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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1936

940 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 47

Victimisation of Seamen Licensing and Preference Move Bygovernment

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 5 May 1936 · page 1

SYDNEY, May 4.—Many hunt [?] of seamen who have had as much as twenty years’ sailing experience will be debarred from…

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Theft of £376 From Hotel Safe

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 May 1936 · page 5

DETECTIVES are investigating the report of a theft of £376 from a safe in the Victoria Hotel, George…

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Alleged Assault at Hotel

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 May 1936 · page 5

Josiah Cox, of the Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly, was committed for trial on £50 ball by Mr. Gibson, S.M., at Central Police Court yesterday, on a…

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£340 Taken From City Hotel Safe

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 May 1936 · page 1

Police are investigating the disappearance at the weekend of £340 from the office safe of the Victoria Hotel, George Street, city…

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Carlton - Manly Hotel Merger Approved

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 May 1936 · page 14

Shareholders in Manly Hotels, Ltd., yesterday approved of the scheme for the merging of interests of the Carlton and Pacific Hotels on the basis of an…

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[?]ree tons HOTEL

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 6 May 1936 · page 48

IN the heart of the jungle in Kenya is the queerest and the most expensive bedroom in the world. From it, lying in your bed, you can see rhinoceroses, elephants, leopards, zebras, hyenas…

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Robbery at Hotel. £374 Taken From Safe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 May 1936 · page 11

T[?] police have been informed that, between 10 [?].m. on Sunday and 10 a.m. on Monday, the sum of £374 in banknotes was taken from a s[?]fe in the office of the Hotel Victoria, 315…

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Electricians’ Licensing Date of Examination

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 6 May 1936 · page 7

The Electricians 1 Licensing Examination under the Local Government Act, will be held in Sydney and country centres on Thursday, 28th May, 1936. Applications for examination should be lodged with…

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S.M.'s PROPOSAL License Photographers

The Sun · Wednesday 6 May 1936 · page 27

"I do not object to a ticket being handed to me in the street," said M. Stevenson, S.M., when a number of street photographers were fined…

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Hotels--Anzac Day

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 May 1936 · page 6

THE returned Anzacs fought their way through four years of hell, and every one of them is lucky to be alive. Yet there are still people who are…

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License Suspended Intoxicated Lorry-Driver Fell on the Roadway

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 May 1936 · page 17

Convicted of having driven a motor lorry While under the influence of intoxicating liquor in Bridge-street, Lidcombe, Edward James Thompson (47),…

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Licensing Approved

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 May 1936 · page 21

After imposing fines of from 2 to £1 on street photographers for having distributed cards without a licence to do so, Mr. Stevenson, S.M., asked at…

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Deadly Snakes Escape in Hotel. Montreal, May 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 May 1936 · page 12

A number of poisonous snakes are believed to be loose somewhere in Montreal. Their owner was killed by a bite by one of them. Edward Smith, of Louisiana, who came here…

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Link with Past Historic Hotel Passes

The Sun · Friday 8 May 1936 · page 19

CARCOAR, Friday.--One of the oldest connecting links with the pioneering days of the western districts, and also a relic of the bushranging…

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Tell-tale Photo. in Pocket Wool-Buyer Also Had Wireless License

Truth · Sunday 10 May 1936 · page 24

REMINISCENT of old-time melodrama, the discovery of a photograph of the "other woman" in the pocket of a…

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Bookmaker's May Be Licensed In New Zealand AUCKLAND

The Sun · Sunday 10 May 1936 · page 1

It is practically certain that a bill for the licensing of bookmakers, both on and off the racecourse will be introduced to…

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Hornsby Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 May 1936 · page 3

A transfer of the license of the Railway Hotel, Hornsby, from A. E. Mitchell to Bernard T. Ritchard was granted at last sitting of the Licensing Court…

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"Don't Discuss Pubs" Council Stands Aloof Proposed Removal of License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 11 May 1936 · page 1

"We don't discuss pubs. We may visit them, but we don't discuss them." So said Councillor Lalor when Blacktown Council was asked last Thursday…

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Hotel Kurrajong Tenders

The Sun · Tuesday 12 May 1936 · page 21

Canberra, Tuesday.--Tenders for the additions to the Hotel Kurrajong will be returnable until next week, the Department of the Interior…

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Man Fined Assault At Hotel

The Sun · Tuesday 12 May 1936 · page 19

GULGONG, Tuesday.--At Gulgong Police Court, Wilson J. Back, 22, was lined £2 10s and ordered to pay £6 10s compensation on a charge of…

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