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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

1,277 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 64

Motorists' Licenses Municipal Officers Have No Power to Demand Production

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 14

In some towns throughout New South Wales municipal officers have demanded the production of motorists' licence. The National Roads…

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Suburban Hotel Lease Record Price Paid

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 14

The Tea Gardens Hotel. Bondi Junction, which, for the past two years and a half, has been conducted by Mr. William Hackett, has beet, sold to Mr. William McNeill, late or…

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Hotel Standards Better Facilities

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 8

A deputation from the N. R. M. A., led by the chairman of the General purposes Committee (Mr. A M Graham) has discussed with the Licenes eduction Board…

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Doctor Drunk Car in Collision License Suspended

Evening News · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 3

ARTHUR Macnaffe Burge. 48, a doctor, was fined £20 by Mr. M'Mahon, S.M., at the Central Court, to-day, on a charge of having driven…

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Fate's Game with Percival Refused Air License Last Year, Now Issues Them No Certificate for Southern Cross

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 7

FATE has a magnificent sense of humor. A year or so ago Captain Percival was conducting a little gentlemanly argument with the Dept. of Aviation from the cockpit of his aeroplane. The department refused to license it, on the ground that it was unairworthy. Percival, stroking it lovingly, said that it was a jolly sight better than a lot of the department's own machines…

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Pays £20 and Loses License for Ten Years Agent Drove Under Influence of Liquor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 11

In addition to a fine of £20, William John Carroll (36), agent was debarred, at the Central Court yesterday, from holding: a motor driver's license for the…

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Pony Licenses

Evening News · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 8

The A.R.C. to-day granted Jockeys' licenses to J. Maxwell, O. Bromhall, G. Wells and S. Unwin. Trainers' licenses were granted to T. Foy and M. Griffiths…

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Beer Strike Off Publican Capitulates Cullen Bullen

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 5

The Cullen Bullen been strikers epic struggic has ended in a victory for the men. The publican called a public meeting on Friday night. And the…

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Wireless Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 6

VICTORIA, in proportion to population, has more than twice the listeners-in of New South Wales. What is the reason?…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 February 1929 · page 4

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday the following applications for the transfer of publicans' licenses were granted: Charles Paul MacQullian to Victor Henry…

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New Names Over Hotels

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 February 1929 · page 4

Following hotel licenses were transferred at the Licensing Court yesterday:-- Railway Hotel. Chatswood. Chnrlos…

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Novel Place for Licenses

The World's News · Wednesday 6 February 1929 · page 18

MOTOR-CAR owners' and drivers' licenses often become misplaced, and then you are out of luck when a traffic cop demands that you produce them. However, if there…

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Licensee Wins "Beer for a Party"

The Sun · Wednesday 6 February 1929 · page 18

Mr. Justice James, in Chambers today, made absolute a rule nisi for a writ of prohibition, on behalf of John Thomas Parkes, of the Morning Star…

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Don't Want to Lose New Hotel the Rose Hill Folk (To The Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 February 1929 · page 6

Sir.--I am directed by the Granville branch A.L.P. to write you this--a lettered protest--which we would like you to publish. This letter is with regard to an…

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Criticism of Radio Programmes Increase in Licenses Points to Popularity

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 February 1929 · page 13

Criticism of 2FC and 2BL wireless' programmes by "H.B.," in a letter to the "Pictorial," was referred yesterday to the N.S.W. Broadcasting Company,…

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Novel Point Under Licensing Act Rule Nisi Granted

The Sun · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 12

An application was made this afternoon to Mr. Justice James, in Chambers, on behalf of William Duncan Robert McIntyre, of the Royal Hotel,…

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Hotel Unroofed Trundle

The Sun · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 15

A terrific gale, with thunder and lightning, struck Bogan Gate yesterday afternoon. The roof of the Railway Hotel was blown off, a verandah…

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£150,000 Lost Costly Canberra Hotels May Be Leased Canberra

The Sun · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 15

At the end of the last financial year the Federal Capital Commission had lost £150,000 on the hotels and…

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Empire Hotel Conviction Quashed

The Sun · Thursday 7 February 1929 · page 17

On the ground that he had genuinely believed that the men he served were bona-fide travellers, Joseph Henry Ellison, licensee of the Empire Hotel,…

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