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Hotels & licensing, 1936

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Gun-Point Hold-Up In Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 March 1936 · page 1

HELD up by two men with a revolver, Herbert Smythe, night porter at the Hotel Burlington, Haymarket, was last night forced…

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Hotel Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 March 1936 · page 4

The additions to the Hotel Australia, with the new entrance from Martin-place, will be available to the public from now onwards. A new note has been struck in the internal…

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Licensed Seamen. Victorian Branch. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 March 1936 · page 9

[?] meeting of seamen who are forming a Victorian branch of the Licensed Seamen's Association of Australia decided to-day to apply to the Arbitration Court for registration…

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Nearly £460 a Foot. Land for Burwood Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1936 · page 8

To erect thereon a £15,000 hotel, Toohey's, Ltd., has acquired two alloments of land on the northern side of the Burwood railway subway. The land, on which stood two…

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Causes in No. 3 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Davidson and jury.) Sale of Hotel Lease. Horsman v Chalk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1936 · page 9

Further evidence was called by the plaintiff in the action in which Arthur Horsman is suing Frank Reginald Chalk to recover £1147/15/8, for stock and goods of the…

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In Hotel Guildford Men Fined

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 April 1936 · page 17

Four Guildford men paid £5/8- each at the Liverpool Court on Friday for drinks which they did not have. Andrew Thorne, Joseph Heath, Peter…

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"Like Glass" Footpath in Front of Hotel

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

Mr. E. Seymour wrote to Auburn Council last week drawing council's attention to the dangerous concrete in front of Keighery's Hotel, Auburn. He said that…

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License Suspended

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 April 1936 · page 11

Brian Burton Gregory Wade, of Clanville Avenue, Roseville, was fined £5 and had his licence suspended at North Sydney Court yesterday for…

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Causes in No. 3 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Davidson and jury.) Sale of Hotel Lease. Horsman v Chalk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 April 1936 · page 5

The hearing of this action will be resumed to-day…

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Causes in No. 3 COURT. (Befoie Mr. Justice Davidson and juiy.) Sale of Hotel. Horsman v Chalk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1936 · page 6

Counsel began addresses. The hearing will be resumed to-day…

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Country News. Thefts From Hotel. Ballina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1936 · page 9

Early yesterday morning two balcony rooms of the Australian Hotel, in River-street, were entered, and a wallet containing £15 in notes was stolen from the room occupied by Mr…

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Causes in No. 3 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Davidson and Jury.) Sale of Hotel. Horsman v Chalk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 April 1936 · page 9

Mr. Monahan, K.C., counsel for the defendent, had not concluded his address at the adjournment yesterday. The hearing will be resumed on Monday…

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That Great War Against the Alsatians Beats the Bread and Newspaper Wars Special Legislation Should be Introduced to License the Dogs a Wonderful Animal

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 April 1936 · page 11

WELL, there seems to be another war on. We get by with the bread war, the newspaper war, the war to end war, and then we're into the war to end Alsatians. One of the thingumabobs of our National Liberty is supposed to be the right of…

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Three Parramatta Publicans Their Simple Sad Story How They Sought to Defraud the Revenue and Were Diddled Themselves

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 5

On one of the hottest days of December, 1891, when business was us dead as Queen Anne, and life hardly worth living a bustling. respectably-dressed…

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Fire Causes Damage to Hotel Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 6 April 1936 · page 5

A fire broke out In the early, hours of this morning in the Commercial Hotel, South Morang. It destroyed the dining hall and several…

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Causes in No. 3 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Davidson and jury.) Sale of Hotel Lease. Horsman v Chalk

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 5

The hearing of this action wil be continued to-day…

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In Woman's Dress. Man Arrested in Hotel. Queensund Train Tragedy. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 11

A man who was dressed in women's clothing, a grey one-piece frock, red hat and black shoes, and carrying a handbag, walked into a residential in Little Collins-street, but…

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SAID S.P. Bettors Persecuted Charge Made to Member Evidence Is Given At Inquiry in Hotels

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 7 April 1936 · page 7

AFTER his associate had made inquiries from the Justice Department, Mr. Justice Markett, at the S.P. Betting…

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Hotel Case. Jury's Late Finding. £1100 VERDICT

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 20

After having been in letiiement for eight hours, a jury of four gave a veidict in the Supreme Court last night in the action in which Arthur Horsman sued Flank Reginald…

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No Freud For Hotel Guests

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 April 1936 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tuesday. -- The directors of a famous hotel here have cancelled a series of lectures by Laurence Gould on Freud, stating: "We have…

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