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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1930

1,199 stories in Sydney's papers · page 57 of 60

Country News. Hotel Destroyed by Fire. Camden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 December 1930 · page 14

A fire destroyed the main buildings and contents of the Silver Mines Hotel at Yerrander[?] at 1.30 this morning. Neighbours saved an adjoining building by using buckets…

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Yerranderie Hotel Gutted by Fire

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 10 December 1930 · page 15

CAMDEN, Tuesday. -- Fire gutted the main building of the Silver Mines Hotel at Yerranderie at 1.30 this morning…

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"Pony" Jockeys Licensed

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 10 December 1930 · page 22

Jockey's licenses have been granted by the A.R.C. stewards to R. Hazel, R. Livingstone, and E. Mills, the lastnamed from December 13…

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She Could Ride But Had No License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 14

Usually the young lady is the pullion rider. But in this case the position was reversed. Aileen Stansfield rode a motor cycle…

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"Save My License!" Bus Driver's Plea Had Too Much Beer

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 14

"I'm not a drinker," William Alfred Walker, bus driver, told Magistrate Nott at the Parramatta Police Court on Monday. "I met a couple of chaps, and they…

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Erica's Letter Bag. Commercial Hotel, Cumnock

The Catholic Press · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 42

Dear Erica,-This is my first letter to the "Catholic Press," and I hope to see it in print. Dad gets the "Catholic Press" every week. I go to St. Ita's School, and…

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Burly But Active. Alleged Hotel Thief

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 12

Disturbed while he was rifling the room of a guest in a hotel at the corner of Castle-reagh and King streets yesterday, a man coolly picked up some of the clothing lying…

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Wild Chase Ends in Capture Girl's Struggle in Hotel Theft Charge

The Labor Daily · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 1

Pluckily grappling with an intruder on the stairway of the Britannia Hotel, Castlereagh Street, City, Miss Margaret Griffin, the…

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Licensing Side-shows in Country

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 15

MUDGEE.--The Mudgee Agricultural Society has referred to a special committee a communication received from the executive of the Agricultural…

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Play Cricket Is Advice of Judge Better Than Straying Around Hotels

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 7

JUDGE CURLEWIS proved himself a staunch believer in cricket during the…

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Coonamble Hotel Gutted

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 11 December 1930 · page 4

Guests had narrow escapes when the Commercial Hotel, Coonamble, caught ablaze last night and was gutted, despite strenuous efforts by…

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Stole Liquor From Burning Hotel COONAMBLE

Evening News · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 8

"UNPARDONABLE and contemptible," was the way in which the Coonamble magistrate described the theft by William Alberts and Clive Alberts of liquor which…

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WIRELESS. Licensed Listeners. Mulcted by Government

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 December 1930 · page 5

The confirmation by the PostmasterGeneral (Mr. Lyons) of the repoit that the fcedcial Government has transterred £70,000 iiom the fees paid by listeneis to the revenue…

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Ex-premier Fined £1. Breach of Licensing Law Not a Record Against Hotel. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 December 1930 · page 8

At the Police Court yesterday James Dooley, a former Premier of New South Wales, was fined £1 and 8/ costs for having permitted certain persons to be on his licensed premises…

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Bus License Fees

Evening News · Saturday 13 December 1930 · page 3

A further list of motor bus licence fees has been fixed by the Transport Trust, which amount in all to £11,537. Half of these fees will be payable to the…

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Convict on License Broke Gaol Found in Tree by Blacktracker Lismore Chase Lismore

The Labor Daily · Saturday 13 December 1930 · page 5

FEARFUL that police would discover he was a prisoner, sentenced to a long term, but out on good conduct license,…

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Red Plotters Trapped in Den Rising Nipped in Bud Police Masquerade as Waiters Raid on Hotel Hongkong

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 13 December 1930 · page 4

For some time past it had been known to the police that a plot jor an extensive Red rising was to be hatched…

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Manly Young 'Uns Row in "Plaza" Boarding-House Publican Fined

Truth · Sunday 14 December 1930 · page 13

SYDNEY TRENAMAN, retired storekeeper, summoned Thomas Firkins (70), retired publican, on a charge of assaulting him at…

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Clerks' Licenses

Truth · Sunday 14 December 1930 · page 3

Bookmakers' clerks are reminded that their licenses, payable to the Metropolitan Race Clubs—Rosehill, Canterbury and Moorefield—for the year 1931 are…

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S.p. Shops Likely to Be Licensed Suppression Task Bets Tax This Week

The Sun · Sunday 14 December 1930 · page 1

Though no decision has yet been made it is considered likely that the Government will license S.P. betting shops early in the…

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