granted the following transfers of publicans licenses yesterdat:— Camelia Grove Hotel, Alexandria, from Alfred Flakelar to Manns P. Hefferman; Erskineville Hotel,…

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Licenses Cancelled. Compensation Awarded. Murrumbidgee Electorate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 December 1926 · page 12

The Licenses Reduction Board yesterday announced that it had been decided to award compensation in respect of the following hotels and wine saloons in the Murrumbidgee…

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Cyclist Hits Car Nearly Kills Wife License Suspended

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 December 1926 · page 6

Crashed into a motor car. Nearly killed his wife and child. License suspended for three ! months…

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Company Accounts Carlton Hotel Ltd

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 December 1926 · page 8

Carlton Hotel, Ltd., accounts for year ended October 31 last, show net profit of £9706. an improvement of over £2000 upon the previous year's…

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Fowler Charged Detectives' Case Hotel Incident Tale Melbourne

Evening News · Wednesday 15 December 1926 · page 14

ECHOES of the police conspiracy case, which sent three detectives to gaol, were board in the City Court to-day, when Waiter Rufus…

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Took Wife's Car Had Lost His License

Evening News · Wednesday 15 December 1926 · page 14

John Augustine Gerrard, of Glenayr-avenue, Bondi, was fined £5 at Newtown Court to-day for having driven a motor car without a license…

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Vested Interests "Board Mustn't Heed" in Licensing Cases

Evening News · Wednesday 15 December 1926 · page 14

THAT the Licensing Reduction Board could not ignore altogether vested interests and public opinion, was the submission of Mr…

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Licensed Bookmakers Tasmanian Proposal Defeated Hobart

The Sun · Wednesday 15 December 1926 · page 11

The proposal to license bookmakers in Tasmania has been defeated by one vote in the Legislative Council. The motion for the second reading…

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Wine License Objections to Transfer "Vested Interests"

The Sun · Wednesday 15 December 1926 · page 19

That the Licenses Reduction Board, in ignoring both vested interests and public opinion, had properly fulfilled its duties, was the opinion expressed by…

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Hotel Declared "Black" CAIRNS

The Sun · Wednesday 15 December 1926 · page 2

The Royal Hotel, on the water front, which is the chief hotel for waterside trade, has been declared "black" by a section of the Cairns watersiders…

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Another License Goes

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 15 December 1926 · page 6

George Mossman. 30 contractor was fined £5 and had his licences suspended for three months by Mr. macdongall. S.M., at the Gentral Police Court…

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Drunken Driver in Smash License Suspended

Evening News · Thursday 16 December 1926 · page 13

AS a sequel to a collision between two card on the Woodville-road on the night of December 5, in which a little boy was injured Reginald…

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Gunbar Hotel Burned. Hay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 December 1926 · page 12

The Gunbar Hotel, on the road from Hay to Hillston, was destroyed by a fire which originated in the laundry, and spread with great rapidity to the main building, which was old…

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A Bourke Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 December 1926 · page 11

An injunction in the Equity Court was granted yesterday by Mr. Justice Long Innes to Monteith Benjamin Meller, restraining his son, Cyril Vance…

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Fish, O! License Refused

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 17 December 1926 · page 2

The application of Mr. Carl Nichus to sell fish from a stand outside the railway sates at Guildford, Merrylands, and Granville, for two or three hours on one day…

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In Equity. (Before the Chief Judge, Mr. Justice Harvey.) a Scone" Hotel. Bowen v Tooth and Co., Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 December 1926 · page 8

A settlement was arrived at in the suit of William Joseph Bowen against Tooth and Co., Ltd., in which the plaintiff asked, among other things, for an injunction restraining the…

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