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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

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S.P. Betting Is Blamed Tennis Entries Drop at Blacktown Lure of Hotels

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 12

Starting price botting and the lure of hotel bars is blamed by the secretary (Mrs. S. Stutchbury) for the Slight falling off in membership…

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Cafes and Hotels in Demand Big Rush Sets In After Passage Of Procession City Crowds

The Labor Daily · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 8

ORDERLY enough prior to and during the progress of yesterday's March to Nationhood procession, the vast crowd, numbering…

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Impudent Theft From Hotel Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 16

Entering the Central Hotel at Newcastle at 3 am. with a key that he had made, James Lyons, [?], engineer, told an employee that he had…

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Reminiscences of the Manly Hotels Merger Holding Is Now "a Profitable One" What "Smith's" Said Two Years Ago

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 9

AN OPINION GIVEN BY "SMITH'S WEEKLY" NEARLY TWO YEARS AGO IS NOW BEING VINDICATED. The first part relates to advice given shareholders in…

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Wentworth Hotel in the Celebrations

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 9

OF all the Sydney hotels likely to benefit from the coming celebrations the Wentworth appeal's to be outstanding…

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Woolcott-forbes in Hotel Deal? Interested In Big Queensland Tourist Proposition

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 29 January 1938 · page 3

JOHN WOOLCOTT-FORBES, whose financial history, as disclosed by "Smith's Weekly" two weeks ago, was a matter of wide interest, is now taking an interest in Queensland's most ornate tourist hotel. If plans…

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Diggers Ask For Second Dog License

Truth · Sunday 30 January 1938 · page 17

WITH the sure knowledge that the Government would regard their claims with especial favor, the United Returned Soldiers' Fund on…

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Hotel Is Wrecked by Gang Refused Drink, So Made Attack Four Arrests Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 5

EVERY window in the Kinglake Hotel was broken and damage amounting to £100 was caused to-day by a gang of youths, who attacked…

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Millington Goes Back Home Night at Hotel Barred From Village

The Sun · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 22

Stan Millington, Australia's six-mile runner, returned to his home at Newcastle to-day because he…

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Transfer of Hotel Licences

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 6

Applications for the transfer of the licences of the following hotels were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday: United Service…

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Hotel Case Dismissed Licensee Pays Costs

Liverpool News · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 1

At Liverpool Police Court on Monday, Joseph H. Mainsbridge was charged with failure to keep the bar of the Commercial Hotel closed during prohibited hours on…

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"Won't Do It" License for Keeping Pigs

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 16

"I cannot understand your council's attribute in preventing me from keeping pigs on these premises. I am living in what is essentially a farming area my…

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Wine License Debate Was Heated Lidcombe Stir 'No Objections' Rescinded

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 5

Debate became heated at Lidcombe Council last night when a resolution, passed at the previous meeting, offering no objection to…

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Publicans' Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 6

The following transfers of publicans' licences were approved by the Metropolitan Licensing Bench yesterday: North Annandale Hotel, North Annandale, from Arthur John…

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Hotel Sydney Dividend Puzzling Circular For Shareholders

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 9

DIRECTORS of Hotel Sydney Ltd. appear to have incorporated a touch of facetiousness in their latest circular to…

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Big Hotels Different, Says Judge Argument Over Travellers' Books After Hours

The Labor Daily · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 7

USHERS, the Hotel Australia, and the Carlton appeared to be in a category different to that of other hotels, said Judge Markell in the…

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Three City Hotels "Different"

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1938 · page 5

The Australia Hotel, Ushers, and The Carlton, according to Judge Markell, at the Quarter Sessions Appeal Court, yesterday, appeared…

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Transfer of Publicans' Licences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 6

The Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday granted the transfer of the following publicans' licences:—Balfour Hotel, King and Elizabeth Streets, Sydney, from Samuel…

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Officers at Hotel Men Live In A Dredge MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 3

While officers of the visiting R.A.F. flying boats have been quartered at Government expense in a city hotel, 14 of the 19 members of the crew…

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Licenses Transferred

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 10

Applications for the transfer the licenses of the following hotels were granted at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday: Balfour Hotel. King and…

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