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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

764 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 39

Down £100,000 Hotel Licence Fees

The Sun · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 8

The decline in liquor consumption will mean a loss to the Government this year of at least £ 100,000 in licence fees…

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"Must Have Been in Waterloo" Old Firearm in Court Owner Fined for Having No License

The Labor Daily · Friday 30 January 1931 · page 7

"I think this must have been in Waterloo. I hope it won't go off" remarked Mr. Perry, S.M, as he gingerly examined an old blunderbus…

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Licensed Victuallers. Preference for Local Goods. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 18

The interstate conference of licensed victuallers, which concluded to-day, decided that State branches should give absolute preference to beer and other goods of local manufacture…

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Queensland Fires. Hotel Destroyed. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 January 1931 · page 7

Fire destroyed the Terminus Hotel, a wooden building and the oldest hotel in Clermont, early this morning. A bucket brigade managed to save the adjoining building by…

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Razor Slashing Follows Fierce Brawl In Park Victim Defending His Father-in-law Hotel Fight Has Grim Ending Blade Wielded by Spectator Angry Crowd Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 1

A FIGHT in the shadows of Aberdare Park last night had a grim ending when two men became embroiled, and a razor was used…

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To Rest in the Shade of Bacchus Hotel' to Become a Home Cessnock Plan Cessnock

The Labor Daily · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 1

AN hotel which boomed for only a fortnight will shortly become a rest home for the aged and infirm. when Aberdare South Colliery…

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Money in Backyards Angora Rabbits First Australian Show Area Licenses

The Labor Daily · Monday 2 February 1931 · page 5

"IF the licensed rabbit-breeders oan satisfy me that this n[?]w industry justities it, I will consider the advisability of extending the…

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Transfer of Publicans' Licenses

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 5

The Licensing Court yesterday granted the following applications for the transfer of publicans' licenses: Belvedere Hotel, Kent and Bathurst…

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Mystery of Sydney Bride Body Recovered From Seine Married to Captain of Cephee Left Note at Paris Hotel Paris

Evening News · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 5

A BODY, believed to be that of Madame Myra Filhol, a Sydney woman, who was married last year to the captain of the liner Cephee, has been recovered by police from the river Seine…

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Canberra Hotels. No Further Tenders to be Called. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 February 1931 · page 10

Because of the unsuccessful results that attended previous efforts to lease Governmentowned hotels in Canberra to private enterprise, fresh invitations for tenders to lease are…

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Collapse of Hotel at Napier, New Zealand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 February 1931 · page 18

The Masonic Hotel, Napier, one of the best known hotels in New Zealand, three floors of which are reported to have fallen in during the earthquake…

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Hotel Licensee Bound Over

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

Norman Thompson, the licensee of the Hotel Phillip, Phillip and King streets, Sydney, was charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with having failed to close and keep closed…

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New One Hungry, But Couldn't Get Into Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 10

Alfred Beacroft, on Monday at Parramatta Police Court, put over a new the oil the Court habitues when charged with using indecent language in Argyle-street,…

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Drunken Driver Staggered From Hotel Was He Lucky?

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 10

While Sergeant Follent was standing in Good-street, Granville, on last Friday afternoon, he observed Thomas William…

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New Hotel in Jerusalem

The Australian Jewish Chronicle · Thursday 5 February 1931 · page 5

That Palestine is becoming an attractive place for tourists who visit it in increasing numbers is shown by the erection of a new…

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Rules for Hotel Guests

The Land · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 2

1. Guests are requested not to speak to the dumb waiter. 2. Guests wishing to get up in the morning without being called may have self-raising…

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Hotel Man's Debt Suspension Application Dismissed

Evening News · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 5

An application under section 14 of the Moratorium Act. in relation to the affairs of Albert Edward Neville. Heensee of the York Hotel. King-st, was…

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McGRATH’S HOTEL v. Lusher’s Hotel

The St George Call · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 3

What better day than last Sunday could have been selected for the two above dispensers of the lubrication that makes merry. The match, which was…

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Hotelkeeper Found Dead in Gas-filled Room

Daily Pictorial · Friday 6 February 1931 · page 7

Henry Cecil Howard (53), formerly an hotelkeeper, was found dead yesterday in his room at Rose Street, Chippendale. The gas jet was turned…

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His Car License Suspended Except for Business When Was He Drunk?

Nepean Times · Saturday 7 February 1931 · page 1

In fining Edward Coleman for driving a motor car while he was under the influence of intoxicating liquor, Mr Sutherland, P.M., at…

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