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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

880 stories in Sydney's papers · page 36 of 44

Crimes Act Moves Pickets But Black Ban Still on Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 October 1938 · page 4

Sections of the Crimes Act were read by police officers before pickets withdrew from the Imperial Hotel, Clifton, yesterday…

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Hotel Transfer

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 October 1938 · page 5

At Penrith Licensing Court to-day the license of the Oriental Hotel, Springwood, was transferred from Sydney Herbert Cook to Malcolm Bulmer…

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Hotel Bath Mystery Police Declare Strychnine Caused Death Taxi Driver's Story of Victim's Agitation Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 October 1938 · page 2

DETECTIVES said today they were now convinced Alma Bate, 23, of Brisbane, committed suicide by poisoning. Miss Bate's body was found in a bath at Menzies Hotel…

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Driving Under Influence License Gone for Three Years

Liverpool News · Thursday 13 October 1938 · page 3

At Liverpool Policce Court, on Monday. Frederick S. Halpin was charged with having driven a motor car in Scott St., Liverpool, while under the influence of…

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An Old Hotel. Link With the Whalers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 October 1938 · page 21

For a century, or more, the Hero of Waterloo Hotel has stood at", the corner of Windmlll and Lower Fort Streets. Its beginning is unrecorded, but it was…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal.—"hollywood Hotel."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 October 1938 · page 6

The American revue, "Hollywood Hotel," Is still at the Theatre Royal. Theatre will be a mallnee this afternoon…

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Protecting Banana Growers. Licensing of Agents. Proposed Joint Conference. Murwillumbah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 October 1938 · page 7

At a joint conference of the Banana Maiketing Boaid and the dnectors of the Banana Growers Federation, the chairman Mr H.A. Stevenson, was instiructedto take an inventory…

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Hotel Licencee Fined. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 October 1938 · page 7

At Lithgow Police Court, Leslie John Moroney, licencee of the Court House Hotel, was fined £2, with 8/ costs, on a charge of having been the licencee of premises on…

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Fatal Hotel Fall

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 October 1938 · page 3

HERBERT DREW, 46, of Gosford, was fatally injured when he fell to the bottom of steps at an hotel in Elizabeth Street, city. on Saturday…

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New Alderman for City Hotel-keeper Gets Clear Majority

The Sun · Tuesday 18 October 1938 · page 10

Mr. Daniel Minogue, the A.L.P. candidate in the Flinders ward by-election, will be sworp-in on Friday as an alderman of the City Council…

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Wynyard Hotel Lease

The Sun · Tuesday 18 October 1938 · page 3

Cabinet is understood to have agreed that a 49 years' lease of the Wynyard station hotel site should be completed, but that the Railways…

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Disconnects Hotel Lights, Robs Rooms

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 October 1938 · page 5

WEST MAITLAND, Monday.--A thief pulled out electric light fuses at the Belmore Hotel early this morning. Then he searched the building for…

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Return to Div. List Wentworth Hotel's Improved Profit

The Sun · Wednesday 19 October 1938 · page 22

After the lapse of 10 years Wentworth Hotel, Ltd., is returning to the dividend list with a payment…

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Wynyard Hotel Lease Plan

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 19 October 1938 · page 5

A 49-YEARS' lease of the Wynyard station hotel site will be recommended by Cabinet, it is understood…

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Hotel Alterations

Nepean Times · Thursday 20 October 1938 · page 4

At Penrith Licensing Court on Thursday, the licensing inspector, Sergt. Sheridan, in presenting his report, seated that, tender's for extensive…

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Brisbane Marine Board Certificates and Licenses

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 20 October 1938 · page 4

The Marine Board at Brisbane has granted a pilotage exemption certificate to Captain H. W. E. Robinson for the ports of Innisfail, Mourilyan…

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Licensing Offences. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 October 1938 · page 7

At the Goulburn Police Court Alexander Joseph Eastwell, the licensee of the Empire Hotel, and Ernest Edward Crasher, the licensee of the Carlton Hotel, were fined £3 each for…

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Took Bets in Bar of Hotel

The Sun · Thursday 20 October 1938 · page 13

Edward Harcourt Dawson, 21, who pleaded guilty at the Central Police court to-day to having yesterday been "in a street, the bar of the Watson's…

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Letters From the Minefields Hotelkeeper Strikes Trouble

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 21 October 1938 · page 4

Two members of the Scarborough women’s auxiliary, while out collecting for the mineworkers, called at the Clifton Hotel,…

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Wentworth Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 October 1938 · page 11

The dividend of 2 12 per cent, declared by Wentworth Hotel from profits of the 1938 year requires £1250, and not £4281, as stated yesterday. The carry forward is £4281…

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