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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1936

940 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 47

Bush Hotels of Yesteryear

The Land · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 22

NOWADAYS country hotels are commonly called Royal, Commercial and Tattersall's. Almost every back country town uses…

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Australia Hotel Earns Larger Profit

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 August 1936 · page 17

After providing £14,000 for taxation, net profit of £29,318 was earned by Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., on its operations during the year to June 30…

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Deer Lodge Hotel Ltd. Another Proposed Licensing Transfer St. Marys to Wallacia Witnesses Say Room for Two Hotels

Nepean Times · Saturday 8 August 1936 · page 1

RECENTLY the Chairman of the Metropolitan Licensing Board, Mr J. W. M. Laidlaw, P.M., granted the removal of the license of the Imperial Hotel, Rooty Hill, to a hotel (of 30 bedrooms) proposed to be erected on a site adjoining the golf links at Wallacia. On Thursday he…

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License Transferred

Nepean Times · Saturday 8 August 1936 · page 5

The license of the Australian Arms Hotel has been transferred from Arthur Crompton Eckley to John Gracey, of Waverley…

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When the Gong Goes the Boxing Game Great and Small The Publicans and Ginners

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 8 August 1936 · page 23

THE hotel and restaurant Jack Dempsey opened some time ago in New York is a "complete knockout." Within a short time it has become New…

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No Case Hotel Shooting Charge

Truth · Sunday 9 August 1936 · page 13

POLICE failed to make out a prima facie case of shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm when Edwin Rankin…

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More About the City Council's Hotels Deals Conducted in the Dark Royal Commission Is Urgently Demanded

Truth · Sunday 9 August 1936 · page 13

SO that the ratepayers of the City of Sydney may realise what is at stake in the projected sale of the string of hotels, owned by the Corporation and paid for with the citizens' money, in the…

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J. A. Lyons Is Robbed Case Stolen From Hotel Mullumbimby

The Labor Daily · Monday 10 August 1936 · page 5

The Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, who was returning to Sydney from Queensland, was the victim of an hotel thief here last night…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 August 1936 · page 6

The following transfers of publicans' licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:—Carl Richard Wickman to Norman Aloysius Willits, Lord Roberts Hotel,…

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Girl-wife Tried to Take Life Husband Killed In Hotel Man Charged Perth

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 11 August 1936 · page 1

THE 19-year-old widow of a man who was fatally shot in the Launceston Hotel at Boulder City on Saturday shot…

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Appeals Upheld Licensed Premises Cases

The Sun · Wednesday 12 August 1936 · page 22

DUBBO, Wednesday.--In March Norman Patrick Irwin, licensee of a wine saloon, was fined £2 for allowing Percey Kinchella and George…

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New £50,000 Hotel for Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 August 1936 · page 13

REPLACING the present Great Northern Hotel, on the corner of Scott and Watt Streets, Newcastle, a new £50,000 building will be erected soon by Paynter and Dixon, to plans by Rudder and Grout, architects. The new structure, of five [?]…

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St. Marys to Wallacia Will the License Go? Evidence Concluding Licensee to Get £8000 to Go Out

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 August 1936 · page 1

A NUMBER of residents of St. Marys, including the Mayor and four ex-Mayors, gave evidence, for or against, this week in the application for the removal of the license of the Railway Hotel, St. Marys to a site at Wallacia adjoining Greendale station. The matter is being heard…

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£9000 New Blacktown Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 13 August 1936 · page 5

Blacktown is to have a new hotel in the near future. It will be erected at a cost of £9000. Plans have been prepared and it is…

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Alleged Thefts From Hotel Safe. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 August 1936 · page 9

At the Police Court to-day, Priscilla Marjorie Webster, 24, cook, was charged with having on July 26, broken and entered the dwelling of Francis Gill Burton with intent to commit…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 August 1936 · page 6

The following transfer of a publican's licence was granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday: Daniel Joseph Cloughessy to Albert John Sheather, Pacific…

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Waited in Dark for Thief Caught Woman, Says Detective Safe in Hotel Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Thursday 13 August 1936 · page 8

A REMARKABLE story of how he waited in an hotel at night and caught a woman robbing the safe, was told in the Police Court to-day…

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Proposed Licensing Transfer St. Marys to Wallacia

The Biz · Thursday 13 August 1936 · page 2

Recently the Chairman of the Metropalitan Licensing Board, Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, P.M., granted the removal of the license of the Imperial Hotel, Rooty…

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Too Friendly ? Police And Publicans PERTH

The Sun · Friday 14 August 1936 · page 12

Are country policemen too friendly with small town publicans? That question was raised at to-day's session of the women's section…

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40-Hour Week N.Z. Hotel Workers AUCKLAND

The Sun · Saturday 15 August 1936 · page 3

The Arbitration Court has ordered a 40-hour week for New Zealand hotel workers, with work on Saturdays…

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