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Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Menzies' Private Hotel Centrally Situated for Country Visitor

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 8

COUNTRY visitor are especially catered for by Menzies' Private Hotel, which is centrally situated in Elizabeth street, Sydney, directly…

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Cycling Game Is Booming All Over New South Wales Clubs Springing Up Everywhere Over 1000 Pro. Riders Now Licensed By League of Wheelmen Yet Sport Has Not Reached Peak

Referee · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 20

PROFESSIONAL cycling in N.S.W. is booming. More and more clubs are linking up with the head body and prize-money was never at such a high level. Times were when bigger money…

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Hotels and Theatre. Council's Property. Proposed Sale or Lease

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 6

The finance committee of the City Council yesterday agreed to recommend that the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel should be sold by public auction. After the expiration of the present…

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Work and Wages Observing Award Workers In Hotels And Clubs Picnic Day Pay

The Sun · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 8

A "MORE agressive" policy has been adopted by the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees' Union in…

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City Hotel May Be Sold

The Labor Daily · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 6

The finance committee of the City Council yesterday recommended that the freehold of the Pyrmont Bridge Road Hotel, Pyrmont, should be sold…

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Hotel Transfer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 February 1937 · page 21

The transfer of the licence of the Empire Hotel, Park and Castlereagh Streets, from Frederick Thomas Bradstreet to Ernest John Robson, was approved by the Licensing Court…

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Says Armed Men Raided Bar Licensee's Story To Court

The Sun · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 7

Evidence that a dozen men four of them armed with automatic revolvers, had raided the bar of the Morning Star Hotel, Redfern, on…

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Man with a Pea-rifle. Incident in Hotel Bar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 March 1937 · page 6

Claude Bromley, 32, labourer, who pleaded guilty at the Central Police Court on Saturday morning to a charge of stealing a pea-rifle, was remanded until March 5, for sentence. Mr…

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Brawl in Hotel. Threats With Revolvers Alleged. Licensee's Story

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 6

At the Metropolitan licensing Court yesterday, Robert David Edwards was charged with being the licensee of the Morning Star Hotel, Redfern, where J. Abiff was found on…

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Police Courts. Thefts From Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 6

Robert Mayer, 40, wool-classer, was sentenced at the Central Police Court yesterday to six months' imprisonment with hard labour on each of three charges of stealing moneys…

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"Demanded Beer at Gun Points" Publican's Allegation

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 4

An allegation that 12 men, four of whom were, armed; raided the Morning Star Hotel, Redfern, on January 30, and demanded drinks at pistol point,…

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Cash Bids for Council Hotels Urged

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 7

Breweries which bid for the freehold of hotels should pay cash, Alderman O'Dea claimed, at the City Council yesterday…

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Deer Park The Licensing Battle Evidence for Objectors

Nepean Times · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 3

EVIDENCE for objectors to the granting of the transfer of the license of the Railway Hotel, St. Marys, to the Deer Park site at…

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Must Keep Away From Hotels Judge Warns Man Gaol Is Alternative

The Sun · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 27

In binding over Francis Hutchison Roberts (51), a groom, at the Quarters Sessions to-day, Judge-Curuewis told him that the entrance…

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Hotel Bar Robbery Thief Snatches £20 In Notes Visitor's Loss

The Sun · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 21

IN a daring robbery, a man last night snatched £20 from a Queensland visitor in a crowded city bar…

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Prepos d'un Parisien. Le menu d'un grand hotel

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 3

nOn a pu lire Jans les journaux allemands les nouvalles prescriptions aux ménagères. Il leur est recommandé de ne pas disperse les…

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Hotels Will Stay Open a Departure From Poll Practice Meaning of Vote on the Referendum

The Sun · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 13

HOTELS will be open throughout the State to-morrow when the poll on the Commonwealth's marketing and aviation proposals will be taken. This is a departure from custom on Federal…

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Fire in City Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 7

Sylvia Taylor, an employee at the Balfour Hotel, on the corner of King and Elizabeth Streets, discovered a fire in one of the bedrooms soon after…

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Secret History of the Day Who Was Drunk? -- Near Court Tragedy -- "Wine Melon" Seeds -- Find In Hotel Till

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 16

AN incident associated with a recent New Zealand murder trial almost produced a more spectacular news story than the…

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Hotels Open As Usual To-day

The Labor Daily · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 7

HOTELS will be open as usual for business to-day. This procedure is a departure from the usual practise of closing public houses on…

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