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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

1,290 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 65

To Check Trafficking in New Hotel Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 July 1928 · page 5

The State Cabinet is considering important legislation designed to check trafficking in new hotel licenses. The Act will be amended to provide…

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Passing of Old Hotel. Prince's Visit Recalled. Coonamble

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 July 1928 · page 10

At the Licensing Court at Coonamble, before Mr. Le Brun Brown, sitting as a member of the License Reduction Board, William Thomas Macken made application for the…

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Whose Request? Arnot's Visits to Hotel Holdsworth's Oath Decision Will Be Given To-morrow

The Sun · Monday 30 July 1928 · page 9

William Holdsworth, hotel-keeper, of the Tilbury Hotel, Woolloomooloo, ex-alderman of the City Council, was the first witness to-day in the case before Mr. Gates, C.S.M., in which Silas Y. Maling, ex-acting general manager of the Electricity…

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Drove Without License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 31 July 1928 · page 1

Alfred Roy Hill, at the Parramatta Police Court yesterday, admitted having driven a motor van in Fennell-street, Parramatta, without being licensed to do…

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Four Trainers Secure No. I License

Evening News · Wednesday 1 August 1928 · page 2

[?] made an effort to [?] No. 1 [?] them to [?]…

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Racing Licenses. for Ensuing Season

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 August 1928 · page 18

The following licenses have been granted by the Australian Jockey Club Committee for the [?] racing season, which begins to-day:- JOCKEYS…

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The Turf. Randwick Licenses. Successful Applicants

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 August 1928 · page 18

Randwick trainers, with the exception of those that handed in their tickets, have had their licenses renewed by the Australian Jockey Club committee for the new racing…

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Licensee Fined at Bathurst. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 August 1928 · page 16

Edward Thomas Byrnes, licensee of the Occidental Hotel, was charged at the Bathurst Police Court with allowing a person on his premises during prohibited hours. The…

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Vain Quest to Pay Licence Fee Publican at Races Bankruptcy Court Story

The Sun · Wednesday 1 August 1928 · page 17

Henry Goldman, formerly licensee of the King's Head Hotel, told the Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. N. C…

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Picking Winners 'Bob In' Over Hotel Bar Betting Act Problem

The Sun · Wednesday 1 August 1928 · page 9

Picking the winners of horse races under a system of "a bob in and the most successful tipster scoops the pool," collected over a hotel bar, was…

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Betting Losses. £2700 in a Month. Publican's Story in Bankruptcy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 August 1928 · page 8

In the course of his examination before the Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. N. C. Lockhart) yesterday, Henry Goldman told the official assignee, Mr. W. H. Palmer, that the…

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Lone Fisherman License Fee Proposed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 August 1928 · page 4

THE lone-line amateur fisherman, who stands for hours at a stretch up to his middle in water looking at a piece of cork bobbing about in…

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Lure of the Turf Publican's Losses Bookmakers Beat Him

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 August 1928 · page 3

HE had his license to meet and an instalment to pay off the purchase price of his notel--in all £1323--so he went to the races to…

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Way Out The Publican's Shed

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 12

Faced with one of its own resolutions—a resolution prohibiting the erection of any weatherboard structure in Church-street, Parramatta Council rejected the…

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Hotel Sydney Chief Mr. Peisley Appointed

Evening News · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 1

MR. H. S. PEISLEY, who has been secretary and manager of the Commercial Travellers' Association of New South Wales, and the C.T.A. Club, for ten years, has…

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Has Monopoly Hotel Kosciusko Ski Club Rebuffed

Evening News · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 10

THE Ski Club of Australia has been informed by the Lands Department that the application of the club for the purchase, or the lease, of an…

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In Chambers. (Before Mr. Justice Davidson.) Hotel Bar Guessing Game. Dowd v Williams

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 8

An information was laid by a police officer at Coft's Horbour on May l8 last against Thomas Williams, hotelkeeper, charging a breach of the Gaming and Betting Act. The…

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Big Money Series of Amounts Mentioned Civic Coal Contracts Ex=aldermen Named; Transactions in Hotels Described by Counsel

The Sun · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 11

There was a crowded hour of sensational graft allegations against officers and ex-aldermen of the Sydney Municipal Council, when Mr. Shand, K.C., delivered his opening address at the Civic Coal Contracts Inquiry at the Town Hall this morning…

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From Travellers' Club to Hotel Sydney Mr. Peisley's Managerial Appointment

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 August 1928 · page 9

Mr. H. S. Peisley, who has occupied the position of secretary and manager of the Commercial lers' Association…

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Heard by the Way White Blackfellow—Penrith's Earliest Officials—Flogging Criminals—Colyton Licensing Battle—The Bounding 'Roo etc. Shire Helps Two Ambulances

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 August 1928 · page 1

AT the last meeting of Nepean Shire Council a letter was received from the [?]on, secretary of Nepean-Hawkesbury Ambulance (Mr C. H. Fulton)…

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