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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1935

836 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 42

"IMPARTIAL" Miners and New Hotel Tennant's Creek

The Sun · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 18

To prove their strict impartiality, as they term it, some miners have signed petitions for and against the granting of a second hotel licence…

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Police Seek Deadly Weapon Fits in Matchbox Fired In Hotel Brought From Paris

The Sun · Tuesday 11 June 1935 · page 7

FOR some days, C.l.B. detectives have been searching for what they believe to be the smallest and most easily concealable deadly firearm that has ever been brought into Australia. It is a pistol…

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Hotel Hammond Concert

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 June 1935 · page 8

Canon Hammond is 65 to-day. The occasion was celebrated last night at the Hotel Hammond, Buckland Street, with a concert, in which…

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H “Freemasons Hotel” si Abbellisce

Il Giornale Italiano · Wednesday 12 June 1935 · page 2

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Moves to City Parramatta Hotel Proprietress

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 9

Friends of Mrs. E. M. Farrall, late of the Hotel Parramatta will be pleased to learn that she has not left the metropolitan area. From next Monday she…

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Queensland Hotels. Move to Extend Trading Hours. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 11

A move to extend the liquor trading hours is likely to be made by a section of the Government party at the pre-sessional Caucus meeting…

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Hotel Guests Robbed. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 12

[?]man went through a Wollongong hotel this morning and robbed guests of sums totalling about. £15. while they were absent from their rooms…

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Hotel Licence Transferred. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 12

George Withey, when applying for a tran[?] of the licence of the Laggan Hotel to himself, said he found when in Sydney that [?]e could not stand up to the heavy overhead…

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Drunken Driver Fined, License Suspended

The Sun · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 37

Alleged to have been so drunk that the police wee unable to take his fingerprints. Frederick Arnold Collins. 46. was fined £10 at the Glebe…

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Would Not Trade After Hours Publican's Undertaking Accepted Goulburn

The Labor Daily · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 9

That he had found he could not stand up to heavy overhead expenses without resorting to after-hours trading at the hotel he conducted at…

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Girl's Death in Hotel Electrocuted Using Carpet Sweeper

The Labor Daily · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 9

Using an electric carpet-sweeper at an Auburn Hotel, Doris Maria Ruth Sweeney was electrocuted on February 12 last, and later the Coroner returned a verdict of…

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Hotel "Barber's" Haul

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 9

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.--A man who had booked a room at the Crown Hotel went through the rooms of other guests and got away with…

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Illicit Spirit North Sydney Publican Fined £100

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 June 1935 · page 11

Inspector James Bernard Maher, Customs Department, said in evidence at North Sydney Court yesterday, when David Ross, 57,…

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Our Radio Page on the Air-on the Land More About Those License Cancellations

The Land · Friday 14 June 1935 · page 30

"DUPLEX" has invited readers to express opinions as to why there are so many listeners' licenses cancelled each month, and here is the…

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Travel League. Luncheon at Hotel Metropole

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 14 June 1935 · page 4

At the Travel League of New South Wales luncheon at the Hotel Metropole yesterday Mr. A. C. Davidson, general manager of the Bank of New…

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Sash Fell From Hotel Window

The Labor Daily · Friday 14 June 1935 · page 8

When Alfred Bahisen, of Macquarie Street, City on March 28 inst. a wire sash felt from a…

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Illicit Grog Found in North Sydney Jars of Rum in Hotel Kitchen "Business Was Bad"

Truth · Sunday 16 June 1935 · page 10

WITH a fine of £100 inflicted on David Ross, licensee of the Federal Hotel, North Sydney, making the fourth case of Its kind associated with…

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Shots in Hotel; Man Wounded Strangers Demanded Liquor; Two Arrests Newcastle

The Sun · Sunday 16 June 1935 · page 2

In a shooting affray at an hotel at Tighe's Hill, near Newcastle, last night, Thomas Lett, 52, of Molsaac-street, Tighe's Hill, was wounded as…

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Man Wounded. Shots Fired in Hotel. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 June 1935 · page 10

Thomas Lett, 52, of Mclasaac-street, Tighe's Hill, suffered a bullet wound in the left wrist at the Royal Oak Hotel, Tighe's Hill, late last night…

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Police Warn On Hotel Betting

The Sun · Monday 17 June 1935 · page 5

"Some time ago the Licensed Victuallers Association complained about the prevalence of betting in hotels. Police had each hotelkeeper warned where betting was taking place. In the majority of cases betting ceased," said…

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