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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1927

1,236 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 62

Had No Driver's License Young Woman Severely Warned By Magistrate

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 May 1927 · page 21

Doris Barr (24), domestic, pleaded guilty to a charge at the Central Police Court yesterday of driving a motorcar without a driver's license…

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Old Hotel to Be Closed. Singleton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 12

The Courthouse Hotel, at the corner of Bourke and Elizabeth streets, which has been licensed for 75 years, will be closed on June 30 owing to an order of the Licenses…

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Hotel Tragedy Australian's Death Suicide After Quarrel Paris, Wednesday Night

The Sun · Thursday 26 May 1927 · page 2

Cyril David Shepherd, an Australian, who was found dead in bed at an hotel in the Boulevard Saint Germain, was a naval officer…

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Hotel Test Case Closing Order on Anzac Day City Licensee's Fine

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 15

The legality of the action of the State Government in closing the hotels for two hours on Anzac Day was questioned before Mr. Justice Gordon, in…

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Family of Licensees Three Hotels Held by Family Modern Accommodation

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 27

The Lindsay family holds a monopoly of the hotel business in Port Kembla, inasmuch as the three hotels in the town are held by members of the…

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Parramatta Hotels (To the Editor)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 2

Sir,— Congratulations to your correspondent. Undoubtedly, it behaves every one interested in the welfare of our town to be up and doing. There is no doubt…

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l,730,000 LICENSES

Evening News · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 12

The maximum number of motor vehicle licenses current in England during [?] was about 1,730,000. The probable increase for 1927 has been [?] down at…

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Anzac Day. Closing of Hotels. Validity of Proclamation Challenged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 11

An application was made before Mr. Justice Gordon in Chamber's yesterday, on behalf of John Grant, Hoensee of the Brookiya Hotel, George-street, Sydney, for a rule nisi for…

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Licenses Reductions Board. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 12

Considerable evidence was taken before [?] Licenses Reduction Board on the application by Jas. Wyatt for an additional hotel license at Culcairn. An application was also lodged…

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A.J.C. Committee a Hillier's Appeal Is Dismissed Eight Jockeys Licensed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 May 1927 · page 6

The committee of the A.J.C., at its meeting yesterday, granted permits to train to K. A. Duggan, G. H. Moody, L.R. Burbridge, John Williamson, J…

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Sunday Beer Hotel-keeper Fined "A Technical Breach"

Evening News · Saturday 28 May 1927 · page 6

CHARLES HERCULES WATER HOUSE, licenses of the Imperial Hotel, Alfred-street, North Sydney, was fined [?] at the local…

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Trainer Battered Scene Outside Hotel Tale of Two Victims

Evening News · Saturday 28 May 1927 · page 3

A LLEGED to hate attached two men in succession outside the [?] of a hotel at Alexandria, Bryan Travers was committed for trial from [?]…

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Oust Ruffians Cruelty to Horses License Drivers

Evening News · Saturday 28 May 1927 · page 7

C.M. OSSOLI KELLY writes from Neutral Bay: "I am pleased indeed to see that the public has been awakened by your…

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Boarders in Bar Hotelkeeper Fined Point He Overlooked

The Sun · Saturday 28 May 1927 · page 2

On Sunday, April 17, Sergeant Dole of the North Sydney. police, entered the imperial Hotel, Alfred-street, by a side door, and found nine men in…

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Heard Baby Coughing Found Hotel Afire Grafton

The Sun · Saturday 28 May 1927 · page 4

Damn estimated at between £4600 and £5000 was caused by a fire which totally destroyed the North Head Hotel at Iluka, a Clarence seaside…

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Hotel Burned Out Grafton

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 May 1927 · page 5

North Head Hotel, at [?]uka, was destroyed by fire in the early hours of this morning, the damage being estimated at be[?]ween £[?]500 and £[?]000. The…

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Why Radio Licenses Show Fewer

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 May 1927 · page 4

WHILE the Wireless Commission strides in the leisurely way of all commissions to get down to bedrock, wireless licenses in this State grow…

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The Wireless Commission Reason For Falling Off In Radio Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 May 1927 · page 21

Giving evidence at a further sitting of the Wireless Commission yesterday, Cecil V. Stevenson, a radio trader, blamed interference between stations…

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[?] Funds Needed Grant From Licenses

Evening News · Monday 30 May 1927 · page 10

THE [?] of wireless and the [?] were touched upon by [?] Commission…

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Seaside Hotel Burnt. Maclean

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 May 1927 · page 12

The North Head Hotel at Iluka was destroyed by fire at 1 a.m. on Friday, together with the contetns, with the exception of an iron safe, wireless set, and small portion of the…

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