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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1936

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Rush on Canned Vegetables Hotels Buy Large Stocks

The Sun · Tuesday 24 November 1936 · page 14

Mich market prices have caused a demand for tinned vegetables, housewives finding it cheaper to buy this way…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 24 November 1936 · page 10

The following transfers of hotel licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court, yesterday: Peter's Jon Hotel, Petersham, from Robert Sydney Stanfield, to…

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Floating Hotels. Liners on the Thames. (British Official Wireless.) London, Nov. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 November 1936 · page 16

About 20 shipping companies have applied for permission to anchor vessels in the Thames during the Coronation celebrations, to act at floating hotels…

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Hotel Burned Down. One Man Killed. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 November 1936 · page 15

Alexander Nethercote, a single man, was burned to death and several other persons [?]ad narrow escapes when the Woolooga Hotel and hall, Woolooga, was burned to the ground early…

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Ships As Floating Hotels London

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 25 November 1936 · page 5

A BOUT 20 Shipping companies have applied for permission to vessels in the Thames during the Coronation. The ships will be…

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Death in Hotel Fire Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 25 November 1936 · page 5

A message from Kilkivan states that a boarder named Alexander Nethercott was burned to death when the Woolooga Hotel, a two-storeyed…

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Burnt to Death in Hotel Fire Boarder Was Deaf

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 November 1936 · page 7

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--One man was burned to death and several other persons had narrow escapes when the Woolooga Hotel and the picture theatre…

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Nuovo Hotel Italiano a Macknade

Il Giornale Italiano · Wednesday 25 November 1936 · page 6

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License Application Is Refused Comment on Auctioneer's Activities

The Sun · Thursday 26 November 1936 · page 26

"THERE is no doubt about him being successful as a repossessor of goods for financiers, but I am not satisfied that he is not of doubtful character." Mr. Maloney, S.M., made that comment at Campsie Court…

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Licensed Seamen's Assn. Rebuffed Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 November 1936 · page 4

An application by the Licensed Seamen's Association for registration as an industrial organisation was dismissed by the Registrar, Mr. Murray Stewart. in the…

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Modernising Hotels New House Opened at Chatswood

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 November 1936 · page 12

THAT the member of Parliament who recently proposed a select committee to inquire into tied hotels would get the biggest shock of his…

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Pistol Not Licensed Six Months Gaol And £20 Fine

The Sun · Friday 27 November 1936 · page 12

Adrian Knox Toogood 30, laborer, who pleaded guilty to carrying an unlicensed pistol on the night of November 19, was sentenced to-day to…

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Licensed Shops in S.A. Check On Illegal Betting ADELAIDE

The Sun · Friday 27 November 1936 · page 9

The Premier (Mr. Butler) to-day said that figures prepared by the Belting Control Board and the Police Department showed that…

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Haphazard Australian Test Men Left to Find Own Hotels Room at Premium in Qld. Not Advised Of Selection Yet Board Lax

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 November 1936 · page 2

AT least one member of the Australian Eleven does not at present know where he will lay his head during his stay in Brisbane for…

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Tipping to Show Off Hotel Managers Think It an Evil

The Sun · Sunday 29 November 1936 · page 17

Tipping is just personal vanity, a desire to show off that is disliked by hotel managements…

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£200 TAKEN From Hotel Safe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 November 1936 · page 11

Notes to the value of £200 were taken from a safe in the Tempe Hotel, Tempe, on Saturday night. The safe stands in the manager's bedroom,…

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£200 Missing in Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 November 1936 · page 7

Detectives are investigating a report that £200 in cash--the week-end takings--was stolen yesterday from the Tempe Hotel, Tempe…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 December 1936 · page 8

Applications for transfers of the following publicans' licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:—Percival George Bell to William Henry Pont, Glasgow…

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Neglect of Aust. Test Xi Lessons Of '34 Ignored By Officials No Hotels Brisbane, Mon

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 1 December 1936 · page 1

WHEN Australia lost the fourth Test, and, with it the Ashes, to Jardine's XI four years ago, many people were [?]…

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Hotel Transfers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 December 1936 · page 17

The following transfers of hotel licences were granted in the Licensing Court yesterday:--Saltwell Hotel, Mortdale, from Edward…

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