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Illawarra · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1952

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Commission To See Interstate Hotel Facilities

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr,. Justice Maxwell) will visit three other States next month and…

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Hotel Licensee Shoots Wife; Suicides

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 7 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday—A Goulburn hotel licensee shot his wife and committed suicide in their hotel bedroom late last…

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Waste Beer Not Coloured Licensee Charged

Kiama Independent · Saturday 19 January 1952 · page 5

The licensee of the Grand Hotel, Kiama, Mrs. Eileen A. Maroney, pleaded not guilty when charged in Kiama Court last Wednesday with…

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Threw Liquor in Licensee's Face

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 1 February 1952 · page 11

In Wollongong Court yesterday Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., fined George O'Connell £3 for offensive…

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Threw Beer Over Licensee

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 7 February 1952 · page 6

A hotel customer who threw beer over the licensee was fined £3 at the Wololngong Court last Thursday…

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Fire Damages Blue Mountains Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Serious bushfires broke out late this afternoon on the Blue Mountains. A…

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Checking Hotels

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 1

Mr W. R. Dovey, K.C, recently investigated drinking conditions in South Australia, Victoria and…

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Fire Damages Blue Mountains Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Serious bushfires broke out late this afternoon on the Blue Mountains. A…

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Publican's Wife Wins Car

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 March 1952 · page 1

Mrs. V. Johnson, wife of the licencee of the Grand Hotel, Wollongong, won a Morris…

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Fire in Hotel

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 16

The Wollongong Fire Brigade was called to a fire in Tattersall's Hotel, Wollongong, at 2.20 a.m. on Saturday…

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Warrawong Publican's Body Exhumed

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 17 March 1952 · page 1

The body of Reginald Douglas Tolley, licensee of the Open Hearth Hotel, Warrawong, was…

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Errol Flynn's Quick Hotel Switch

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 March 1952 · page 5

NASSAU (Bahamas), Mon. —Film actor, Errol Flynn, changed hotels abruptly when he learned…

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Hotel Price "Lie" Witness Says

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—A publican and wine and spirit merchant told the liquor Royal Commission…

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Cyclist De-licensed For Three Years

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 24 March 1952 · page 16

George Jordan, of Bed Road Coledale was fined £20 at Bulli Court on Wednesday, after pleading guilty to a charge of…

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Fought in Front of Dapto Hotel

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 5

Fighting in front of a hotel at Dapto on March 26th brought Maurice William Mosley, 18, and Francis McBride, 21, both…

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6 O'clock Hotel Rush "Most Disgusting"

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 10

SYDNEY, Mon.—In the great majority of decent sized suburbs of N.S.W. conditions of drinking…

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Extension Of Hotel Hours Advocated

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.—Harry Leonard Shaw, licensee of the Allawah Hotel, Allawah, today…

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Court Varies Orders on Motorists' Licenses

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 10

In Wollongong Court yesterday, Mr. J. Fleeman S.M., varied orders for cancellation of drivers'…

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Hotels. Buses for Review by City Council

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 2

Two notices, of motion were forecast at the meeting of the Greater City Council last night…

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Hotel Man Denies Speed Allegation

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 3 April 1952 · page 5

A former licensee of the Grand Hotel, Kiama, whose car was involved in an accident with another vehicle in Wollongong…

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