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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1941

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Local Hotels Deserted, Clubs Busy Mass Meeting Tomorrow To Discuss "Black" Beer

Barrier Miner · Saturday 8 February 1941 · page 5

With the temperature rising, beer strikers are still strictly adhering to the decision of last Sunday's mass meeting to treat beer from all hotels as "black," unless sold at pre-Budget prices. In clubs, however, a…

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Closed Radio Stations Application for Licenses Adelaide, February 9

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 10 February 1941 · page 1

The Postmaster-General, Senator McLeay, said yesterday that over 50 applications had been received for the radio licences of the four radio stations closed…

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Export Licensing System Netherlands and East Indies A.A.P., LONDON, February 8

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 10 February 1941 · page 3

The Netherland and East Indies have approved of the export licensing system, which is effective in Java on February 15. and elsewhere on March 3, states the…

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Hotel License Transfer

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 11 February 1941 · page 4

The Licensing Magistrate, Mr. A. B. Collins, yesterday in the Licensing Court, granted an application for the transfer of the license or the Australian Club…

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Beer Strike Unchanged Publicans Hold Meetings No Statement

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 11 February 1941 · page 3

ALTHOUGH several meetings were held by the U.L.V.A. and clubs this morning, officials declined to make any statements,…

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Hotelkeepers Meet This Morning

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 19 February 1941 · page 5

A meeting of hotel keeper will be held this morning in the Soldiers' Hostel to deal with important business…

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No Party Relenting 10d. Impossible, Say Brewers, Publicans And Clubs Move By U.L.V.A. To State Case To Mass Meeting

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 19 February 1941 · page 5

A definite stand was taken at yesterday's conference by the representatives of Tooth and Co. and the South Australian Brewing Co., who stated that their companies could not make any reduction in the price of beer to the Broken Hill…

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Hotel Staff Go Short of Food

Barrier Miner · Thursday 20 February 1941 · page 5

LONDON, February 19.—Overworked, underpaid, and now often hungry, some hotel workers in Britain see their ration books used to…

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The Liquor Dispute Hotels Open Their Doors T.E.U. Wants Greater Relief

Barrier Daily Truth · Saturday 22 February 1941 · page 3

Following the refusal of the Barrier Industrial Council to call a mass meeting as requested by the U.L.V.A. and the clubs, several meetings of the executive…

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Hotels Reopen for Business Beer Consumed Today Despite "Black" Ban

Barrier Miner · Saturday 22 February 1941 · page 5

DESPITE the decision of the Barrier Industrial Council that all intoxieating liquor would still be black until prices were reduced to pre-Budget prices, hotels did a reasonably Rood trade when they op[?] today for "business as usual."…

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Hotel Services Tomorrow? No Further Moves On Beer Ban

Barrier Miner · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 1

ALL hotel services may be back to normal tomorrow afternoon. At present the guests at hotels are required to attend their own rooms and have meals out. Yesterday a meeting of the U.L.V.A was held, and…

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Tobacco Licenses Sydney. February 25

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 26 February 1941 · page 6

Retail tobacconists are asking the Government to limit sales licences to fruit. shops. hotels, delicetessens and similar shops so that tobacco sales will be…

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Move To Declare Hotels And Clubs "Black"

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 February 1941 · page 2

A motion "that it be a recommendation to the B.I.C. to declare all hotels and club hara black" was carried at the meeting of the Silverton…

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Hotel House Facilities To Be Resumed

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 26 February 1941 · page 2

HOTEL house facilities are to be resumed tomorrow. This was announced by the secretary of the U.L.V.A. (Mr. T. G…

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Hotels' House Facilities Resumed Continuation Dependent On No Beer Handling

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 27 February 1941 · page 5

It was officially announced yesterday after a meeting of the U.L.V.A that Broken Hill hotelkeepers will re-open their house facilities to the public. This announcement follows a ruling by the president of the Town Employees' Union, Mr. W…

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House Workers in Hotels Resume Duty; Beer Ban Still On

Barrier Miner · Thursday 27 February 1941 · page 2

THR members of the hotel and liquor aections of the Town Employees' Union who do not handle liquor returned to work…

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Beer to Be Sold in Clubs Unionists Still Want Pre Budget Prices Offer By Publicans Rejected By Mass Meeting

Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 3 March 1941 · page 3

Beer is to be sold to members at the various clubs in Broken Hill today at 10d. per pint and 6d. half-pint. This was following on the decision of the mass meeting of unionists affiliated with the Barrier Industrial Council…

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"Hotelkeepers Will Stand Firm" Club Officials To Seek Beer In Other States

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 3

FOLLOWING a meeting of the U.L.V.A. today, it was stated by the president (Mr. W. O'Keeffe) that hotelkeepers were still determined to stand firm. Two club offi cials left Broken Hill last night to visit breweries in Adelaide and Me lbourne in an endeavor to obtain…

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Hotel Hours in Queensland Enforcement Was Ordered by Authorities Townsville. March 11

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 12 March 1941 · page 1

The reason why the Government had enforced the 8 o'clock closing of hotels was discussed by Mr. C. G. Jesson, M.L.A. Labor candidate for Kennedy, at a…

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New Turn In Beer Strike Fresh Supplies IN Hotels

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 1

ALTHOUGH the grip of prohibition has not relaxed in Broken Hill, anyone who wanted a schooner of…

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