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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

1,290 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 65

Sale of City Hotel

The Labor Daily · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 3

Jame Aaron Burr, in the Banco Court yesterday, on a specially endorsed writ, claimed £550 from the Exchange Hotel Ltd., alleging that the…

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Speaks to Wife at Sea Hinkler in Bedroom of Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Sitting up in bed at his room in Menzie's Hotel this morning Bert Hinkler spoke to his wife on board the Orama through…

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Tobacco Growing on the North Coast -- Historic Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 March 1928 · page 25

STILL HOLDING THEIR OWN in a mechanical age. -- Some of the fine Clydesdale mares which faced the judges at the Mudgee Show. THRESHING LUCERNE on Euloowirrie Farm, in the Coolah Valley. A cloud of fine dust rises from the thresher…

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At URUNGA £20,000 HOTEL

Evening News · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 2

In the "Evening Marra" article on a motor trip of a member of the N.R.M.A. through the March Cook, Oranga as a beautiful holiday tourist spot was…

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Darwin Warfare. Unionists Fined. for Drinking at "Black" Hotels. Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 17

A further meeting of the union was held last night, when more members were brought before what is described as the "Court of injustice," and fined £10 for drinking at a…

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Electricians Want Licenses Adelaide Conference Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 1

The Electricians' Conference continued to-day, and will not conclude until Monday It was derided to endeavor to secure…

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Large Sums Involved Three Men Arrested Buying an Hotel

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 March 1928 · page 6

Many hundreds of pounds are involved in charges of alleged conspiracy preferred against three men arrested late last night…

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Bright "Spots" Improving Hotels Seats for All

The Sun · Sunday 25 March 1928 · page 2

Hotels should be bright spots in the city--poor men's clubs, where the honest citizen may enter without qualms or fear of reproach for a quiet…

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Ice Cooled Rooms in New York Hotel

Evening News · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 6

PLANS have been completed for a thirty-one storey hotel in New York. The structure will contain 650 rooms, and will have a frontage of 165…

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Canberra Gaieties Hotel Acton Ball Canberra

The Sun · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 13

ONE of the most successful balls " held this year in Canberra was given by the residents of the Hotel Acton…

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Two Arrests After Brawl in Hotel Lad of 18 Accuses Man of Picking Pocket One in Hospital

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 March 1928 · page 2

As the result of a brawl at an hotel at Circular Quay on Saturday afternoon a man is in Sydney Hospital with a fractured skull…

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Hotels Closed. in North Australia. Licenses Not Renewed. Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 11

All hotels in North Australia were closed this morning by order of the Acllng-Government Resident. Renewals wore recently recommended by the Licensing Bench, but the…

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Licenses Board Operations for Year Reviewed Important Duties

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 3

It is pointed out in the report of the Licensing Bench and Licenses' Reduction Board for 1927, that the Amending Act of 1923 entailed most important…

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For Two Years License Is Suspended

The Sun · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 17

For having driven a motor car while under the influence of liquor in Beamish-street, Campsie, on March 24. Alfred Ulstedt was filled £20, and had…

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£74,432 in Hotels Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 6

Expenditure on hotels in the Newcastle licensing district during 1927. as a result of orders made on applications granted by the Licensing Board, was…

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Dry by Effluxion of Time Hotels at Darwin Port Darwin

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 4

A strange situation arose in connection with the three local hotels to-day. The Heensing bench has been deprived of the power to give lisen…

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All Hotels Closed Darwin Awakes to Find Itself Dry

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 March 1928 · page 5

DARWIN, Monday.--Darwin awoke this morning to find itself a dry town, the hotels having been closed by order of the local authorities…

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Brave Barmaid Saves Licensee From Savage Tramp Bathurst

Evening News · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 17

PRESENCE of mind and the prompt plucky action of Mary M'Namara. a pretty barmaid, saved Jack Quigler. a former noted jockey. now…

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Fish Barrows. in City Streets. Licenses Not to Be Renewed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 17

The City Commissioners yesterday decided that after the end of this year the licenses of the City Connell for the sale of fish on the city streets will not be renewed…

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Fire in Hotel. Warialda

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1928 · page 16

A serious fire was narrowly averted by the timely discovery of an outbreak in Hanton's Hotel at War[?]da. The damage, estimated at nbout £70, is fully covered by insurance…

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