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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Deer Park Hotel Appeal Being Heard

Nepean Times · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 6

Judge Betts, at Parramatta Quarter Sessions, began the hearing yesterday of the appeal against the decision of the full Licensing Court granting the…

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After Ten Years Hotel Changes Hands

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 3

For ten years Mrs. Ada Green has been mine hosted of the Blacktown Hotel, which is new known as the Robin Hood Inn and during that time she…

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Transfers of Hotel Licences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 5

The following transfers of hotel publicans' licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:—Kingsley Edward Fleming to Thomas Charles Bromhall[?] Elswick…

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Tests for Land Agents. Proposal to Minister. Licensing System

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 8

The Minister of Justice (Mr. Martin) was asked yesterday by a deputation from the Real Estate Institute and Agents' Association of N.S.W. to provide…

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Licensing of Agents Bill to Be Brought Down in House

The Labor Daily · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 9

LEGISLATION to provide for the compulsory licensing of all real estate, agents and stock and station agents was sought by a deputation…

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Hotel Transfers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 July 1937 · page 18

The following applications for the transfer of hotel licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licencing Court yesterday:--…

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Historic Hotel Closed. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 July 1937 · page 9

One of the landmarks of the Turon gold-fields has disappeared with the closing of Weir's Hotel at Hill End, after 75 years. The hotel was founded in 1862 by Mr. J. K. Weir, when…

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Fish Hawks Who Fly in the Face of the Law Agents Demand Supervision LICENSED fish agents in Sydney are out to end a state of affairs which they say is intolerable

Truth · Sunday 11 July 1937 · page 21

THE county of Cumberland, they declare, is the happy hunting ground of wholesalers and retailers who purvey and peddle huge quantities of…

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U.S.A. In Strike Grip Reign of Terror by Hotel Workers Strikers Sprinkle Acid Over Carpets Clash of Factions San Francisco

The Sun · Sunday 11 July 1937 · page 21

A reign of terror is said to have arisen as a result of the hotel strike in San Francisco, where the Palace, Fairmont and 15 other major hotels have been closed by strikes during the last 70 days…

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Strangled with Stocking Woman Found Dead In Hotel New York

The Sun · Monday 12 July 1937 · page 10

Strangled with one of her own silk stockings, an unidentified woman in the early thirties was found dead in the room of a New York hotel…

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Cafes Picketed. Mobile Guards in Paris Strike Hotel Guests Make Own Beds. Paris, July 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 July 1937 · page 11

[?]n order to prevent the strike of restaurant and cafe employees from closing the restaurants, the French Government has provided for all working employees the protection of Mobile…

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Strangled with Stocking. Woman's Body Found. New York Hotel Tragedy. New York, July 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 July 1937 · page 12

The body of an unidentified woman, in the early thirties, has been found by a maid in a hotel room. The woman had been strangled with her own silk stocking. The body was…

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Choked with Stocking Unidentified Woman in Hotel New York

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 13 July 1937 · page 5

ANOTHER silk stocking murder has been discovered in a leading New York hotel. The unidentified woman was…

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Hotel Transfers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 July 1937 · page 17

The following applications for the transfer of hotel licences were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court- yesterday:-- coach and Horses Hotel, Randwick. Norman…

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Paris Hotel Strike. Conspicuously Ineffective., PARIS, July 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 July 1937 · page 16

The hotel employees' strike in Paris has been conspicu[?]ly ineffective. All the hotels were able to serve their guests to-day. Only 32 cafes were closed…

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Hotel Leased for £1300 Tenderer Offered City £1716

The Sun · Wednesday 14 July 1937 · page 13

The City Council Finance Committee, on a majority vote, agreed today to give Tooth and Co., Ltd., a two-year lease of the Palace Hotel,…

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Wallacia Hotel Appeal

Nepean Times · Thursday 15 July 1937 · page 4

Judge Betts has been engaged at Parramatta Sessions all this week in hearing the appeal against the decision of the Licensing Court granting the…

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Granville Council Abandons Sports Ground Proposal (Continued From Page One.) "Too Near a Hotel."

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 15 July 1937 · page 6

Tile president (Mr. C. A. Harrison) said that he was not only voicing his own views, but had brought with him an incomplete petition signed by 400…

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Publican's Record

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 15 July 1937 · page 5

When an application for the transfer of the license of the Robin Hood Inn. Blacktown, from Ada Green to Bernard Hollins, of Rose Bay, was granted in the…

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New Clash Likely in Council on Hotel Leases Aldermen Are Divided

The Sun · Thursday 15 July 1937 · page 29

A CONSIDERABLE stir has been caused in civic circles by the City Council finance committee's rejection of the highest…

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