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Hotels & licensing, 1937

757 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 38

Attempt to Set Fire to Hotel. Henty

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 11

What is believed to have been a deliberate attempt to burn the Central Hotel, Henty, was discovered about one o'clock this morning by Mrs. Sullivan, wife of the proprietor. She…

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Stay-in Strike in Hotels 2550 Guests Forced To Leave DETROIT

The Sun · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 1

Four of the largest hotels in the city this afternoon asked their 2550 guests to seek accommodation elsewhere and immediately locked the…

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Child's Cries Save Hotel Suspicious Fire Discovered Albury

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 7

The cries of an infant sleeping on the second storey of the Henty Hotel at Henty early this morning saved the building from being burnt to the…

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Those Primitive Hotels!

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 March 1937 · page 6

"The customer is always right" is an American slogan. Australian country hotels seem to have modified it to 'The customer is…

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Publicans' Licences

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 6

Ihe following transfers of publicans licences were granted yesterday al the Metropolitan Licensing Court by Mr.Geikle, L.M.:Raymond Hall Harrison to William Arthur…

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Hurstville's Hotels. Hostelries of the Past

The Propeller · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 11

The oldest hotel in Hurstville, and one of the oldest in St. George district, was the well-known Blue Post, still to be seen opposite Hurstville…

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'Sit Down' Strike in Detroit Hotels Detroit

The Labor Daily · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 1

The "sit-down" strike which compelled the principal Detroit hotels to request their guests to leave, pending a settlement, has now been adjusted…

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Hotel Fire Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 18 March 1937 · page 7

HENTY, Wednesday.--John Arthur Lawson, 32, was charged at the police court today with having set fire to the Hotel Central. He was remanded…

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Hotel Employees. Specified Menus. Union's Application

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 8

The Hotel, Club, Restaurant, etc., Employees' Union applied yesterday to the Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. Baker) for a variation of the hotel employees' award to…

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Hotel Sydney Ltd. Monthly Figures Improving

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 13

Sir Arthur Rickaid, chairman of Hotel Sydney, Ltd., said at the annual meeting yesterday that although the company's progress was considerably retarded during the…

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Hotel Workers Want Menu Union Complaint About Meals

The Labor Daily · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 13

"Seven[?]y per cent, of hotels do not provide meals for the public -- they are merely beer houses, and in that case the employees have the same meals as their…

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Wants Menu Included in Hotel Award

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 2

Hotel employees want a definite menu for their meals incorporated in the Hotel Employees (State) Metropolitan award…

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Letters to the Editor Those Primitive Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 6

IN reference to the article by "A Correspondent" entitled "Those Primitive Hotels," it would not be fair to allow this scathing criticism to go…

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"Pretty Dire Hotels"

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 March 1937 · page 6

APROPOS the discussion on country hotels, generally speaking, irrespective of tariff, they are pretty dire, but I must say with a tendency to…

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One Signature for "The Army" in Hotel Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Saturday 20 March 1937 · page 6

EVEN the magistrate smiled at Wollongong court to-day when 16 young men, all of Wollongong, were charged with being found on…

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Fire Tragedy in Hotel Young Man Burned to Death Auckland (N.z.)

The Sun · Sunday 21 March 1937 · page 2

In a fire which destroyed the Bealey Hotel to-day, the son of the licensee, Albert Cochrane (20), suffered terrible burns which caused his…

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Fatally Burned in Hotel Fire Wellington (N.z.)

The Labor Daily · Monday 22 March 1937 · page 6

Albert Cochrane, 20, son of the licensee of the Bealey Hotel, Auckland, was fatally burned when the hotel was destroyed by fire…

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Re-building Waverley Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 March 1937 · page 3

Subject to certain modifications, the Waverley Council has approved of the erection of a new hotel on the site of the existing Robin Hood Hotel, at the corner of…

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Hotel Fire Charge

The Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 22

Henty, Wednesday. -- Arthur John Lawson, 32, was committed for trial to-day, on £600 bail, on a charge of having maliciously set fire to the…

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Nuovo Hotel Canberra a Townsville

Il Giornale Italiano · Wednesday 24 March 1937 · page 7

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