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Broken Hill & the Far West · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1950

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Hotel Explosion Cause Kept Secret

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 7

Melbourne. — The Chief Secretary (Mr. Dodgshun) said that the report on the Town Hall Hotel explosion made by the…

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Licensing Court Case

Barrier Miner · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 5

Mr. E. L. Carpenter, when giving evidence before the Full Licensing Court on an application to transfer an Australian wine…

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Color Bar In Broken Hill No Accommodation at Hotels

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 4

Although the residents of the city may be friendly and sympathetic, to visitors, leading Broken Hill hotels place a color bar on accommodation. Visiting U.S. wrestler, Jack Clay…

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Allegations Against Canberra Hotels "Raw, Sub-normal Service'

Barrier Daily Truth · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 1

Canberra, August 1.—Canberra's hotels are doing their bust, to make the national capital the laughing stock of overseas visitors. Member of the Act…

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Criticism Of Hotels

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 August 1950 · page 2

Canberra. — Canberra s hotel would not serve meals after 7 p.m. and made the national capital the laughing stock of overseas visitors,…

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Found Ill At Crown Hotel Man Later Dies In Hospital

Barrier Daily Truth · Thursday 10 August 1950 · page 4

Alfred Cumberland, aged 65, died at the Hospital at 12.50 p.m. yesterday from pneumonia. Cumberland, who lived in a room at…

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Raid on Hotel

Barrier Miner · Monday 14 August 1950 · page 8

Names of about 17 men found in an Argent Street hotel "yesterday morning were taken by the police…

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German Found Dead in Hotel; Strange Story

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 22 August 1950 · page 5

London, August 21.—Fritz Quandt, 55-years-old German engineer who arrived a week ago from Australia, was found dead in his Bloomsbury hotel room on Friday. A phial of poison was beside him…

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Publican Fined on Meal Charge

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 23 August 1950 · page 6

Sydney.—The Chief Magistrate of the Licensing Court (Mr. V. H. Wells) fined a Sutherland publican £20 for having refused to provide a meal for a customer. The publican is James Limerick,…

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Big Price for Hotel

Barrier Miner · Monday 28 August 1950 · page 11

Sydney. — The Morris Hotel, at 412 Pitt Street, City, has been sold, subject to the approval of the Probate Court, for £81,000…

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Palace Hotel Sports Club

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 5 September 1950 · page 8

The 1950 cricket season of the Palace Hotel Sporting Club will officially open tonight when the club will hold a get-together…

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Hotel Hours in Victoria

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 6 September 1950 · page 5

Camberra—Victoria is not to have a referendum on 6 o'clock closing. "The Government has no…

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Wants Hotel

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 13 September 1950 · page 8

Canberra.—Cabinet is expected to decide this week whether Qantas Airways will be authorised to buy the Hotel Wentworth. Sydney—…

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Court Sequel to Hotel Raid, Men Licensee Fined

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 3

Frederick J. Bertram, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, and 17 other men appeared in the Police Court today as a sequel to a police raid on the hotel on Sunday, August 13…

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Publican Buys Freighter

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 7

Sydney. — Mr. Ben Buckland, liceneee of the Merimbula Hotel, has bought the wrecked British freighter Empire Gladstone for…

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Beer Shortage Closes Some Hotels

Barrier Daily Truth · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 3

Cutting by floods of the direct rail link to Sydney has caused a local shortage of beer and has necessitated the closing of some hotels dependent on Sydney…

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Hotel Sale Mystery

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 September 1950 · page 9

Sydney—A jury acquitted the owner of a King's Cross residential of a charge of stealinc £8250…

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Television in Hotels

Barrier Miner · Saturday 30 September 1950 · page 9

Sydney. — An American investor and theatrical producer said he planned to build in Sydney and Melbourne hotels equipped…

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Grading Of Hotels

Barrier Daily Truth · Tuesday 10 October 1950 · page 1

Sydney, October 9:—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Clive Evatt) said today he would introduce a system of grading for hotels and guest houses in N.S.W. An expert…

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Fore Destroys Mackay Hotel

Barrier Miner · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 1

Brisbane —The Grand Hotel at MacKay was destroyed by fire early this morning. The proprietor (R. D…

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