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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

1,277 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 64

Hotel Burnt Boarders' Narrow Escape Innisfail

The Sun · Tuesday 22 October 1929 · page 2

A fire, which was discovered at 3 a.m. in the rear portion of the building, destroyed the Criterion Hotel, South Johnstone, to-day. The place…

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Liquor Licenses Are Transferred

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 22 October 1929 · page 5

The Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday granted the following transfers of pubilcans' licenses: Metropolitan Hotel. Pitt Street City…

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New Hotels by Ballot

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 October 1929 · page 11

"The system of petitioning by residents of a district will be done away with, if the Government passes the Liquor Act Amendment Bill." said the…

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Took Safe and £400 From Kandos Hotel Daring Robbers Leave No Trace

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 October 1929 · page 10

KANDOS, Monday.--A daring safe robbery was committed at Kandos Hotel between 11.30 on Sunday night and 1.5 on Monday morning…

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Airport Hotel Opens

The World's News · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 6

OAKLAND Airport, California, now has [?] airport hotel, the first in the United States, according to the American Air Transport Association, of what is to become a…

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Leningrad, City of the Dead Hotel Bills £6 a Day

The World's News · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 18

GOING to Russia,' says Mr. H. J. Greenwall, in "Mirrors of Moscow" (Harrap, London, our copy from Angus and Robertson, Sydney), "is…

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Daking Theft. Safe Containing £400 Taken From Hotel, Kandos

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 19

Thieves perpetrated a daring robbery at the Kandos Hotel early yesterday morning. Gaining an entrance by forcing the office window, the thieves opened the front door…

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Street Women "Vag. Act" Amendment Licensed Houses ?

The Sun · Wednesday 23 October 1929 · page 13

The Vagrancy Amendment Bill was further considered in committee in the Legislative Assembly this afternoon. Speaking to the clause in which the…

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Hotel Licenses. for Residential Suburbs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 October 1929 · page 12

"It seems to me that since the prohibition referendum was taken, the Government has taken it as an indication that the people want more hotels. There seems to me to be great…

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Billiard Licenses Two For One Man Magistrate's View

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 October 1929 · page 7

The Scriptures have it that no man can serve two masters. And the law—in this country, at any rate—looks with disfavor on the man…

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Parking Solved Cycle on Hotel Awning

The Sun · Thursday 24 October 1929 · page 2

One of Sydney's Workmen has solved the traffic parking problem. He is working on repairs at Plasto's Hotel at the Quay,and…

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Blew Head Off in Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 October 1929 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The Darwin inquest on Adam Wright, who blew his head off with gelignite at the Club Hotel, concluded this…

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Pate-de-fois-gras or Sardines? Hotel Waiter Is Fined

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 October 1929 · page 6

An order for pate-de-fole-gran at the Hotel Australia on October 11, led a to a rumpus between two waiters. that had its sequel in the Central…

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Election Day License Prosecutions Small Fines

Nepean Times · Saturday 26 October 1929 · page 3

Hotels are supposed to be closed to business during polling hours on polling day. On Saturday, 12th inst, police visited the Royal…

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Tommy Uren Strikes Trouble at Orange a License Prosecution

Nepean Times · Saturday 26 October 1929 · page 3

Tommy Uren, formerly champion boxer, one-time resident of Penrith, and now licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel, Orange, recently struck legal…

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Hotel Accommodation. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 October 1929 · page 18

At the last sitting of the State Licensing Board in Albury an order was made for the erection of 25 additional bedrooms at the Globe Hotel, together with other…

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Robbery in City Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 October 1929 · page 21

Clifford Proctor, who resides in Bondi, was assaulted by three men in Wheclan's Hotel, Oxford-street, city, late yesterday afternoon and robbed of his wallet containing £4…

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Scullin Sets Example Won't Use Lodge Comfortably Housed at Hotel Canberra

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 October 1929 · page 7

"I FAIL to see that ft is at all derogatory to the office of Prime Minister to live at a first class hotel, said Mr. Scullin to-day, referring to the…

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Sydney's Newest Hotel

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 October 1929 · page 13

The Grand Hotel, in Hunter-street, is now completed. The new building, land and license cost over £110,000, and is the property of Mr. Fred W. Still, for many years at the Crystal Palace Hotel, Central Square, Sydney, and the Steyne Hotel, Manly…

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Bathing Ban Turks Can't Swim Outside Licensed Places

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 October 1929 · page 3

SWIMMING is now on the long list of items that come under the governmental thumb in Turkey. The prefect of Constantinople has ordered the arrest…

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