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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Fire Destroys Old Tasmanian Hotel Was To Be Delicensed Next Day HOBART

The Sun · Friday 1 January 1937 · page 4

On the eve of being delicensed, the White Hart Hotel at Bothwell, containing 20 rooms and more than 100 years old, was destroyed by fire. The…

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Hotel Kurrajong. Further Wings Proposed. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 13

Additions may be made to the Hotel Kurrajong, Canberra, shortly for the accommodation of Ministers and members of Parliament. Two new wings were added last year, and…

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New Year Greeted in London Thousands Attend Restaurants And Hotels Gay Scenes London

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 5

NEW YEAR'S DAY is not observed as a holiday in the south of England, as it is in Scotland, but London's arrangements for the greeting…

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"Social Hotel" for Sale The Belle Vue, Historic Brisbane " House"

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 13

THE gossips of Brisbane got a jolt like an electric shock last week—an announcement by a firm of auctioneers to the effect that one of the most exclusive social rendezvous in the city, the Belle Vue Hotel,…

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£30,000 More From Hotel Licence Fees

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 8

The hotel trade in New South Wales is enjoying marked prosperity. Liquor sales are so much better than they were…

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Man Spends £640 at Hotel "Window-dressing" for Film Plan Fails London. December 18

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 1

Mr. John Amery, aged 24, said in the Windsor Bankruptcy Court that his total deficiency was £5081, and his assets nil…

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Killed In Fall On Hotel Stairs

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 5

COONAMBLE, Sunday. -- Falling 15ft. from a staircase at the Club House Hotel, Coonamble, Francis Michael Brassil was killed early on Saturday…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 8

The following publicans' licences were transferred at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:—Mary Douglas Whymark to Fergus McLennan Fowler, Rose and Crown Hotel,…

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Hotel Destroyed. Fire at Kiandra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 10

Mr. Arthur Downeys hotel at Kiandra was destroyed by fire on Monday afternoon. It is believed that the fire was started by a spark from a stove. Efforts were made to…

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BURGLARIES Hotels Visited Sunday Morning Rounds

Nepean Times · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 1

SEVERAL Penrith hotels Were burglariously entered early on Sunday morning, and in one case a fair haul was made…

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Tenders for Publican's Booth

Nepean Times · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 4

Tenders will be received up to 19th inst, for the publican's booth at the Penrith Show on 26th and 27th February. See advt…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 8

An application for the transfer of the following publican's licence was granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:— William Henry Wright to David Samuel…

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City Club Named in Court Three Charges Under Licensing Act

The Sun · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 2

Ronald Johnson. 23. salesman, and Norman Lindsay Plummer, 24, storeman, were each charged at the Central Police Court to-day with selling…

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Poison Burned Woman Found In Great Pain In Hotel Made Scare

The Labor Daily · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 1

A YOUNG married woman who was taken by Central Ambulance to Sydney Hospital yesterday suffering from a…

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Licensing Fees. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 4

Licence fees received from 57 publicans in the Maitland district last year amounted to £6296/9/. Other licence fees received at the West Maitland petty sessions office included…

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Oldest Licensed Driver Fined for Traffic Breach. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 18

Walter Robshaw, of Coburg, who claimed that he was the oldest licensed driver in Australia and that he held licence No. 5, was fined £1 for a breach of the new traffic…

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Police Courts. Theft in Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 5

James Ward, 27. seaman, was fined £5 and ordered to pay £5 compensation, when he appeared at the Central Police Court yesterday on a charge of having stolen £5 and it…

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Electric Hoist For Hurstville Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 18

Plans for a new £15,000 hotel in the main Hurstville shopping centre have been approved by the Hurstville Council. These plans were originally ejected, and now the council…

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Damaged Window at Hotel Australia

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 4

For maliciously damaging a plate-glass window at the Hotel Australia last Friday, Herbert Jenkins, clerk, 39, was fined £5 at the Central Police…

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Bush Hotel Novelties

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 42

MOST country hotels have some sort of a novelty to attract trade, and these novelties become known far and wide. For instance, Mudie's crow at a…

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