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Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Pepper Bandits' £50 Haul Blinded Woman; Snatched Bag Robbery in City Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 1

THIEVES threw pepper in the eyes of the manageress of the Royal Hyde Park Hotel, Elizabeth Street, shortly after…

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Bishop Who Had an Hotel Auckland

The Sun · Sunday 11 April 1937 · page 3

Complaints that drinking had increased as a result of higher wages and shorter hours were made at the Anglican…

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Enlarging Wentworth Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 5

Plans have been approved for the enlargement and remodelling of the Wentwoith Hotel, Sydney. Thiee new stories, which will contain more than 50 additional bedrooms,…

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Thefts at Hotel Gaol for Young Man Valuable Jewellery

Nepean Times · Thursday 15 April 1937 · page 2

JOHN WILLIAM MAXWELL (27) was sentenced to six months imprisonment, at Penrith Court of Petty Sessions on 8th inst, on…

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Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Thursday 15 April 1937 · page 4

The quarterly Licensing? Court for Penrith Licensing District will be held at the Penrith Court House at 10 a.m. on Thursday, 22nd April…

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City Hotel Being Extended. Sydney Is in a Wave of Rebuilding and Remodelling

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 15 April 1937 · page 9

Most visitors to Sydney at the present time express surprise at the number of new buildings going up—or older buildings being remodelled and extended. New banking buildings, department…

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Hotels Open On Anzac Day?

The Labor Daily · Thursday 15 April 1937 · page 7

NEXT week, representations will be made to the Premier to issue an ordinance to permit city hotels to be opened for a specified period on the…

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Convict Relics. Hotel Foundations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 April 1937 · page 5

The old Carlton Hotel, at the corner of Short-street and Carlton-parade, Carlton, is at present being converted into modern flats and shops. In the rebuilding operations it…

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More Capital for Australia Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 14

An extraordinary general meeting g of shareholders of Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., has been called for May 13 to increase capital to £750,000 by the creation of 250,00 new…

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Impudent Hold-Up In Big Hotel New York

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 3

CASUALLY following three women and a man into the lift of the exclusive Hotel Delmonico, three gunmen…

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Wentworth Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 8

With the ballroom reconstruction almost finished, work will be started this week on the modernising of the Wentworth Hotel…

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Australia Hotel Capital. Proposed Increase and New Issue

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 13

A proposal to increase the company's nominal capital from £500,000 to £750,000 by the creation of 250,000 new ordinary shares of £1 each will be submitted to shareholders…

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French Workers. Hotel and Cafe Industry. Improved Conditions Demanded. Paris, April 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 16

Workers in the French hotel and restaurant industry conducted to-day a national demonstration, favouring an Anti-Tipping Bill. increased wages for kitchen staffs, and the…

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Growers' Agents Licensing and Control by Representative Board

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 11

THE Minister for Agriculture recently received a deputation from the N.B.W. Fruit Growers' Federation, requesting consideration of the following:—…

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Too Many Factories ? Plan for Licenses Withdrawn Sydney Conference

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 5

A SUGGESTION for the Deeming and restriction or butter factories was discussed at the conference of delegates from N.S.W. butter and…

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Diocese of License Golden Jubilee Programme for Diocesan Schools, June 7th to June 11th. by Direction of His Lordship the Bishop. Note to Teachers

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 35

In connection with the celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the diocese, it is proposed to hold a Jubilee Week in our Diocesan Schools. Some suggestions and…

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Burdekin Hotel to Be Offered for Sale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 8

The finance committee of the City Council decided yesterday that the Burdekin Hotel, in Oxford-street, should be offered for sale after the expiration of one month…

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Freehold of Hotel to Be Sold

The Labor Daily · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 4

The finance committee of the City Council yesterday recommended that the freehold of the Burdekin Hotel, Oxford Street, should be offered at…

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Hotel Licences

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 17

The following applications for transfer of hotel licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:-- Crown Hotel. Elizabeth Street, Sydney, Thomas…

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S.P. Betting. Cause of Crime. Evil Social Effects. Police Opposed to Licensed Shops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 April 1937 · page 12

The evil effects of s.p. betting were discussed at the conference of the Police Association yesterday, when Constable J. P. Fallon, of Lithgow, moved…

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