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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

757 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 38

Billiard Clubs. Licensing Suggested. Proposed Legislation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 June 1937 · page 9

The State Government is considering an amendment of the law to compel billiard clubs to pay a licence fee. At present proprietors of billiard rooms…

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Mount Isa Hotel Fire. Bed Crashes Into Inferno. Man's Lucky Escape. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 June 1937 · page 9

Awaking early this morning to find his bedroom full of smoke, Leslie Scanlon leapt from his bed just in time to see it disappear into an inferno on the floor below…

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Finance Editor's Column Australia Hotel & Rights Markets Closely Aligned

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 14

WHEN Australia Hotel announced its new issue of one for five at par the market stood at 306, and the rights were worth 89 on paper. Rights must…

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Closing Hotels on Sundays Goldfields Men Will Refuse Work Perth

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 16 June 1937 · page 1

The eastern goldfields' district of the Australian Labor Party has decided, that if the goldfields hotels are closed on Sundays union…

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License Off-Course Bookmakers, Says M.L.A. Vest All Racing Control in A.J.C.

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 June 1937 · page 7

ABOLITION of proprietary racing-- Vesting of all racing control in the A.J.C.--…

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Motor Registrations and Licenses Increase for 1937

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 17 June 1937 · page 12

THE number of motor vehicles on the road at the end of April, 1037, was 7.7 per cent, more than at the end of April, 1030, according to statistics…

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Cyclists to Be Licensed Launceston

The Sun · Sunday 20 June 1937 · page 2

An Act is being prepared to license cyclists, in Tasmania, the Attorney- General (Mr. E. J. Ogilvie) told a…

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Preying on S.p. Men in Hotels Police Story at Newtown

The Sun · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 10

TWO men at Newtown Court to -day were said by police to have the reputation of "standing over" S.P…

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Collapsed and Died in Hotel

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 5

While descending the stairs at a city hotel yesterday, Mr. J. H. Kavanagh, 76, a resident of Temora, collapsed. He was rushed to Sydney…

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Licensing Cyclists Launceston

The Labor Daily · Monday 21 June 1937 · page 6

Under a proposed law to license cyclists in Tasmania, announced by the Attorney-General, Mr. E. J. Ogilvie, to a deputation from the Royal…

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Debt Composition Approved Lapstone Hotel Ltd. Creditors

The Sun · Wednesday 23 June 1937 · page 13

Mr. Justice Long-Innes, in the Equity Court to-day, sanctioned a scheme by which the unsecured creditors, as at February 29, 1936, of…

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Slept During Fire Lucky Escape For Hotel Inmates MELBOURNE

The Sun · Wednesday 23 June 1937 · page 17

When 16 people were sleeping in the Houetoun House Hotle, at Jeparit, early to-day, the single-storey weatherboard building caught fire, and…

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Hotel Distrutto a Mount Isa

Il Giornale Italiano · Wednesday 23 June 1937 · page 7

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More People, But No Increase In Hotels Licensing Board Report

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 1

THERE are more prospective customers for every hotel in New South Wales than at any time since 1920…

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Knows World's Quietest Hotel Rooms

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 15

Bronislaw Huberman, famous violin virtuoso, who will shortly begin a concert tour for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, keeps a record of the…

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Table Poultry Proposed Licensing of Killing Premises

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 14

DRAFT regulations concerning the proposed licensing of poultry killing and dressing premises will be prepared by the executive of the…

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Fierce Blaze in Hotel Guests Have Narrow Escapes . MELBOURNE

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 June 1937 · page 12

When the Hopetoun Hotel, at Jeparit, a single- storey weatherboard structure, caught fire early this morning. 16 persons narrowly…

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In Equity. (Before Mr. Justice Nicholas.) Lease of Cowra Hotel. Wiles v winch and another

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 6

Christopher Sidney Wiles was plaint[?] in a suit by which he sought a declaration that he was entitled to execution of a lease of the Australian Hotel at Cowra. The defendants…

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Boy Friends at the Hotel No Time For Girl On Saturdays (Dorothy Dix--copyright)

The Sun · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 14

Dear Dorothy Dix,-- I am engaged to a young man, and when I ask him to see me once in a while on a Saturday afternoon,…

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Sale of City Hotel

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 June 1937 · page 4

The Town Clerk, Mr. Roy Hendy, reports that at the sale of the freehold and licence of the Burdekin Hotel. Oxford Street the…

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