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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

764 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 39

Publicans' Licences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 April 1931 · page 6

The following transfers of publicans' licences were granted by Mr. W. S. Arnott, licensing magistrate, yesterday:—Alexander Macdonald to John Gant, North Star Hotel, Miller and…

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£1,750,000 Hotel

The World's News · Wednesday 29 April 1931 · page 4

THE complete cost of the new Dorchester Hotel, in Park Lane, London which was opened last week, was £1,750,000. This is said to be the greatest…

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Alleged Theft of Wine and Gin Three Men Charged With Hotel Robbery "I Thought Somebody Would Squeak"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 1

That they had stolen wine, gin and brandy from the Imperial Hotel at Rooty Hill on the night of March 4 was the allegation against Ronald Gollan, Harry Barnes and Francis Fahey at the Penrith Police Court last week. The three men went to Rooty Hill in a taxi driven by Reginald Barry,…

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"A Scandal" Publican's Register Six Men Charged

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 4

Seven men went to the Locomotive Hotel at Auburn on the night of April 4. Six of them—Arthur Harold Squair, Roy Johnson Paton, Harry Barnes, Ronald…

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Jumped From an Hotel Window Accused Woman's Sudden Act

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 April 1931 · page 1

Accused of stealing.£80 from a man, a young woman is alleged early yesterday, to have jumped 15 feet from the window, of her room in a Darlinghurst hotel to…

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Idle Rooms Bondi Hotel Loss Proprietor Bankrupt

The Sun · Friday 1 May 1931 · page 7

Jacob Woolt Shaw, whose estate was sequestrated on October 20, 1930, told the Registrar in Bankruptcy (Mr. Norman C…

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W. Paters on Licensed by the A.j.c

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 May 1931 · page 2

At a meeting of the committee of the A.J.C. yesterday W. Paterson, who was one of the leading jockeys at the "ponies," was granted a…

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Licensee Fined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 May 1931 · page 17

A fine of £3, with £ 2/10/ costs, was imposed by Mr. Gibson, S.M., on John Schofield, licensee of an hotel at Concord West, at the Burwood Court yesterday, for having sold brandy not…

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Seven Butchers Fined Hotelkeeper, Too

The Sun · Saturday 2 May 1931 · page 3

Following a raid by two Board of Health inspectors on Haberfield shops on March 18, seven butchers appeared at Burwood Court yesterday for…

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Hotelkeeper Leaves £18,255 Late Mr. Joseph Morris

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 May 1931 · page 7

Probate of the will of the late Joseph Morris, of Newcastle, is being applied for by the Union Trustee Company of Australia, Limited. The…

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Liquid Fire Pouring From Roof Amazing Blaze in Melb. Hotel Novel Device Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 4 May 1931 · page 1

AN extraordinary fire broke out in Castlemaine Hotel, City Road, South Melbourne, to-night. When the firemen arrived they found…

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Transfer of Publicans' Licenses

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 May 1931 · page 5

The following transfers of publicans' licences were approved by the Licensing Court yesterday: Bellevue Hotel. Cleveland Street,…

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Unemployed Housed in Hotel Rosehill Relief Work Despicable Theft

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 2

Over thirty destitute people—including three families—are now accommodated in the old racecourse hotel at Rosehill. Latest arrivals are three men who had…

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Driver's License Was in Wrong State

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 13

There are legends about what may happen if a sailor is put on horseback, but in this instance it was a mechanical steed, to wit, a motor cycle…

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New Sydney Station License for 2Ch Is Probable

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 May 1931 · page 10

IT is expected that in the near future Sydney will have another B Class station--2CH, the official station of the N.S.W…

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Danging on Sunday Unlicensed Premises Licensed Halls Protest

The Labor Daily · Friday 8 May 1931 · page 9

THE Chief Secretary said yesterday that he sympathised with a deputation from the Dancing Promoters' Association, which sought to restrict…

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Off Again. Youth Leads a Dance Left Hotel Melbourne

The Sun · Saturday 9 May 1931 · page 3

Melbourne police are now seeking Dick Beale, the youth for whom the Sydney police and private search parties scoured the Blue Mountains…

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The Wrong Brandy Hotelkeeper Fined

The Labor Daily · Saturday 9 May 1931 · page 5

At Balmain Police Court on May 5, Priscilla Freeman, of the West End Hotel, Rozelio, was fined £2, with B costs, for having supplied brandy…

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Attacked in Hotel

The Sun · Sunday 10 May 1931 · page 1

George Barton, of Northbrook-street, Bexley, is unconscious in St. George Hospital, with a fractured skull, received yesterday, it is alleged…

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Under Wardrobe Wasn't Safe £60 Theft From Hotel While Husband and Wife Slept in the Room Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 May 1931 · page 6

Entering a bedroom where the licensce and wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. Dains, were asleep thieves took £60 from the Kearsley Hotel in the early hours of Saturday…

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