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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

880 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 44

Licensed S.p. Shops Labor's Aim

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 2

"LEGALISED betting shops, under the strictest licensed supervision, as an…

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Wants Hotel Licence Back

The Labor Daily · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 5

MR. R. G. RICKARD, licensee of the North British Hotel which was recently declared a common gaming, house, yesterday applied to…

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Of Interest to Women a Hotel Waitress’s Story

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 4

Dear Anne,—That there is still plenty of room for improvement in the conditions of hotel workers was made particularly clear to me…

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Grand Hotel Goes South

The Labor Daily · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 11

GRAND HOTEL, who performed well without winning for J. E. Pike, has been given a change of stables--and cities…

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Hotel Licensee Fined. Boorowa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 17

[?]he Boorowa Police Court yesterday, Sid[?]thur Thame, licensee of the Royal Stan[?] Hotel, was convicted for permitting s.p. [?] on his licensed premises, and was fined…

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Adams' Hotel. Lease Changes Hands. Improvements to Be Made

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 17

Several thousands of pounds are to be expended by Tooth and Co. Ltd., on structural alterations and improvements to Adams' Hotel, Pitt and George Streets…

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Lion Hotel, York Street

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 6

Messrs. Ellsmore and Co., hotel brokers, write stating that the licence of the Lion Hotel York Street, Sydney, was not on Thursday transferred by the Licensing Court from…

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Tooth's Lease Adams'hotel

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 8

FIVE thousand pounds will be spent immediately on improvements to Adams' Hotel by Tooth and Co., Ltd. Mr. Justice Nicholas yesterday…

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Byrd's Lieutenant Found Dead In Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 May 1938 · page 3

MINNEAPOLIS, Monday. -- Richard Brophy, who accompanied Admiral Byrd on his first expedition to the South Pole in 1929, was found dead in a local hotel…

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Burwood Hotel Price

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 31 May 1938 · page 7

In a discussion of "declared" hotels on May 14, it was reported that the proprietor of the Burwood Hotel. (Mr. W. Clarke) had stated that a few months…

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Declared Hotel and Licence

The Sun · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 9

Applications by Martin Denis Shanny, licensee of the Hurstville Hotel, Hurstville, for the renewal of his licence and an additional bar…

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Found Things Pretty Dry In This Hotel Lounae

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 June 1938 · page 2

A STRANGER in an overcoat wandered into the crowded lounge of a city hotel yesterday. From his pocket stuck a bottle. He took a seat, and was content to wait a time for service. He didn't seem…

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Man's Fall From Seventh Floor. Sydney Hotelkeeper's Death. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 7

Louis Krelle, 46, hotelkeeper, of Devonshire Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, fell 50 feet from his room on the seventh floor of the Hotel Alexander, Spencer Street, Melbourne, this…

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Burdekin Hotel. Company's Appeal Upheld. Underground Bar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 June 1938 · page 12

Judge Thomson, in the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court yesterday, allowed the appeal of Tooth and Co., Ltd., against the refusal of Mr. Laidlaw…

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Four Hotels. Gaming Declarations. Move for Rescission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 June 1938 · page 11

It is improbable that the police will resist applications which four hotel licensees will shortly make to a Judge of the Supreme Court in Chambers for…

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Quarter Sessions Appeal. (Before Judge Thomson.) Burdekin Hotel Bar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 June 1938 · page 5

Tooth and Co. Ltd. appealed against the refusal of Mr. Laidlaw, C.L.M., in the Metropolitan Licensing Court to approve of certain portions of plans for proposed…

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Roll Of Notes Found By Dog Outside Hotel CASINO

The Sun · Saturday 4 June 1938 · page 1

Bound with a rubber band, £60 in banknotes was picked up outside a hotel here--by a retriever dog. The money has been returned to its owner and the dog now has a…

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Hotel Appeal Is Allowed

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 June 1938 · page 8

A SUCCESSFUL appeal was made by Tooth and Co. Ltd., in the District Court yesterday, against a decision by the Licensing Court,…

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"No S.p. in Hotels Now"

The Labor Daily · Saturday 4 June 1938 · page 1

POLICE will not oppose the rescission of recent declarations of four hotels as "common gaming houses."…

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Country News. Publicans' Booth Licences. Ariah Park

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 June 1938 · page 7

At a committee meeting of the Ariah Parn Show Society on Saturday night it was decided to protest to the Government against the granting of the petition of the Licensed…

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