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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1930

1,199 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 60

Poisoned Well-known Publican Death in Hospital

The Sun · Sunday 27 April 1930 · page 2

William Sloman, 67, licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Oxford street, Woollahra, one of the best known publicans in the metropolitan area, died…

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Ships As Hotels Invasion of Carthage TUNIS

The Sun · Monday 28 April 1930 · page 1

Fifty thousand, including cardinals and bishops, are expected to attend the Eucharistic Congress at Carthage on June 7…

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Died From Poison Former Hotelkeeper

The Labor Daily · Monday 28 April 1930 · page 1

Believed to have taken poison, William Sloman, 67, for many years licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Oxford Street, Woollahra, died at St…

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Electricians' Licenses

Daily Pictorial · Monday 28 April 1930 · page 20

Candidates for licenses under the Electrical Contractors and Electricians Licensing Act will be examined in Sydney and in certain country…

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Hotel Licensee's Death

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 15

William Sloman, 67, licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Oxford-street, Woollahra, who was found in the hotel suffering from the effects of strychnine poisoning on Saturday…

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Would Not Leave Hotel Recalcitrant to Pay Mainland

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 29 April 1930 · page 5

Resenting an order to leave the Rutherford Hotel on April 13. Thomas Elliott, after defying the licensed to eject him punched at a door…

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Didn't Pay Board Licensee Prosecutes Magistrate Not Satisfied

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 1 May 1930 · page 12

Douglas McDonald and his wife became boarders at the Wentworthville Hotel in January. Thrown out of work, McDonald…

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Escaped in Night-clothes Hotel Burned Down Christchurch

The Sun · Thursday 1 May 1930 · page 13

A fire destroyed the Royal Hotel at Greymouth this morning. The occupants escaped in their night clothing…

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Two Hotels Destroyed. Honeymoon Couple in Hospital. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 May 1930 · page 12

At Greymouth this morning the Royal Hotel, the Raliway Hotel, and two shops were destroyed by fire and some cottages damaged. The outbreak occurred in the Royal Hotel,…

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Burglar Crashes Forty Feet to Death Fall From Hotel Pipe Gave Way Skull Terribly Smashed Unidentified

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 May 1930 · page 1

Crashing 40 feet from the wall of Larkin's Hote, H. market, late last night, an unknown man was idled when his skull…

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Hotel for the Sick The New South Wales Hospital for Women and Babies

The Farmer and Settler · Saturday 3 May 1930 · page 14

When the new hospital for women and bables at the corner of Dowing and Nobba street, near the sydney showground, is completed, it will be one of the landmarks…

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Paddington Hotel. Cut in Two. for Municipal Purposes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1930 · page 15

A curious anomaly has occurred in the redistribution of the City Council boundaries. In the Fitzroy Ward the alignment runs through the centre of the Albury Hotel, at…

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Licenses to Trap Possums Over 6000 Pay £12,000 Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 3 May 1930 · page 4

Over 6000 men have been granted licenses to trap possums in Victoria. They paid a total of £12,000 in foes. It was decided by the Game…

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Hotel Mystery Deepens Honest Tom's Death at Dead of Night

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 3 May 1930 · page 2

Mystery now surrounds the death of the elderly nan who crashed from the spouting of Larkin's Hotel, Haymarket. on…

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Pious Horror Royalty in Hotels Censured ! LONDON

Evening News · Monday 5 May 1930 · page 8

THE Scottish Grand Lodge of Good Templars has solemnly [?]ed the Queen and Prince George, for having visited two model public…

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The Man Bn the Street Radio Licenses

Daily Pictorial · Monday 5 May 1930 · page 6

Mr. Alf Johnston's suggestion:--It seems from your paper that the Government wants money (other papers I do not read). What is…

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Hotel Licenses Change Hands

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 May 1930 · page 8

The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted by the Licensing Court yesterday:--Grand Hotel, Hunter and Hamilton…

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Hotel Licences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 May 1930 · page 8

Mr. Adrian yesterday granted the following transfers of publicans' licences, at the Licensing Court:—Alexander Didmore to Richard Peel Dwyer, Grand Hotel, Hunter…

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Tax Soft Drinks. Publican's Suggestion. Deputation to Treasurer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 May 1930 · page 12

It was suggested to the Treasurer (Mr. Stevens) yester[?]ay by Mr. N. H. Connolly, president of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association, that instead of increasing…

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Liquor Licenses Deputation Protests "Taxation Excessive"

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 May 1930 · page 6

THE Treasurer, Mr. Stevens, received a deputation representing the United Licensed Victuallers' Association yesterday in protest against the incidence of the new…

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