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Hotels & licensing, 1935

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

Hotel Safe Robbed

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 December 1935 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Thursday. -- Between £130 and £140 was stolen last night from the safe of the Selbourne Hotel, in Pirle Street…

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Licensing and the Strike

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 28 December 1935 · page 4

The Federal Government has proclaimed December 31, as being the date whereafter no seamen may be employed in the Australian shipping industry unless he is in possession of a license to be so employed, issued by the Federal…

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S.m. Wanted to Fine Publican

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 December 1935 · page 6

CONSTABLE REID told Mr. May, S.M., at Redfern Court yesterday, that when he advised Muriel May Frizell. 39…

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Thieves Obtain £10. Visits to Store and Hotel. GULARGAMBONE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 December 1935 · page 12

Thieves broke into Lemon Bros.' store, Gulargambone, on Christmas morning, and carried away a safe containing £10. After a few hours' search the safe was found…

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Licensing Law. Permits for Parties. South Australian Experiment. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 December 1935 · page 11

More than 100 permits for hotel parties have been issued since December 20, when the new licensing law was proclaimed. The majority of the permits were for…

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Hotels Wide Open Under New Party Drinking Law Host's Name Is Password Till Midnight Adelaide

The Sun · Sunday 29 December 1935 · page 6

THE new drinking law which Parliament passed in time for Christmas has thrown the hotels wide open until midnight. The only restriction is that drinking must not be done in the bar…

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Hotel Licensee Robbed. £90 Taken From Bedroom. Port Kembla

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 December 1935 · page 9

A thief stole £90 in notes from Mr. Leslie Taylor, the licensee of the Commercial Hotel, Port Kembla, during the week-end. The money was placed under the pillow in his…

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Licensing Law. South Australian Experiment. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 December 1935 · page 6

The Chief Secretary (Sir George Ritchie) announced to-night that he intended to call for a report from the Commissioner of Police (Brigadier-General Leane) on the effects of…

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"Hotel Barber" Clerk Sent To Gaol

The Sun · Monday 30 December 1935 · page 9

"The defendant is known as a hotel barber," said the police prosecutor (Constable Magnay), at the Central Police Court to-day, referring…

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Three Dead In Big Hotel Fire LONDON

The Sun · Monday 30 December 1935 · page 7

Three women were burned to death and seven people injured, including a honeymoon couple, in a fire at the New Waverley Hotel, Edinburgh,…

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£82 Hotel Bill

The Sun · Monday 30 December 1935 · page 8

Charged with having refused to pay £82 17s 6d for meals and accommodation at Usher's Metropolitan Hotel, on December 19, Charles Louis…

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Burnt to Death. Three Women in Hotel Fire. London, Dec. 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 December 1935 · page 9

Three women were burnt to death and seven persons were injured, including a honeymoon couple when a fire broke out in the New Waverley Hotel, Edinburgh, early this…

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Australia Hotel Ltd. Proposed Alterations to Articles

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 December 1935 · page 11

Directors of the Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., propose alterations to the company's articles of association, mainly to enable the number directors to be increased, if deemed…

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Foul Play Theory Tests Support Body in Hotel Well

The Sun · Tuesday 31 December 1935 · page 5

TESTS conducted yesterday support the theory that it was not by accident nor by suicide that Jack Conway, 59, cook, met his death in the Matong well in which his body was found floating…

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Three Die in Hotel Fire Edinburgh

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 31 December 1935 · page 1

THREE women members of the staff of the new Waverley Hotel were burned to death in the early hours…

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Bodies in Wells Farmer And Cook Victims Deaths Unrelated, Yet Near at Hand Matong Hotel, Wagga Farm Are Seines

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 December 1935 · page 1

WHILE police were investigating the discovery of a young farmer's body in a well on his property at…

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