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Hotels & licensing, 1927

1,236 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 62

Lease of Empire Hotel Mr. M. Wise Gets It City Council Property

The Labor Daily · Thursday 20 January 1927 · page 5

The lease of the Empire Hotel, which is owned by the City Council, has been secured by Mr. Maurice Wise, at a rental of £2340…

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Lone Tender City Council Hotel Lease Was Deal Bungled?

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 January 1927 · page 1

Circumstances pointing to financial bungling in a deal involving over £50,000 were disclosed at a meeting of the finance committee…

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London Potatoes Consumers' Preferences Hotel Guest's Vote

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 6

The Australian public gets few opportunities of expressing its opinion regarding the varieties of fruit or vegetables it prefers but in…

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The Civic Hotel. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 10

Sir,—Your remarks under the above heading are hardly fair, and do not convey the true position. Alderman Thompson (Reform), voting with four…

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A.J.C. COMMITTEE W. R. Johnstone Gets His Jockey's License

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1927 · page 6

The committee of the Australian Jockey Club sat for a couple of hours yesterday. Domestic business occupied most of the time, as the following official report of the proceedings…

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Three Small Shandies a Fine and a Cancelled License

Nepean Times · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 1

"We can't have this sort of thing going on," said Mr J. B. Gibson, P.M., at Penrith Court, on Monday, when fining Benjamin Carr…

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Driving Licenses Must Be Carried

The Sun · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 8

The prosecution of a member of the N.R.M.A. in the country for failing to produce his driver's license when called upon by a constable on street…

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Production of Motorists' Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1927 · page 14

The prosecution of a member of the N.R.M.A. in the country for failing, to produce his driver's license when called upon by a constable on street…

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Empire Hotel Lease Exposes Conkerous Spot in Civic Administraion an Incident That Shrieks for Investigation

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 2

Is the City Council now governing the civic affairs of Sydney up to its job? Disclosures of the past week go to show that it is not. There is the matter of the Empire Hotel,…

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Carry Your License

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 18

Every driver's license, issued by the Traffic Branch bears the instruction that it "must always be carried, and must be produced…

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Pilots' Licenses One Type of Machine Victorian View Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 5

Air. pilots' licenses should be so worded as to restrict their holders to specified types of machines, and not, as at, present, to certain limits of…

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The Civic Hotel. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 11

Sir,—I thank you for the publication of my letter under the heading of "The Civic Hotel," and your leader under the heading "When inquiry is Burked." No doubt your remarks are…

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Fined £10, License Suspended

The Sun · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 9

Convicted at the Central Police Court to-day on a charge of having driven his car in George-street North, on Saturday, while he was under the…

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Licenses Transferred

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 12
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court, yesterday the transfers of the following publicans' licenses were approved: Old Dunbar Hotel, Paddington,…

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All Above Board Empire Hotel License No Ground for Fears of "Reformers"

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 5

Challenges by "Reform" aldermen that the Labor administration should hold an inquiry into the circumstances of the resumption of the Empire Hotel…

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Sins of Omission No Light - - - No License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 1

The sun had set. Wilfred John Younger was in Parramatta. He had a motor-cycle. As a matter of…

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Liverpool Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 2

Sitting in licensing jurisdiction at the Liverpool Court on Thursday, Mr. J. G. Gibson, P.M., was informed by Sergeant. Gibson that, during the past six months,…

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Civic Hotel. Demand for Inquiry. Amazing Methods. Described by Alderman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 11

Reform aldermen, who, as a party, will, at the City Council to-ntght, oppose the acceptance of a tender at £45 weekly for the Empire Hotel, declare that the whole matter…

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In Italy. Getting a License. Motorist's Trouble

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 7

"Most motorists are inclined to think that the purchase and registration of a car. and the securing of a driver's license in Sydney are hedged about with irritating formalities,"…

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