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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

1,290 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 65

Suppression of a Paper Govt. Cancels License

The Labor Daily · Monday 19 November 1928 · page 8

The Mysore (India) Government has withdrawn the licence of the editor of "Prajamitra." a vernacular dally published in Bangalore City, and it…

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Milkman Finds Publican Dead on Pavement Fell From His Balcony Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 19 November 1928 · page 8

When a milk carter was passing the Royal Standard Hotel, Adamstown, at 3 o'clock this morning, he discovered the dead body of the licensee…

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Hotel on Fire. Boarder Badly Burned. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 November 1928 · page 12

When a 16-roomed weatherboard hotel at Cadia was destroyed by fire one of the boarders, Edward Barber, a rabbiter, was trapped in his room by the flames, and suffered…

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Whiddon's Grab Fails to Mulct Publicans Appeal Upheld by Full Court

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 20 November 1928 · page 3

An Important question bearing upon the matter of what are proper deductions to be made by business people in rendering their income tax returns…

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Cadia Hotel Razed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 November 1928 · page 20

ORANGE, Monday. -- The only hotel at Cadia, a 16-roomed weatherboard structure, owned by Mrs. J. Tynan, of Dulwich Hill (the licensee being J. T…

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Real Estate Hotel Site Martin Place Sale Auction of Bank

The Sun · Wednesday 21 November 1928 · page 2

Though it,was built to fulfil the needs of a bank, the present head office of the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales, in Martin -place, city,…

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Husband's Death Widow Gets £500 From Hotelkeeper Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 21 November 1928 · page 7

Mrs. Elizabeth Bird was granted £500 damages against Joseph Varley a Richmond hotelkeeper, in compensation for the death of her husband…

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"Go Ahead" Doctor Is Fined £5 License Suspended

The Sun · Thursday 22 November 1928 · page 15

Robert Vivian Storer, a doctor, of Macquarie-street, Sydney, was fined £5, and had his license suspended for three months at…

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S. M. Knows It "The Lingering Hotel"

The Sun · Friday 23 November 1928 · page 13

Have you ever seen a hotel linger? A police inspector told Mr. Camphin,.. S. M., in the Central Summons Court, to- day that the Belmore Hotel…

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Found Dead in Darwin Hotel Darwin

The Labor Daily · Friday 23 November 1928 · page 7

A man, believed to be Arthur Leighton, of West Australia, was found dead in bed at the Club Hotel this morning…

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Hotel Licensee Fined. Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 November 1928 · page 18

At the Police Court three youths were fined 10/ each on a charge of being on licensed premises during unlawful hours. The publican, R. G. Lysaught, was fined £15 for falling to…

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Heard by the Way Fast Pigs—Runaway Cheque—The Great Egg of St. Marys—Old Fatality Recalled—Helping the Sunlight, etc. The Hotel at Rooty Hill

Nepean Times · Saturday 24 November 1928 · page 1

AT Penrith Licensing Court on Monday the transfer of the license of the Imperial Hotel, Rooty Hill, from Francis Erbetto to Carlton John…

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£150,000 for Savings Bank Sold to Architect for Australia Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 November 1928 · page 7

The old head office of the Government Savings Bank of New South Wales, in Martin Place, was sold by private treaty yesterday…

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Lapin Doesn't Lack Fire Hotelkeeper, Cross Examined, Denies That He Had Another Name in China Says He Didn't Agree to Pay £1000

Truth · Sunday 25 November 1928 · page 10

IT certainly cannot be said of Mark Lapin, a hotelkeeper of Newtown, that he kicks fire when he's in the witness box under cross-examination. Mark is a Russian Jew, and, like the rest of that hardy race, believes in talking for…

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A Good Sleuth Lost to the Force How Hotelkeeper Dan Kearns Kept on the Trail

Truth · Sunday 25 November 1928 · page 20

WHEN Mr. Dan. Kearns ("Cap'n Harisen"), licensee of the Hotel Crystal, George-street, Sydney, after an exciting chase through the city streets a few days ago, was instrumental in handing over to a traffic…

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Policeman and Man Who Went To Help Mauled By Mob Boots, Fists Ten Attack Two Outside Hotel Constable's Pistol Taken

The Sun · Sunday 25 November 1928 · page 5

Boots and fists and rugby tackles--handcuffs and wrestling holds-- All were used in a fierce melee near the Sir George Grey 'Hotel in Bay-st., Glebe, yesterday afternoon, when…

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Helped Constable Tribute to Publican

Evening News · Monday 26 November 1928 · page 6

THE Commissioner of Police, Mr. Jamea [?] to-day expressed appreciation of the action of Mr. Wilkinson, [?] of the University Hotel. Glebe. in…

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Mr. P. J. Aylward Dead Well-known Hotel-keeper

The Sun · Monday 26 November 1928 · page 3

The death occurred at Paddington yesterday of Mr. Percy James Aylward, a well-known Sydney hotelkeeper. Mr. Aylward was a native of Sydney, and…

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English Growls Dissatisfied with Hotel Is It a Slight? Brisbane's Best for Australian Team Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 26 November 1928 · page 1

MUCH dissatisfaction has been expressed by the Englishmen regarding hotel accommodation on the present tour…

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