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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1927

1,236 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 62

Epping. Transfer of Liquor License. Protest by Public Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 15

At a large public meeting held in the Cambrla Hall, Epping, the following motion was unanimously agreed to— That this indignation meeting of Epping citizens…

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Wireless & Radio Summer-time Broadcasting What License Figures Show

The Sun · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 7

Broadcasting was as popular through last summer as it was throughout the greater part of the previous winter. At one time wireless was considered almost solely a wintertime diversion, something to be put in the spare-room for five mon[?]s…

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Short Circuits Sets in Hotels

The Sun · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 7

Some doubt has always existed concerning the extent to which broadcast receiving sets can be used in public planes, such as hotels. The…

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Hotels Change Hands

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 8

License transfers granted yesterday by the Licensing Court were:-- Royal Oak Hotel, Balmain, Nesbitt Stanley Emery to Jehanna Oben:…

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Publican Disappears White Wife and Daughter Are at a Picture Show

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 13

Saying they were going to the pictures, the wife and daughter of Philip Henry Skelton, late of Darlinghurst, and formerly of Richmond, retired…

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Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 12

The following transfers of publicans' licenses have been approved by the Metropolitan Licensing Court:— The Lord Roberts Hotel Stanley street, sydney, from Edgar Harold Robert Palmer to John Keith Walker; the…

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Lost Leg at War Drunken Taxi Driver License Suspended

Evening News · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 5

CHARLES James Westherby, 44, told the Kogarah Magistrate that he had never tasted liquor in his life until last Saturday, when be…

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Mechanical Hares. Limit to Licenser. Chief Secretary's Statement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 19

The Chief Secretary (Mr. M. Gosling), who administers the Gaming and Betting Act, said last night that in view of the obvious and apparently increasing popularity of the sport…

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Shot in Hotel Bar Young Man Collapses in King St. "Did Things in Hurry"

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 9

HUNDREDS of pedestrians in the vicinity of King Street, city, were startled yesterday afternoon by the sound of a revolver shot,…

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He Was "A Bad Shot" Man Wounded in City Hotel Strange Statement to Police

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 27

"I'm a bad shot," remarked Eric Wilfred Saunders to the police after he had been picked up in King Street, City, near Pitt Street, with a wound…

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Costruiranno Il Piu' Grande Hotel Di Roma

Italo-Australian · Wednesday 7 September 1927 · page 1

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License Warning to Drunken Driver

Evening News · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 10

I WONT suspend your license this time, but if you come before the Court again on a similar charge you might lose your license altogether."…

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Chase in City After Hotel Thief Dragged From Tram

Evening News · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 14

AT the Central Court to-day Frederles, Greenville [?] months" hard [?] a charge of having…

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'Phone Silent While Flames Raged Fire at Hotel 200 Guests' Scare

Evening News · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 15

BECAUSE the fire brigade could not be raised on the telephone, it was twenty minutes before the firemen reached a blaze at the…

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Guests' Scare Hotel Fire at 5 A.m. Blaze in Dining Room

The Sun · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 13

A fire which broke out in the dining-room on the ground floor at the Grand Central Hotel, Clarence-street, shortly after 5 a.m. to-day destroyed…

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Wine License to Stay West Maitland

The Labor Daily · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 5

The application of John Joseph MeConker, at the Licensing Court, yesterday, for the transfer of a wine license at Wollomal to hlmself was…

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Tin Hare Licenses

Arrow · Friday 9 September 1927 · page 7

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Gosling in announcing that not more than two licenses wil be granted to Newcastle and only one license to a country town, says: "The…

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Fire in City Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1927 · page 15

A fire which broke out at the Grabd Cebtral Hotel, Clarence-street, at 5 o'ulock yesterday morning, did not spread beyond the dining-room, and was extinguished a few…

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Boiling-down Works. Council Must Renew License

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1927 · page 15

Hankstown Council, at its last meeting, received a statutory notice front the DirectorGeneral of Public Health, requesting it to grant registration to a boiling-down works of…

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Fire in Hotels -- Excitement Among Guests

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 September 1927 · page 3

Guests at the Grand Central Hotel in Clarence Street, City, became excited when a fire broke out there yesterday…

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