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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1932

761 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 39

Gun Call D'linghurst Capture in Hotel Bar

The Sun · Friday 1 January 1932 · page 3

Immediate response by a squad of d[?]ctives this afternoon to a telephoned alarm that a man was parading in William-street…

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Popular Hotelkeeper Dead

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 January 1932 · page 5

The death occurred yesterday of Mr. Michael Toomey, licensee of the Newmarket Hotel. For many years Mr. Toomey was senior police…

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Metropolitan Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 5

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday, before the Chairman (Mr. W. Le Brun Brown), Theodore Montague Pyke, 46, carrier, pleaded guilty to having sold liquor without a licence on January…

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All Quiet At Hotels Abroad Europe To-day

The Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 13

Pulling vigorously at his mother's hands, Paul Henri Brenac, a tiny form, wearing a knitted blue suit, goose-stepped on his…

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Racehorse to Pay Hotel Bill Maitland

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 1

AT Maitland Licensing Court to-day, Stanley V. Creamer, licensee of the [?]…

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Under Girl's Bed Intruder's Escape In Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 10

Disturbed, while allegedly ransacking the upstairs portion of a city hotel yesterday, a man is thought to have concealed himself…

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Rules for Visiting Motorists Commercial Cars to Be Licensed Transport Act

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 6

The Commissioner of Road Transport announced yesterday that in future motor vehicles from other States which are…

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No License Electrician Fined

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 1

Leslie Alfred Dunne, at the Parramatta Police court yesterday, pleaded guilty to two charges of having carried on business as an clertrician without being…

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Hotel Fire Liverpool Outbreak

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 7

Firemen had to tear up portion of the floor to extinguish a lire in Summergreene's Golden Fleece Hotel at Liverpool on Christmas Eve…

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Summons Against Publican. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 8

Following the discovery of an illicit still at Newcastle, a summons has been taken out by the police against a West Maitland publican, who is charged with having illicit spirit in his…

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Hotel As Morgue But Proprietor Got Worried GOSFORD

The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 15

Having had his premises used as a morgue three times in three weeks, Mr. J. Trim, licensee of the Union hotel, has informed the police that…

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Hotel Murder Woman and Man Die in Q'land Tragedy

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 5

TOWNSVILLE, Wednesday.--Two are dead as the result of a tragedy at the Camp Hotel, near Maxwelton, today…

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Bottle Battle Over "Black" Hotel in N.t

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 5

DARWIN, Wednesday. -- At Pine Creek last night a riot took place between two factions of the 80 unemployed…

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SPEAKEASY and Go Easy Gunmen's Hotels Breeding Place For Crime What Are The Police Investigator's Amazing Report

Arrow · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

HIRING the services of a "recommended" taxi-driver in Phillip Street last Friday night, I was taken to the first address on my…

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Hotel's Closing Sanctioned

The Sun · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 13

JUNEE, Friday.--The executors of tile Crawley Estate and Mrs. M. Crawley, licensee, have succeeded in their application to the Licensing…

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High-class Hotels British Need Uniform Hours London

The Sun · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

BETTER public-houses and one uniform closing hour throughout the country are the principal changes, as…

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Illegal Betting. Crowd's Hostility in Hotel

The Propeller · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 5

At the Kogarah Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. McDougall, S.M., Frederick Gray (31) was charged with illegal betting at Allawah on January…

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New Hotel Hours Govt. May Agree to Alter Later Times for Trading 8 A.M. TO 8 P.M.

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 1

Overtures have been made for the alteration of hotel trading hours. It is likely that the Government will…

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Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 2

The quarterly Licensing Court for the District of Penrith will be held at the Penrith Court House on 25th inst…

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Licensed Firearms. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1932 · page 12

According to i[?] com[?] [?] by the [?] Department, the number of [?] to carry [?] [?] to keep them on the [?] in 19[?] 19[?] 19[?] and the first…

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