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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1930

1,199 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 60

Hotel Closing Sat. Afternoon Move Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 14 May 1930 · page 11

The Lord Mayor (Cr. H. D. Luxton) to-day strongly supported the public movement for thee losing of hotel bars on Christmas Day, Good Friday, and…

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Had No License for Murderer's Gun

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 15 May 1930 · page 18

A murderer's revolver got Bert Roguson (42), of Naremburn, into trouble with the police yesterday. The weapon, it was declared,…

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Hotel Thefts. Numerous Cases Reported

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 May 1930 · page 15

Recently there has been a mild wave of annoying robberies from hotels, clothing, and small articles of value being taken from the rooms…

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Judge Decides Powers of Magistrate Licensing Case

The Sun · Friday 16 May 1930 · page 13

Mr. Justice Halse Rogers sitting in Chambers to-day granted a prohibition on behalf of James Cranney, the holder of a wine licence, against Inspector…

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In Chambers. (Before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers.) Questions Under Licensing Act. Ex parte Cranney, re Lindfield and others

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 May 1930 · page 12

Several interesting questions relating not merely to the conviction of a licensee, but to the power of a magistrate to proceed when forfeiture of license might be involved, were…

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Limits to Hotel Privileges Urged by Anglicans Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 17 May 1930 · page 7

Contending that the liquor trade was entitled to no more consideration than other trades, a deputation of clergymen and layman appointed by the…

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Wine License Powers of Magistrate

The Labor Daily · Saturday 17 May 1930 · page 10

An Important decision bearing on the question of the power of a magistrate to proceed when forfeiture of a license might be involved, was decided…

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From Newspaper to Hotel A Transportation at the Savoy

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 18 May 1930 · page 8

To-morrow you may drink your favorite beverage quietly, where a year ago mighty newspaper presses thundered in the…

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"All Out" Hotels Bookmaker's Poser For Judge

Evening News · Monday 19 May 1930 · page 11

"WHAT is the meaning of the expression, "All out?" asked Judge Armstrong to-day, but the mystery, so far as his Honor was concerned, was left…

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TAS. HOTEl BLAZE Inmates Rescued Through Windows

Evening News · Monday 19 May 1930 · page 3

BURNIE TAS. Monday SEVERAL [?] OF Manget [?] had narrow except[?] being burned ot death when the [?]…

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Hotel Fire Woman Dies Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 19 May 1930 · page 9

Noticing smoke coming from his mother's bedroom at Budgeree Hotel, Yarram, at 3 a.m. on Sunday, Michael Scanlon entered it and found it alight…

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State's Hotel Licenses Cost £479,120 Last Year

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 20 May 1930 · page 8

The huge amount of £1,235,337 was spent during 1929 in rebuilding hotels and making improvements, according to the annual report of the…

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Publicans' Licences. Total 2142 in the State. Board's Report

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1930 · page 11

The annual report of the Licensing Bench and Licenses Reduction Board for the year ended December 31 last shows that the number of publicans' licences in existence was…

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Quarter Sessions Appeals. (Before Judge Armstrong.) Hotel Objected To

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1930 · page 8

On behalf of L. Giddins and others, residents of Kensington, appeal was made against the adjudication of the Licensing Court on March 10 last, in granting the petition of Thomas…

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Publicans' Licences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 May 1930 · page 8

The following transfers of publicans' licences were approved by the Licensing Bench yesterday:—Edward William Longmore Hardy to William Edward Sweeney. Cambridge Hotel,…

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Elbow - Bending an Art in Ashfield Hotels

Evening News · Wednesday 21 May 1930 · page 5

ALD E. HUGHES. of Ashfield told Parramatta Licensing Court that he did not go into hotels nowadays, because in…

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Palatial City Hotel

Referee · Wednesday 21 May 1930 · page 3

The magnificent entrance of the New Savoy Hotel, on the corner of King end Castlereagh Streets, which is to be one of the chain of hotels throughout the big towns of Australasia, uniform in every respect. The Savoy is nearing completion, will be unique in its artistic furnishings…

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Robbery at Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1930 · page 11

While he was in a bathroom on the third floor of the Hotel Metropole, at 6.30 last night, Mr. John C. Bulkeley, of Wallerawang, lost from ills room a…

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Taxi-'bus Men Will Fight Say They Are Assured of Licenses

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 21 May 1930 · page 5

"Police instructions may not come from heaven, but they come from somewhere very high up," said Mr. Gillies, president, last…

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Free Accommodation At Hotels and in Gaol

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 22 May 1930 · page 3

Failure to pay for hotel accommodation resulted in Don Marcello's appearance at the Parramatta Police Court on Monday…

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