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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

1,277 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 64

Minister's Plan to License Side Show Men

The Sun · Wednesday 29 May 1929 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) to-day suggested to a deputation representing the grand council of associated groups of agricultural…

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Licensee Absent; £300 Stolen

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 May 1929 · page 20

GUNDAGAI, Monday. -- While the licensee, Mr. Jones, and his wife were absent from the bar of the Family Hotel yesterday afternoon, a daring…

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No License for His Theatre "Playbox" Producer Fined, But Will Carry On

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 May 1929 · page 7

At the Central Summons Court yesterday Duncan MacDougall, producer and manager of the Playbox Theatre, Rowe Street, was fined £5 for…

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Cannot Hold License Man Who Was in Ringing-in Conspiracy

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 May 1929 · page 2

BATHURST, Tuesday. -- Frederick Smith, of Botany, applied to Mr. W. S. Bromhead, Licensing Magistrate, for a transfer of the license of the…

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Licensing Inspectors Unpopular

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 May 1929 · page 10

The Government appointment of two sub-inspectors to supervise licensing premises throughout the State has been received with…

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Country Hotels. Sanitary Experts Appointed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 May 1929 · page 16

The State Government, on the recommendation of the Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) decided some time ago to appoint two inspectors with expert knowledge to advise…

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Poor "Peacemaker" With Another Man's Wife Fight Outside Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 1

On Tuesday afternoon, James Stone and Albert. Victor Bergan were fighting outside the Wentworthville Hotel. Though they probably didn't know. It,…

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Australianities the Fallen Tree Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 21

On the lonesome line of traffic, Where the Tumberumba track Forks for Bago, and for Taradale as well, Where the wallabies and wombats…

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Hotels and Telephone Directories

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 17

The N.R.M.A. his pointed out to the Postal Department the public disadvantage resulting from the insertion in the various telephone directories of the names…

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Drunken Driver. Two Months' Gaol. License to Be Withheld

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 8

Arthur Foster (23), a salesman, was sentenced to two months' hard labour by Mr. Camphin, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, for having driven a motor car along…

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Hotel Robbed

The Sun · Thursday 30 May 1929 · page 15

A cash register containing £ 50, and valued at £75, was stolen from the bar of the Sir Joseph Banks Hotel, Botany-road, Botany, last night…

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Sworn Valuers Temporary Cessation in the Issue of Licenses

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 8

"Beginner" winhes to know how to proceed to become a sworn valuer under the Real Property Act. Answer:—It would to necessary for…

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"News" Motoring Country Hotels R.a.c.a. Opinion "Must Be Improved"

Evening News · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 14

THE R.A.C.A. commends the action of the Minister for Justice in recommendeding the appointment of the inspectors with expert knowledge to advice…

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Liquor Bill. Licenses for New Clubs. Wine Bars to Be Dealt With

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 13

The draft of the Liquor Bill, features of which have already been announced in the "Herald," is now nenring completion, and will be submitted to the Cabinet at an early date…

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Hotel Robbery. Cash Register Removed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 17

Awaiting their opportunity, thieves ontered the barroom at the Sir Joseph Banks Hotel, Botany-rond, Botany, on Wednesday night, and carried off a cash register, valued at £75,…

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"Unhealthy" Hotels R.a.c.a. Seeks Improvements

The Sun · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 19

The R.A.C.A. commends the action of the Minister for Justice in recommending tho appointment of two inspectors with expert knowledge to advise hotolkeepers on…

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The Lockers or the Bar? Sporting Clubs May Get Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 3

Is it better for members of Tootball, and other sporting clubs to have limitless liquor in their lockers. Or for the clubs…

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Radio Must Be Licensed, Though Dumb

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 May 1929 · page 12

"It won't work. Not even the children will be bothered with it," said Harold Hickson, of Lismore Avenue, Dee Why, of his radio set, when he…

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City Mystery Empire Hotel Case Need for Inquiry Mr. Gates' Doubts

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 June 1929 · page 2

IT is obvious that an official investi-gation should bo made by the Government and Civic Commissioners, relative to the suggestion of Chief…

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Browns and Greens See Red "Blood Streamed From My Nose and Mouth," Says a Participant in Hotel Brawl Scarlet Stained Rose of Denmark

Truth · Sunday 2 June 1929 · page 16

WHEN Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Brown went to the Rose of Denmark Hotel, Waterloo, the other day, with the avowed object of taking possession under a second mortgage, they were met with a stone-wall refusal to vacate by the licensee, Albert Henry Green…

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