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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1936

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Dead Man's Last Day ? Hotel Rows Before He Disappeared Body Found in Well

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 7

GANMAIN, Monday.--There Were wild scenes on December 22 in the hotel at Matong, where Jack Conway's body was…

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Hotels Get an "Open Go." Under New S.A. Licensing Law

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 6

The hotelkeepers in South Australia have extensively availed themselves of the new licensing law permitting hotel parties up till midnight. About the only…

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Australia Hotel Ltd. Alterations to Articles Adopted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 15

An extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., was held yesterday, and various alterations in the company's articles were unanimously adopted…

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“Staybrite” Steel in the Hotel Australia, Sydney

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 16

A considerable quantity of “Staybrite” steel was supplied by Messrs. William Adams and Co. Ltd. in connection with the equipment and decoration of the additions to the Australia Hotel, Martin Place,…

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Crew Refused to Sail with Licensed Firemen Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 6

The steamer Bopple was unable to get away for Bundaberg to-day because union members of the crew refused to take the vessel to sea…

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Menzies To License Seamen By Post Reason Is Alleged Violence by Sydney Pickets Surprise Coastal Ballot Ordered By Minister MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 7

THE Attorney-General, Mr. Menzies, announced today "to, circumvent acts of violence on volunteers," seamen's licences would be issued by post in Sydney. A seaman in Sydney wanting to volunteer could…

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Wants Hotels Closed All Day Anzac Day Clergyman Will Fight for 6 O'Clock Closing

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 2

During the course of a sermon on Sunday night last at the Knox Presbyterian Church, Granville, the Rev. E. L. Slade Mallen said that he with others…

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Our Old Hotels What's in a Name?

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 13

When on June 4, 1838, renewal of the license of the Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta was granted it had then been held for 26 years. This according to an…

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Miners Reject Strike. Militants' Crushing Defeat Shipping Strike May Collapse. Licensed Seamen Assaulted on Waterfront

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 9

Mass meetings of miners yesterday overwhelmingly defeated the recommendation of the officials of the combined mining unions for a general coal strike in the Commonwealth in sympathy with the seamen. The voting, announced last night, was 5780 against the strike and 1167…

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Law Report. in Equity. (Before Mr. Justice Nicholas.) Goulburn Hotel Property. Estate of J. P. Cooper, Deceased

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 6

The trustees and executors of the will of the late Mr. James Pargeter Cooper, formerly of Norwood, near Goulburn, were plaintiffs in an originating summons taken out to determine…

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Man of Means £82 Hotel Account

The Sun · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 23

Charles Louis Lewison, 25, of independent means, was charged at the Central Court to-day, before Mr. May, S.M., with having refused on…

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Licensing Commission's First Sitting Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 January 1936 · page 10

The Licensing Commission, which supersedes the Licensing Courts, held its first public sitting to-day, when 20 applications for liquor licences in…

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Carlton Investments Ltd. Recovery in Hotel Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 13

Referring to the marked signs of recovery in the hotel business, Mr. N. B. Rydge, chairman of Carlton Investments, Ltd., said, at the annual meeting yesterday, that the Carlton…

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Publican's Gift. Contravention of Gaming Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 6

Denis O'Dea, occupier of the Unity Hall Hotel, Darling-street, Balmain, was charged at the Balmain Summons Court yesterday with having knowingly allowed the premises to be…

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Crew Refuses to Sail With Licensed Firemen

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 1

BRISBANE, Jan. 8—The steamer “Boppie” was unable to get away from Bundaberg to-day because union members of the crew…

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Publican Fined for Christmas "Card" to Customers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1936 · page 1

FOR allowing the Unity Hall Hotel, Darling Street, Balmain, to he used in contravention of the Gaming and Betting Act, 1912, Denis O'Dea…

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No Free Present Publican Cannot Give Them

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1936 · page 32

MINE HOST must not mix beer and lotteries. This fact was firmly established at Balmain Police Court last week when Denis…

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After Hours In Hotel Three Fined

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 13 January 1936 · page 1

When Sorgeant Malley entered the Golden [?] Hotel, Liverpool, at 9.45 p.m. on December 7, he found charles Burton and George Lamb on the…

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Robbed in City Hotel

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 6

For Stealing 15 from James McLean on January 11, Jean Donaldson, 44 domestic was fined [?]3 by Mr. Shepherd S.M. at Central police…

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Licensee Is Fined

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 14 January 1936 · page 8

At Burwood Court yesterday, Michael Francis Skelton was fined £3 by Mr, May, SM, for having been the licensee of premises in…

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