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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

1,277 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 64

Licensed Mechanics Parlty. Backing Sought

The Sun · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 20

State licenses for all automobile mechanics are aimed at by the American Association of Machinists and Federation of Labor. They intend to…

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Hotel Transfer

The Biz · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

At Liverpool Court on Thurslay the Commercial Hotel, Liverpool, was transferred from Sydney Ross to Sydney Goodhew…

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Heard by the Way Penrith Explorers Lost—Can Machinery Agents Talk?—Workman, Spare That Rock!—Auditor and Clerk—Price of Milk, etc. Hotel at Glenbrook

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 1

THE erection of the up-to-date residential hotel at [?]brook that is to take over the license of the Royal Hotel, Penrith, is well in progress…

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Electricians. Licenses Compulsory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 18

All firms, companies, partnerships and bodies trading as electrical contractors and carrying but electrical installation work will be required to take out licenses as electrical…

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Sunday Dancing. in Unbegistered Halls. Licensees Ask Same Privilege

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 18

Representatives of dance hall and cabaret proprietors who waited upon the Chief Secretary yesterday urged that licensed halls should have the right to permit dancing on their…

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SPORT and SPORTSMEN ("Iroquois") Three-cornered Combat Underlying Adelaide Racing Dishonor Star the Clubs Pin on Bookies' Breasts State Would Be Gainer by Licensing Bookmakers

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 5

ADELAIDE has provided the setting for a battle of wits between bookmakers and their supporters on the one side, and police, politicians, and wowsers arranged on the opposition, with a third element entering…

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Licensed Dance Halls Sunday Programmes

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 May 1929 · page 7

Compulsory [?]ensing of all dance halts and the official suction of Sunday dancing were requests made by a deputation to the Chief Secretary…

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Licensee Hurt in Hotel Brawl Bottles Used Freely Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 1

During a brawl on Saturday afternoon in a hotel in Little Collins Street In which bottles boots, sticks and fists were freely used by a number of…

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Armed Maniac Stir at Hotel in Army Uniform Auckland

Evening News · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 10

A SENSATION was earned at Cargen Hotel yesterday, when a man, aged 33. dressed in the full uniform of an army lieutenant, and wearing…

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Glass Flies in Brawl at Hotel Man Arrested With Bottle-neck in His Hand

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Struck by flying glass in a brawl in the Royal Arcade Hotel, Little Collins Street, on Saturday night, the licensee (Mrs…

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Hotel Burnt. Invalid Woman's Escape. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 16

One of Wellington's oldest landmarks, the Railway Hotel, Thorndon Quay, was destroyed by fire at noon yesterday. The building was of wood, and the flames spread with great…

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Proposed Hotel. Opposition at Roseville

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 May 1929 · page 16

An effort to obtain a license for a hotel at Roseville is being strongly opposed by residents of the district on the ground that the area is a residential one, and that there is…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 13

In the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday the following applications for the transfer of publicans' licenses were granted:—Lyonel Levy to William Mathias Westphal, Palace Hotel, George-street. Sydney:…

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Sergeant Had Close Shave Demented Ex-soldier in Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 May 1929 · page 2

AUCKLAND, N.Z., Monday.--A sensational incident accurred at the Cargen, one of the leading Auckland hotels…

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District Court Appeals. Transfer of Hotel License

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 May 1929 · page 12

Hearing was commenced of an appeal lodged by George Alma Bennett from the adjudication of the Metropolitan Licensing Court on March 25, 1929, refusing the application of…

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Quarter Sessions Appeals. (Before Judge Curlewis.) Removal of Hotel License

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 6

Further argument was heard on the appeal of George Alma Bennett from the adjudication of the Metropolitan Licensing Court refusing the application of appellant for the removal…

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PROHIBITION. Presbyterians' Attitude. Reduction of Hotel Trading Hours

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 12

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales yesterday considered the report of the committee on Church life and work, in which special reference was…

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Hotels Shaken by Explosion

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 May 1929 · page 10

AUCKLAND, Wednesday.--With a loud explosion, accompanied by vivid blue flashes, two iron manholes of the Auckland cable system blew out…

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Quarter Sessions Appeals. (Before Judge Curlewis.) Removal of Hotel License

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 May 1929 · page 7

Hearing was continued of the appeal by George Alma Bennett from the adjudication of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench refusing the application of appellant for the removal of…

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Runaway Boy. Theft at an Hotel. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 May 1929 · page 13

A boy whom a man saw leaving his room at the Car[?]ton Hotel yesterday said, on being questioned, that he had gone to the wrong room by mistake, but on making investigations…

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