A Letter From the Dead Sensational Turn in Woolpack Hotel Tragedy--See Page 4 Fordyce Wheeler Won't Take Money From the State Authorised to "Investigate and Report," But Not to Become Govt.'s Agent Got Nothing for His Analysis
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 1
FORDYCE WHEELER, advertising manager of the "Sun" and "Telegraph Pictorial" newspapers in Sydney, has been granted by the Lang Government, as being a Publicity Expert, a charter almost as wide as that of the winds, "to blow on whom he listeth"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woolpack Hotel Tragedy
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 1
"How I wish to God that she had left me alone, I would not have neglected my work; I would have had friends, and would…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dead man asks "Smith's" to clear his ne[?]e. Poignant Story of Sam Newlands' Tragedy Sensational Explanation of Woolpack Hotel Suicide "She Used Me to Satisfy Her Lust"
Smith's Weekly · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 4
WHY was Sam M. Newlands, 35, found locked in his bedroom at the Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta, with the bed-clothes on fire? He is dead; whether from heart failure, or suffocation, or other cause is yet to be determined. But why this strange and terrible pursuit of death? His own voice from the Dead gives his own answer to the question. During three days before he died, he wrote a long letter to "Smith's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Not the Way Out' Licensing Betting Shops Totalisators Urged
The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 6
Mr. Lang's 10 per cent batting tax and the proposal to license S.P. betting shops have been responsible for a tremendous amount of criticism of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Sale at £125,000 Hotel Savoy Passed in At Auction
Daily Pictorial · Saturday 24 January 1931 · page 2
TEN minutes' brisk bidding sufficed yesterday tor the Hotel Savoy to be passed in at £125,000 at Richardson and Wrench's auction sale…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alleged "Friends of Ministers" Sp. License as Bait Manly Raid
Truth · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 12
THREE weeks of careful police work last week led to the arrest of two men who allegedly had used an ingenious tale of ability…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Two Men Shot in Mystery Mudgee Case Strange Man's Mad Act Hotel Drama
The Sun · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 2
Two men were shot at Cooyal, near Mudgee, late yesterday afternoon following the refusal of one of them to pay for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drink-crazed Swaggie Amok With Gun--Publican Shot Wild Fusillade On Racing Horse at Mudgee Turned Weapon on Himself; Came From Rozelle Two in Critical State
Daily Pictorial · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 3
MUDGEE, Saturday.--Running amok at Cooyal to-day, a drink-crazed swaggie, after firing wild shots as he raced on horseback through the town, shot Oswald Hall, local publican, in the neck, and then shot himself…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fruit Machines May Soon be Licensed To Assist Lottery Ticket Sales
Daily Pictorial · Sunday 25 January 1931 · page 3
If present plans mature fruit machines may be licensed in N.S.W. and run under Government supervision in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shot Hotel Licensee Then Himself Gun Play Near Mudgee Both in Hospital Mudgee
The Labor Daily · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 1
FOLLOWING an altercation over the payment of a drink, two men were shot at Cooyal, near Mudgee yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Licensee Attacked With Bottle MELBOURNE
Evening News · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 1
SURPRISED in the bar of the Hotel Victoria, Beaconsfield-parade. Albert Park, on Saturday night, two men attacked the licensee. Mr. M'Donald,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Went Wild with Shot Gun Drink-crazed Man and Publican Wounded
Daily Pictorial · Monday 26 January 1931 · page 4
Oswald Hall, licensee of the Cooyal Hotel, 17 miles from Mudgee, was "shot in the neck on Saturday by a drink-crazed man, who later…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hotel Metropole Ltd. No Interim Dividend
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 11
No interim half-yearly dividend will be paid by the Hotel Metropole, Ltd. Operations for the half-year ended December 31 resulted in a profit, though the amount was very…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Betting in Hotels
The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 7
Sir,--May I be permitted a small space in our daily authentic paper to heartily endorse the views expressed by Rev. R.B.S. Hammond as rewards…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Finance; Commerce Interim Dividend Deferred Less Profit For Hotel Metropole
Daily Pictorial · Tuesday 27 January 1931 · page 12
Though operations of the Hotel Metropole, Ltd., for the half-year ended December 31 last, definitely resulted in a profit, the figure was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Tax on Spirit. Publicans' Protest. "Politicians Helping Prohibition Cause." Adelaide
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 January 1931 · page 13
Licensed victuallers, at the publicans' conference to-day, reaffirmed the protest against the tax of 5/ a gallon on spirit bottled out of bond, and the Federal executive was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Big Sweep Change Headquarters in Danzig Hotel Offices London
Evening News · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 1
THE headquarters of the international sweep, of which the controlling syndicate was formed in Sydney,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Up-to Date Hotel for Jerusalem
The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 3
One of the largest, as well as most palatial hotels in the East was opened in Jerusalem last month. It is called the "King David," and will…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Licensed Victuallers. Adelaide
The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 15
The interstate conference ol licensed victunllers expressed objection to wholesale liquor firms engaging in trade direct with consumers. It was decided that there should be…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →License for Blanks
The Sun · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 4
Athletic officials are asking, should a licence be necessary for a starter's pistol? Mr. R. D. Norman, East Sydney's energetic…
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