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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1932

761 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 39

Good Bye Those Good Old Days! Hoodoo Wine Shop Closed For All Time Where Plots Were Hatched, Razors Flashed And Guns Spat Dreadful Death Licensee Good Receives £3,150 to Shut Up

Arrow · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 1

GONE is one of Gangland's drinking haunts where gunmen, dope pedlars, and street girls, discussed whatever topics they…

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Dog Racing and Betting at Mascot Deputation Urges Granting Of License No Decision

The Labor Daily · Friday 29 January 1932 · page 5

STRONGLY urging that the Mascot ground be licensed for mechanical have coursing and betting, a deputa…

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The Hotel Business

Nepean Times · Saturday 30 January 1932 · page 1

THE average hotel business is in a had way just now. Hardly five per cent, of it is showing a profit. An Young the revenue from publicars'…

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Menzies Hotel, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 11

Although a profit was made during the halfyear ended December 31, 1931, the directors of Menzies Hotel Ltd., in view of the extreme uncertainty of the outlook, have decided to…

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Hotel Trading Hours. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 6

Sir,—Mr. Francis Wilson says that no Government dare ignore the fact that 347,494 votes were cast for 6 o'clock, and 178,842 for 9 o'clock closing. But he conveniently omits…

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Arrest in Hotel. Sequel to Armed Robbery

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 6

Detective-sergeant Keogh and other police have been active in their search for two mer who entered the garage of the Coventry Motor Service, Ltd., in McKeon-street,…

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Stealing From Hotel. Tweed Heads

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 10

At the local police court, Clement Francis Reynolds was charged with stealing from the Hotel Pacifique, at Tweed Heads, on December 26, clothing and personal effects, valued at…

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Shanghai Fighting Near British Consulate Britain and America Send More Warships To China: Grave Fears Japan's Army Grows 5000 More Troops 70 Aeroplanes Japanese Troops Burn Down Foreign Hotel Despite Assurances Russia Speaks Powers Protest Against Chapei Horror

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 1 February 1932 · page 1

Special Dispatches from The Daily Telegraph correspondents in Shanghai, Washington, London, and Geneva. Unless the China situation improves immediately, the…

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Hotel Licences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 10

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday, Mr W. Le Brun Brown chairman, granted the following transfers or publicans' licenses:—Edgecliff Hotel. New South Head-road and Ocean-street,…

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Croydon Park Hotel, Croydon Park

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 9

Which is being erected by Master Builders Maston and Virtue, under the supervision of Architect E. Lindsay-Thomnson…

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Empire Buying Big Scope For British Hotels LONDON

The Sun · Wednesday 3 February 1932 · page 16

Representing an annual purchasing power of £20,000,000 for foodstuffs, British hotel and restaurant managers conferred with the Minister for…

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Fighting in Bar Sequel to Hotel Brawl

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 9

Just upon closing time on 16th instant, the Epping police were in front of the local hotel, and upon hearing a disturbance and scuffing in the bar, they went…

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No License Changed the Name

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 15

The name "Opal Divestuck" which appeared on the charge street at Ryde Court last Thursday, and which was loudly called at the Court door, had…

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War Souvenir But It Wasn't Licensed

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 13

"I plead guilty and innocent. I didn't know you had to have a war souvenir registered." Henry Thomas, Marson put it thus at…

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Licensing Prosecutions. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 10

At the Grafton Police Court Lovell Rooke, Albert Simmons, and Frank Simmons were charged with being unlawfully on licensed premises on Christmas Day. They were fined…

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More Guns "Would Mean More Shooting" License Refused

The Sun · Thursday 4 February 1932 · page 19

If revolver licences were granted to everyone who wanted them, just in case of possible attack, the…

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Bank and Hotel Destroyed by Fire. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 9

A disastrous fire occuired early this morning at Julia Creek, near Townsville, when Gannon's Hotel, the Queensland National Bank premises and an empty hairdressing…

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Bombed Hotel a T Julia Creek Grim Record Cloncurry (Q.)

The Sun · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 3

Julia Creek added further to its grim record of crime yesterday, when Gannon's Hotel was bombed, resulting in a fire which destroyed the building, the Queensland National Bank premises, and an empty hairdressing saloon…

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A Good Sale Newtown Hotel For £8000

The Sun · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 8

Evidence continues to accumulate of an improved feeling in the real estate world. The sale was effected by…

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Outbreaks at Hotels

The Sun · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 8

GRENFELL.--The new water supply from Bogolong answered well to an early test this morning, when the old stables at the Empire Hotel…

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