Liquor Royal Commission Prominent Men in Hotels
Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 November 1951 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Men prominent in political and public affairs had extensive financial interests in hotels, documents submitted to the Liquor Royal Commission to-day revealed. They had shares either in companies that owned hotels or in…
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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 November 1951 · page 1
CHICAGO, Sun. (A.A.P.)—Fire swept a four-storey residential hotel with the temperature at 22 degrees early today, killing three, injuring nine and leaving many homeless. The blaze forced five…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr R. A. Hardewcik. S.m.) Assaulted Publican
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 November 1951 · page 13
Thomas Mitchell, 42, laborer, was fined £5 and ordered to pay 12s 6d medical expenses, for assaulting Bernard Whalley…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 November 1951 · page 2
SYDNEY: Seven proprietary companies, each having the same two directors, conducted seven hotels in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, the Liquor Royal…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 November 1951 · page 2
The Beach Hotel, King-street, was unlikely to be resumed this financial year, the Hospitals Commission had…
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The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 November 1951 · page 2
SYDNEY: A truck had taken between 30 and 40 dozen bottles of beer from the Edinburgh Castle Hotel, Sydney, to Sam Babicci's Restaurant at Tom Ugly's point, a publican told the Liquor Royal Commission today…
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The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 2
SYDNEY: Roberts William Plasto, licensee of the Ship Inn, Circular Quay, told the Liquor Royal Commission today that his income last year from two of three hotels controlled by the Plasto family was about £10,000…
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The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 November 1951 · page 11
Travelling in a party posed no accommodation problems for six…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 November 1951 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Royal Commission on liquor was told to-day that the Whelan family, of the Maroubra Junction Hotel, had interests in 35 New…
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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 November 1951 · page 2
SYDNEY: The Greg McGirr family owns or controls 25 country hotels worth about £270,000, the Liquor Royal Commission was told today. Dr. John Joseph Greg-…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 1
SYDNEY, Monday.—Tied house or not, no one should get the impression they could be smug about the way some…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 November 1951 · page 3
SYDNEY, Monday.—A convicted counterfeiter and slygrog seller was an equal partner in the Hawkesbury River Hotel, Brooklyn, a woman witness told the Liquor Royal Commission to-day…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 November 1951 · page 3
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Leslie Joseph Hooker, managing director of L. J. Hooker, Ltd., real estate agents, said to-day that he was financially interested in 25 hotel businesses and had either the freehold or leasehold of the premises…
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The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 November 1951 · page 2
SYDNEY: Leslie Joseph Hooker, real estate agent, who is interested in 25 N.S.W. hotels, told the Liquor Royal Commission today that he and the Whelan family, which controls 35 hotels, had joined forces when they found themselves…
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The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 November 1951 · page 2
SYDNEY: Half the Edinburgh Castle Hotel's bottled beer quota for 12 months went to the licensee's friends, the hotel's former manager told the Liquor Royal Commission today. Alfred Richard Morris,…
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Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 November 1951 · page 3
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Liquor Royal Commission to-day instructed Inspector John Young, of the Metropolitan Licensing Court, to investigate hotel deals in which a night club proprietor, Abraham Saffron, and others were…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 December 1951 · page 2
The staff and patrons of a city hotel have raised £310 to give a Christmas party for children at the Waratah Spastic Centre. Last year they contributed £170, which was used to…
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The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 December 1951 · page 5
HOBART: A State licensing court with powers to fix minimum standards of accommodation, service, conduct and equipment in hotels is proposed in a bill introduced in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Court at Newcastle (Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke. S.m.) Hotel Bbawl
The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 December 1951 · page 3
Two men involved in a brawl at the Lass o' Gowrie Hotel, Wickham, were fined for offensive behavior…
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The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 December 1951 · page 8
Secretary of the Crippled Children's Association (Mr. Atkinson) today acknowledged a gift of £70 from…
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