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Illawarra · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1951

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Gyorgy Sandor Liked Us; But Our Hotels and Trains

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.).-Concert pianist Gyorgy Sandor wrote in the "New York Times" today that he found…

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Two Injured in Smash Near Panorama Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1951 · page 3

Two Sydney residents were injured when two cars collided in a fog on the highway near the Panorama Hotel late on…

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Hotel Employees to Meet Tomorrow

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1951 · page 6

Employees of South Coast hotels and restaurants will meet it the Wollongong Trades Hall, tomorrow night to discuss their…

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Hotels to Re-introduce Schooners

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 22 January 1951 · page 4

Following a conference between members of the district branch of the U.L.V.A. and the district Trades and Labor…

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Hotel Employee Thought Aboriginal a "Labourer"

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 25 January 1951 · page 4

A Jervis Bay hotel employee, when charged by the police with having sold six middies of beer to an…

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Hotel Management

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 4

The N.R.M.A. has been advised that official action from State Government levels is proposed in order to provide facilities for training students and others in hotel and restaurant management…

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Refused Drink; Broke Hotel Door

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 3

After Neil Olson had been refused a drink in a Wollongong hotel on Saturday he was escorted to the door which was…

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Cold Beer at Publicans Booth

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 7

"Really cold beer" is assured thirsty patrons of the 1951 Wollongong Show. This has been made possible by the loan of…

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Housing in the Hotels

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1951 · page 11

SIR,—There is a ready, solution for part of the housing problem, if the Minister for Housing (Mr. Kelly) wants to…

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Hotel Open On Sunday; Licensee Fined

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 March 1951 · page 3

Mrs. Lucy Francis Burrows of the Oxford Hotel, Crown Street, Wollongong, was yesterday fined £2 with 10/ court costs…

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Fines Follow Raid on Hotel

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 22

Following a raid by Wollongong police at the Oxford Hotel, Wollongong, on January 28, the licencee and three…

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Organiser Warns Hotelkeepers

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1951 · page 11

Charges were made yesterday by the State Organiser of the Hotel Workers' and Restaurant Employees' Union (Mr. H…

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Communal Hotel Proposal For Port Kembla

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 30 March 1951 · page 4

A proposal for the erection of a community hotel in the Port Kembla area was put forward by Ald. J. J. Matthews at…

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Council Hotels for Wollongong?

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 March 1951 · page 4

NOT SURPRISINGLY, Greater Wollongong Council aldermen preserved a doubting silence when Ald. J. J. Matthews proposed a community hotel for the Port Kembla area…

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A Community Hotel for Pt. Kembla?

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 2 April 1951 · page 1

The Greater Wollongong City Council has decided to seek information from the appropriate…

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Council Told Publican's Gain Is Butcher's Loss At Helensburgh

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 April 1951 · page 1

Registering a protest against the parking of sanitary carts outside a butcher's shop in Helensburgh, the Helensburgh and Lilyvale Co-operative Society, in a letter received at last night's meting of the Northern Zone committee, alleged customers had left the shop with…

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Hotelkeepers Farewelled

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 April 1951 · page 10

Mr. and Mrs. J. Dennis were farewelled at a party given in their honour by their employees and friends at the Friendly…

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Guests Flee As Kosciusko Hotel Burns

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—More than 100 guests and 92 staff members fled to safety in night attire when fire gutted the…

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Hotel Guests Unaware of Fire, Ate on

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 1

Guests in the dining room of the Illawarra Hotel, Wollongong, continued to eat their dinner last night oblivious of a fire which broke out in a room in the second storey of the building. Firemen were able to confine…

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Glass Door Smashed in Hotel Brawl

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 2

A brawl between two men in Oxford Hotel, Wollongong, last Monday, resulted in a plate glass door, valued at £10…

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