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Illawarra · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1950

59 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 3

Hotel Ainslie Sold For £85,000

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 14 April 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Thursday.—Spectators were astounded today when the Government - owned Hotel Ainslie, at Canberra, was…

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Hotel Ainslie Sale Criticised

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 1

CANBERRA, Friday. — The possibility of a Royal Commission into the circumstances of the sale of the Government hotel, Ainslie, by auction for £85,000 on April 13 last was mentioned in…

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Port Kembla Woman Fined for Selling Liquor Without License

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 2

A 44-year-old Port Kembla woman was fined £30 in the Wollongong: Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, for having sold…

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Found Betting in Hotel Bar; Fined £20

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 2

A man who pleaded guilty to betting in the bar of the Royal Hotel was fined £20 in the Wollongon Court of Petty Sessions…

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Hotel Building Limits In Industry Areas

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 May 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Owners might now in most country areas repair, alter and make additions to existing hotels or build new…

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Attempted Suicide in Wollongong Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1950 · page 2

A 35-year-old labourer slashed his wrist in a room of the Wollongong Hotel on Sunday and drank whisky while he waited…

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Stole Clothes From Hotel Yard

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 15 June 1950 · page 23

Ladies' underclothing handkerchiefs and four clothes pegs, included a portion of the clotting from the Oxford Hotel…

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"Vade Mecum" Flippant Publican Rebuked

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 19 June 1950 · page 3

To mix the metapnor, Francis Gibson, proprietor of the Golden Fleece, George Street, put his foot in it in 1830 when he used…

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Hotel Accommodation

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 19 June 1950 · page 7

Travellers' complaints about indifferent hotel accommodation far tourists in N.S.W. were confirmed by experiences of…

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Hairdressers to be Licensed

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 June 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — All hairdressers throughout the State will be obliged to obtain a Government licence to operate…

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Nowra Charges Dismissed. All a Question of Why Two Men Went to Hotels

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 29 June 1950 · page 19

Charges against two men at the Nowra Court on Tuesday were dismissed by Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., after legal representatives for the defendants successfully submitted that the Crown had not proved they actually went to hotels for the "purpose of betting"…

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Union Check On Hotel Wages

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 July 1950 · page 2

The State Organiser of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees' Union (Mr. H. McPhillips) said yesterday he had…

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Hotel Employees To Meet

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

Mr. H. McPhillips (State Organiser of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees' Union) said yesterday that after…

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Hotel Keepers Forget Worries At Annual U.L.V.A. Ball

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 July 1950 · page 3

South Coast hotelkeepers forgot their worries for at least one night when they gathered at the U.L.V.A. annual cabaret ball last night in the Soldiers' Hall, Wollongong…

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Young Timber Hauler for Trial at Next Sessions £30 Fine and 10 Years License Disqualification

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 7

The serious view magistrates take on persons driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor was illustrated at the Nowra Court on Tuesday, when Magistrate Fleeman dealt with the case of a…

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"Hotels Making Canberra Laughing Stock"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 August 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday. — Canberra's hotels are doing their best to make the national capital a laughing stock for…

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Publican's Guilt "Technical"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 August 1950 · page 10

A Bulli publican who sold "overproof" rum which was underproof, was technically guilty but was innocent, said the…

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Assault in Hotel

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 24 August 1950 · page 5

After pleading guilty to charges of offensive behaviour and assaulting a Gwynneville resident, William Reginald…

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Watering of Rum Denied by Licensee

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 28 August 1950 · page 7

Charged at the Bulli Court on Wednesday with selling adulterated rum, the licencee of the…

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Nightwatchmen Alert Brigade for Hotel Fire

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1950 · page 1

Prompt action on the part of two nightwafchmen saved what may have developed into a disastrous fire at the Commercial Hotel, Crown Street, in the early hours of this morning…

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