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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1930

1,199 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 60

New Flemington Hotel Application

Evening News · Wednesday 20 August 1930 · page 8

Giving evidence in the Licensing Court, Parramatta, today, James M'Millan said Flemington was not a shopping centre and be did not think would ever be…

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Hotel Raid. Protest to Minister

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 August 1930 · page 14

The Chief Secretary (Mr. Chaffey) said last night that Mr. Dunningham, M.L.A., had waited on him that day, and protested against an alleged raid by the police on the Oceanic…

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Canberra Hotel Partly Closed

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 20 August 1930 · page 7

CANBERRA, Tuesday.--Economising in hotel management, the Government has decided to close eight of the ten pavilions in the Hotel…

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Fined For Using Another Man's License

Evening News · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 8

Angus Roderick Howison was fined a total of £3 II - at Ryde Court to-day for having been found in possession with a motor driver's licence calculated to…

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White Elephant Hotel At Canberra CANBERRA

Evening News · Thursday 21 August 1930 · page 9

Another attempt will shortly be made by the local administration to lease the Hotel Ainsite. one of Canberra's while elephant hotels, which has cost the…

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Hotel Sleeper Shocked Awoke to Find Woman On Bed

Evening News · Friday 22 August 1930 · page 8

HOW a man who had been asleep in a hotel at King's Cross was awakened one night by a woman whom be saw sitting on his bed, was told in the Divorce…

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Heard by the Way Footballers' Battles of Old—Comedy of a Black Cat—One Offence or Many?—Feeding Troops at Emu—Tastes in Cheese, etc. License Transferred

Nepean Times · Saturday 23 August 1930 · page 1

AT Penrith Licensing Court on Monday the license of the Railway Hotel, Sr. Marys, was transferred from Mr E. T. Beacroft to Mr Allan McPhee,…

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Ashfield No-License

The Methodist · Saturday 23 August 1930 · page 17

The Ashfield district for the second time this year has declared against in extra license. The site on this occasion was Liverpool Road and…

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Sydney Hotel Has Made Real Estate Fortunes Land Agent's Meal Ticket Is About To Disappear

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 August 1930 · page 2

SYDNEY speculators and real estate agents will regret the passing of an old friend--Plahlert's Hotel, which, after nearly sixty years, is to give way to a modern building. As an investment, this quaint old place, rich in its historical…

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Punch Ended in Death Outside City Hotel

The Labor Daily · Saturday 23 August 1930 · page 5

Inquiries are being made by Detectives Ryan and McDermott into the circumstances surrounding the death of David Wright, who was found lying…

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Nymph in Her Nightie Silken Clad Girl Hastily Switches Bedrooms at Darlinghurst Hotel "Why Pick Me?" Says Surprised Sleeper

Truth · Sunday 24 August 1930 · page 13

THE dainty figure of a girl clad only in a silk nightie scampered along the balcony of a Darlinghurst hotel one night early in May and disappeared through a window into the bedroom of a strange man…

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Historic Hotel License Proposal To Transfer Pfahlerts Sentiment Plea

Evening News · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 8

AN application was made to the Licensing Beach today for permission to, transfer the license of Plahlert's historic hotel to a building across the road. 15 Margaret-st…

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Two Outbreaks? Fire at Newtown Hotel Done Maliciously Coroner Exonerates Licensee

The Sun · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 8

Evidence of two distinct fires having occurred, and of vessels containing a liquid smelling strongly of kerosene being found in the rooms, was given by Detective-Sergeant Sherringham at the Coroner's Court to-day, when an inquiry was held regarding the fire at the…

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Earl's Daughter Runs an Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 3

Lady Betty Walker, the Earl of Denbigh's daughter, who married Captain Sherbrooke Walker, of the Guards, in 1926, and went with him to Kenya Colony,…

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Earl's Niece Application for Jockey's License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 6

Mrs. Arthur Heald, of Horeham Court, Hellingly, Sussex, has been refused a permit to ride under Jockey Club and National Hunt rules, for which she…

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Mystery Fire in Newtown Hotel Coroner Exonerates Proprietor Kerosene Found

Evening News · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 3

THE City Coroner, Mr. E. A. May, found today that a fire which considerably damaged the Marlborough…

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Burglars Busy Hotel Safe Stolen Homes Robbed

The Sun · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 3

The police are endeavoring to find a small safe which was stolen from the office of the Exchange Hotel, corner of Pitt and Bridge streets, on…

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Found in Hotel Two Held, One Escapes

The Sun · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 9

A man discovered by a watchman leaving the Livingstone Hotel, Marrickville-road, Marrickville, early yesterday morning, put up a fierce…

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Explosion at Hotel

The Sun · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 10

GOULBURN, Monday. -- Escaping gas from a battery in the engine-room of the Argyle Hotel, Taralga, caused a violent explosion yesterday…

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Was the P.m.g. Misled? Postal Chief and Radio Licenses Two Curious Incidents

The Labor Daily · Monday 25 August 1930 · page 5

MR. J. A. LYONS, Postmaster-General, must necessarily be guided largely by his departmental adviser, Mr. H. P. Brown, regarding wireless matters. The greater, therefore, is the responsibility on Mr. Brown of giving impartial service to his Ministerial chief. What, then will the…

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