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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1936

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A "Ship" Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 November 1936 · page 3

The Northern Rivers Hotel, Erskine and Sussex streets, Sydney, now being rebuilt, has been designed on lines of a modern passenger vessel. This has been done to retain the…

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Betting in Hotels. 50 Additional Police. Race Day Supervision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 November 1936 · page 6

During the hearing of betting cases in the Burwood Summons Court yesterday, the police prosecutor said that the officer in charge of the division had asked him to mention the…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 November 1936 · page 6

Applications for transfers of the following publicans' licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:— Dominic Charles McCloskey to Charles Miley,…

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Hotel Licences

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 November 1936 · page 17

Transfer of the following hotel licences was granted in the Licensing Court yesterday:--Dominion Hotel, Market and Clarence…

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Woman Fined for Hotel Betting Forster

The Sun · Wednesday 18 November 1936 · page 21

At Forster Police Court. Mrs. Stella Sophia Bonventi, of Tuncurry, was fined £15, with £5 12s 2d police expenses, by Mr. F. Grugeon. P.M., on…

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Bogus Inspector Gaoled Ordered Painting At Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 18 November 1936 · page 16

Michael Jonas, 53, charged at the Central Court to-day, before Mr. Reed, S.M., with an attempt at imposition, with a view to obtaining…

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The Judgments Wallacia Licensing Appeals

Nepean Times · Thursday 19 November 1936 · page 1

As briefly stated in last issue, the appeal, at Parramatta Quarter Sessions, against the Licensing Court's decision granting the application for…

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£10,000 Re-building Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 19 November 1936 · page 5

Workmen are pulling down the Royal Hotel, Blacktown, which is to be re-built at a cost of £10,000. Work commenced on Monday, and it is…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 November 1936 · page 7

Applications for transfers of the following publicans' licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:—George Solomon Harvey to Edgar Reginald Samuel…

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Bogus Health Inspector Visits to Hotels and Milk Bars

The Labor Daily · Thursday 19 November 1936 · page 12

It was disclosed at the Central Police Court yesterday, that numerous city hotels and milk bars had effected repairs and renovations…

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Furthur Charges Against the Police Bullying in Hotel Matters Raised In Parlt. Minister to Act

The Labor Daily · Thursday 19 November 1936 · page 7

POLICE administration again occupied the attention of the Legislative Assembly yesterday, following the widespread attacks made the previous day upon the Government's action in relation to the report upon the Manners case…

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Hotel Licences

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 November 1936 · page 16

The following transfers of hotel licences were grunted in tile Licensing Court yesterday:--Rawson Hotel, George Street, Sydney, from…

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Daring Robbery at Hotel Door Burst in

The Sun · Friday 20 November 1936 · page 1

Great daring was shown in a robbery at a city, hotel yesterday. The door of a bedroom was burst in and £ 100 in notes and silver were…

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Robbery in Hotel. Police Puzzled

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 November 1936 · page 17

The police are puzzled by the circumstances in which Mr. G. Luscombe, licensee of the Royal Standard Hotel, was robbed of a sum of £80 which was taken from a bedroom of…

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Hotel Sold. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 November 1936 · page 14

The Freemasons' Hotel, which was established at Broken Hill in 1899 by a company, has been sold at a price believed to be £16,000. Tooth and Co., Ltd., have been mentioned as…

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A. Parr Re-licensed Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 21 November 1936 · page 2

At a meeting at the V.R.C. committee to-day A. J. Parr, the former Sydney apprentice. who was Indentured to B, Miller at Flemington was granted the…

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Il Riuscito "Bridge Party" al Carlton Hotel

Italo-Australian · Saturday 21 November 1936 · page 2

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Truth Readers Have Their Say Hotel Rates

Truth · Sunday 22 November 1936 · page 22

HOTELS in New South Wales were charging 10s. and 8s per day and £1 15s and £2 10s. a week before the war, and they are still…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 November 1936 · page 7

Applications for transfers of the following publicans' licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:—Robert Sydney Stanfield to Wilbred John Anderson…

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Incinerated at Hotel in the Bush Fierce Fire on the Night the Victim Arrived Brisbane

The Sun · Tuesday 24 November 1936 · page 13

ALEXANDER NETHERCOTT, 40, of Maryborough, who has no relatives in Australia, met a terrible death at 1 a.m. today, when he was trapped by flames and incinerated in his bedroom at the Woolooga Hotel, at Kilkivan, 80 miles from…

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