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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1927

1,236 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 62

Country Hotel Commission Claim

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 April 1927 · page 2

Assessing commission on an amended issue, the jury in the ease of George Alfred Burgess and John Maxwell Ryan, trading as Burgess and…

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Couldn't Resist Blamed the Publicans

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 1

A prohibition order against David Ernest Attwood was issued last July. it was supposed to stop him from drinking intoxicating liquor. But it…

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License Suspended Sequel to "Birthday Party"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 1

Walter Graham Ferguson, at the Liverpool Police Court yesterday, pleaded guilty to a charge of having driven a motor-car while under the influence of…

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Battle for Beds Rush on Hotel Bookings Record Easter Busiest for Is Years Predicted

The Sun · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 15

Managers of city hotels to-day confidently predicted that Sydney was about to experience the busiest Easter for 15 years. Four hotels selected at random in the city reported in all 2000 Show week bookings…

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Licensee Fined £30

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 April 1927 · page 7

When a police constable went to the premises of Albert Edward Clarke, wine and spirit merchant, of Sturt Street, Smith Kensington, at 10 o'clock…

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A Strange Hotel Guest

The World's News · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 5

A mountain lion used by [?] company spends a night in a Los Ange (America) hotel…

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Quarter Sessions Appeals. (Before Judge Cohen.). Publican's Appeal Succeeds

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 April 1927 · page 12

Harry Lloyd, licensee of the Britannia Hotel, Cleveland-street, Redfern, appealed against his conviction by Mr. W. A. Flynn, S.M., at the Redfern Police Court, on March 8, 1927,…

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Trotting for Cessnock License Granted Cessnock

The Sun · Sunday 10 April 1927 · page 7

Mr. D. McGilvray, secretary of the Cessnock Sports Club, to-day received advice from the Chief Secretary's Department that a license had been…

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Tied Hotel Dispute Over Sale

The Sun · Monday 11 April 1927 · page 15

Reserved judgment in the case of John Stephen Septime's Tooley against Margaret Jane Gunther was delivered by Mr. Justice Davidson in the Equity…

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License Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 April 1927 · page 17

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday [?] application for the transfer of a publican's lic[?] at the Newmarket Hotel, Elizabeth-street, city, from Ernest J. Harman to Michael F. Toomey, was granted…

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Licensed Victuallers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 April 1927 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The council of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association, elected by the members of the association in the various districts for the ensuing twelve months, is as follows:—…

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Building Under License

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 April 1927 · page 9

A German manufacturing compnny, the Gotha[?] Waggonfabrik, of E[?]nach, has entered into an agreement with the Austin works, under which it will manufacture Dixi…

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"Day's Wages" and Stay at Hotel Bait for Mr. Fraser!

Evening News · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 19

IT was suggested at Lidcombe Council last night that the Chief Railway Commissioner, Mr. Fraser, be invited to Regent's Park…

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Broadcasting. Losses in Western Australia. Fifty Per Cent. Decrease in Licenses. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 13

Dr. J. S. Battye, chairman of the special committee on wireless in Western Australia, told the Wireless Commission to-day that broadcasting in the State, instead of…

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Licensee's Tragic End Perth

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 7

Shortly before noon to-day Fred. Graham, licensee of the Criterion Hotel. Perth, fell headlong from a balcony to the granolithic footpath. He…

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Frampton Case A.J.C. Agrees With Local Body Jockeys Licensed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 April 1927 · page 4

At Goulburn four months ago Frampton was awarded a race on a protest against Prince Lanarkite, and it was not until…

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Hotel Arrest. Man Held by Woman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 April 1927 · page 7

After having been captured and held singlehanded by a woman, a man, alleged to have been found in a hotel at St. Leonards in suspicious circumstances, was arrested there by…

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Trotting License. For Maroubra Speedway

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 April 1927 · page 7

A license authorising trotting at Maroubra Speedway has been approved by the Chief Secretary, on condition that the ground is brought up to the requirements of the Act…

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Hotel Age Super Luxury Houses London Changes London, February 10

The Sun · Sunday 17 April 1927 · page 3

AFTER a variegated history of misfortunes extending over the past 12 years, there has been opened the long-heralded Park-Lane Hotel, in the…

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