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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1936

940 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 47

Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 1

The quarterly Licensing Court for Penrith Licensing District will be held at the Penrith Court House on Friday, 23rd October, at 10 a.m…

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APPEALS Licensing Transfers to Wallacia

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 5

APPEALS against both decisions of the chairman of the Metropolitan Licensing Board, Mr J. W. M. Laidlaw, S.M., transferring the…

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Hotel Bundaberg

The Catholic Press · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 30

Queensland has a big tourist influx, and visitors have a delightfully wide variety of scenery. Ocean, river, mountain, plain—in every direction the visitor finds…

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Hotel Licences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Applications for transfer of the following publicans' licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:—Elsie Hastings to Francis Cowell Wooldridge,…

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At Hotel Police Struck Bet Sequel

The Sun · Thursday 24 September 1936 · page 33

"Drink appears to be the trouble. Usually I send such offenders to gaol," said Mr. Sheridan, S.M., at Manly Court today, when he fined…

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Licensed Drivers in Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 September 1936 · page 7

In June, 1935, there were 910,218 people in Australia licensed to drive motor cars, this being an increase of 46,236 on the previous year's figures. Although the figures at June,…

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Masquerade As Woman In Hotel AUCKLAND

The Sun · Sunday 27 September 1936 · page 2

Masquerading as a woman, a young man was arrested in a leading city hotel on a charge of having stolen a…

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Licensee Did Not Have Full Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 September 1936 · page 7

Police objected to the application by the licensee of Pfahlert's Hotel, Mrs. James Stafford, in the Licensing Court yesterday, for an extension of…

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Tobacco Licenses

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 October 1936 · page 1

THE new law by which applications A for tobacco licenses must go to the Department of Labour and Industry, Sydney, instead of being…

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Wallacia Hotel Appeal

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 October 1936 · page 4

The appeal against the transfer or the license of the Imperial Hotel, Rooty Hill, to Wallacia, which was listed for the Farramatta Sessions…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 October 1936 · page 6

At the Ryde Licensing Court yesterday an application by B. A. Hollingdale for removal of the licence of the Pymble Hotel, Pymble, to new premises recently completed, was…

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Woman Slashed Altercation In Hotel

The Sun · Thursday 1 October 1936 · page 25

Josephine Jacobs (40), of Goulburn- street, city, was severely wounded when she was slashed, allegedly with a razor, in the Evening Star Hotel,…

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Money, Mines and Markets City Column Usher's Hotel Steady Profits Shown Div. Maintained

The Sun · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 8

Earnings disclosed by Usher's Metropolitan Hotel, Ltd., for the year to August 31 last, are much the same as those for the preceding year…

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May License Flats Proposal by Health Inspectors

The Labor Daily · Friday 2 October 1936 · page 6

Designed to give councils power to license flats, a resolution was carried at the annual conference of the Health Inspectors of…

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New Move In S.P. Bets War Police Posted in Hotels

The Sun · Sunday 4 October 1936 · page 1

The posting of uniformed constables in hotel bars is the latest police move to combat S.P. betting…

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£27,000 Loss in Town Fire 10 Buildings Go; Two Hotels BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 4 October 1936 · page 9

Sweeping unimpeded through the main business block of Emerald, a pastoral town, 500 miles north-west of Brisbane,…

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Hotel Licence Transfer Granted

The Sun · Monday 5 October 1936 · page 14

BELLINGEN, Monday.--An application by Peter Gleeson, licensee of the Repton Hotel, Bellinger River, for the removal of his licence to a…

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£27,000 Damage in Fire Jump From Hotel Balcony Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 October 1936 · page 7

OCCUPANTS of two hotels had to flee for their lives early yesterday morning when a fire broke out in the main business block of…

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"Bob-in" Illegal. Publican Fined £5. Previous Conviction in 1886. ADELAIDE

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

At the Police Court to-day a hotel licensee was fined £5 for allowing a "bob-in" to be settled by the throw of dice. Only one previous conviction for this game, which has been…

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