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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1930

1,199 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 60

20 HOTELS 50 Years Ago "Mick" Remembers the Great Days

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 3 December 1930 · page 7

Michael Kinnane, caretaker of Parramatta Town Hall, believes, that, when you are on a good thing you should stick to it. He has had…

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Fined a Shilling Hawking Without License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 9

Pleading guilty a the Parramatta Police. Court on Monday to a charge of having hawked goods without a license, Harold Turabull stated that he had an…

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Hotel Licence Transfer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 6

The Licensing Court yesterday granted the following transfer of a hotel licence:—John Stanley Beavis to Jens Marius Rasmussen, Royal Albert Hotel, Reservoir and Commonwealth streets, Sydney…

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Mystery Woman's Visit Wife's Suspicions Lead To Divorce Hotel Discovery

Evening News · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 3

ONE night about Christmas time, 1929. Mrs. Olga Elvira Pa[?] was some what mystified by the visit of an unknown woman to her home, with a…

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NO. 2 Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Davidson and jury.) Sale of Hotel. Barling v Hennessey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 7

There was a verdict for the defendant in the action brought by Edward James Barling against John Hennessey to recover damages for alleged misrepresentations by defendant, or…

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Baby Girl Poisoned at Paddington Chloroformed Local Publican's Child Brother's Find

The Labor Daily · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 1

A three-years-old girl was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital early last night suffering from chloroform poisoning…

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Shot in Hotel Brawl

Daily Pictorial · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- In a dispute outside a St. Kilda hotel this afternoon Clarence Holford (19), of Prahran, was critically shot in the…

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Chloroformed Baby Strange Discovery in Paddington Hotel

Daily Pictorial · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 2

Chloroformed, and with an ugly bruise on her face, a three-year-old girl, daughter of a well-known publican, was found yesterday…

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Hotel License in Family for 106 Years

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 6 December 1930 · page 15

WINDSOR, Friday.--The death has occurred of Mr. James Jurd, of St. Albans. He was a member of the third…

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Motor 'Buses Trust Issues Further Licenses

Evening News · Saturday 6 December 1930 · page 3

THE chairman of the Transport Trust Mr. Maddocks, said to-day that further list of service licenses for buses has been fixed by the trust, amounting…

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Death of Engineer. Sequel to Quarrel in Hotel. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 December 1930 · page 19

A man who was struck and fell to the floor during a quarrel in the P[?]er Hotel, Port Melbourne, this evening, was found to be dead when he arrived at the surgery of…

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Death Follows Altercation Engineer Killed Melb. Hotel Manager Charged Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 December 1930 · page 5

During a disturbance in the Pler Hotel, Port Melbourne, this afternoon, Ross Schiuck, chief engineer of the Bay steamer Weerona, was knocked…

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Hotel Robbery Under Arms

The Sun · Sunday 7 December 1930 · page 1

Notes and silver to the value of £95 were stolen from the bar of the Rose, Shamrock and Thistle Hotel, Oxford-street, Paddington, yesterday, morning…

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That License Blight

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 7 December 1930 · page 20

Consider the question of licenses. At first glance, few realise what a grip this insidious license business has on the community…

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Hard Up in Hotel So Took £95

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 7 December 1930 · page 3

WHILE asking for assistance in an Oxford Street hotel yesterday afternoon, a man leaned across the counter and took a cashbox said to…

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Theft of £95 From Hotel Bar

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 December 1930 · page 1

A SMALL cashbox containing £95 in notes and silver was stolen from the bar in the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle…

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Hotel Blaze in Downpour Building Gutted Near Condobolin

Daily Pictorial · Monday 8 December 1930 · page 8

In pouring rain early yesterday morning the Royal Hotel at Mount Hope, 90 miles west of Condobolin, caught fire and was gutted…

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Bailiffs in City Hotel No More Yeast With Beer at Empire

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 9 December 1930 · page 7

Life is no longer froth and bubble at Sydney's Empire Hotel, where, for years, a feature has been made of giving yeast with beer…

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Huge Sunfish--bailiffs in Hotel--1932 Olympic Games

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 9 December 1930 · page 23

WEIGHING two tons, this giant sunfish was captured at, La Perouse and taken to Fisher's boatshed The sunfish, belonging to the ray family, is not dangerous, like electric and sting rays. THE EMPIRE…

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Hotel Man's Appeal

Evening News · Wednesday 10 December 1930 · page 1

Lyons Shaw, licenses of the Wentworth Park Hotel, to-day appealed against his conviction at the Central Court on a charge of having had a person on his…

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