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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

764 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 39

Supreme Court. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice. Sir Philip Street, Mr. Justice Ferguson, and Mr. Justice James.) Sale of Hotel. Alridge v Miller

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 July 1931 · page 5

Reserved Judgment was given on an appeal in the action brought by William Bert Alridge against Herbert H. Miller, to recover £300 paid by the plaintiff to the defendant by way…

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Country News. Hotel Improvements. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 10

An Important judgment was delivered by Mr. Le Brun Brown, chairman of the State Licensing Bench, in connection with demands by the Bench for the carrying out of hotel…

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"A Heroine" Mrs. K. Miller in Hotel Fire Night Rescues New York

The Sun · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 1

A fire occurred at a hotel at Fort Plain (New York), at which Mrs. Keith Miller, the flying woman, was staying. She helped to arouse the…

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V.R.C. Refuses Jockeys' Licenses Melbourne, Thurs

The Labor Daily · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 2

THE V.R.C. committee to-day refused to renew the jockey's licenses of the well-known cross country…

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Prominent Riders Miss Licenses Harris and Thompson

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Noted cross-country riders, R. N. Harris and H. J. Thompson, were refused renewal of their licenses this afternoon…

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New Licenses for Season Many Well Known Names Missing

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 July 1931 · page 2

LAST season 139 bookmakers were licensed to field in the paddock at Randwick. For the new…

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Men Captured in Hotel. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 August 1931 · page 12

At the Lithgow Police Court James McCey and John Cummings were sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour on charges of having been found on the premises…

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THE V.R.C. Causes a Stir on Annual Licensing Day Three Leading Jockeys Did Not Receive Licenses

Referee · Wednesday 5 August 1931 · page 2

In Victorian racing "Circles, the new season licensing day for trainers and jockeys is fraught with great interest. For it is never known what surprises there are in store. There were plenty on Thursday last, when the sub-committee appointed for…

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Hammond's Hotels Many Men Helped

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 August 1931 · page 7

THE vast amount of assistance to unemployed men being given at Hammond's Hotels will…

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Robbed Publican Coming and Going Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 August 1931 · page 5

ROLAND LIONEL. Mc-MANUS, 42, clerk, of Parramatta, N.S.W. was sentenced to four months gaol…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 August 1931 · page 5

Mr. W. S. Arnott, Licensing Magistrate, sitting as the Metropolitan Licensing Court, granted the following transfers of hotel licences yesterday:— London Tavern Hotel, 105 Regent-street, Redfern,…

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Australia Hotel Taxation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 11

That taxation in 1930-31 was nearly as much as in 1929-30, despite the reduced profits, was the statement made by the chairman (Mr. W. Douglass) at the annual meeting of Australia…

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Taxation and Revenue Aust. Hotel Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 August 1931 · page 12

Although revenue was 50 per cent. lower than in 1929, Mr. W. Douglas, chairman of Australia Hotel, Ltd., pointed out at yesterday's annual…

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Maintaining Its Standards Hotel Metropole Policy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 August 1931 · page 10

Although turnover and profits of the Hotel Metropole, Ltd., fell, during the past lean year, by 27 to 28 per cent., the chairman, Mr. Wm…

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Hotel Metropoles Reduced Turnover

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 August 1931 · page 13

That the turnover of the company had decreased by 27 or 28 per cent. on the figures for last year was the information given to shareholders by the chairman of directors…

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Canberra Hotels. "Costly Failures." CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 August 1931 · page 11

Mr. J. E. Benton, M.P., the former Acting Prime Minister, commenting to-day on the losses on the Parliamentary refreshment rooms and hotels in Canberra, suggested that the…

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No License Frankfurt Vendor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 10 August 1931 · page 2

William Moore was selling frankfurts opposite the Cross Roads Hotel on Sunday, June 28. At the Liverpool Police Court last…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 August 1931 · page 6

Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, chairman of the Metropolitan Licensing Court, granted the following app[?] cations for the transfer of publicans' licences yesterday:—Mans[?] House Hotel, 701 George-street[?]…

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Hydro Hotel, Leeton, N.S.W.

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 12 August 1931 · page 11

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Canberra Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 August 1931 · page 18

Mr. A. E. Wright, of Canberra, in a letter to the Editor, refers to a recent statement by Mr. Fenton, M.P., that Canberra hotels were costly failures. "The hotels," states the writer,…

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