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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

1,290 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 65

Hotel Building Campaign a Clean-up Demanded for Congress Visitors

Construction and Local Government Journal · Wednesday 16 May 1928 · page 19

The coming Eucharistic Congress is filling the city with enthusiasm, the people with expectation, and the hotels, boarding houses and flats with, beds, for no less than 8000 have…

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Age Secret Women Drivers Licenses by Post

Evening News · Wednesday 16 May 1928 · page 8

THE action of the N.R.M.A. in directing the attention of the Traffic Department to the exhibition of the ages and personal particulars…

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Licensed Shops Are Undesirable Against General Good Betting, Would Greatly Increase: Temptation.for Women

Referee · Wednesday 16 May 1928 · page 1

During the past week the Sydney police have made a crusade against starting-price betting shops. It has happened before, and, after, a few weeks, everything has returned to normal. The probabilities are it is a…

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In Equity. (Before Mr. Justice Long Innes.) Dandaloo Hotel Contract. Baker v Jennings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 May 1928 · page 12

Hearing was concluded of the suit in which the plaintiff, Florence Baker, wife of Charles Baker, asked among other things for an injunction restraining the defendant, Hendry…

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For Five Years No Driver's License £20 Fine, Too

The Sun · Wednesday 16 May 1928 · page 21

Convicted at the North Sydney Police Court to-day of having driven his car while he was under the influence of liquor, Allan Cook, aged 30,…

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Suspicious Fires. Hotel Employee for Trial. Cessnock

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 May 1928 · page 17

Two fires which occurred on April 28 and 29 in a catherboard cottage at Aberdare, owned by Joseph St. Claire Noonan, licensee of the Strathfield Hotel, Strathfield, and…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 May 1928 · page 10

Balmain Electorte.—Compensation Sittings: At the Water Police Court, Phillip-street, at 10 a.m., the Board will hear evidence in support of claims for compensation in respect of the undermentioned…

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No License Lady Motorist Fined Met with Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 12

Edith Saywell, at the Parramatta Police Court on Wednesday, pleaded guilty to a charge of having driven a motor car in Church-street, Parramatta…

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It's a Way They Have in Parliament They Had to Talk Though All in Favor Bunnerong Millions Bill to Raise Hotel Taxes

Evening News · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 11

IT is generally supposed that the vast number of words uttered in Parliament have their genesis in the keen desire of members on the Opposition benches to assail measures submitted by the Government, and of…

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Mystery Woman . Story of Request for £2600 Tax Hotel Conversation Another Matter of £1500 May Be Investigated

The Sun · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 15

How a lady who said she had come from Maling had asked him in the vestibule of the Hotel Australia if his firm would pay income tax of £2600 on the money from London, was told in evidence to-day by Arthur James Arnot, general manager for Australia for Bab- cock, Wilcox Ltd…

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Parking Ban City's Drastic Rule "Auto Hotels"' Proposed

The Sun · Friday 18 May 1928 · page 19

Wrestling with, a traffic problem, the civic authorities of Chicago (U.S.A.) recently prohibited parking, of motor vehicles In the streets of the "Loop"…

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Diamonds and Pearls Stolen From Hotel

The Sun · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 2

Three diamond rings, a string of pearls and a handbag, valued altogether at £60, were stolen yesterday from under the counter at a…

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Prohibition Lecturer in "Drunks" Home Applies for Job With "Wets" Lecturer Celebrates "Dry" Victories at Hotels

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 19 May 1928 · page 3

THE MAN WHO KNOWS better than most people whether or not he has worked for the prohibition cause is Joseph Ward Meade, now an inmate of Lara, the Victorian State inebriate home. HIS ASSERTION in that effect, given to two representatives of…

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The Amended Licensing Bill. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 May 1928 · page 6

Sir,—In connection with the Amended Licensing Bill now before the State Parliament, I wish to draw attention to the iniquitous effect of the provisions of the bill,…

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Fined £15--License Suspended Drunken Motorist

The Sun · Monday 21 May 1928 · page 11

The Glenorle village, blacksmith, Walter Burnstrum, had a day out oh Saturday, Ho drove a motor cycle at a terrific rate through Church-strcet,…

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£60,000 Hotel at Katoomba Links Katoomba

Evening News · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 5

AT a meeting of Katoomba Chamber of Commerce last night, plans were exhibited for a hotel to cost £50,000 which it was proposed to erect at…

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N.Z. Soldier Found Working at Hotel Doesn't Want to Go Home Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 2

Percival West, the returned soldier who has been sought by his father, Andrew West, of Morrinsville, N.Z., for ten years, is not likely to go to the…

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License Revoked

The Sun · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 6

Sentenced to two and a half years' imprisonment at Newcastle in 1926 for breaking and entering, Eugene de la Villerie, alias Herbert Parker, aged…

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Drinkers Were Boarders Hotel- Keeper Charged Wagga

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 4

Thomas Thnothy Archer, Hcensee of the Australian Hotel, was changed of the police Court to-day with having permited crunkenness on his…

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"Drinks Were on the House" Licensee Is Fined£5 Wagga

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 22 May 1928 · page 3

As a result of a raid on the Riverina Hotel. Joseph James Pasene. Hcensee, was at the police court. lines 13 for having [?] to keep the has door…

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