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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

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Hotel Domestics. Scheme for Training. Licensed Victuallers' Decision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 12

A resolution that the State Government should be asked to provide facilities for training domestics for work in hotels was passed at the State conference of the United Licensed…

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Lismore's Most Popular Hotel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 34

Centrally situated right in the heart of Lismore's busiest shopping and commercial centre, handy to the post office, theatres, parks, bowling green and baths, is the…

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Children's Seaside Hotel

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 16

Ideal for school holidays. Acres playground, boating, fishing, riding, picnics, bush, lake, surf. Mothercraft care trained…

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Hotels May Limit Free Food

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 7

COUNTER-LUNCHES in hotels will be controlled if yesterday's resolution of the U.L.V.A. State-wide Convention bears fruit…

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Hotels in Darwin. Need for Improved Accommodation. Air Mail Passengers. Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 12

The inauguration of the flying-boat service, which will commence in skeleton form in July, has raised the problem of hotel accommodation for passengers in Darwin…

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Man's Half-million Hotel Deal

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 12 March 1938 · page 12

HISTORIC Lennons' Hotel, Brisbane, has changed hands, and to-day the owner is J. ("Jack") Kouvelis. He intends to remodel it at a cost of £420,000…

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Hotel Employees in Fed. Capital Area

The Labor Daily · Saturday 12 March 1938 · page 9

Application was recently made to the Canberra Industry Board by the Federated Liquor and Allied Trades Union for an award to cover…

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Publicans Demand Revision of Liquor Laws Huge Meeting Is with "Truth" Will Ask Government for 10 P.m. Closing

Truth · Sunday 13 March 1938 · page 22

THE long campaign waged by "Truth" for a revision of our ridiculous and antiquated liquor laws…

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Fishing: But Not for Fish Marrickville Publican's Story Of a Raid At Night Denials in Divorce

Truth · Sunday 13 March 1938 · page 13

FISHING, declared Gerald Tome Catalano, mine host of the Macquarie…

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Shots Outside Hotel. Men Refused Admission. One Draws Revolver. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 11

When two men were refused admission to the Pastoral Hotel in Talbragar Street, Dubbo, early to-day, one of them drew a revolver and fired two shots into the air…

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Hotel Hours. "No Change Without Referendum." Premier's Statement. From Our Special Representative. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 9

The Premier, Mr. Stevens, replying to a question at an election meeting in the Walshaw Hall last night, said that hotel closing hours would not be altered…

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Hotel Sydney Profits Increase

The Sun · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 16

Net profit of £7033 disclosed by Hotel Sydney, Ltd., for the year ended December 31, 1937, compares with £5856 for 1936…

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Rev. Jarvis Let In Hotel Door At 6.35 p.m. Asked Was He "All Right"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 March 1938 · page 2

THE President of the Council of Churches (the Rev. Wilfred Jarvis) told yesterday how he gate-crashed a city hotel at 6.35…

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New Works. Governor Game Hotel. Some London Capital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 5

Work will shortly begin on the erection of the Governor Game (nonlicensed Hotel, in Hunter Street, Sydney. A contract has been let to Mr…

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Closing Hours of Hotels

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 5

Following the statement of the Premier, Mr. Stevens, at Bathurst, on Saturday, that hotel closing hours would not be altered unless the…

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Licensee Fails in Suit

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 10

Petitioner had not proved his charge of misconduct beyond all reasonable doubt, said Mr. Justice Roper in the Divorce Court yesterday when…

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Hotel Shooting. Lee Charged With Murder. "Believed Taplin Was About to Shoot." Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 24

Harcourt Lee, 38, hairdresser, of Rathdown Street, Carlton, was charged in the Criminal Court to-day, before Mr. Justice Lowe, with having murdered Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 22,…

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Hands Off! Hotel Closing Time Taking Beer Home

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 1

A police of hands off 6 o'clock hotel closing" was advocated by Rev. E. L. Slade Mallen at the Knox Presbyterian Church, Granville, on Sunday night…

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When "Bluey" Lines Up for Counter Lunch Dog's Daily Visit to Granville Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 5

The chiming of a quarter to six is a significant sound which daily causes many of our breadwinners to quicken their step; in 15 minutes the pubs will be shut. But to "Bluey," the canine mascot at Granville Baths, the baths siren, which is blown daily…

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Hotel Waiter Dies Suddenly

The Sun · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 15

One of Sydney's best-known waiters, John Arthur Gee Haynes, 55, of Dover-road, Rose Bay, died to-day in Sydney Hospital from heart failure…

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