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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1936

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Shipping Dispute. Licensing System In Force To-day

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 4

The licensing system for seamen comes into force to-day, and it will be illegal for unlicensed seamen to be employed at the ports affected by…

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SECLUSION Lindberghs Reach Hotel London

The Sun · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 1

AFTER a roundabout car journey in Liverpool, where they arrived to-day from the United States, Colonel and Mrs…

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Fought in Hotel Bar

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 6

Both under the influence of liquor, Walter Hill, 39, laborer, and James Francis Anderson, 42, laborer, were outraged, in a fight in the bar of a…

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All Right in Milk Bars But Not in Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 6

"CONTACT" or "pin" boards must be withdrawn from hotels at once according to the police, but are to be allowed in…

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400 Get Supper New Year Revel at Hammond Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 5

"Nothing would please me better than to be able to close the Hammond Hotel by making it impossible to recruit men out of the streets," said…

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Wants License Back Motorist's Application Further Evidence Required

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 7

Convicted of having driven a motor car while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, John Joseph Morrison, at the Parramatta Police Court last June,…

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After Hours Took Liquor From Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 18

Sergeal jeffrey and Roy Gammack met near the Parramatta Hotel about 9.30 p.m. last Saturday. Gammack had five bottles of beer and a bottle of…

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New Hotel £8000 Building at Liverpool

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 5

Ninety-five-year-old William Orr had the last drink at the Warwick Farm Hotel, Liverpool, before it closed after quenching the thirst of…

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Manning of Ships. Aorangi Due to Sail To-day. Licensed Crew Obtained

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 7

The Canadian-Australasian Royal Mail liner Aorangi is scheduled to leave Sydney this afternoon for Vancouver. The ship has been manned by licensed men, and the owners do…

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Fight in Hotel

The Propeller · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 7

John Duggan, 30, cabinet maker; Timothy Duggan, 35, labourer; and William Thomas Armstrong, 45, labourer, were each fined £1 for behaving…

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Staff Walk Out of Hotel Belfast

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 6

Nearly 200 waiters and waitresses walked out of the Grand Central Hotel when the management refused to meet in a wages claim. The…

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Herd Bulls Advantages of Licensing System

The Land · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 6

EVERY bull in England and Wales calved on or after October 1, 1933, must now be licensed by the time it reaches 10 months. Australia…

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Strikers Drifting Back to Work. Departure of Aorangi with Licensed Crew

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 10

The Aorangi, the second large passenger liner to break the strike cordon, sailed from Sydney yesterday for Vancouver, manned by a crew of licensed seamen…

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Hotel Jewel Robbery

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 January 1936 · page 7

Police inquiries concerning a jewel robbery at a leading Sydney hotel are likely to be transferred to Melbourne. The jewellery, valued at several…

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GOSSIP From Here There and Everywhere Crematorium Calendar -- Ten Wickets In Both Innings -- Two Licensees In Eighty-one Years Only Life Member

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 13

A UNIQUE compliment has been paid Mrs. F. A. Allen, of Stanthorpe (Q.), for she is the first and only life member of the Queensland Government…

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Hotel "Barber" Thief Gets Smart Sentence

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 9

"HOTEL BARBER" was the appelation tacked to William Bennett, 44, clerk, by the police at the Central Police Court last…

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Legality of Pin Machines Hotel-keepers May Resist Govt's Edict Black Mark

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 6

ALTHOUGH hotelkeepers were warned by the police early last month that "pin" and "contact" machines would have to go by…

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Man Chased From Hotel Charge of Larceny Later Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 8

The sequel to an affair at the Waterside Hotel, Flinders Street, City, at 9 am. to-day, when the daughter of the licensee found a man in a…

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Into Wrong Room Once Too Often Woman Who Trapped Hotel "Barber"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Surprising an intruder in her bedroom at 9 a.m. to-day, a daughter of Mrs. F. Farrow,…

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"Pin" Machines Are Banned Order to Remove Them From Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 8

Following a warning issued by the police recently, many hotel licensees have removed "pin" machines from their bars…

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