"I'll Lose my Taxi." Driver's License Suspended
"I've paid £250 off my taxi; I owe £200 on it still; if I lose my licence, I lose the lot!" That was the appeal of William…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hotels & licensing, 1929
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Licensed Victuallers. Hobart
The annual conference of the Licensed Victuallers' Association was concluded yesterday. The following officers were elected:—President, Mr. J. A. Safe (N.S.W.); senior…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Smoke Alarm Guests in Hotel Roused Midnight Blaze Rush for Roof; Damage Estimated at £70,000
Women in their night attire and men in pyjamas rushed into the bleak midnight air last bight, coughing and wiping from their eyes the tears that were caused by the clouds, of smoke that flew into the Occidental Hotel from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →She May Be a Bishop's Grand-child But She Had a Real Good Time In Sydney Hotels Miss Grylls' Dodging Ways
SYDNEY was recently visited by an avowed Empire builder who was so concerned with England, home and beauty that she "forgot to remember" to pay her bills in Australia. The promotion of Empire interests occupied so much of her time that she could not even spare a few moments formally to sign a cheque…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smoke, Flames And Sparks Herald Big City Blaze Firemen's Fight From Top of 80Ft. Ladder Hotel Guests, Scared by Leaping Red Tongues, Dashed Into Street Building Was Soon Burned Down
The greater portion of a five-storey building, occupied by United Distributors, of 72 Clarence Street, City, was gutted by fire, discovered shortly before midnights Dense clouds of smoke; lurid tongues of flames, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coogee Bay Hotel
The following guests are staying at the above hotel: " Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, Mr. and Mrs. Norton, Miss Norton, Mrs. E, Norton, Mr. Govett,…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Hotel Porter Named in Will
Jim Crowley, porter at the Clift Hotel (San Francisco) since its opening fourteen years are, has fallen heir to several hundred dollars for a peculiar service he…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Railway Workers Want Royal Commission Would Boycott Privately-Owned Transport Lines, and Monopolise Field De-license 'Buses and Pay No Com-pensation Assume Control of Petrol, Oil, and Coal
RECENT threats made by employees of the Railway Department have been deprecated by the Australian Railways Union in its annual report. Though…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Liquor Bill. New Licenses. Method of Granting. Poll of Residents
The Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) has begun preparation of the new Liquor Bill which is to be brought down at the next session of Parliament…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →License Them! Restaurant-keepers New Regulations ?
There is a possibility that at the next session of State Parliament a new measure will be introduced whereby it will be…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Found Dead in City Hotel
Seth Brandon Vincent Pierce. in of Darlinghurst Road. Darling- burst was found dead in a lavatory by a page boy at the Carlton Hotel…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →License by Ballot New Liquor Bill Important Changes
IT is the intention of the Minister for Justice, Mr. Lee. to introduce a new Liquor Bill during next session, The measure will be in line with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Licensing Court
In the Metropolitan Licensing Court the following applications for the transfer of publicans' licenses were granted:—John Reay Palmer, to Jack Richards May, Riverview Hotel, Ba[?]ain; Luther Thomas David…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Spooks" Objection by Police Licensing Premises
Two sub-inspectors have been appointed by the Government to supervise licensing premises throughout the State…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →To Close Dirty Restaurants License System May be Adopted
Licenses for restaurant keepers, which may be cancelled after convictions for dirty premises, will probably be provided for by legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →FORGED £5 Note. Man Arrested. In City Hotel
Following the arrest of a man, who, it is alleged, tendered a forged £5 bank note in a city hotel shortly before closing time last night, the police visited a house at Woollahra…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Hotel Lodger Joined As Co-re. Publican's Divorce
EVIDENCE given in the Divorce Court to-day showed that when George Frederick Brereton, hotel-keeper, of Surry Hills, took in George…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two Men Drop Dead Business Man and Publican in Theatre and Hotel Newcastle
JOSEPH CHAPMAN. 65 a wellKnown business Identity of Timnee. Manning River. collapsed and died a few minutes later in the Strand…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hotel License. Application for Transfer Refused. Bathurst
Frederick Smith, of Dent-street, Botany, applied in the Bathurst Police Court for the transfer to himself of the license of the Royal Hotel, Wattle Flat. He admitted in evidence…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Hotel in a Mountain
ONE of the most extraordinary hotels in the world was completed on the Jungfrau not long ago. It is on the shoulder just below the crest of this Swiss giant,…
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