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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

1,290 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 65

Occupation License Fees

The Land · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 8

License fees on occupation licenses in the eastern and central divisions are payable by November 30, in advance, for the coming year. A list of these…

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Waterside Hold-up Licensing Transport Workers Farmers Loading Produce

The Land · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 4

The Transport Workers' Act, which provides for the licensing of waterside workers, came into operation in Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Fremantle on Monday, and Newcastle on Tuesday. Immediately the chief question with the strikers was whether or…

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Not Near Hotel Free Water Refused

Evening News · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 8

THE Water Board last night refused Redfern Council's request for permission to comment a trough in Gibbons-street to the water main. It was…

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Crows Nest License

Evening News · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 13

Judge Armstrong, at Darlinghurst Sessions to-day, dismissed the appeal of S. M'Culloch and others against the a[?]udication of the Licencing Court in…

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No Volunteer Labor in W.A. Licensing Protest Exemption Is Sought Perth

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 6

The situation on the Fremantle water [?] is [?]hanged. No volunteer [?] is offering [?]r will it be on [?]or under any circumstances…

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Bruce's Ultimatum in Waterfront Crisis License Regulations to Stand Volunteers' Rights and Interests Must Be Safeguarded New Act Is Proposed Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 5

FOLLOWING a conference with representatives of the Marine Transport Unions, the Prime Minister delivered an ultimatum regarding the waterside crisis. In a review of the events which led up to the dispute, Mr. Bruce declare…

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Garden Excluded As Delegate Union Leaders Meet Bruce Licensing as a Body Is Suggested for Strike Settlement Not Acceptable

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- A basis of settlement of the strike which was suggested by union leaders -- that the watersiders be…

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£1000 for "Bill" Hotel Waiter Backed Amounis-Jocelyn Double at Long Odds

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 7

"Bill!" who prefers his name to be kept a secret, collected £1000 over the Amounis-Jocelyn double. "BILL" is a waiter in one of the…

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Canberra News. No-license League's Report. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 17

"The recant liquor poll in the territory was another instance of an unfair political handicap being placed in the way of A vote on the liquor issue," says the annual report of the…

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Historic Hotel. to Be Sold. Black Horse, Richmond

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 October 1928 · page 14

The historic Black Horse Hotel at Richmond, which was closed a few months ago, after operating for 112 years, will be submitted to auction to-morrow. There is much…

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Bluffing Bruce Watersider Licensing Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 October 1928 · page 10

The response to the Brace Dog Art is not the [?] that the Ports Press states it to be. The numbers, it is said, are…

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Still Hopes of Settlement Incompetent Men Licensed Work Is Inefficient Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 October 1928 · page 5

[?] at the Martims and Transport [?] commence control to-day on the [?] position created by Mr. [?] refusal to [?] the…

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£750,000 HOTEL Subways and Shop Arcades Big Scheme Mammoth on Cafe Francais Site

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 October 1928 · page 2

Australia's mammoth hotel is to be erected in Georgestreet, near Hunter-street, at a cost of over £750,000. Elaborate plans have been completed by a syndicate that has acquired the old Cafe Francais Hotel, in George-street, and…

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Work on George Street Skyscraper Hotel Begins To-morrow Lost Ten Days in the Snow Still Missing Man of 75 Many Searching

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 October 1928 · page 2

No trace has been found of Mr. George Neill, aged 75 years, who has been missing since September 27, 10 days…

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Hotel Australia Good Dance Music

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 October 1928 · page 11

Of late, the beauty and the chivalry of Sydney (or some of the best of it) has danced every Thursday night at the Australia on an…

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Railway Employee's Tragic End Skull Fractured by Fall on Hotel Verandah Coroner Records Verdict of Manslaughter

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 October 1928 · page 1

When Harold Sherwood fell on the concrete verandah of the hotel at Rooty Hill, his skull was fractured; yet medical examination revealed not even the slightest external indication of violence. His skull, according to medical evidence, was extremely frail. He died in hospital at Penrith. James Henry Stubbings, who is alleged to have struck, him—both were intoxicated at the time…

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£20 : License Lost Drunken City Driver

Evening News · Monday 8 October 1928 · page 5

you might have killed a dizen people: said Mr macdougal sm. at the central court to-day when he fined Allan Gorga Orwell, 39, eng[?]…

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Spilt the Beer Fight in Hotel Bar

Evening News · Monday 8 October 1928 · page 5

"The trouble arose over one man spilling beer over the other." said Sergeant Nuns. at North sydney Court to-day, when John David william Shelley, 21. motor…

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Pony Licenses

Evening News · Monday 8 October 1928 · page 8

The A.R.C. has granted a Jockey a [?] to A. knox, and a permit to ride in races to G. Bonis, R. verran, A [?] C. [?]art, P. M'Grath, and R. Barris…

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Hotel Strike. Settlement Reached. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 October 1928 · page 12

The strike of hotel employees has been settled, and work will be resumed on Monday. The employees received an increase of 7/6. Barmen and barmaids gained an increase of…

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