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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

764 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 39

Diggers' Denial Old Racecourse Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 July 1931 · page 2

Denial that it contemplated renting or acquring the old Racecourse Hotel at Rosehill as club rooms is made by the executive of the Granville Returned…

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NO. 3 Jury Causes. (Before Mr. Justice Halse Rogers.) Hotel Transactions. Orde v REILLY

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 July 1931 · page 6

Charles Arthur Orde sued Edwin Reuben Reilly for £103/18/5, which he alleged to be due with respect to certain hotel transactions at Picton, Corrimal, Wagga, Fig Tree, and…

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Power to Sell Hotel. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 July 1931 · page 10

At Goulburn Police Court an application by John Mitchell, grazier, of The Towers, Goulburn, and others was granted for permission to exercise power of sale under mortgage of the…

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Country News. Country Hotel Licences. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 July 1931 · page 10

Mr. J. Bowe, president of the Riverina Hotelkeepers' Association, has been making efforts to induce the Government to accept deferred payments for hotel licences. "If every…

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Shots Fired at Suspect Early Morning Chase by Police Hotel Robbed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 July 1931 · page 1

Three shots, which whistled just over his head, did not frighten a man who was chased by police for nearly a mile early this morning along…

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Used Hotel for Setting Purposes

The Labor Daily · Friday 3 July 1931 · page 7

On a charge of knowingly allowing betting on the premises of the Green Park Hotel. John Carrick, 52, hotelkeeper, was fined £15, in…

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Orphan Croesus Suicides Colorful Australian and Adventurer Took Poison on Bombay's Most Fashionable Hotel Beach Struck Fabulous New Guinea Gold, Spent Royally: Died Lonely Weighed Down by His Wealth Bombay

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 July 1931 · page 1

A strange life, made stranger by the lure of gold and adventure, ended sensationally yesterday morning when an Australian, Harry Darby (31), dramatically took poison on the sands of the fashionable Juhu seaside resort…

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Publican's Will Invalid Signature Torn Off

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 July 1931 · page 7

An application was made to Mr Justice Harvey yesterday when Eleanor Agnes Rees, widow, and her son, Aubrey William Rees, applied for…

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Piggery Licenses

The Biz · Friday 3 July 1931 · page 5

There were three applications for piggery licenses before Cabra-Vale Council on Monday night—from A. Dalley, E. Simmons and Leslie Oliver…

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BY the WAY Hotels as Churches

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 July 1931 · page 20

THE first Baptist service in Australia was held 100 years ago, on Sunday, April 24, 1831. the church being a room of one of Sydney's earliest…

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"Bondy" Hoare Cited as Co-re. Publican Alleges Miners' Idol Stole Love of Handsome Wife Perce Denton, Well-Known Newcastle Man, as Second Co-Re. Galperin Pair Often Visited Sydney

Truth · Sunday 5 July 1931 · page 18

THE Divorce Court is likely to echo another sensation shortly when a well-known Newcastle hotelkeeper sues his beautiful wife and names Thomas ("Bondy") Hoare, President of the Miners' Federation, as one of the co-respondents. THE hearing is expected to create a furore on the Northern coalfields, and interest will be State…

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Treated Like Car License Minister on Marriage Attitude

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 July 1931 · page 7

"THERE is a growing tendency to treat the marriage license with about as much sacredness as a car license. When…

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Death and Destruction in Yesterday's Storm One Hundred Patients Evacuated From Ward of Randwick Hospital Chimney of City Hotel Wrecks Shops Ships Forced to Stand Off Heads All Night Warnings of Floods

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 July 1931 · page 5

SWEEPING through the city and suburbs at a velocity which on occasions reached 80 miles an hour, yesterday's gale was responsible for two deaths and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage…

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MR. McGIRR'S Gift Makes Over Hotel for Orange Unemployed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 July 1931 · page 8

ORANGE, Monday. -- This afternoon Mr. Gregory McGirr, ex-Parliamentarian, made a gift of the Station House Hotel, Orange, to the…

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Victorian Notes Geelong Licensed Victuallers' Gold Cup

Referee · Wednesday 8 July 1931 · page 11

THE Licensed Victuallers' Gold Cup meeting of Victoria C.C. (Geelong) will be two days instead of three this coming August 6 and 7. The stake is for…

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Shot Dead Hotel Manager

The Sun · Thursday 9 July 1931 · page 17

With a bullet wound in his head, and a smoking revolver at his feet, James Frederick Carpenter, 32, was found dead by his wife, about 8.30…

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Man Found Dead in Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 12

James Carpenter, 33, was found dead in a room at the Castlemaine Hotel, Hay-street city yesterday morning, with a bullet wound through his head. The body was taken by…

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Licenses Suspended

The St George Call · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 1

Frederick Sidney Newton pleaded guilty to a charge of driving a motor lorry in Kingsway, Cronnlla, while under the influence, at the Kogara Court…

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Pad. Hotelkeeper Fined

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 6

At the Paddington Court yesterday, T. J. Hill, license of the Imperial Hotel, Oxford Street, was charged with an offence under the…

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Moore's Appeal Upheld W. Cook Is Licensed Once Again

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 July 1931 · page 2

YESTERDAY the Committee of the A.J.C. upheld Fred Moore's appeal against his disqualification for twelve months, in…

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