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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

764 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 39

Carlton Hotel Dividend Passed

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 12

No dividend payment is to be made by Carlton Hotel, Ltd., out of profits for the year ended October 31. Net earnings for the period were £5727, after allowing £2000…

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A City Above the City Central Station Hotel Scheme Not New

Daily Pictorial · Thursday 1 January 1931 · page 12

The scheme of a coutnry A.L.P. branch to build an hotel on top of the Central Station as a revenue-producer for Mr. Lang is…

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Assault After Hotel Scene

Evening News · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 5

ON charges of having [?]ted Constable Bird and John Keith Walker, licensee of the Lord Roberts Hotel, Francis Mason, 27, was…

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Motor Cyclist's Xmas Box. Fined £20; License Suspended

The Propeller · Friday 2 January 1931 · page 1

At the Kogarah Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Perry, S.M., Garnet Kelly, a young man, was charged with driving a motor cycle along Railway…

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How Ex-Attorney-Gen. Got Fortune For Nothing Fine Points in Deal Made in City Hotel, Were Not Understood by Miner Hon. F. S. Boyce Got in on Ground Floor

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 3 January 1931 · page 1

IT is a fine thing to be Attorney-General of a State, but it is a much more profitable tiling to get a handsome share in one of the world's best gold mines for nothing. Ask Mr. Boyce. Hon. F. S. Boyce, K.C., M.L.C., six feet three, ex-Attorney-General…

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Heat Wave Hero Dinner at Savoy Hotel Coat and Vest Removed

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 6

Consternation amounting almost to shock, which was quickly turned to amusement, was caused at the Savoy Hotel in London on one of the recent sultry…

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Convalescent Home Proposal to Purchase Hotel. CESSNOCK

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 10

The secretary of the Cessnock Hospital (Mr. J. Brown) stated to-day that Mr. Love, chairman of the Hospitals Commission, would visit Cessnock within a fortnight to discuss the…

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Hotel to Become Old Men's Home Inspection by Official Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 January 1931 · page 4

The chairman of the Hospital Commission Mr. Love will visit Cessnock in a few weeks to inspect the Aheruethy hotel in connection with a proposal to purchase…

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Lang's Latest Blow at Racing Will Spread Consternation S.P. Betting Shops to Be Licensed! Strictest Check Over Bookies' Volumes Curtailing Mid-week Racing

Evening News · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 5

THE definite statement was made to-day that the Lang Government, still pursuing its £2,000,000 racing chimera, will license starting price bookmakers' shops! This represents the most serious blow yet struck…

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Hotel Licence Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 4

The following applications for the transfer of publicans' licences were granted by the Licensing Court yesterday:—John Henry Wallace Diehl to Herbert Francis Kennedy, Moore…

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S.p. Bets Shops Will Be Licensed Govt. Move Fewer Race Meetings As Well

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 7

Starting price betting shops are to be licensed in New South Wales. It was learned on high authority to-day that the State Government is now preparing plans to that end…

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License Betting Shops S.P. Man's Suggestions (To the Editor.)

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 8

Sir,--Seeing that the present system of betting taxation recently instituted is not returning nearly the large amount anticipated, I consider that the Government…

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Bunny Is Now a Pet New Regulations Licensing Restrictions Relaxed

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 5

BRER RABBIT is no longer to be regarded by the Department of Agriculture as a ferocious animal that needs to be confined within an elephant corral…

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Transport Chief "Discourteous" 'Bus Interests Annoyed; Licenses Row

Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 6 January 1931 · page 7

Sydney 'bus proprietors are annoyed with the chairman of the Transport Trust, Mr. Maddock, accusing him of discourtesy in not…

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Not the Admirable Crichton Man from Sydney Sentenced Hotel Debt London

Evening News · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 1

SUPPOSED to have been born in Australia, Gerald Vladimir Crichton, alias UpJohns, who falsely described…

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"Fizz," Girls and a Hotel Bill LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 1

Supposedly born in Australia, Gerald Vladimir Crichton, alias Upjohns, falsely self-described as a nephew of Sir George Crichton…

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Government May License S.p. Betting Shops Counter Blast to Bookmakers Evading the Tax No Publication of Odds Big Vic. S.p. Syndicate?

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 1

[?] yesterday to changing phases of the Betting Tax, implied that if law breakers combined and conspired to evade the impost, the Government may be impelled to adopt extreme courses to combat the conspirators…

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Do They License S.P. Bookies Here?

Daily Pictorial · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 3

WITHIN an hour of the publication yesterday of the Government's decision to license S.P. shops a man called at the Treasury and…

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"Biz As Usual" at P'matta Depression Missed Its Mark Liquor Licenses

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 5

THE depression did not affect business at Parramatta court in 1930. Revenue collected totalled £39,000 an increase of approximately £1000 over…

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Fined and License Suspended

The Labor Daily · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 2

"This man has reduced your fine by £16," Mr. Nott, S.M., told Hugh Edward Clark, 40, drainer, at Parramatta Police Court yesterday, when…

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