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Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Finance Editor's Column Usher's Hotel Earns 10.6 p.c. On Ordinary Capital

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 October 1937 · page 29

A DECLINE of £1530 in the gross earnings of Usher's Metropolitan Hotel, Ltd., for the year ended August 31, 1937, was accompanied by a decline of £1547 in…

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Free Food in Hotel Bars. Counter Lunch Protest. Diversity of Menus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 October 1937 · page 11

To-night members of the Licensed Victuallers' Association will meet to consider protests against the allegedly over-generous counter lunches available…

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Hotel Licensee Fined. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 5

John Robert Constable, licensee of the Lansdowne Hotel, was fined £2 and 8/ costs at Lithgow Police Court for permitting a person to be found on his premises during…

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Counter Lunches. Hotelkeepers Request Abolition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 10

At a meeting of city hotelkeepers last night it was decided "to take steps to eliminate counter lunches, and to ask the Government to legislate to prohibit the giving or selling…

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Hotels Not Booked Out

The Sun · Friday 15 October 1937 · page 6

Recent public statements that hotel accommodation for the 150th Anniverysary Celebrations was fully booked were incorrect, said the Chairman…

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Says Hotels Are Now 'Gimme Clubs'

The Sun · Saturday 16 October 1937 · page 3

IT seems to me that we will have to call hotels, 'Gimme Clubs,'" said Mr. N. H. Connolly, president of…

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Hotels Ask For Ban On Own Lunch U.L.V.A. Seeks Pure Food Action

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 October 1937 · page 2

HOTELKEEPERS are asking for a law to stop themselves giving food away. They want their own counter lunches…

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Hands Off Dog Racing Trotting Club Is in a Jam Another License To Help Owners?

Truth · Sunday 17 October 1937 · page 17

HANDS off the tin hares! Because of an infringement of the law dog racing has been suspended; but this difficulty…

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Murder Charge. Death of Woman Hotelkeeper. Left Estate to Accused. Police Court Evidence. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 October 1937 · page 12

In the Charleville Police Court to-day, the hearing was begun of the charge against Edwin Claude Helton, 36, storekeeper, of having, on…

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Police Hid in Bar. Arrest in Auburn Hotel. Alleged Story of Robbery Plan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 October 1937 · page 7

It was alleged by Detective C. R. Sawyer, at the Partamatta Police Court yesterday, when Albert Westerman, 42, labourer, and Leslie Herbert Utquihart, 19, mechanic, were charged…

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Police Ambush in Hotel Warning Before Burglary Alleged Accomplice Told, Says Detective

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 October 1937 · page 2

ONE of two men charged yesterday with breaking and entering was alleged to have forewarned a detective of the…

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Strychnine In Hotel Man on Charge of Murder Rich Woman "Left Him Fortune" Brisbane

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 October 1937 · page 7

EDWIN CLAUDE HELTON, 36, storekeeper, was charged at Charleville today with the murder of Mrs. Margaret Jane…

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Woman's Disappearance Luggage Left in Hotel Room Thought Clue to Ferry Mystery

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 19 October 1937 · page 7

MYSTERY surrounds the disappearance a week ago of a woman guest at the Hotel Sydney…

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Hotelkeeper's Death Evidence in Murder Trial. Signing of Document. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 October 1937 · page 21

Further evidence was heard in the Charleville Police Court to-day in the case against Edwin Claude Helton, who is charged with the wilful murder of Mrs. Margaret Jane Roche,…

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Licensing Laws Are Ridiculed Bathurst

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 October 1937 · page 5

"Strong criticism of 'Australia's ridiculous licencing laws,' was voiced in Bathurst to-night by Sir Richard Terry noted English musical…

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Hotelkeeper's Death Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 20 October 1937 · page 5

"I HOPE you people don't think I'm implicated in this. It looks bad for me. I am the sole executor of her will," Aubrey Carter, a relative…

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Two Dog Licenses Sought G.R.C. And Trotting Club Apply

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 20 October 1937 · page 20

THE Greyhound Racing Control Council has applied to the Government for a license to race in the metropolitan area…

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Strange Sequel to Alleged Warning of Robbery "Job Going Off At Furlong's Hotel" Police Wait, "Crouching in the Bar"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1937 · page 1

Unusual evidence was given at the Parramatta Police Court on Monday, when Albert Wester-man (42) and Leslie Herbert Urqubart (19) were charged with breaking and entering the Royal Hotel, Auburn, with intent to steal. Detective C. R. Sawyer (Auburn) said that, on the afternoon of October 9, Westerman…

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Children's Seaside Hotel

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 21 October 1937 · page 15

Ideal for school holidays. Acres playground, boating, fishing, riding, picnies, bush, lake, surf. Mothercraft care trained nurses. Fess from 2-guineas…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 October 1937 · page 4

The following applications for the transfer of hotel licences were approved by Mr. Laidlaw chairman of the Metropolitan Licensing Court, yesterday:—Abbott's Hotel, Waterloo…

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