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Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Five Escaped From Hotel Fire Wellington (N.z.), Wed

The Labor Daily · Thursday 13 May 1937 · page 6

Five persons were forced to make a hurried dash for safety when the Parua Bay Hotel, North Auckland, was destroyed by fire last night. The…

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On Licensed Premises. Hiding Under Beds

Liverpool News · Thursday 13 May 1937 · page 1

At Liverpool Police Court, on Monday. James Smith, Ablert Dion, Raymond Howlett, Harold Ives, Charles Jones, Ray Thorne, and John William Childs were…

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Australia Hotel Capital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 May 1937 · page 15

At an extraordinary general meeting of the Australia Hotel Company, Ltd., yesterday, it was decided to increase the capital to £750,000 by the creation of 250,000 ordinary…

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Wouldn't Ride a "Dead 'Un" licensed A.J.C. jockey since 1919. In 1928. he was disqualified for two years. Mr. Cook: If you were told to run a horse dead you wouldn't do it?-- Jockey's Statement To Court Hurdle Crash

The Labor Daily · Friday 14 May 1937 · page 5

"I WOULDN'T ride a horse dead even if the owner and trainer asked me to," declared George Enoch Carter, Jockey, of Allen's Parade,…

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Dry Corrimal Hotel Declared Black WOLLONGONG

Truth · Sunday 16 May 1937 · page 18

THE workers of Corrimal were all denied drink to-day. The Corrimal Hotel, the only one in tM township, has been declared black and…

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Hotel Declared "Black" Corrimal

The Labor Daily · Monday 17 May 1937 · page 6

CORRIMAL HOTEL, the only one in the township, has been declared "black" until such time as a barman who was dismissed on…

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Miners Declare Hotel "Black": Post Pickets Corrimal

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 May 1937 · page 1

BECAUSE the proprietor of Corrimal's only hotel refused to reinstate a dismissed barman, miners have declared the hotel "black," and will place pickets outside tomorrow. The barman, Arnold Harrigan,…

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Building and Construction New Private Hotel. Potts Point Site. Five Storey Structure

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 May 1937 · page 3

A modern private hotel with 100 bedrooms is to be built at Springfieldavenue, Potts Point. It will be five stories high, finishing with a flat roof,…

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London Still Astir. Crowds of Visitors Hotels Besieged. LONDON, May 17

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 May 1937 · page 11

Coronation festivities show no signs of abating. Many people walked the streets all night, encouraged by the milder weather…

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Hotel Picketed Worker Reinstated

The Workers' Weekly · Tuesday 18 May 1937 · page 4

BRISBANE.—A member of the Liquor Trades’ Union employed by certain hotel in Brisbane, after working till 11 p.m. (three hours…

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Rifle-Fire In Hotel Dining-Room New York

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 May 1937 · page 3

THE American hotel strike, which is spreading from coast to coast, led to a gun battle at Clinton, Massachusetts…

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Hotel Licensee Fined. Windsor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 May 1937 · page 13

At windsor police court, before Mr. S. J. Bliss, S.M., Bernard Augustine Bates, licensee of the Commercial Hotel, Windsor, pleaded guilty to a charge of having persons on his…

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Lapstone Hill Hotel

Nepean Times · Thursday 20 May 1937 · page 1

At Penrith Licensing Court on 6th inst Herwald Gordon Kirkpatrick, Chairman and managing director of Lapstone Hill Hotel Ltd, applied for…

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Hotel Licences

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 May 1937 · page 23

The following hotel licences were transferred at the Licensing Court yesterday:-- The Royal Sovereign Hotel. Darlinghurst, from Leo. Thomas Chatfield to Ivy May Standing:…

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Beer Strike. Corrimal Hotel "Black." Dismissal of Barman. Corrimal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 May 1937 · page 24

The Corrimal beer strike is still operating. The local hotel has been declared "black" since last Saturday. The trouble arose over the dismissal of a barman, and a meeting…

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Hotel Sold. Orange

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 May 1937 · page 14

The sale has been completed by Messrs. Leeds Bros., on account of the estate of the late Alfred Stokes, of the freehold of the Empire Hotel, on the corner of Summer and…

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Stop Press Fire in Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 May 1937 · page 1

ORANGE, Friday.--In night attire, [?]uests fled from the Hotel Central (Orange), when a fire broke out late tonight. At 11.15 p.m. the fire was…

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Strikers Beat Hotel Manager

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 May 1937 · page 3

SAN FRANCISCO, Sunday.--Beaten severely by striking employees, the superintendent of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Card Hudgens, was rushed to…

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Transfer of Hotel Licence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 7

An application for the transfer of the publican's licence of the Agincourt Hotel from John Thomas Kay to Leslie Joel was granted yesterday at the Metropolitan Licensing Court…

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Rum on Fire in Cellar Scatter In Bar Of Hotel

The Sun · Tuesday 25 May 1937 · page 1

A cask containing rum caught fire to- day in a cellar at Plasto's Ship Inn, Circular Quay. Henry Plasto's hand was burned…

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