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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1932

761 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 39

Hotel Employees. Wage Reductions Announced. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 July 1932 · page 15

On the ground that the hotel business was suffering greatly as a result of the present depression, employers in the liquor trades recently applied to Chief Judge Dethridge in…

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Swindell Was To Get £7500 "Price for License" Admission by Booth Sensational Turn In Evidence Judge Warns

The Sun · Wednesday 20 July 1932 · page 13

EVIDENCE before the Tin Hare Royal Commission took a sensational turn this afternoon when John Felix…

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Double Crossing Charge at Tin Hare Inquiry "Judge" Swindell and License Efforts Alleged to Have Told G.c.a. That "J.t." Insisted on Three Seats on the Directorate "Not Court of Morals": Counsel's Protest to Commissioner

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 July 1932 · page 5

There were further strong words used yesterday by Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, sitting as Royal Commissioner in the Tin Hare investigations. "The whole thing reeks of trickery," he said, at one stage; Mr. Holman (for the…

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Hotel Fight Interrupted by Constable

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1932 · page 12

John Doody and Ralph Reynolds were engaged in a fight in the bar of Tattersall's Hotel Parramatta, on Saturday afternoon, when Constable Clarke…

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No License Electrician Was Under Misapprehension

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 21 July 1932 · page 12

When Victor Kell was charged at Parramatta Police Court on Monday with carrying out certain electric work without being the holder of an…

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Newcomers and Second Tin Hare License Didn't Tell Government of Swindell's £7500 "Did Not Mean to Deceive, But to Suppress the True Facts," Is Explanation Felix Booth Tells of Permit Granted in Six Hours

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 July 1932 · page 5

From J. Felix Booth and Leslie Harry Wiles the Tin Hares Royal Commission yesterday heard of the association with "Judge" Swindell regarding the second metropolitan permit about which, there had been so much s peculation prior to the sudden…

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Man Shot. Hotelkeeper Arrested. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 July 1932 · page 10

Francis Charles Wood, 40, a canecutter, was in the bar of the Ayr Hotel last night when he was shot with a rifle. He is in a critical condition…

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Hotel Proprietor's Death. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 July 1932 · page 10

Mr "Jerry" Mann proprietor of the Imperial Hotel, Armidale, collapsed and died in a car while returning from the Grafton laces to a local hotel this afternoon He was a regular…

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Publicans Fined. West Wyalong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 July 1932 · page 10

At the West Wyalong Police Court, Michael Francis Skelton, licensee of the Empire Hotel West Wyalong, pleaded guilty to a charge of selling whisky, alleged to be a certain brand…

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Arrest Made in Hotel

The Labor Daily · Saturday 23 July 1932 · page 6

Entering, the bar of a city hotel early last night, Detective Richards, of Darlinghurst, arrested a man and charged him at Darlinghurst Police…

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From M P. to Publican

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 July 1932 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The former Federal Minister for Health and Repatriation (Mr. McNeill) intends to go into business as a…

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Stocks for Sly-grog Shop? Police Catch Man in Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 July 1932 · page 8

By two early morning arrests at the week-end police claim they have learned one way in which a notorious sly-grog house at Redfern secures…

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Transfer of Hotel Licences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 July 1932 · page 6

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. W. Le Brun Brown chairman crnnted the following transfers of publicans' licences: University Hotel, Broadway, Glebe. Thomas John McMahon…

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Hotelkeeper's Death

The Sun · Tuesday 26 July 1932 · page 9

Mr. Morris Lazarus, licensee of the Carlton Club Hotel, Young-street, city, and formerly of other city hotels, was found dead in his room…

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Hotel Metropole. Dividend Slightly Increased

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 July 1932 · page 13

Trading profits of Hotel Metropole—profits before provision for taxation—were £13,151 for the year ended June 30 against £15,907 for the previous year Taxation was £4346…

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Hotel Metropole Increases Dividend Rate Larger Net Profit Less Absorbed by Taxation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 July 1932 · page 11

Although trading profits of Hotel Metropole, Ltd., for the year ended June 30, 1932, were £2755 lower than in…

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Transfer of Hotel Licences

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

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday Mr. W. Le Brun Blown, chairman, granted a transfer of the licence of the Criterion Hotel[?] Pitt and Park streets, Sydney, from Frank…

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Northern Notes Cessnock License Withdrawn

Arrow · Friday 29 July 1932 · page 17

GREATEST "tin hare" bombshell since the introduction of the sport with betting in Coalopolis burst this week when the Cessnock Syndicate's…

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Hotel Rents Want Tribunal to Review

The Sun · Friday 29 July 1932 · page 8

A deputation from the United Licensed Victuallers' Association interviewed the Minister of Justice (Mr. Martin) to-day, and requested that…

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Hotel Rents. Readjustment Sought

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

A request was made to the Minister for Justice (Mr Martin) yesterday by representatives of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association regarding the rents of hotels and…

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