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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

1,277 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 64

Hotel Licence Sought

The Sun · Tuesday 3 December 1929 · page 15

An application for a hotel licence for a site at the corner of Parramatta road and Alfred-street, Granville, is being made to the Licensing…

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Sound-proof Hotel New Dorchester House Plans

The World's News · Wednesday 4 December 1929 · page 6

THE new hotel which is to be built, at a cost of £1,250,000, on the site of the now completely demolished Dorchester House, Park Lane, London, will, it is claimed, be the…

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Hotel Metropole LARGEST & Most Modern Hotel in Australia

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 4 December 1929 · page 29

Sumptuous additions and interior reconstruction of the Hotel Metropole, which has a delightfully cool and refreshing position, facing three main thoroughfares in the heart of the…

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A Famous Site. Old Royal Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 December 1929 · page 10

A site overlaid with the history of Sydney is that now occupied by Dymock's Book Arcade. Ltd., and "The Block," No. 424 George-street, between King and Market…

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Proposed Hotel at Strathfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 December 1929 · page 16

The Strathfield Council decided at its meeting last night to oppose the proposal to secure an hotel license for a site in Clarendon-road, Strathfield…

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Waterside Workers. Licenses Inspected. Surprise Move at Melbourne. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 December 1929 · page 16

To ascertain whether all men employed on the wharves held licenses under the Transport Workers' Act, an official of the Navigation Department made a surprise visit to different…

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Woman Slashed in Hotel Two Men Charged "Redfern Residents Fear Them"

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 4 December 1929 · page 5

When Robert Roy Cotter, 20, and James .H Phillip Patrick Barron. 28, laborers, appeared before the chamber magistrate. Mr. Wells. at the…

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Ned Kelly From Back O' Bourse Stabbed Publican; Got Three Years What's in a name? Well--

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 December 1929 · page 12

Ned Kelly (59), laborer, was yesterday convicted of having stabbed Daniel Thomas Joseph Toohill, publican, in the hotel at Yantabulla, 82…

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Voice of the Suburbs New Hotel Granville License Thirsty Crowds

Evening News · Thursday 5 December 1929 · page 18

THE Licensing Board. sitting at parramatta. has decided to recommend the petition of Charles [?] Brett for a hotel tlcens[?] at the [?]…

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Waterside Work Licenses Surprise Inspection Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 December 1929 · page 7

To ascertain whether all men employed on the wharves held licenses under the Transport Workers' Act, an official of the Navigation Department…

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Had £1, Charge of Stealing £80 Man at Zetland Hotel

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 December 1929 · page 6

Although a man had only £1 on him and £85 was found under the bed in a room at Zetland Hotel yesterday, police charged him with stealing £80…

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Hotel for Granville

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 December 1929 · page 18

The Licensine Bench, sitting at Parramitta, decided to recommend the petition of Charles Henry Brett for a license for an hotel at the intersection of Parrarmtta-road and…

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Passes Them by Hotels Not His Hobby

The Sun · Friday 6 December 1929 · page 13

William Booth, the well-known Rosehill horse trainer, does not worry about…

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Beauty and Comfort the New Obontes Ample Catering for Third Class Like Big Hotel

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 December 1929 · page 8

TWENTY thousand tons of solid. unostentatious, British comfort the Orontes, the newest of the Orient Royal Mall fleet, berthed in Sydney…

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Undertaker as Publican "Embalmed" His Customers Policeman Thought Trade Was Very Brisk Barrels of Fluid Chicago

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 December 1929 · page 4

"That undertaker certainly does a big business," Policeman Charles Holmes mused as he passed the forbidding…

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JOCKEY R. J. Marsden Loses Driver's License Drunk at Wheel of Car in City

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 December 1929 · page 9

Remarking that the public must be protected, Mr. Camphin, S.M., at the Central Police Court yesterday, imposed a fine of £20 on Reginald…

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Wireless Set On Licensed Premises Springwood Cases

Nepean Times · Saturday 7 December 1929 · page 1

That Roy Deane Thornthwaite was on the premises of the Hotel Oriental, Springwood, after closing time for the purpose of attending…

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Hotel Accommodation. To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 7 December 1929 · page 7

A reference was made in a "Shoulders to the Wheel" paragraph last week to the poor quality of the accommodation found in some of the country hotels. I…

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Peer Appeared But Won't Pay £690 Hotel Bill Says Wife Must Daughter's "Coming-out'' Dance London

Evening News · Saturday 7 December 1929 · page 1

A CURIOUS argument. whether Lonl Falkland or Lady Falkland was responsible for the bill of £690 owing to the [?] Hotel for a "coming out" dinner dance and supper for their daughter. occupied the Lord Chief…

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Blaze in City Hotel

The Sun · Saturday 7 December 1929 · page 3

A fire in the City Hotel, at the corner of King and Kent streets, yesterday damaged the walls and floors or the second floor and the floor of the…

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