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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

1,290 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 65

Church the Publican's Alibi Who Handed the Beer Over the Fence? Scotchman Takes a Risk with His Rum

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 1

Peter McArthur bought a bottle of rum and two bottles of beer. When he left the hotel, he went to work. His rum and his beer—did he take them to work? No. Did he take the precaution of drinking them before he went to work? No. He left them just inside the. fence of the hotel premises-left them there until the following morning. So he told the magistrate at Parramatta…

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Publican's Funeral

Evening News · Tuesday 3 July 1928 · page 8

The funeral took place to-day at the Catholic Cemetery, Roowood, of Mr. John Irwin, proprietor of the Charing Cross Hotel. The late Mr. Irwin was…

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J.p. Was Drunk at Wheel of Car License Suspended

Evening News · Wednesday 4 July 1928 · page 5

WHEN [?]M P [?] was convicted at [?] Court of having [?] whit under [?]…

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Granted Trainer's License

Referee · Wednesday 4 July 1928 · page 6

Hitherto only figuring us an owner, A. B. Cowell has taken on new role, for he in now on the list as a trainer He was granted his license on Friday…

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Ken Bracken Licensed

Referee · Wednesday 4 July 1928 · page 6

A little while back Ken Bracken stated his intention of riding at the ponies, and on Friday the A. R. C. granted him a license. He will be riding to-day…

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Story of £3300 for Tin Hare License "Never Approached" Gosling, M.l.a., in Witness Box

Evening News · Thursday 5 July 1928 · page 13

MR. Mark Gosling, M.L.A., former Chief Secretary, giving evidence at the Central Court to-day, denied that he had ever been approached by any person with £3500 or any sum of money in connection with the…

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When Natives Ran Amok at Kandy Woman's Death Scream in Hotel Poisoning Theory

Evening News · Thursday 5 July 1928 · page 5

HEARING screams from a room upstairs, in a city hotel at 12.30 a.m. to-day. Alfred Sayers the night porter, found a woman lying…

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Woman Poisoned. in City Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 July 1928 · page 12

A married woman, 37 years of ago, who left her home at Bondi yesterday morning and booked a room at the Grand Central Hotel in the city, was found at 12.30 this…

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Death Dive Car in River at Taren Pt. "Accident," Says Coroner Driver Admits He Had No License

The Sun · Thursday 5 July 1928 · page 13

At the conclusion of his inquiry this afternoon into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Betty Hickey, aged 17, and Maud Dennis, aged 14, who were drowned on the night of June 24, when the car in which, with four…

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Applications for Hotel License. Goondiwindi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 July 1928 · page 14

As a result of the recent local option vote in respect of whether new licenses should be granted an application has been lodged by Mr. E. G. W. Lucas for a provisional…

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Hotels Still "Black" Kandos Stands Firm Kandos

Evening News · Friday 6 July 1928 · page 5

"THE hotels are still declared "black" in Kandos and both the men and the hotelkeepers express determination to fight to a finish…

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Great Aerial Hotel is as Large as Atlantic Liner King of Air the R100 Passes Tests Canada First Stop? London

The Sun · Friday 6 July 1928 · page 1

A veritable greyhound of the air is the new British 5,000,000 cubic feet airship R100, which will ride the Atlantic storms as do the palatial liners below. Indeed in size and luxury the airship compares with the best that…

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Hotel Transfer Penrith to Glenbrook Licensing Board Hears Application Police and Residents Object

Nepean Times · Saturday 7 July 1928 · page 5

The Licensing Board sat at Penrith Court House this Friday morning to hear evidence in the application by Percy Plunkett, for the transfer of the license of the Royal Hotel, Henry Street, Penrith, to the site known as "Logic." at Glenb[?]ook, the property of…

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Eucharistic Congress Broadcasts Demand for Listeners' Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 July 1928 · page 7

Recent increases in the number of listeners' licenses in New South Wales are attributed to some extent to the approaching Eucharistic Congress,…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 July 1928 · page 13

The Metropolitan Licensing Court has approved the following transfers of publicans' licenses:—Morris Patrick Heffernan to John Thomas Young, Park View Hotel, Alexandria; George Frederick Janbert to Sidney George…

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£500 Fee Licensing BD.'s Maximum New Bondi Hotel

The Sun · Monday 9 July 1928 · page 13

"I have a maximum fee of £500 to impose when granting a licence for a new hotel. In my opinion, the board should have wider powers in this…

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Final Polo Festivity—big Hotel to Go

Evening News · Monday 9 July 1928 · page 14

HOW U.S.A. GREETED FLYING EXPLOIT—These head lines give some idea of the keenness with which the progress and culmination of the Southern Cross flight was followed in America. LOVES THE SUNSHINE.—Toti Dal Monte studies her English…

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Liquor Strike. Kandos and Rylstone. Hotels Picketed. Kandos

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 July 1928 · page 11

Hotels here and at Rylstone are being boycotted owing to an increase in the price of liquor. A strike committee has been elected by…

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Car Driver Fined £21 No License for 3 Years

The Sun · Monday 9 July 1928 · page 12

"He was zig-zagging along the road in his car, and when I called upon him to stop he pulled up right outside the police station. I asked him to walk…

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Rioters Raid Hotel Helped Themselves 'Phone Torn From Wall Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 9 July 1928 · page 1

The riotous behavior ol eight men at the Central Hotel in Beaconsfield caused great alarm yesterday. Arriving in a motor car, they claimed…

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