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Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Modern Lights in New Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 October 1937 · page 11

ONE of the features incorporated in the new Mayfair Hotel at King's Cross is the lighting design…

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Bedroom Thief. Parramatta Hotel Robbed. Licensee Threatened

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 October 1937 · page 12

While Mi S. J Fox, licensee of the Star Hotel, Church Street, Parramatta, and his wife were asleep in their room at the hotel early yesterday morning, a…

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Unpaid Hotel Bills. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 October 1937 · page 15

Archibald John Fenton, 29, pleaded guilty at the Bathurst Police Couit to charges of refusing to pay for meals and accommodation at the Imperial Hotel, Lithgow, and the…

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Royal Hotel, Springwood

Nepean Times · Thursday 7 October 1937 · page 4

Application for alterations, involving an expenditure of about £200. to the Royal Hotel, Springwood, was made by the licesee, Joseph Tate, and was…

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Hotel Changes Hands

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 October 1937 · page 4

The historic Vauxhall Inn at Granville has changed hands. The new licensee is Mr. Thomas J. Wallington, who for 14 years was in charge of the Oxford…

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Held Up with Own Pistol Publican Robbed "I'll Shoot!"

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 October 1937 · page 5

A burglar surprised in the Star Hotel, Parramatta, early on Tuesday morning held the licensee, Mr. S. J. Fox, at bay with his own…

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No License To Be On The Air; Man Fined

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 October 1937 · page 3

PARKES, Wednesday.--John Agnew, electrician, of Parkes, was today fined £2 with 8 costs and £2196 expenses for having transmitted wireless messages…

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Hotels Ready for 1938 Tourists

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 October 1937 · page 7

"The Melbourne report that Sydney hotels are booked out between December and April next year is quite wrong," said the manager of a leading Sydney hotel…

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Closing of Hotels on Anzac Day

The Methodist · Saturday 9 October 1937 · page 12

Under the auspices of the Federation of Me-thodist Women, a meeting took place in Sydney on September 24th, to consider the matter of the all-day closing of hotels on Andac Day. A…

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As Done In A City Hotel

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 9 October 1937 · page 2

HERE is an admission by one of those non-taxpaying, unlicensed operators whose place of business is a bar of one of Sydney's lending hotels:-- "The manager has had me in his office several times during the last few months, warning me not to be over promiscuous in my betting. He…

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Prayers for Closing of Hotels

The Labor Daily · Saturday 9 October 1937 · page 5

Heads of churches have been requested to call their various denominations to prayer for the success of the effort being made to close…

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Claimant to Fortune. Publican Found Dead. LONDON, Oct. 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 October 1937 · page 18

A Wiltshire publican, Patrick Joseph Burke, who was claimant to the £45,000 fortune of the late Martin Burke, of Sydney, has been found shot dead in the stables of a hotel…

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R. B. WALKER, M.L.A., Is Fined for Drunken Driving Plea To Retain His License Is Successful

Truth · Sunday 10 October 1937 · page 26

REGRETS that he frequently found it necessary to impose penalties for the offence of driving a motor vehicle whilst under the influence of liquor were expressed by Mr. E. A. Mahony, S.M., at the Parramatta Police…

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Usher's Hotel Profits Steady Over Four Years

The Sun · Monday 11 October 1937 · page 18

For the past four years net earnings disclosed by Usher's Metropolitan Hotel, Ltd., have been around £17.000 per annum…

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Welcome to Berlin. Duke of Windsor Crowds Outside Hotel. BERLIN, Oct. 11

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 12

"Vindsor, Vindsor," chanted the crowd outside the Kalserhof Hotel, after the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor this morning…

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Heating Private Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 7

A five-storey private hotel is being built for Mr. S. B. Gange in Springfield Avenue, King's Cross, by Mr. Edgar Gange. The latter has arranged for the Australian Gas Light…

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May Declare Hotels "Black" Brisbane

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 October 1937 · page 7

Subsequent to the opening of the Castlemaine and Bulllmba breweries with part-volunteers staffs to-day, the secretury of the Liquor Trades…

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Counter Lunches Developing Into Banquets. Hotelkeepers to Consider Complaints

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 October 1937 · page 17

Fishmongers and restaurant keepers have complained to the United Licensed Victuallers' Association against the development of hotel counter lunches into "real banquets."…

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Childrdn's Seaside Hotel

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 14 October 1937 · page 15

Ideal for school holidays. Acres playground, boating, fishing, riding, pich[?], bush, Like, surf Mothercraft cars trained nurses. Fees, from [?]…

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Arrest Of Woman In Duke's Hotel BERLIN

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 October 1937 · page 1

A WOMAN has been arrested by the Gestapo (Secret Police) for having attempted to enter the apartment of the…

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