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Hotels & licensing, 1938

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Mollison Divorce Amy Gets Degree: Story of Women How She Found Flier in Hotel London

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 1

MRS. MOLLISON, formerly Miss Amy Johnson, gave evidence of the relations of her husband, Jim Mollison, famous…

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The Surfers' Paradise Hotel, Surfers' Paradise, Queensland Architect: E. P, Trewern Builders: Tealby & Crick, Albion, Queensland

Construction and Real Estate Journal · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 6

Situated only 18 miles from the N.S.W. border and 50 miles from Brisbane, the recently completed Surfers' Paradise Hotel is one of Australia's leading seaside hotels. Great care has been taken in the furnishings and fittings, and one of the main features is that special provision has been made for the main lounge and dining rooms to be converted into one huge ballroom if occasion should…

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Great Northern Hotel Is Ultra Modern

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 18

NEWCASTLE is justly proud of its magnificent new hotel, the rebuilt Great Northern. For over seventy years the Great Northern has been the home of hospitality in the great waterside city. Because it was always overcrowded, because it was never able to accommodate more than a fifth…

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Children's Seaside Hotel

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 10 February 1938 · page 11

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

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Nock Had to Pay Hotel Bill

The Sun · Saturday 12 February 1938 · page 1

The Lord Mayor (Aid. N. Nock) has found himself involved by the Local Government Act in an awkward…

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Cleric For Licensing Of Bookmakers

The Sun · Sunday 13 February 1938 · page 1

HOBART, Saturday.--Submitting evidence to the South Australian Betting Commission visiting here the Rev. H. G. Hackworthy, on…

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Where Men Rule the Kitchen. Running a Thousand Households in One. Problems in the Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 4

Why do men rule the kitchens in any large hotel anywhere? According to a master chef in Sydney, women could not stand up to the strain of eight hours' work in a hotel kitchen. Moreover, it was rare to find s woman who had a [?]air for Continental cooking…

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Inconvenience at Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 11

Mr. E. Youngs, manager of Petty's Hotel, "said yesterday that he had heard a number of complaints from hotel patrons about the new regulations…

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"Mine Host." the Wentworth Hotel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 13

In tho days of old, inns were noted not clone for the goodness and abundance of their food, the softness of their beds and the qualities of their nut-brown ale, but…

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"Ever So Many Thanks" Hotel Imperial, King's Cross, Sydney. February 14, 1938. COMPETITORS

Referee · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 3

To the Editor, "The Referee," SYDNEY. DEAR Sir,—Will you please allow me, through your widely-read columns, to express my sincere appreciation of my fellow competitors during the Empire Games…

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Man Acquitted of Assault. Incident in Hotel. Street Shooting Recalled

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 7

John Joseph Finnie, 32, labourer, was acquitted by a jury in Quarter Sessions before Judge Sheridan, yesterday, of a charge of having assaulted Gerald Vincent Reilly in the…

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Sequel to Fire in Hotel Com. Travellers and Compensation

The Labor Daily · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 5

A sequel to a hotel are was heard before the Workers' Compensation Commission yesterday, when Judge Perdriau held that, except in exceptional circumstances, a…

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Publican Fined

Truth · Sunday 20 February 1938 · page 23

FORMERLY of the Albion Hotel. Cootamundra, Charles Humphreys pleaded guilty at the Central Summons Court last week to selling whisky…

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Harbor Tragedy More Inspectors Needed To Watch Licensed Craft Facts to Be Studied by Authorities

Truth · Sunday 20 February 1938 · page 1

IT WOULD SEEM that there are insufficient maritime inspectors policing Sydney Harbor. That…

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Drunken Motorists Lose Licenses

Truth · Sunday 20 February 1938 · page 15

UNDER the amended Traffic Act two motorists "copped it hard" for drunken driving when they appeared before the Lismore P.M., Mr. H…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 February 1938 · page 7

The following applications for transfers of licence were granted yesterday by the Licensing Court: Centennial Hotel, Forest Lodge, from Alfred Aubrey McKell to Daniel William…

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Mallee Hotels Alterations

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 20

In the last 12 months, Mallee Hotels, Ltd., has spent about £1600 on alterations and improvements to the hotel at Ouyen (Victoria), the chairman Mr H. J. Carter, announced at the…

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Causes in No. 7 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Maxwell and juries.) Pall Down Steps. Clark v Australia Hotel Co

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 6

Stella' Irene Clark, married, Darlinghurst Road, Sydney, brought an action against the Australia Hotel Co., Castlereagh Street, to recover £500 damages for loss and injuries…

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Is a Hotel Bar a "Place"?

The Sun · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 16

The definition of a "place" in the meaning of the betting law was argued before Mr. Justice Bavin in…

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The Fallen Tree Hotel

The Propeller · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 7

On the lonesome line of traffic, Where the Tumbafumba track Forks for Bago, and for Taradale as well,…

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