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Illawarra · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

79 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 4 of 4

Improvements to Hotel

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 4

Improvements to the premises of the Albion Park Hotel were authorised by the Licensing Court at Kiama on…

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Petrol Resellers Do Not Want Licensing of Service Stations

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 8

A comprehensive survey has shown that the vast majority of petrol resellers do not want to see licensing of service stations in Australia. These resellers want to preserve their freedom of action as Individual businessmen…

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Social Cricket Police Fail to Arrest Hotel Cricketers

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 2

A team of cricketers from the Wollongong police failed to catch a first innings score of 208 made by the Flinders Inn…

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Fined For Brawling In Hotel

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 12

A brawl in the Rex Hotel at Thirroul resulted in the conviction of three Sydney men at the Bulli Court on Friday on…

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Bulli Hotel Quoit Notes

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 47

The first annual general meeting of the Bulli Hotel Quoit Club will be held next Saturday at 1 p.m…

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Hotelkeeper's Claim Failed

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 November 1954 · page 7

A hotelkeeper's claim for an alleged debt for accommodation failed at the Bulli Court on Friday…

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Bill to License Private Inquiry Agents in Parlt

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 November 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Tues.—A Bill to license private inquiry agents was introduced in the Legislative Assembly…

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Traffic Congestion Near Hotel

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 15 November 1954 · page 16

Police will be asked to keep Lawrence Hargrave Drive clear near an hotel at Clifton. The request will go forward…

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Licensee Fined

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 18 November 1954 · page 40

At the Bulli Court on Friday, the licensee of the Imperial Hotel, Clifton, Clarence Usher, was fined £5 for delivering…

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Two Hours Closing Of Hotels Urged

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 22 November 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Sun. — Hotels should be closed from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and the alcoholic content of beer…

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Staggered hotel hours for shiftworkers

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 November 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.- The sale of liquor in licensed restaurants until midnight and the staggering of hotel hours to suit shiftworkers was approved by the State Parliamentary labor Caucus today…

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Six In Hotel On

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 November 1954 · page 6

Six men were fined £4/8/- with 12/- costs in the Wollongong Court yesterday an a charge of being…

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Hotel Closing Referendum

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 25 November 1954 · page 1

The electorates of Bulli, Illawarra and South Coast slightly favour 10 o'clock closing of hotels, according to figures…

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License Suspended

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 25 November 1954 · page 18

With a record of eight previous convictions for traffic offences a 21 year old motor cyclist was fined £7 with £12/-…

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Hotel "Tea Break" May Go

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 3 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—The tea break between 6.30 and 7.30 p.m. in the new hotel trading hours would be in…

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Man Struck By Lorry; Hurled Into Hotel Bar

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 6 December 1954 · page 1

A man was struck by a runaway semi-trailer lorry on Friday and knocked through the doorway into the public bar of…

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Hotel Union Rejects Broken Shits

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.—The Federated Liquor Trades Union is to ask for a new award with two overlapping…

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New Hotel Hours in February

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 10 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thurs.—Later closing of New South Wales hotels will begin from the first week in…

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Hotel Theft

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 15

The bar of the Clifton Hotel was broken into in the early hours of Saturday morning and two bottles of whisky and a…

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