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Illawarra · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1950

59 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 3

Fight in Hotel at Thirroul

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 9 January 1950 · page 5

Participation in a public house brawl at Thirroul on December 23 cost Richard James Oakley, 34, carpenter, £2 in Bulli Court…

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American Says Time To Hotels

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 January 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Head of the American Travel Headquarters (Mr. Roland Hin), to-day urged Australia to provide the…

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£20 Fine for Betting at Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 January 1950 · page 2

For betting on licensed premises, Ralph Giles Crittenden, a taxi-driver, was fined £20 in Wollongong Court yesterday…

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Fined for Swearing in Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1950 · page 6

For having used indecent language in a public place, David Calvert, 21, of Main Road, Thirroul, was fined £4 in Bulli…

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Threw Stones in City Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 January 1950 · page 2

A man who threw stones In the Wollongong Hotel on Saturday, breaking a plate glass windom and injuring another man's…

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£20 Fine for Selling Liquor Without License

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 9

At Wollongong Court yesterday, a man charged with selling liquor without a license was stated to have said…

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Almost ANYTHING Can Happen In This Hotel!

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 1

OUTWARDLY the Hotel Belvedere in New York is an unimposing (by American standards) hotel 16 stories high, But its proximity to the Madison Square Garden ensures that it is kept busy looking after the artists who every month for new turns at the Garden…

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New License at Flinders Inn

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 6

Mr. Matthew Joseph Gravener, new license of the Flinders Inn hotel, as from Monday, has been in Wollongong less than a week…

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Guests Leap From Blazing Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 24 February 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thursday (A.A.P.).—Nine guests were injured and six firemen hurt by a falling wall when a fire raced…

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Former 'Hotel' Ship to Become 'Shark Factory'

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 1

What is believed will be the first shark-fishing factory ship in the world is now undergoing conversion at a Grimsby shipyard, to the orders of the Colonial Development Corporation of Great…

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Wall of Silence Surrounds Hotel Shooting

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—A man who was shot in three places while drinking in a hotel bar at Newtown, late today, refused…

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Charge Follows Hotel Shooting

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man, wounded in a shooting affray in an hotel bar yesterday, had not told police all he knew of the…

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Hand Grenade Tossed Into Singapore Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 13 March 1950 · page 1

SINGAPORE, Sunday (A.A.P.Reuter).—A hand grenade was tossed by someone on the pavement into the main dining room…

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Claim Against Thirroul Hotel Keeper Fails "Real Staircase Not Unsafe," says Judge

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 14 March 1950 · page 5

When may a wooden staircase at the rear of a hotel be legally regarded as unsafe? This question was thrashed out in the Wollongong District Court last week when Tom…

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Govt. to Consider More Country Hotel Accommodation

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday—The Government will deal shortly with the question of increasing hotel accommodation in New South…

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Nominal Fines for Hotel Offences

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 31 March 1950 · page 2

Nominal fines of £2 were imposed on Clifford Michael Hickey, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, Wollongong, and Williiam…

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Licensee Fined— "Hotel Guests Cleaned Up and Washed Glasses"

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 8

Of four men drinking in a hotel bar one Sunday morning and apprehended by the police, three, although lodgers in the hotel, were helping to clean up the bar and scald the glasses…

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Hotelkeepers Warned on Accommodation

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 April 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Bliss, S.M., in the Licensing Court to-day gave a warning to hotel proprietors against reserving…

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Beer for the Licensee Wine for Customers!

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 30

When well-known Rugby League football barracker "Ducky" Parkes complained that a license and his friends…

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Wollongong Hotels Booked Right Out for Easter

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 6 April 1950 · page 12

Given a fine Easter week end late carnivals in Greater Wollongong will find it practically impossible to obtain…

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