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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

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Over Price Meals Hotel Fine Reduced Judge's Comments On Price Inspectors SYDNEY, February 21

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 22 February 1944 · page 4

Judge Studdert, who at the Darlinghurst Appeals Court today, reduced the fine of £100 imposed on Hotel Metropole Limited to £5, referred to the…

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Hotel Sales Black Marketing Alleged SYDNEY, February 22

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 23 February 1944 · page 4

Evidence that he had heard his former accountancy partner, Richard Kempley (42) instruct a hotel manager that he should get a black market price…

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Hotel Share Sales Subscription to Victory Loan Melbourne, February 24

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 1

James Richardson, who recently disposed of his shares in five city hotels to Carlton and United Brewery Limited for £500,000, today made an advance…

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Bribing Charges Solicitor, Father, and Hotelkeeper Gaoled Perth, February 24

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 1

A case which caused intense interest concluded today when Lavus O'Connell Gorman (33), a legal practitioner and former legal officer to the Manpower…

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Hotel Meal Fines Reduced SYDNEY, February 2[?]

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 1

Two Sydney hotels today successfully appealed to the Quarter Sessions Court against the seventy of fines imposed for serving meals above the…

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Trautwein Case Evidence on Hotel Shares Sydney, March 2

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 3 March 1944 · page 1

Evidence that Theodore Charles Trantwein had given him 5000 shares in the Coogee Bay Hotel, but that he had actually held them for only "half a…

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Hotelkeeper Leaving

Barrier Miner · Saturday 4 March 1944 · page 4

One of Broken Hill's hotelkeepers, Mr. Westbury Heryet ("Westy") Morris, licensee of the Theatre Royal Hotel, Argent Street, has decided to…

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Old Established Hotel for Services

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY.—Petty's Hotel which has been trading in Sydney for 112 years, has been taken over by the U.S. Navy to accommodate…

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Shepheard's Hotel Out of Bounds to Troops

Barrier Miner · Monday 20 March 1944 · page 1

CAIRO, March 19.—Shepheard's world-famous hotel, rendezvous of Cairo's war-time international, military, and political celebrities, has been…

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Wild Hotel Scenes BRISBANE, March 22

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 23 March 1944 · page 4

Wild scenes which were alleged to have occurred in hotels in North Queensland were described in the Industrial Court today when the…

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Model Hotels To Be Conducted For Public

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 28 March 1944 · page 2

AUCKLAND.—The Government proposes to set up a trust at Invercargill, in the South Island, to establish model hotels to be conducted in the interests of public wellbeing. Net profits will be distributed…

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Hotel Hours Appeal Against Afternoon Opening Sydney. March 28

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 30 March 1944 · page 4

A submission that the order made by the Premier, Mr. McKell, that hotels must remain open between the hours of 2 and 6 o'clock p.m. was beyond the…

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Hotels to Close on Anzac Day

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 5 April 1944 · page 7

CANBERRA.—Regulations issued last night provide for the closing of hotels, the prohibition of race meetings, and the closing of theatres on…

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Italian Front Quiet Artillery Concentration On Cassino Hotels LONDON, April 12

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 13 April 1944 · page 1

Artillery has been laying down special concentrations against two German-held hotels in Cossino: otherwise the front remains generally quiet…

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Transfer of Hotel Licence

Barrier Miner · Thursday 13 April 1944 · page 2

The licence of the Wilcannia Club Hotel was transferred from Frederick Charles Watters to Samuel Hollaway Walker in the Licensing Court this…

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Transfer of Hotel Licence

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 14 April 1944 · page 4

In tile Licensing Court yesterday Mr. R. W. S. Kelly granted a transfer of the Wilcannia Club Hold licence from Frederick Charles Waters to Samuel…

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Devastation at Bucharest and Ploesti Gestapo Occupants Of Hotel All Killed LONDON April 17

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 18 April 1944 · page 1

Quoting a report from Bucharest, Ankara radio says that 2.900 were killed [?] the raid an Bucharest on Saturday night, and over 9,000 were injured: 900 houses were destroyed and 1.373 damaged; over [?] killed at Ploest, and 460 houses…

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Publicans Must Display Prices

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 April 1944 · page 6

CANBERRA.—An order was gazetted yesterday requiring all hotelkeepers to exhibit in their bars a list setting out the prices of all liquors…

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Whisky Dilution in British Hotels

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 18 April 1944 · page 5

LONDON, April 17. — Middlesex County Council inspectors who for the past three months have been con[?]leting an energetic campaign to…

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Hotel Hours Keep Open Order Valid SYDNEY. April 20

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 21 April 1944 · page 1

With only Mr. Justice Starke dissenting the Full High Court of Australia today ruled that the Regulations requiring hotelk[?]epers to keep open every bur…

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