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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

1,277 stories in Sydney's papers · page 60 of 64

Babies in Hotel Bars Unwholesome Drift Is Growing

Truth · Sunday 8 December 1929 · page 32

PERNICIOUS and Insidious, the Imported praction of parents of both sexes taking bables and young children Into hotels, while they are…

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Push or Punch? Murder Charge Results Quarrel in Hotel

The Sun · Monday 9 December 1929 · page 15

Ball in £200 was granted Joseph McNamara, who was charged at the Central Court to -day with having murdered…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 7

Approval was given by the Metropolitan Licensing Bench yesterday to the trnnsfer of the following publicans licenses:—Kathleen Nixon to George Alexander Innes. Welcome Hotel, Evans-street,…

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Hotel Licensee's Death. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 12

Walter Thomas Grigg, 44 years, licensee of Rockwell Hotel, about 11 miles from here, died this morning from poisoning. At 7.30 o'clock he told his wife that he was going to…

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Publican Unlucky So Fine Not Recorded

Evening News · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 15

REGINALD Walker licensee of the Cronulla Beach Hotel, was fined [?] at Kogarah Court for having suppiled liquor to a person, who was not a bone-fide…

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Radio Sparks Bruce Attacked "A" Class Licenses Melbourne

Evening News · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 5

AT the annual meeting of share-" holders of 3AR Broadcasting Co last night, the chairman Mr Kierman, M.L.C said the treatment…

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Licensing Appeal Dismissed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 6

The appeal of Edward Percival Vitnell, licensee of the Northern Hotel, Parramatta North, against the refusal by the Licensing Bench to grant him a transfer of his license…

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Hotel Rocommendation

The Sun · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 13

Judge Armstrong, at the Parramatta Appeals Court to-day, set aside the adjudication of tho Licensing Bench, which had refused to grant a request…

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Ships for Tasmanian Tourists Double Life Murder and Suicide Hotel Tragedy

The Sun · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 17

At the conclusion of his inquiry to-duy into the double tragedy at the Burlington Hotel on November 24, the…

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No Hotel for Five Dock

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 1

The appeal of Edward Percival Vitnell. Licensee of the Northern Hotel. Parramatta North, against the refusal of the Licensing Bench to grant him a…

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Looking for His "Sheila" Caught in City Hotel-- Month in Gaol

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 December 1929 · page 9

When Aylmer Purdie (36), chef, was intercepted by the licensee coming down the stairs of the Metropolitan Hotel, Pitt Street, on Saturday,…

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Penrith Hotel License. Penrith

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 December 1929 · page 18

The chairman or the Licensing Board (Mr. Le Brun Brown) granted the transfer of the license of the Royal Hotel, Penrith, to the new Lapstone Hill Hotel, Glenbrook, which…

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Hotel Opposed

Evening News · Wednesday 11 December 1929 · page 15

Concord Council agreed last night to support Strathfield Council in an effort to prevent the erection of a hotel in the vi[?] of Clarendon subway…

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Stevens' Xmas Box to N.s.w. Industry Budget Points State's £1,000,000 Taxation Cut Companies and Income Hotels: Bets: Luxuries to Pay

Evening News · Wednesday 11 December 1929 · page 8

THE long-looked-for State Budget was introduced into Parliament last night by the Treasurer. Mr. Stevens. Points from the Government's proposals are:…

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The Budget. Readjustment of Endowment. Income Tax Reduced. Abolition of Company Super-tax. a Tax on Amusements. More Revenue from Liquor Licenses Increased Taxation on Betting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 December 1929 · page 17

The Treasurer (Mr. Stevens), in the Legislative Assembly yesterday, introduced the Budget and Estimates for the current financial year. He forecast a surplus of £ 21,386, made up as follows:— Estimated receipts (Consolidated revenue).... £ 20,283,803…

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Hotel for Concord West

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 December 1929 · page 14
Also in The Labor Daily

Judge Thomson, at the Parramatta Appeals Court yesterday, upheld the appeal of W. G. Cole against the decision of the licens ing magistrates, who dismissed a petition for…

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Murder and Suicide. City Hotel Tragedy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 December 1929 · page 14

Penniless and taxed by the girl he had deceived with false promises, Desmond James Gore quarrelled bitterly with her and then forced poison down her throat before…

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Lover Murdered Girl Hotel Poison Case Coroner's Verdict Married Man

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 December 1929 · page 1

NURSE MARY PEARL ELSLEY, 24, was wilfully murdered by Desmond James Gore, 34, at the Hotel Burlington, City, on…

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Goulburn License Opposed. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 December 1929 · page 12

An application by Sydney George Sidwell for a liquor license for the Mulwaree Private Hotel is being heard by the State Licensing Board. Mr. Brian Clancy (instructed by Mr…

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