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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

764 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 39

Price of Gold Theodore Explains Licensed Buyers Canberra

The Labor Daily · Saturday 23 May 1931 · page 6

PARTICULARS regarding the price of gold and how it is affected by the exchange position, were given by the Treasurer, in answer to questions…

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No License Inquiry Agents Childs Opposes

The Sun · Wednesday 27 May 1931 · page 10

Expressing emphatic disapproval of suggestions to licence private inquiry, agents, the Commissioner of Police (Mr. Childs)…

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Deficient Brandy Hotelkeeper Fined

The Labor Daily · Thursday 28 May 1931 · page 5

In the summons division of the Central Police Court, Ernest Liley was fined £2, with £2198 costs, for having sold brandy not of the quality…

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Country News Attempt to Burn Hotel

The Sun · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 7

FORBES, Friday.--Ar. attempt to burn Jones's Albion Hotel early, this morning was frustrated when a boarder, awakened by the smell of…

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Lorry, with Dead Driver at Wheel, Hits Hotel

The Labor Daily · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 8

PATRICK CASEY, 50, of Alfred Street, Granville, was driving a motor lorry in Parramatta Road, Lewisham yesterday, when he died…

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Possum to Be Protected No Open Season Restricted Licensing No Poisons

The Labor Daily · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 8

WHAT amounts to a reprieve to the possum from an open order to kill him indiscriminately, has been granted by the Chief…

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Hotel License Surrenders Important Decision Full Court Divided

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 May 1931 · page 5

THE Full Court yesterday gave a majority decision in a special case regarding the surrender of liquor licenses…

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Was at Hotel to Aid Charity Publican Wins Appeal

The Labor Daily · Saturday 30 May 1931 · page 5

JOSEPH RICHARD NOLAN licensee of the Coogee Bay Hotel appealed to Judge v Armstrong, in the District Court yesterday, against a conviction…

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Fire in Hotel. Forbes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 May 1931 · page 14

Fire was discovered in Jones's Albion Hotel early this morning by a boarder who was awakened by the smell of smoke and petrol, and discovered a quantity of bedding ablaze…

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Conviction Quashed. Hotelkeeper's Appeal Upheld

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 May 1931 · page 8

A hotelkeeper's appeal, involving unusual features, was heard yesterday by Judge Armstrong in the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court. Joseph Richard Nolan, licensee of the Coogee…

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Second Death Fatal Hotel Fire Wellington (N.z.)

The Sun · Saturday 30 May 1931 · page 8

Karl Kraus, the barman, who was injured in the Panama Hotel, Wellington, fire on May 21, died to-day. He is the second to succumb, the…

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"The Grand Babylon" a London Hotel Miracle London, April 23

The Sun · Sunday 31 May 1931 · page 5

SEATED at what Mr. Emanuel Pyecroft would have called the "bountiful platter" which London's latest hotel de luxe, the Dorchester,…

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Publican Fined "Technical Offence" Insurance of Servant

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 1 June 1931 · page 1

Mr. W. Parker, the well-known solicitor, was opposed by his son, Mr. G. R. Parkers, at the Parramatta Police Court last Friday…

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Hotel Robbed

The Sun · Monday 1 June 1931 · page 7

The till at tho Unicorn Hotel, Oxford-street, Paddington, was robbed during the week-end of £14 In notes and a cheque for £5 1s 7d…

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Four Dead in Fire Hotel Burned Out in New Zealand

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 June 1931 · page 1

WELLINGTON, Sunday. -- Four lives were lost in a fire at an hotel in Greymouth, the well-known West Coast mining town, early this…

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Milk Vendors. Hotels and Boarding-houses Excluded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 June 1931 · page 11

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) Said yesterday that his department had decided that hotelkeepers, boarding-house keepers, and restaurant proprietors need not be registered…

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Opossum Open Season Declared Off Chief Sec Explains Position, License Issue

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 2 June 1931 · page 6

As forecast in the "Labor Daily" last week there will be no open season for killing of opossums. Rigid regulations will be enforced…

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Milk in the Rum! Hotels Not "Traders" Under Dairy Act

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 June 1931 · page 7

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) stated yesterday that hotel-keepers and restaurant proprietors need not be registered by local…

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Law Report. Full Court. (Before Mr. Justice Ferguson, Mr. Justice James, and Mr. Justice Halse Rogers.) Sale of Hotel Lease. Cripps v Irwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 June 1931 · page 7

This was a special case on question of law raised in an action brought by Sarah Cripps gainst Arthur Herbert Irwin. The plaintiff was the registered proprietress of the Hydora…

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Funeral of Ex-hotelkeeper

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 June 1931 · page 5

The funeral took place on Monday at South Head Cemetery, of Mr. Daniel Stirgess, aged 71. The late Mr. Stirgess was a retired hotelkeeper, and…

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