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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1932

761 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 39

Stabbed in Trying to Make Peace Brothers Quarrel Outside Mascot Hotel Man May Die

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 April 1932 · page 6

Said to have acted the part of peacemaker in a quarrel between two brothers outside an hotel in Botany Road, Mascot. last right…

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Colored Man Damages from a London Hotel

The World's News · Wednesday 27 April 1932 · page 4

Mr. Oluwole Ayodele Alakya, a West African graduate of Oxford University and nephew of the reigning Prince of Abeokuta, Nigeria, was, at Marylebone…

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More Drastic Moves To Force Lang Using Every Ounce of Power New Measures To-day Collecting State Taxation License Fees Canberra

The Sun · Wednesday 27 April 1932 · page 1

THE decision of the Federal Cabinet last night to serve notice on the Taxation Commissioner in New South Wales (Mr. McMahon) requiring him to hand over to the Commonwealth all taxation documents in his possession was…

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TRICKED "Hard" Drinks For Publican

The Sun · Wednesday 27 April 1932 · page 9

A neat trick played on the licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Milson's Point, was described before Mr. Gibson, SM., at the North Sydney Police…

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Again Refused Second-hand Dealer's License Police Opposition

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1932 · page 16

When, in February, Adolph Robinson, of Parramatta, applied for a renewal of his second-hand dealer's license, the police opposed the application, stating…

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Hotel Transfer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 April 1932 · page 6

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. W. S. Arnott, L.M., granted a transfer of the Livingstone Hotel, New Canterbury and Livingstone roads, Marrickville, from John…

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Hotel Licence Suspended for Two Hours. COWRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 April 1932 · page 10

At the Licensing Court the lessee of the Fitzroy Hotel was asked to show cause why the licence should not be cancelled owing to improvements ordered in 1930 not being carried…

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Bought Sawdust and Bricks Publican Thought It Was Spirits

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 April 1932 · page 10

If Charles Hercules Waterhouse, of the Imperial Hotel, Milson's Point, had not been busy on the afternoon of October 13 last year, he might…

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Heaven Helping the Working Girl! These Ornamental Parasites Hotel Victims

Arrow · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 6

AN unpleasant result of the depression is the increased activity of the parasite who preys on women. Compared with him the…

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Two Die in Big Hotel Blaze Sensational Escapes Exit Was Barred Night Peril Camooweal (Q.)

The Sun · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 1

MR. SKINNER, well-known station owner, and Neville Radloff, 21, school-teacher. were burnt to death when the Federal…

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Flood of Cheap European Labor Sinister Amending Immigration Bill Is Introduced In Federal Parliament Deportation Bludgeon License Is Given to Intimidate Like Leg-iron Legislation Wives and Children Drawn in Canberra

The Labor Daily · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 1

REMINISCENT of the leg-iron legislation of the Bruce-Page Government, the Amending Immigration Bill, under cover of which the Federal Government proposes to admit a flood of cheap Southern European labor to the Commonwealth, was read a first time in the Senate to-day…

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Closing of Hotel Disallowed. Nyngan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 April 1932 · page 12

The Licenses Reduction Board from [?] ney, consisting of Messrs. W. Le Brun B[?] (chairman) and Messrs. W. S. Arnott and T. W. Cohen, heard an application for the…

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Ex-Premier Licensee

Nepean Times · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 1

MR. JAMES Dooley, ex-Premier of the State, who for a few years was hotel-keeping on the Mountains, was granted, on Wednesday, a spirit…

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Hotelkeepers and Transport

Nepean Times · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 1

HOTELKEEPERS of the Wollongong district were unsuccessful in a deputation to the Chief Commissioner of Transport in which they pointed out…

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No Offence. Because Hotel Licence was Not Issued. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 17

Three charges against Mrs. Catherine Theresa Watson for alleged offences against the Licensing Act were dismissed in Port Adelaide Police Court to-day on the grounds that…

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Hotel Fire. Two Men Killed. Vain Attempt to Escape. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 13

Two men were burnt to death in a disastrous fire which completely destroyed the Federal Hotel at Urandangle earily this morning…

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Rolled Ablaze Down Stairs Two Die in Hotel Inferno

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 April 1932 · page 5

CAMOOWEAL, Friday.--Two people were burnt to death last night in a fire which destroyed in 30 minutes the Federal Hotel and…

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Hotel Invaded. Night Life in Canberra. Indignation of Mr. Gabb, M.P. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 May 1932 · page 9

There are still ripples of excitement and some vestiges of annoyance in Canberra as a result of a series of incidents that followed a ball held last night in the Albert Hall, in…

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Hotel Destroyed Coff's Harbor

The Sun · Monday 2 May 1932 · page 3

Beach House Hotel, an old two-storey, structure, was, with its contents, destroyed by fire about 4 o'clock this morning. About a dozen…

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Canberra Snobocracy Stages Unholy Night Social Lions Make Pests of Themselves Drunken Roysterers Create Uproar in Hotel Terrific Din Member Threatens to Ventilate Matter in House Canberra

The Labor Daily · Monday 2 May 1932 · page 6

TORY to the core, Canberra turned on a perfect exhibition, last night, of its utter disregard for disregard for anyone but its precious self…

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