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Hotels & licensing, 1938

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Hotel Licensee Fatally Gassed

The Sun · Wednesday 7 September 1938 · page 2

Almost unconscious from the effects of escaping gas, William Donald Brownrigg, 52, licensee of the Somerset Hotel, Redfern, staggered…

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Relations Conference. Problem of Jewish Refugees. Interest to Dominions. Democracy in Central Europe. (From Our Special Representative.) Hotel Lapstone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 September 1938 · page 18

At a public session of the British Commonwealth Relations Conference to-night, Professor Norman Bentwich, Professor of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, stated that Australia and other Dominions had borne only a…

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The World a Small Place. Surprise Encounter at Lapstone Hill. From Our Special Representative Lapstone Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 September 1938 · page 19

A member of the South African delegation to the Commonwealth Relations Conference. Dr. A. L. Geyer, who is editor of the Afrikaans newspaper. "Die Burger," spoke this evening…

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Empire's Future in World Trade Varied Views Of Delegates Lapstone Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 7 September 1938 · page 2

Questions of world and Empire trade occupied the British Commonwealth Relations Conference to-day. One delegate said there was no economic reason for the Empire's existence, only an ideal and political one…

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Cockroaches in Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 7 September 1938 · page 6

Christina Winnie Wilkinson, of the Balfour Hotel, comer of King and Elizabeth streets, was fined £2 in the Central Summons Court to-day,…

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Letters Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 September 1938 · page 6

I HAVE read with interest the remarks of Ald. Nock regarding our hotels and service, also many previous articles on the lack of efficiency…

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Knitting Through Sessions. Women at Conference. From Our Special Representative. Hotel Lapstone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 September 1938 · page 20

WOMEN at the British Commonwealth Relations Conference at Hotel Lapstone are playing an important part as secretaries, and…

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Scrapping of Ottawa. Suggestion of Delegates. Relations Conference. From Our Special Representative Hotel Lapstone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 September 1938 · page 12

Trade was the chief topic discussed at the unofficial conference on British Commonwealth relations to-day. Many delegates declared that the time…

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Birth Rate Problem Alien Threat Is Seen Lapstone Hotel

The Sun · Thursday 8 September 1938 · page 3

The white population of the world was committing suicide by practising birth control, a delegate declared…

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Gas Death of Licensee

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 September 1938 · page 5

William Donald Brownrigg, 52, licensee of the Somerset Hotel, Pitt Street, Redfern, was killed by gas yesterday in a bathroom of the hotel…

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Advocates Empire Free Trade To End "Bitterness And Strife" Lapstone Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 September 1938 · page 8

COMPLETE free trade within the Empire was advocated today by delegates to the British…

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Hotel Licensee Fined. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1938 · page 7

Charles Miley, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Goulburn, was fined £3/8/, and also had a mark recorded against him, when he was charged in the Goulburn Police Court with…

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New Hotel for Darwin. Keen Competition. DARWIN

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1938 · page 12

Plans to provide Darwin with an upto-date hotel, suitable to the needs of oversea air travellers, have resulted in keen competition. Two applications for…

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Letters Aliens and Hotel Licences. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1938 · page 4

Sir,—In a recent issue of the "Herald," it was reported that, in the Licensing Court at Hay on August 23, a non-naturalised alien who had been 11 years in Australia was…

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Economics of Empire. Council Suggested. Relations Conference. From Our Special Representative. Lapstone Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1938 · page 10

At the unofficial conference on British Commonwealth Relations to-day, there was a discussion on the question whether an Empire Economic Council…

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"Czechs Stupid." Treatment of Germans. Captain Cazalet's Address. From Our Special Representative. Lapstone Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 September 1938 · page 10

In an address on Czechoslovakia to a public meeting of the British Relations Conference to-night, Captain Victor Cazalet, a member of the British…

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Fears Chances of War "Doubled" Lapstone Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 September 1938 · page 4

THE likelihood of a European war breaking out was "perhaps doubled yesterday." This opinion was expressed by Captain Victor Cazalet, Conservative British M.P., Speaking on the Czech crisis to the British…

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Grave Note in Talks. British Foreign Policy. Relations Conference. From Our Special Representative. Lapstone Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 12

A marked note of gravity characterised the discussions of British foreign policy to-day at the unofficial conference on British Commonwealth…

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Britain Wants Peace Concerted Empire Opinion Gravity Marks Conference Lapstone Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 2

THE immediate aim of Britain's foreign policy is world peace. Delegates at the British…

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"Hollywood Hotel" Lavish Revue For the Royal

Truth · Sunday 11 September 1938 · page 35

"HOLLYWOOD HOTEL", the revue which will succeed "No, No Nanette" at the Royal, is to have a spectacular premiere. The producer, Mr. Harry Howard, has arranged a replica of the Hollywood premiere. Members of the company…

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