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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1935

836 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 42

Buys Up Hotel to Trap Her Bing Crosby In A Novel Role the Regent

The Labor Daily · Thursday 4 April 1935 · page 12

Paramount's "Here Is My Heart," which comes to the Regent to-morrow, presents Bing Crosby with one of the best…

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License Transferred

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 April 1935 · page 7

The transfer of the license of the Imperial Hotel, Rooty Hill, from Mark Joseph Wallington to Walter E. G[?]kes was granted the Penrith…

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Paddington Landmark. Demolition of Old Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1935 · page 21

Another relic of the early days of Paddington is disappearing.The old buck building at the corner of Oxford and Shadforth streets and known as the Britannia Hotel, is being…

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City Hotels. Visited by Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 April 1935 · page 18

Police visited several well-known hotels in the city last night. The police acted quickly, and visited three hotels almost simultaneously. There was no…

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Old Hotel Goes New One To Rise At Manly

The Sun · Saturday 6 April 1935 · page 8

An old Manly landmark--the Steyne Hotel--will soon disappear, and a new hotel costing £20,000 will take its place. Plans for the…

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Hotel Burned 30 Lose All Belongings BARRABA

The Sun · Saturday 6 April 1935 · page 7

The Royal Hotel, of 40 rooms, owned by Mr. Armell, was completely destroyed by fire last night. Boarders and staff, numbering 30, lost all their…

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Hotels Sudden Police Swoop

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 April 1935 · page 5

THERE was great excitement at Sydney's most fashionable hotels last night, when a special squad of police carried out a series…

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Guests Flee From Blazing Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 April 1935 · page 1

THE Royal Hotel at Barraba was gutted by fire late last night. About 30 guests were staying at the…

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Police Raid Five Leading City Hotels After-theatre Parties Have Names Taken

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 April 1935 · page 1

IN Sydney's most dramatic raid of its type for years, police paid simultaneous visits last night to five leading city hotels--Usher's, the Carlton, the Australia, the Metropole, and the Sydney. The raids, apparently, were…

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Hotel Raids Police Will Enforce Liquor Act

Truth · Sunday 7 April 1935 · page 14

CONSTERNATION reigned in the city on Friday night when high police officers directed raids on big city hotels…

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Wounded in Hotel Row

The Sun · Sunday 7 April 1935 · page 3

BRISBANE, Saturday. -- With blood streaming from a wound in his side, following an affray in an hotel. Jean Gazenos, a Greek, ran down the main…

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License Suspended Intoxicated Motorist

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 2

Charged with having driven a motor car while under the influence of intoxicating liquor in Station-road, Auburn, on March 30, Frederick Flynn (26)…

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Action Urged Betting In Hotels

The Sun · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 8

During the nearing of a number of betting cases at the Central Police Court to-day, Mr. MacDougal, S.M., suggested that police action be taken…

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Govt. Members Alarmed At Raids On City Hotels Policy Speech Of Premier Wireless and S.P. BETTING Strong Exception Is Taken To Proposals Slap in Face

The Labor Daily · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 6

ALTHOUGH certain members of the U.A.P.-U.C.P. Parliamentary party professed that, because of recent confidential discussions,…

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Greek Stabbed. Struggle in Hotel. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 10

People in Victoria-street, Mackay, shortly After 1 p.m. on Saturday, saw Jean Gazenos, 37. a Greek, running along the street with blood flowing freely from a knife-wound in his…

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Bricks for Gin. Hotelkeeper Victimised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 April 1935 · page 9

A Balmain hotelkeeper was the victim of a simple confidence trick by two men. Shortly, before closing time two men called at the West End Hotel, Balmain, and one of…

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Hotel Service. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 5

Sir,—Referring to a paragraph headed "Hotel Service" in your issue of Thursday, training schools for hotel servants are no new thing in France. Seven years ago they were…

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Betting in Hotels. Magistrate's Comments

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 8

Dealing with a list of betting charges in the Central Police Court, Mr. Macdougal, S.M., remarked upon the number of Such offences stated to have taken place in hotels…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 9 April 1935 · page 8

The Chairman of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench, Mr. Laidlaw, yesterday granted the following transfers of hotel licences: Cecil Hotel…

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Charge of Assaulting Publican Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 April 1935 · page 14

Allegations that he struck E[?]enezer Hill, licensee of the Hotel Gordon, with an fro[?] [?]ar on the night of March 15, were made against Reginald McDonnell, 34, at the…

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