Settlement of Beer Strike Claimed As Victory For Unions THERE are no ties to the agreement of Broken Hill publicans to resume selling beer at 10d. a pint and 6d. a half-pint. This was stated today by the secretary of the B.I.C. (Mr. J. G. Polkinghorne)
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 April 1941 · page 3
The position now was that publicans had acceded to the demands of the strikers, he said. If it were a proposition a mass meeting would…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hotels Open All Staffs at Work
Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 3
After the settlement of the liquor dispute, things in the liquor trade of this town are returning to normal. Hotels opened their doors this morning at 10…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Publican's Booth
Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 4
Mr. E. E. Manuel, secretary of the Silver ton Tramway Co. Picnic Committee, stated last night that if Mr. Davey had not attended the auction no booth could…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hotel Trading Hours and Elections
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 3
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Some hotelkeepers favor making an election issue of hotel licences and trading hours. Balmain and Redfern…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Escapades of Mad Dog at Hotel
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 1
When a black water spaniel ran smok in the Australian Club Hotel yesterday the proprietor sent an S.O.S. to the Police Station for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Check To Betting In Hotels
Barrier Miner · Thursday 17 April 1941 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Amended legislation to stop betting in hotels will be one of the first measures introduced by the Chief Secretary and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junction Hotel Meeting
Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 8 May 1941 · page 4
A meeting in support of Mr. A. R. Campbell, selected Labor candidate for Start, was held at the Junction Hotel last night. Alderman Barnes presided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Opening of New Hotel
Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 May 1941 · page 4
Front and saloon bars of the Royal Exchange Hotel will be opened to the public on Tuesday at 10 a.m. A new innovation at the hotel will be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tivoli Theatre for Pictures Appeal Against Licensing
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 June 1941 · page 3
"FILMS can be shown in Broken Hill at much [?]ess than the present admission charges," declared Mr. E. Miller, K.C., in the District Court…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wine in Hotels with Meals
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 11 June 1941 · page 1
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—The Victorian Cabinet has decided to extend the hours for the service of wine in hotels with meals. The extension…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Press Poker Machines May Be Licensed
Barrier Miner · Friday 20 June 1941 · page 1
SYDNEY.—The State Government is expected to consider a scheme to licence poker machines following a census of these machines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hotel Director Fined for "Talking"
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 June 1941 · page 4
SYDNEY, Monday.—Classified as the first case of its kind in this State, Thomas Leitch, managing director of thc Naval Lodge Hotel, Jervis Bay,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Complaints About Hotel Staff Rooms
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 4
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The secretary of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees'. Union (Mr. Kelly) said today that dressing and rest rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Historic Building Damaged by Fire Delicensed Royal Mail Hotel Scene Of Outbreak
Barrier Miner · Saturday 28 June 1941 · page 2
ONE of Broken Hill's earliest buildings and a link with coaching days was damaged by fire last night. The building is the delicensed Royal Mail Hotel, which adjoins the Crystal Theatre. There were many reports circulated that the Crystal Theatre was on fire,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"No Beer" Signs on Hotels London Shortage LONDON, June 30
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 July 1941 · page 3
FOR the first time during this war many London pubs today put up "no beer" notices. Most of these houses were tied to provincial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death Of Wilcannia Hotelkeeper
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 8 July 1941 · page 1
The death has occurred at Wilcannia of Mr. Robert Simpson, one of the river town's best known identities. He was licensee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Suicide of Hotelkeeper
Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 July 1941 · page 1
Later information received from Wilcannia by the Broken Hill police advises that Mr. Robert Simpson, licensee of the Courthouse Hotel,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Beer at Existing Prices Decision Of Yesterday's Mass Meeting Hotelkeepers Meet Tonight
Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 14 July 1941 · page 2
A mass meeting of unionists affiliated with the Barrier industrial Council held yesterday afternoon at the Trader Hall gave consideration to the question of beer prices and decided to demand that beer be sold at the existing prices…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hotelkeepers To Meet
Barrier Daily Truth · Monday 14 July 1941 · page 2
Following on the mass meeting, the secretary of the local branch of the U.L.V.A., Mr. T. G. Bradstreet, said that a meeting of hotelkeepers would be held…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Publicans Decide Against Pints Counter to Price Fixing at 10d by Unionists
Barrier Miner · Tuesday 15 July 1941 · page 1
TIN LESS the Barrier Industrial Council favors the decision of publicans not to sell pint pots of beer after Saturday, it would appear that another beer strike is imminent, or that publicans had at last provided an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →