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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

853 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 43

Hotel Metropole Pays Interim 3½ P.c

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1939 · page 13

A steady Interim dividend of 3½ per cent., for the half-year ended December 31, 1938, has been declared by the Hotel Metropole, Ltd…

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Baby Seal Preferred Hotel Life

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1939 · page 16

LONDON, January 5.--For nearly 50 years children have been reading Kipling's Jungle Book story of the White Seal…

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Dalfram to Be Loaded. Long Dispute Settled. Licensing to Go

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 11

The Port Kembia dispute was settled on Saturday, when the waterside workers agreed to load the Dalfram with pig-iron for Japan…

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'Grabbed Hand' in Hotel Till

The Sun · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 7

Evidence that he had seen a man "make a scoop" at a bundle of notes in the cash-register of the Hotel Bondi while the cashier tried to…

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Watersiders Will Urge Abolition Of Licensing Act Menzies Admits Defects

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 January 1939 · page 4

UNION officials will request the abolition of the Transport Workers' Act when they meet the…

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Dirty Bottle Charge Hotel Licensee Fined £5

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 9

William Madden, licensee of the Granville Hotel, of Good and Bridge streets. Granville, pleaded guilty, at Parramatta Court to-day, to a charge…

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Bottled Slop Beer From Drip Trays Licensee Is Fined £40

The Sun · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 1

Statements that a hotel-keeper had bottled slop beer from the drip trays in the bar and sold it, were made by a Board of Health inspector, in Parramatta Court to-day. "Other hotel-keepers were doing it," said the…

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Manly Hotels Profit Exceeds £4000 Per Year

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 January 1939 · page 17

Although the balance sheet of Manly Hotels is not yet available, it is anticipated that a net profit of between £4000 and £4500 will be shown for the year…

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Bottled Beer Dregs. Publican Fined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 13

The Board of Health alleged at the Parramatta Police Court yesreiday that William Knight, licensee of the Royal Hotel South and Russell Streets,…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 7

The following transfers of hotel licences were granted by Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., chairman of the Licensing Court, yesterday:—Town Hall Hotel, Balmain, from Ernest Arthur Lynch to…

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'Bit on Simple Side' -- S.M. Story About Man In Hotel

The Sun · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 15

Pined £5 to-day over the possession of a pair of gold sleeve-links and four gold studs, suspected of having been stolen. Leslie Richard Patrick…

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Drip-tray Beer £40 Fine For Publican

Daily News · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 3

FOR selling adulterated beer and stout bottled from a drip tray in the bar, William Knight, licensee of the Royal…

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Beer From Slop Tray Maximum Fine for Licensee 170 Bottles Poured Down Court Drain

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 7

One hundred and seventy bottles of adulterated beer were poured down a drain at the Parramatta Court yesterday…

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Here and There Hotel Transfer

Liverpool News · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 2

The transfer of the licence of the Golden Fleece Hotel, Liverpool, was, on Monday, granted to Thomas Sweeney, from N. Deveny…

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Beer From Slop Tray. Maximum Fine for Licensee

The Biz · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 6

One hundred and seventy bottles of adulterated beer were poured down a drain at the Parramatta Court on Wednesday…

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Man's Tragic Death Fell From Hotel's Sixth Floor AUCKLAND

The Sun · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 6

In full view of many horrified spectators, Edgar Ronald McKenzie (27), fell from the sixth floor of a hotel in the city to the street and was killed…

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Man Killed in Fall From Hotel Window

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 1

AUCKLAND, Thursday.--Climbing through a lounge window at the Station Hotel tonight. Edgar Mackenzie, 27, fell six floors to the pavement…

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Death After Bashing Attacked By Thugs In Hotel Yard

Daily News · Monday 30 January 1939 · page 2

TUMUT, Sunday.--Michael Downing, 38, died in Tumut Hospital early to-day, an hour after he had been battered by thugs at the rear of the Woolpack Hotel…

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Dying Man in Hotel Yard. Attacked and Robbed. Victim's Statement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1939 · page 9

A story of a brutal attack by unidentified men was told to the police by Michael J. Downing, 40, single, of Simpson Street, Tumut, who died on…

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Bathurst Hotel Merger. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 February 1939 · page 11

Plans are nearing completion for the merging and remodelling of the Royal and Grand Hotels, Bathurst, which adjoin one another in William Street. The completed work will…

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