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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

1,290 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 65

Murdered on Hotel Stairway

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1928 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday.--Revolver shots roused the licensee of the Causeway Hotel, Townsville, early this morning, but a search of the premises at that…

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Hotelkeepers' Cricket

The Sun · Sunday 4 March 1928 · page 5

The second annual cricket match, "City and Suburban Hotelkeepers" v. "Hotelbrekers," will be played on the Sydney Cricket Ground next…

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No License Motor Driver Fined

Evening News · Monday 5 March 1928 · page 11

HARRY Albert M'Oracken, 23, [?] at the Council Court to-day, was [?] 10 days' [?] on a charge of having driven a motor…

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Quarter Sessions Appeals. a Licensing Appeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 6

Hearing was commenced of an appeal by Ernest R. Butcher and others against a majority decision of the Licensing Bench (Mr. Le Brun Browp dissenting), in refusing to…

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Wants to Open Hotel

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 March 1928 · page 7

An appeal against the ad[?]cation of the Metropolitan Licensing Court in refusing [?] grant the application of James Thomas [?] for a publican's [?]…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1928 · page 12

The Metropolitan Licensing Court has approved the following transfers of publicans' licenses:- Hero of Waterloo Hotel, Windmill-street, from George Bernard Rich to Leslie John Couper; Bristol Arms…

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Licenses Board. Balmain Electorate Revision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1928 · page 10

The Licenses Reduction Board yesterday began its deprivation sittings at the Water Police Court in respect of the old five- member Balmain electorate, comprising…

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Hotel Licenses. Power of Deprivation. Jurisdiction of Board Questioned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1928 · page 6

An important point affecting the jurisdiction of the Licensing Reduction Board was raised before the Board yesterday by Dr. Evatt, who, instructed by Messrs. Murphy and…

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Industrial Commission. (Before the Full Bench.) Hotel Employees' Award

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1928 · page 8

Appeals were made by the Residential Hotels Association and the New South Wales branch of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association against the retrospective clauses of the…

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Gun Licenses

The Sun · Thursday 8 March 1928 · page 20

Eastwood Council was Informed last night by the Police Department that the council's request that the local constable be empowered to Issue gun…

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Lost His License

The Sun · Thursday 8 March 1928 · page 7

John Hurat Berry, 26, a salesman convicted at the Central Police Court to-day of having driven a motor car along Bayswater-road while under the…

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Hotels Award Both Sides Appeal

The Labor Daily · Thursday 8 March 1928 · page 5

The Residential Hotel's Association and the United Licensed Victuallers' Association, N.S.W. branch, appealed yesterday to the Full Industrial…

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Gunman Shoots Sergeant Fight in W.A. Hotel Terrific Struggle Perth

The Labor Daily · Thursday 8 March 1928 · page 5

SHORTLY after six o'clock this evening the Brisbane Hotel, Perth was the scene of a sensational shooting as a result of which…

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Quarter Sessions Appeals. (Before Judge Cohen.) Licensing Appeal Upheld

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 8

Hearing was concluded of the appeal of Ernest Butcher and others against the adjudication of the Licensing Court, refusing to grant the petition for a publican's license for…

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Hotel for Long'ville Judge Decides in Favor

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 8

Judge Cohen, in the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court yesterday, upheld the appeal of Ernest R. Butcher, and others, against a majority decision of the Metropolitan…

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Race Record Narrow Escape's Win: R. Battersby's License Cancelled

Arrow · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 5

Ridden by an apprentice having his second ride in a race, Narrow Escape surprised when, starting at 20 to 1, in the first division of the…

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No Light—No License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 15

Frederick Roland Richardson drove a motor car along Church-street, Parramatta, on Sunday. He had neither license nor headlights…

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Lottie Condon Mystery in Omeo Case Heavily Veiled Kept From Public Eye Rushed Back to Hotel Timid and Worried in Court [?]

Evening News · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 1

THE failure of the Crown to call Lottie Condon as a witness in the case in which Ronald Geeves Griggs is charged with having murdered his wife at Omeo, was the chief topic of discussion in Sale last night. This…

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Hôtel Ranelagh. ROBERTSON

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 4

To mark the close of the Robertson Agricultural & Horticultural Society's Annual Show, a Ball was held at the Hotel Ranelagh, last Saturday night…

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Hotel Boycott. Darwin Comedy. Fines for Beer Drinking. Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1928 · page 11

A noisy meeting of the union which is organising the hotel boycott was held last night, when 40 unionists were tried in comic opera fashion for drinking beer at hotels in defiance…

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