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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

1,290 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 65

Licenses Reduction Roard

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 July 1928 · page 9

Compensation sittings, Balmain electorate.—At the Water Police Court. Phillip-street.—At 10 a.m. the Board will announce the compensation to be awarded. Deprivation sittings, Botany electorate.—Australian…

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Liquor Strike. Hotelkeepers Capitulate. Reversion to Old Prices Kandos

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 July 1928 · page 12

The boycott of the local hotel liquor bars, which was declared ten days ago in consequence of the increased prices charged for liquor has been lifted. The hotelkeepers…

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Wine Licenses to Go

The Sun · Monday 16 July 1928 · page 11

The Licensing Board to-day gave its decision in regard to the reduction of premises licensed for the sale of Australian wines in the Botany area…

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Closed Hotels £9550 Compensation

The Sun · Monday 16 July 1928 · page 6

Compensation amounting to £9550 was awarded by the Licensing Board to-day for the loss of three licenses in the Balmain Licensing area…

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New Hotel License Recommended

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 4

Lidcombe is to have another hotel. At a recent meeting of the Licensing Board at Parramatta, permission was granted to Mr. R. Tripp to erect a hotel…

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COMPENSATION. For Loss of Licenses. Three Hotels Get £9,550

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 11

Compensation payable in respect of hotels in the Balmain electorate, which had recently been dellcensed by the Licenses Reduction Board, was announced yesterday…

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Hotel for Glenbrook

Evening News · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 5

The Licensing Board has granted the application of Henry Plunkett to transfer the license of the Royal Hotel. Henry-street, Penrith, to a site known as…

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Grand Hotel. New Building in City. to Cost £30,000

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 11

The Licenses Reduction Board yesterday approved plans for the new building of the Grand Hotel, which will be erected at the corner of Hunter and Hamilton streets, city,…

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Wine Licenses. Deprivations at Botany

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 12

At yesterday's sitting of the Licenses Reduction. Board, the following premises were deprived of licenses in the Botany electorate:— 65 Botany-road, Waterloo. R. B. Koller,…

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"Pitfall for All" P.M. on Licensing Act Bathurst

The Sun · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 15

"The Licensing Act, as it stands, is a pitfall for everybody, said the police magistrate, Colonel Chapman, at Bathurst Police Court today…

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Crow's Nest Hotels Another Licence Sought

The Sun · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 10

In connection Willi the application to the Licensing Board for a licence for an hotel, which it is proposed to erect at the corner of Alexander and…

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'Drunk Person in Hotel

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 6

Relatives and friends at [?] inquest yesterday describes Fanny Kennedy, 43. who drank [?] at a city hotel on May 5 last, as…

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For Three Hotels Compensation Is £9550

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 4

Compensation totalling £9550 was yesterday awarded by the Licenses' Reduction Board following deprivations on April 2 last…

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Four Wine Licenses Less

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 8

Wine licenses in Botany electorates are to be cut down by four, following a decision of the Licenses' Reduction Board yesterday…

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Seeking Another Hotel Crow's Nest Application

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 3

"Ther's certainly chance of getting a drink at Crow's West between live and six o'clock," Arthur John [?]…

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Hotels Change Hands

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 5

Transfers of the licensed of three well-known city hotels were sanctioned by the Licenses Reduction Board yesterday…

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Melbourne Girl of 19 DISAPPEARS Left Hotel in Paris Saturday Evening PARIS

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 4

Sylvia Anderson, a 19-year-old Melbourne girl, has mysteriously disappeared. She was visiting Paris for a few…

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Cumber Drags Three Others to Deaths Hotel Guests Watch Plunge Into Abyss LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 July 1928 · page 4

Watchers from an hotel in the Zermatt district (Switzerland) saw four Frenchmen, attempting to climb the Breithorn (13,685ft.), plunge 1000ft. to…

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Hotel at Balgowlah. Appeal Against Licensing Court Decision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 July 1928 · page 19

Hearing was commenced before Judge Edwards in No. 3 District Court yesterday of an appeal on behalf of F. T. Webber and others and R. W. Hawkins and others against the…

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Hotel at Punchbowl (N.s.w.)

Construction and Local Government Journal · Wednesday 18 July 1928 · page 14

A sound axiom to apply to any building is as to whether it proclaims its purpose and in this respect the new residential hotel at Punchbowl, which Architects Prevost, Synnot and Ruwald have designed for Mr. R. Walden, should take a high place. Certainly the thirsty soul coming along Punchbowl Road or the tired and hungry ones coming from the left…

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