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Hotels & licensing, 1937

757 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 38

Nuovo Hotel Italiano MOURILYAN

Il Giornale Italiano · Wednesday 15 December 1937 · page 7

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Court House Hotel, Murwillumbah

The Catholic Press · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 34

For superior accommodation stay at the Court House Hotel, under vice-regal patronage, when visiting Murwillumbah. This establishment is a C.T.A. House, and stocks…

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Dominion Hotel, Sydney

The Catholic Press · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 13

Situated in the heart of the city, the Dominion Hotel, corner of Market and Clarence Streets, Sydney, offers high-class accommodation at reasonable prices. Bed…

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Man Shot in Bar of Hotel Taken To Hospital In Serious Condition MELBOURNE

The Labor Daily · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 1

SHOT in the stomach during an altercation at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, City, yesterday afternoon, Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 23, barman,…

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Man Shot In Stomach In City Hotel Bar Attacker Defied, Witness States Wounded Man From Sydney Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 2

FOLLOWING two disturbances in the saloon bar of the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Swanston Street today, a recent arrival…

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You Stay Where You Can Pay! A Country Girl Finds Out About City Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 December 1937 · page 26

VARIETY is the spice of life . . . A country girl comes to Sydney to spend a…

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Fight In Hotel Alleged In Shooting Case MELBOURNE

The Sun · Friday 17 December 1937 · page 5

A SMALL dark man, Harcourt Lee, 38, was charged in the police court today with having shot Arthur…

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Man Arrested Shooting Affray in Hotel Bar Transfusion for Victim Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 December 1937 · page 2

A MAN was today arrested in connection with the shooting of Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 23, of Paddington, Sydney…

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High Court Upholds Appeal By Publican

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 December 1937 · page 7

With the Chief Justice (Sir John Latham) dissenting, the High Court yesterday unheld an appeal by Paul Johnson, an Adelaide hotelkeeper, against his…

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Intent to Murder Alleged. Man Charged With Hotel Shooting. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 17

Harcourt Lee, 38, appeared in the City Court to-day charged with having short Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 23, at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, on Wednesday, with intent to murder…

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Man Appears on Shooting Charge Argument in Hotel Bar Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 9

On a charge of having shot Arthur Kingsley Teplin, 23, of Sydney, with intent to murder him, Harcourt Lee, 38, appeared in the Police Court…

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Carlton Hotel's Good Year

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 December 1937 · page 17

At the annual meeting of Carlton Hotel, Ltd., yesterday, the chairman (Mr. N. B. Rydge) stated that the directors were very satisfied with the year's operations…

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Hotel Shooting. Victim Out of Danger. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 December 1937 · page 10

The name of Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 23. barman of Green Road, Paddington, Sydney, was removed from the danger list of the Royal Melbourne Hospital on Saturday…

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Publican's Licence Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 December 1937 · page 8

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yerterday, the Chairman (Mr. Laidlaw) granted the transfer of the licence of the Erskineville Hotel, Erskineville, from Sydney Albert Young…

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Hotel's Unclean Cooling Chamber

The Sun · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 3

In the Central Summons Court today, the Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., Castlereagh-street. city, was fined £3 by Mr. Goldie. S.M., on an…

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Hotel Shooting. Victim Dies in Hospital. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 13

Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 23, barman, of Paddington, Sydney, who was shot in the abdomen last Wednesday during a quarrel in a Melbourne hotel, died in…

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Robbery in Westend Hotel. Rings Worth £16,000. LONDON, Dec. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 14

After booking a room at a fashionable London hotel, one of three well-spoken men telephoned a Bond Street jeweller asking him to se[?] a representative with a selection of…

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New Hotel Near Albury. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 December 1937 · page 11

At a special sitting of the Licensing Court to-day, Patrick Norman Hore was granted permission to remove the licence of the Victoria Hotel, Wymah, to a site at the…

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Hotel Wallacia

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 December 1937 · page 1

The modern establishment recently opened at Wallacia…

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Passing of the Village Inn. Judge's Regrel. South Coast Hotel Loses Licence. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 December 1937 · page 8

The passing of the village inn [?] deplored by Judge Neild, in the Distric[?] Court at Wollongong to-day. His Honor was hearing an appeal again[?]…

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