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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

1,290 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 65

Drought Over Canberra Can Quaff Six Licenses Canberra

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 December 1928 · page 4

Three hotels and three shopping centre saloons will be in full swing towards the end of the week, and register the end of Canberra's long drought. There is…

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Bottle Basher Gaoled Edward Regan, Refused a Drink, Vented His Annoyance on Publican Disgrace Follows Sorrow

Truth · Sunday 16 December 1928 · page 16

TROUBLES never come singly. On November 30 the daughter of Edward Michael Regan, of Beaumont-street, Rose Bay, was shot accidentally under sensational circumstances by Regan's own son…

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Marts, Money and Mines Carlton Hotel Has a Good Year and Pays a Bonus

Evening News · Monday 17 December 1928 · page 6

THE expectation thai the Carlton Hotel. Ltd., would disclose greatly-improved net profits for the year ended October 31 was fully realised, when the…

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City Gossip Carlton Hotel Finances Profit on Preserves

The Sun · Monday 17 December 1928 · page 4

Carlton Hotel Pays 12½ p.c., Accounts of Carlton Hotel, Ltd., for the year ended October 31 last show that gross profits increased by £1655,…

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Felled to the Ground May Prove Fatal Punched Under Hotel Verandah Assailant Arrested

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 December 1928 · page 1

FELLED by a blow on the jaw at Stanmore on Saturday night, Ernest Neville. 43. of, Silver Street. St. Petem. received injuries that may…

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Carlton Hotel Bonus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 December 1928 · page 13

A net profit of £12,006 is shown by Cariton Hotel, Ltd., compared with £10,674 for the previous year. in addition to the ordinary dividend of 10 per cent. there is recommended…

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Bookmakers' Licenses

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 December 1928 · page 2

Applications for bookmakers' licenses for Mascot coursing wound must be lodged at the club's office. Catheart House He Castlereagh street…

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Carlton Hotel Has Good Year Increased Ordinary Dividend

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 December 1928 · page 16

Accounts of Carlton Hotel, Ltd., for the year to October 31 last, show that the company again had a record period. Net profit was in excess of 17 per cent…

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The Largest Hotel in the World

Construction and Local Government Journal · Wednesday 19 December 1928 · page 6

As we should naturally expect, the largest hotel in the world is in U.S.A. fronting Michigan Boulevarde, Chicago, and is known as "The Stevens," apparently after the owner, as…

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Licensing Prosecution. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 December 1928 · page 16

Mary Cowham, licensee of the Family Hotel was charged with allowing a man on licensed premises during prohibited hours. It was stated for the prosecution that a sergeant of…

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Fatal Shot in Hotel Bar Young Man to Stand Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 December 1928 · page 10

The City Coroner (Mr. E. A. May) yesterday committed for trial Thomas Garvey, a young man, on a charge of having murdered Robert Prophett,…

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Hotels Liable for After- Hours Burglars! How Licensees "Get It," Going and Coming

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 7

BATHURST, Wednesday.--hat under the existing liquor laws a hotel keeper is liable if a burglar is found on his premises during prohibited hours,…

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"Very Considerate" Magistrate on Police Billiard License Renewed

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 1

By the grace of the police, Phillip Brassington is still the holder of a billiard license. When at Parramatta yesterday he…

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Bogus Travellers On Hotel Premises

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 23

Walter Hedley Chick, James Cook Alexander McLean, Richard Lloyd, and Leslie Toomey, on November 17, called at Easton's Hampden Hotel, Pennant…

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No License Young Lady Fined

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 6

Charged at the Parramatta Police Court yesterday with having permitted Brenda Steedman, an unlicensed person. to drive a motor ear, Geo. West stated…

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Lost New License Too Much Sabbath Beer Guides Take Action

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 15

J. Grisbrook and J. Wood, N.R.M.A. guides, were working on a car in Liverpool-road, Lansdowne, on Sunday, when Raymond Sylvester Kennedy (20) came…

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Tips Banned London Hotels Continent Contrast

Evening News · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 5

A BAM against against tipping in many London hotels was noted by Mr. G. H. T[?]ubman chairman of directors of the well-known paint…

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Barbers' Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 12

The City Commissioners decided yesterday to insert in the proposed new by-laws governing barbers' and hairdressers' shops a clause providing for the licensing of barbers carrying on…

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Fierce Fire Damage at Wellington Hotel Just Saved Wellington

The Sun · Thursday 20 December 1928 · page 18

A fire broke out in the premises of C. J. Shakespeare, undertaker and fancy goods dealer, at 8 o'clock this morning…

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Drunken Driver To Pay £35, and Not to Hold a License for Ten Years

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 21 December 1928 · page 4

At the Redfern (Sydney) police court this week an engineer, Francis Anthony O'Brien, aged twenty-eight years, was delicensed for ten years…

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