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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1927

1,236 stories in Sydney's papers · page 61 of 62

Hotel for Crow's Nest

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 December 1927 · page 6

Henry Macourt says an hotel bar is against the .wishes of Crow's Nest:--The decision of the Appeal Court to set aside the refusal of the Licensing…

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Hotel Project Fails

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 December 1927 · page 33

A project to establish a 12-storey hotel in the centre of Auckland has been abandoned. The promoters were unable to secure the necessary capital…

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Licensing Court. Rose Bay Petition Refused

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 12

The application of William Matthias Westphal tor a publican's license, for premises proposed to be erected at the intersection of New South Head-road and Dover-road, Rose Bay,…

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No Compensation a De-licensed City Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 10

Because the Licenses Reduction Board did not award any compensation when it de-licensed the Square and Compass Hotel, George Street,…

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Hotel Employees

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 13

The Federated Liquor Trades Employees' Union has arranged with the executive of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association thai as Christmas Day and New Year's Day…

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Industrial Commission. (Before Mr. Justice Street.) Hotel Employees' Award

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 7

Reserved judgment was given in the matter of an application made on behalf of the Residential Hotels' Association and Licensed Victuallers' Association for the partial…

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Residential Hotels Award Suspended Rights Not to Suffer

The Labor Daily · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 5

THE operation of the retrospective portion of the residential hotel employees (metropolitan) award has been suspended pending…

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Bar Staff in Hotels

The Labor Daily · Friday 23 December 1927 · page 4

The Federated Labour Trules Employees' [?]nlop has arranged with the executive of the [?]lted Licensed Victuallers' Associate that as Christmas Day and New Year's…

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Two Kinds of License

Nepean Times · Saturday 24 December 1927 · page 1

SOME confusion between a motor van license and a motor license and between two Acts governing motor traffic occurred in a…

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Hotel for Yallourn Commission to Build Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 December 1927 · page 5

Though the Full High Court reversed the L.K ensing Bodid's decision to grant the Electricity Commission a liquor licence. Yalloern will not be…

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Hotel for the Homeless-- --Bondi Veteran of the Mail Bag-- --An Outsize Seahorse

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 December 1927 · page 20

BROOKLANDS FAMOUS RACING TRACK, outside London, has nothing on the miniature one where Manly youngsters showed their skill yesterday. The "cars" were presented to them at the treat given by the Manly Council…

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Hotel Tragedy How James Crisp Shot His Bride After Three Weeks the Refuge of Death

Truth · Sunday 25 December 1927 · page 13

WHILE his pretty and popular bride of three brief weeks lay a-dozing in her bed at the Gresham Hotel, City, on the morning of August 3 last, her husband, crazed with abject terror of impending financial…

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Wild Doings at Dorrigo Horse Ridden Through Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 December 1927 · page 6

DORRIGO, Saturday. -- The bad old days of bushrangers and gold diggers was recalled at Dorrigo when a man rode his horse into an hotel bar…

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Revolver Used. by Hotel Licensee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 December 1927 · page 2

A man who came drunken to the Cauliflower Hotel, Botany-road, Waterloo, shortly after closing hour on Saturday, is alleged to have almost kicked the bar door down in…

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Shot in the Hip Argument Outside Hotel Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 December 1927 · page 5

To protect himself from an attack by four men outside an hotel at Ivan- hoc on Saturday light a man fired several revolver shots one of which entered the hip of an attacker…

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Bribed Police Publicans Mistake Illicit Trading

Evening News · Wednesday 28 December 1927 · page 8

WILLIAM LOO LONG, 32, hotelkeeper, pleaded guilty and was fined the maximum of £10 at Redfern Court, to-day, for having given a bribe of £10…

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"Bad Advice" Attempt to Bribe Police Licensee Fined

The Sun · Wednesday 28 December 1927 · page 11

"Long offered me £5 a week to permit him to trade illicitly, and £20 for not reporting, an offence. He gave me £10 on account, which 1 will sent to…

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'Hammond's Hotel' Everything Free; Derelicts Only Welcomed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 December 1927 · page 10

"Spend the day with us. We can guarantee you a pair of legs to go home on." Such is the arresting notice printed in…

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Hotel Licensee Convicted

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 29 December 1927 · page 7

William Loo Long, an hotel licensee, of Henderson Road, Alexandria, was yesterday fined £10 by the Redfern Magistrate, for attempting to bribe a…

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Friday, December 30. Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 December 1927 · page 6

Northern Tahieland Electorate.—Compensation sittings: At the Water Police Court. Phillip-street. Sydney, at 10 a.m., the board will announce its determination in regard to the compensation to be awarded…

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