Joynton Smith

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Contributor Sir Joynton Smith
Other Names Sir James John Joynton Smith
Gender Male
Nationality Australian
Date of Birth 1858
Place Of Birth London
Date of Death 1943
Place Of Death Sydney
Functions Entrepreneur
Notes hotelier and racecourse and newspaper owner, came to Sydney 1890, In 1896, by now known as Joynton Smith, he laid the foundation of his fortune when he leased, at £12 per week, the run-down Imperial Arcade Hotel, renamed the Arcadia, between Pitt and Castlereagh streets. He made it a good residential hotel and by 1924 had purchased the entire arcade for £147,500. Defeated in municipal elections in December 1918, Smith resolved to launch a newspaper to present his views. With Robert Packer as manager and Claude McKay as editor, he published Smith's Weekly from March 1919. backed innovative ve
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Contributor Identifier 488397