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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

853 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 43

£20,000 Hotel at Blackheath. Katoomba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1939 · page 12

Plans for the erection of a hotel at a cost at £20,000, at the cornel of Govett's Leap Road and the Great Western Highway, Black-heath, were before the Blackheath Council…

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Safe Stolen From Hotel. Thieves Gain £250

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 March 1939 · page 12

Safebreakers who entered the Coronation Hotel, Park Street, city on Sunday night removed a heavy sale from the hotel office. carried it to Chullora, and there burst it open…

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Hotel Licence Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 March 1939 · page 6

The following transfers of hotel licences were granted yesterday by the Licensing Magistrate, Mr. Laidlaw:—Kentish Hotel, Glebe from Doris Emelie De Lisle, to Loulsa…

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"Bind Him Over" Plea for Publican the Dreaded Mark

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 3

"My client now comes before the court possibly for his third mark. I'm not trying to get away from the seriousness of the offence—I can't do…

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Used Cars to Be Traced Dealers Will Be Licensed

The Sun · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 3

All dealers in the sale, exchange, or repair, of used or reconstructed motor vehicles and accessories are to be licensed under a small fee with the…

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Medium-priced Industrials Firm 'Change Tone Is Still Strong Hotel Sydney Shares Up, Barriers Quiet

The Sun · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 18

Medium-priced industrials continued to show a stronger tendency on the Stock Exchange to-day. Leaders in the group were generally sought at late rates, but few reached the sales board…

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Hotel Darwin, Ltd

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 16

Hotel Darwin, Ltd., has been formed with a nominal capital of £100,000, to take over the licence, goodwill, and freehold of the Club Hotel, Darwin, and to erect a modern hotel…

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Bishop Dwyer's Pastoral. An Age of License. LENT, 1939

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 March 1939 · page 4

The following letter from the Bishop of Wagga Wagga to the Priests and Faithful of the Diocese of Wagga Wagga has been issued:…

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The Great Southern New. Modern Hotel

The Land · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 10

THE GREAT SOUTHERN, the countryman's hotel, is being rebuilt, and its large clientele will be pleased to hear that the new building…

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Great Southern Hotel

The Land · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 19

The Great Southern Hotel Ball will be held at the Wentworth Ballroom on Monday, 26th June, 1939, and a cordial invitation is extended to all…

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Man Shot Dead at Hotel In Locked Room

The Sun · Monday 20 March 1939 · page 1

A young man, believed to be Robert Vincent, of Weston-road, Rozelle, was shot dead to-day in a…

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State Invited To Take Over Large Hotel

The Sun · Monday 20 March 1939 · page 3

An invitation to the State Government to take over a large country hotel on profit-making lines, as part of a scheme for the training of domestics, was extended to the Treasurer (Mr. Mail) by a deputation to-day…

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Plaza Hotel Lease. Equity Suit Pending. Description of Land As the Issue

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 12

A law suit which is pending between that Commissioner for Railways and another man on the conditions of a lease, of the Plaza Hotel, in George Street, was mentioned in the…

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Man Shot Dead. City Hotel Murder. Motive Unknown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 11

Robert James Anderson, 22, of 37 Weston Road, Balmain, was shot dead by an unknown man in the basement lavatory of the Cosmopolitan Hotel,…

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Mystery Hotel Murder Of Churchman

Daily News · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 1

SHOT through, the heart by a gunman, the body of Robert James Anderson, 22, was found in the basement lavatory of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Erskine Street, City, yesterday afternoon. Anderson conducted a small grocery in Weston Road…

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Murdered in Hotel

Daily News · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 2

ROBERT ANDERSON--an altar, server at St, John's, Balmain, when this picture was taken--yesterday murdered in a city hotel lavatory…

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Mystery Murder In Hotel Amateur Actor Found Shot Through Heart No Apparent Motive; Assailant Vanishes

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 2

Robert James Anderson, 22, amateur theatrical player, was murdered yesterday in the lavatory of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, at the corner of Erskine and Clarence Streets, City…

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Hotel Murder Mystery. Police Inquiries No Motive Found

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1939 · page 18

Detectives made little progress yesterday in tracing the person who murdered Robert James Anderson, 22[?] who was found shot through the…

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The Proposed New Hotel at Darwin Architects: Stephenson & Turner, Sydney

Construction · Wednesday 22 March 1939 · page 9

This perspective drawing, which has been prepared by the architects gives an impression of the proposed new hotel as it will appear from the Esplanade. Recently Mr. Turner, in company with members of the Adelaide Syndicate which is financing the project, visited the Dutch East Indies to study conditions so that the most suitable type of design and plan for Darwin could be evolved…

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Mystery Of Fateful 40 Minutes Movements of Man Shot at City Hotel Police Reconsidering Robbery Motive

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 March 1939 · page 7

There is a 40 minutes' gap in the known movements on Monday of Robert James Anderson, 22, amateur theatrical player, who was murdered in a city hotel…

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