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Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Drinking in Hotel Lounges Cabinet in Dilemma On Licensing Proposals U.L.V.A. MOVE

The Labor Daily · Monday 20 September 1937 · page 5

STATE cabinet is on the horns of a dilemma over the lounge licences Issue, for whether it accepts or rejects the proposal that there should…

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Hotel Licences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 6

The following applications for the transfer of hotel publicans' licenses were granted by Mr. Laidlaw, C.L.M., at the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:—Cyril Robert…

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Causes in No. 3 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Davidson and juries) Case Settled. Harper v Hotel Australia, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 6

The case was settled, on terms filed but not disclosed, in which Edward John Harper sued the Hotel Australia, Ltd., claiming £3000 damages for alleged negligence in the…

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Fines Follow Hotel Raids. Tea Drinking After Hours Said to be Illegal. Counsel's Contention

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 8

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday before Mr. Laidlaw C.L.M., Mr. Bradley, K.C., stated that it was against the law to drink tea or coffee on licensed premises after…

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Rom Hotel to Hostel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 2

UNEMPLOYED MEN repairing the old Volunteer Hotel, Balmain, their home for the last five years…

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Want Lounge Licences Hotelkeepers to Urge After Six P.M. Service Suggest It Will Reduce Drunkenness

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 September 1937 · page 2

OVER 100 hotel-keepers from all parts of New South Wales will interview the Minister of Justice (Mr. Martin) at noon tomorrow to ask for reform of the Liquor Act…

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Improper Motives Denied Licensing Inspectors In The Country State of Hotels

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 5

WHILE denying that a city licensing inspector, acting under instructions from the Licences' Reduction Board, makes periodical rushes…

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Beer Strike. Licensee Threatens Surprise. Demand for Lower Prices. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 23

The beer strike at Marble Bar. on the Pilbarra goldfield, in the north-west, has been in progress for three months. Mr. C. Criddle, proprietor of the only hotel there, states that…

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Plaza Hotel Works Council’s Decision to Take Action

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 7

The City Council at its meeting yesterday adopted a recommendation from the works committee that action be taken against Mr. J. R. Gardiner, the tenant of the Plaza Hotel site, at the…

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Names Taken in Hotel Raids Member Wants Them Produced

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 7

"Will the Premier ascertain and inform the House of the names of the people whose, names were taken, by the police in raids on the Hotel…

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Federal Hotels' Brighter Outlook

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 September 1937 · page 17

Shareholders of Federal Hotels. Ltd., were told by the chairman (Mr. N. A. Miller), at the annual meeting In Melbourne yesterday, that the hotel would be put on a more paying basis…

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Licensing Case Transfer From Blackheath to Katoomba Granted

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 1

The Licensing Court (Messrs J. Laidlaw, Chairman, T. W. Cohen, and W. C. Geikie) has granted the transfer of the licence of the Ivanhoe Hotel,…

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Children's Seaside Hotel

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 16

Ideal for school holidays. Acres playground boating fishing, riding plenics, bush, lake, surf. Mothercraft care trained nurses. Fees, from 2-guineas…

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Liquor Laws Publicans' Plea to Minister. Drink in Lounges After 6 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 11

"It is not possible for any man to conduct a hotel to-day and stay within the law as it stands," said the Mayor of Grafton (Alderman W. T. Robinson),…

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In Hotel Which Bombs Hit Sydney Woman in Shanghai

The Sun · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 1

TRAPPED in the lounge of the Palace Hotel, Shanghai, during the tragic bombing, Mrs. S. F…

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Sutherland's New Hotel

The Propeller · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 6

Boyle's new £10,000 Sutherland Hotel was officially opened on Tuesday afternoon by Councillor C. J. Monro, M.L.A., in the presence of a…

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Surprise For Premier, Says U.L.V.A. Man Broke Law by Having Coffee in Hotel After Hours

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 7

THE Premier was most surprised when I told him just recently that it was illegal to drink a cup of coffee on licensed premises after hours. So said the president of the…

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Police Raid Hotel. Eleven Men at Court

Liverpool News · Thursday 23 September 1937 · page 1

Percy O'Connor, Frederick Mendham, Ernest Rofe, Robert Roberts, George J. Solway, Earl Haydon, Horace N. McLaurin, Edward J. Ashcroft. Ernest J…

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En feuilletant le livre d'or des hôtels

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 24 September 1937 · page 3

"Verba volant; scripta manent "! C'est peut-être avec la pensée inconsciente de ce vieil adage que nous résumons nos impressions de vacances sur…

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Entire Hotel to House Delegates

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 September 1937 · page 16

An entire hotel at Glenbrook was engaged to accommodate visiting delegates to this week's convention of the Printing and Allied Trades Employers' Federation…

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