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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

1,277 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 64

Hotelkeeper's Death

The Sun · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 6

Mr. Michael McMahon, hotelkeeper, of Ultimo, died yesterday. Born in County Clare, Ireland, 56 years ago, Mr. McMahon came to the…

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Lithgow and Portland Billiard Licenses Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 6

At the Lithgow Licensing Court to-day, before Mr. H. H. Farrington, P.M., applications were made for renewal of billiard-room licenses held…

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Staying at Seaside Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 January 1929 · page 13

LADY EVELYN MALCOLM, with Miss. Duckham, Mr. Richard Duckham, and Miss. Farquhar, who are travelling with the British Economic…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 8

At the Licensing Court yesterday the following applicatious for the transfer of publicans' licenses were granted:—William Holdsworth to Thomas Ryan, Tilbury Hotel, Forbes…

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Saved License Farmer Was Drunk Rough on Rabbits

Evening News · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 13

EDWARD KNIGHT, a farmer, was fined £15 by the Kogarah magistrate for having driven a motor car in the Explanade…

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Hotel Workers Hours Are Reduced to Forty-four

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 7

Employees in hotels in the metropolitan area will, for the next two years at leant, work the 44-hour week. Previously they had been engaged for…

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Made Herself a Publican Sold Beer -- Fined £30

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 6

Nellie Burke is a young factory band with big ambitions. On January 12, apparently deeming her earnings far too meagre she…

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Six Months' Gaol for Kicking Policeman Hotel Corner Loungers Are Criticised

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1929 · page 9

"Most of the men who congregate at hotel corners are one in sympathy. You can get witnesses on their side, but it is impossible to get witnesses for the…

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Mascot Coursing Bookmakers' Licenses

Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 7

Applications, accompanied by fees, must be ledged for four meetings is advance before THURSDAY. JANUARY [?] 1923. No licence fees will be accepted on the ground…

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Murder Charge S. Coast Hotel Case Wollongong

Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 10

AT the police court to-day George Everett, alias Edwards, was remanded untill January 21 on a charge of having murdered Robert Cassell. Bell was…

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Fatal Blow. Man Struck by Stranger. While Sitting in Hotel. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 17

Robert Cassells died in the Wollongong Hospital this morning as a result of a blow on the head received in a hotel on Saturday. Cassells was sitting in the hotel when he…

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Hotel on Fire. Tweed Heads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 18

A fire broke out late yesterday afternoon in a building adjoining the rear of the Hotel Pacifique, a wooden, structure. The building which caught fire comprised the laundry…

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Motor Drivers' Licenses

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 46

THE distinction made between Hie driver of a private car and the driver of a commercial vehicle is regarded as an inconsistency and an injustice by a member…

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Romance Broken? Suzanne Lenglen From Mansion to Hotel San Francisco

The Sun · Wednesday 16 January 1929 · page 1

All San Francisco is agog with the sudden departure of the French tennis star, Suzanne Lenglen, and her mother, from the magnificent Baldwin…

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Graded Hotels N.r.m.a. Proposal Licensing Bd. Agrees

Evening News · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 13

HOTELS may soon be hanging out a new sign to denote that they are first, second, or third class, as the result of action by the N.R.M.A…

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Missed Big Haul Thieves at Hotel

Evening News · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 14

ALTHOUGH Clarence Wit[?] Tierney licensee of the Bridge-road Hotel Bridge-road, Pyrmont, wa robbed of 12 last night. his loss might…

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Charge of Murder. Man Struck in Hotel. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 7

George Edwards (alias Everett) appeared at the Police Court to-day, charged with the murder of Robert Cassells. Edwards was remanded…

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Australia Hotel Loan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 13

Shareholders of Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., at an extraordinary meeting yesterday, empowered the directors to borrow £150,000 upon terms to be decided by the directors…

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Money, Mines & Markets City Gossip Australia Hotel Finance Mt. Elliott Issue

The Sun · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 4

When the Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., acquired the freehold premises in Martin- place last November that were formerly owned and occupied by the…

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Murder Charge Follows Hotel Row

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 January 1929 · page 20

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday. -- At the Police Court this morning George Everett, alias Edwards, was remanded till January 21 on a charge of…

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