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Hotels & licensing, 1938

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Modernising Darwin Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 October 1938 · page 7

DARWIN, Monday. -- The Club Hotel in Darwin has been taken over by an Adelaide syndicate. It is proposed to spend £40,000 in…

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Keg of Beer Stolen. [?]olled Out of Hotel Bar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 20

Two men entered the bar of the Frisco Hotel in Dowling Street, East Sydney, yesterday, and asked the b[?]rmaid to call a taxi for them. She went to the telephone to do…

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Improvements to Hotels. Bulli

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 11

The Bulli Shire Council has approved of plans, presented on behalf of Tooth and Co., for additions and alterations to the Family Hotel, at Bulli, to cost £900, and alterations…

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Hotel Australia, Melbourne. Architect: Leslie M. Perrot & Partners. Builder: E. A. Watts

Construction · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 6

Work is proceeding rabidly on the erection of the new Hotel Australia and shopping arcade on The Block, Collins Street, Melbourne. The Collins Street section of the building is being carried to a height of 12 storeys, and over the balance of the site there will be three floors. The whole of the ground floor is being used for an arcade containing 42 shops. The floor will contain…

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Il Primario Hotel Di Lismore Hotel Canberra, Molesworth Street

Il Giornale Italiano · Wednesday 5 October 1938 · page 2

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Dealers Blamed for Sale of Inferior Rams to Queensland Studmasters Give Their Views Unregistered Breeders are Subject to No Control by Associations Legislation Enforcing Licensing as Remedy

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 6 October 1938 · page 20

"PERHAPS the greatest obstacle to quality improvement is the type of ram sent to Queensland from southern States. As yet, Queenslanders do not know much about good and bad Southdowns. Some southern breeders have taken advantage of their ignorance to foist on to them crossbred mongrels of the worst type."…

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Publican Wins Case

The Labor Daily · Thursday 6 October 1938 · page 8

THERE was an echo of the Kurrajong mall robbery in the Parramatta Quarter Sessions Appeals Court yesterday…

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Hotelkeeper's Appeal Upheld

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 October 1938 · page 8

The appeal of Bernard Augustine Bates against conviction and fine for selling liquor after hours was upheld at Parramatta District Court yesterday…

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Collections in Hotels SYDNEY, Oct. 5

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 4

Surry. Hills A.L.P. is on the job, and how! At its last meeting a broad committee of about 35 was set up…

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Clue to Quarrel Man May Help Old Hotel Killing MELBOURNE

The Sun · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 1

Detectives are searching the city for a man aged about 30 who, they believe may be able to help them…

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Two Murdered With Axe Bodies Lie for Days, Locked in Country Hotel Room Ransacked: Victim Uncle of M.L.A. MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 October 1938 · page 2

THE bodies of two murdered men were found lying just inside the door of a padlocked hotel room at Dunolly today. Their heads had been split open with an axe…

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N.Z. Labour Funds. Appeal to Hotelkeepers. Benefit From Increased Wages Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 October 1938 · page 11

An appeal to hotelkeepers for donations to the Labour Party funds, on the grounds that they have benefited from increased wages granted by the…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal—"hollywood Hotel."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 October 1938 · page 6

The American revue. "Hollywood Hotel," is at the Theatre Royal. There will be a matinee today…

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Girl's Hotel Death More Mysterious Cause, Identity Unknown MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 8 October 1938 · page 1

Mysteries multiply in the case of the young woman who, clad only in two undergarments, was found dead in a bath at Menzies' Hotel yesterday. No clue to her identity has yet been…

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Charge of Murder Crime in Hotel 'Axe Blows' Alleged MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 8 October 1938 · page 1

Thomas William Johnson, 40, a stockily-built, dark-complexioned laborer, was charged at the City Court…

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Hotel Death Task

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 October 1938 · page 2

THE scantily-clad body of a young Sydney woman was found in a bath at Menzies,…

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Darwin Hotel Sells Beer and Buys Water Darwin

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 October 1938 · page 5

HOTELS are buying water--1000 gallons daily, because of the serious water shortage…

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Fashionable Hotel Mystery: Woman's Body In Bath MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 October 1938 · page 1

DRESSED only in a brassiere and shorts, the body of a young woman was found today lying head down in an empty bath in Menzies Hotel. When she booked in at the…

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Labor Party Asks Hotel Donations

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 October 1938 · page 6

AUCKLAND, Friday.--An appeal to hotelkeepers for donations to Labor Party funds, on the. ground that they have benefited by increased wages granted by…

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Who Was Girl Found Dead in Hotel Bath? Identity Still a Mystery Autopsy Fails to Show Cause of Death Analyst's Aid For Police MELBOURNE

Truth · Sunday 9 October 1938 · page 22

THE Menzies Hotel mystery girl found dead in a hotel bath, bids fair, on present appearances, to be another Albury pyjama girl. At the present…

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