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Hotels & licensing, 1934

628 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 32

Man Shot Dead in an Hotel Another Receives Bullet Through His Ear CHIPPENDALE

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 1

WHEN he attempted to act in the role of a peacemaker at the College Green Hotel, Meagher Street, Chippendale, last night,…

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Chaff Bag Murder Inquest Evidence On Black Waggonette Hotel Drinks Wagga

The Labor Daily · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 5

THAT he had seen Edward Henry Morey, who is charged with murder, and a man with a black waggonette in company…

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Man Dead; Hotel Shot; Two Wounded

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 24 February 1934 · page 1

WOUNDED with his own revolver during a bar-room altercation last night, Martin Sayers (40), proprietor of the…

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Weapon Explodes and Kills Licensee

Truth · Sunday 25 February 1934 · page 16

WHEN arguments broke out in the bar of the College Green Hotel, in Meagher-street, Chippendale, on Friday night, the licensee, George Sayers, thought he would quieten matters by firing his revolver over the head of the combatants…

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Accidentally Shot. Death of Publican

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1934 · page 9

After exhaustive inquiries over the weekend concerning the death of Martin George Sayers, 40, licensee of the College Green Hotel, Meagher-street, Chippendale, who was shot…

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Whisky Not Up to Standard Hotelkeeper Is Fined

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 27 February 1934 · page 4

At Paddington Court yesterday, George Berner, license of the Hotel Bondi, at Bondi Beach, was fined £124 for having sold adulterated…

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Hotel Sydney Ltd. Hardly so Good a Year

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 15

Earnings of Hotel Sydney Ltd were slightly less last year, £19,986, against £22,008, and there was a moderate fall in rents and commissions. The result was a profit £345…

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Hotel Ranelagh, Robertson, Sold Also Melbourne Property

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 4

The sale is announced of the freehold and licence, and as a going concern, of the Hotel Ranelagh, Robertson the purchasers being a Melbourne company…

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This Freedom-- This License!

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 4

HUMBUG that played pretty partner to the Court Jester in the mediaeval development of the science of government has turned cuckoo in the nest in the more recent centuries, sent the Jester tumbling into a gracious oblivion and set itself up as the guiding…

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Hotel Sydney Nets Small Profit

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 February 1934 · page 12

Gross profits of Hotel Sydney, Ltd., decreased by £2301 to £23,390 during 1933, whilst net profits were £345 lower at…

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Wanted Drink Mistook Town Hall for Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 1 March 1934 · page 3

How a slightly inebriated stranger mistaking the Auburn Town Hall for a hotel, staggered in and, throwing a two-shilling piece on the counter,…

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Hoarding License Fee

The Biz · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 2

Western Suburbs Cinemas Ltd. complained to Holroyd Council, on Tuesday night, that the fee of 10/ charged by council for erection of hoardings was…

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"A Nuisance" Hawking Without a License

The Biz · Friday 2 March 1934 · page 3

Michael Bourke appeared at Liverpool Police Court last Friday on a charge of carrying on the business of a hawker without having a license…

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Hotel Fire. Owner's Charges at Inquiry. Attempted Frame-up Alleged. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 15

Remarkable allegations were made when the coroner (Mr. J. G. Muir) held an inquiry into the cause of the fire which destroyed the Great Central Hotel at 2.20 a.m. on…

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Anzac Day & Hotel Hours

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 March 1934 · page 9

"WE have received no communication from the Returned Soldiers' League regarding the closing of hotels on Anzac…

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Poet and Publican

The Sun · Sunday 4 March 1934 · page 51

Mr. Sinclair Lewis, were he an Australian writing of Australian life, would be the best-hated man in the Commonwealth. Australians have…

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Departed Romance Old Black Horse Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 2

A few years ago the licensed of the Black Horse Hotel at Richmond was transferred to a modern building some miles away, and the historic hotel was…

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Charge Against Woman. Arrest in Seaside Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 10

Complaints were recently received by the police in Brisbane that a woman who claimed to have been left a huge fortune in the United States had borrowed large sums of…

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Hotel Boardfr Fined. Warialda

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 10

At the Warialda Police Court, before Mr. Carr-Boyd, P.M., Edward Southwell, a boarder at the Commercial Hotel, was charged with carrying away liquor from the hotel during…

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Fires in Shed and Hotel Big Blaze Narrowly Averted Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 March 1934 · page 6

WHEN drums of mineral turpentine exploded and burst into flames in a shed adjacent to the main building of F. Ash and Co.,…

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