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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

509 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 26

Popular Publican

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 21 August 1940 · page 2

Mr. Charles Aaron, the popular boniface who recently left the Royal Hotel, Granville, has taken over the Belvedere Hotel at the corner of…

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Turf Topics John Booth Receives License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 21 August 1940 · page 4

The A.J.C. committee has granted a No. 2 trainer's license to John Booth, youngest son of the late W. Booth…

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Ultra-modern Hotel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 22 August 1940 · page 22

Modern in every respect is McTavish's "Hotel Central, William and Kent Streets, Rockhampton. Best accommodation is available, and there is running water in…

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Liquor at Ball Issue Before Licensing Court Public Halls Act Involved

Nepean Times · Thursday 22 August 1940 · page 1

MR. J. W. M. Laidlaw, Chairman of the Licensing Court, had no hesitation in granting a permit, at Penrith on Friday, for…

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Hotel Licence Transfer. Opposition to Removal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 August 1940 · page 5

Before the Full Bench ot the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday, the hearing was commenced of an application by John Lawrence Flynn for the…

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"Beer House Hotels." N.R.M.A. Criticism

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 August 1940 · page 8

There were still too many of the old "beer house" type of hotel in New South Wales said Mr. J. C. Watson, president of the N.R.M.A., yesterday…

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Attack on Hotels in Country

The Sun · Thursday 22 August 1940 · page 16

Low standard of hotels in many country districts is holding back the development of Australia's tourist…

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Country Hotels. Improvement Claimed. Mr. Connolly's Defence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 4

The president of the Licensed Victuallers' Association Mr. Connelly, said last night that outgoings for new hotels and furnishings in country…

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Strange But True Things that happen occasionally. Misnamed Hotel

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 24 August 1940 · page 18

WESTERN Australia, too, has a queerly named hotel ("S.W.,"…

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Hotel Licence Transfer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 August 1940 · page 7

The hearing of the application by John Lawrence Flynn for the transfer of the licence of the Queen's Hotel, Woollahra, to premises about to be erected on Nos…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 August 1940 · page 5

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday[?] the following transfers were granted:—Australian wine licences[?] Joseph Blake Leonard to Walter Ernest…

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In Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 28 August 1940 · page 2

Harold Hugh Penford (43), was fined £1 at the Parramatta Police Court on Monday for having been found in the Railway Hotel, Lidcombe,…

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Thorby attacked for radio license cost

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 1 September 1940 · page 5

The Postmaster-General (Mr. Thorby), is criticised by the Church Standard, a Church of England paper, for failing to make a…

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Menzies Hotel. Profit and Dividend Fall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 September 1940 · page 7

Menzies Hotel, Ltd., Melbourne, shows a profit of £11,186 for the year ended June 30, compared with £19,558 for the previous year. Preference dividend of…

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Drop in Profit of Menzies Hotel

The Sun · Monday 2 September 1940 · page 11

Net profit of Mennzie's Hotel Ltd., Melbourne, fell From £19,558 in 1938-39, to £11,185 for the year ended June 30 last…

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Law Report. High Court. (Before Mr. Justice Starke, Mr. Justice Dixon, and Mr. Justice Evatt.) Sale of Hotel Licence. Neal v Ayres

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 September 1940 · page 5

The appeal of Alma Phyllis Violette Neal from a majority decision of the State Full Court, which upheld a decision of Judge McGhie, who had non-suited Neal…

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Investor's Diary. Hotel Metropole

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 September 1940 · page 7

Earnings reported in the accounts of the Hotel Metropole, Ltd., for the year ended June 30 showed a contraction of £3,955, which was…

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Hotel Housekeeper Granted Probate

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 September 1940 · page 8

The Probate Court yesterday granted Mrs. Beatrice Ada Hall, 55, hotel housekeeper, probate of the will of Edmund James Herbert Davis, widower…

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Watch Alien Licensees

The Sun · Thursday 5 September 1940 · page 14

Applications for renewal of hotel and liquor licences by Germans and Italians are closely scrutinised by the Licences Reduction Board…

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Knacker's License Recommended Cabra-Vale Council Decides

The Biz · Thursday 5 September 1940 · page 4

Following a report by the health inspector of Liverpool Council on the conditions at Mrs. Campbell-Cowie's kenneis at St. John's Park, at the request of…

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