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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

853 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 43

113 Die in U.S. CELEBRATIONS Dramatic Suicide In Hotel

The Sun · Monday 2 January 1939 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sunday. One hundred and thirteen people were killed during the New Year celebrations in the…

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Why Can't We Have Comfort In Country Hotels?

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1939 · page 4

TRAVELLING in Australia may not be as dangerous as in stage coach and bushranger days, but…

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Woman Defends Country Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 2

"I have been travelling round the country for 14 years, and I can only speak highly of every hotel I stayed in," stated the secretary of the New South…

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Child Not to Go in Hotel Bar Wife Opposes Access

The Sun · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 3

A Manly hotelkeeper's wife to-day in the Divorce Court objected to her husband having access to their two-year-old son because she had heard, and believed, that he had driven with the boy at 70 miles an hour…

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Must Not Take Son Into Hotel Bar. Publican Granted Access to Child

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 11

A hotel keeper, Percy Edwin Deaton, was yesterday granted access to his two and a half years old son on two days a week pending the hearing of a suit instituted by his…

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Jewish Hotels to Close in Rumania. Bucharest, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 9

The Minister of Finance has ordered 280 Jewish-owned public houses and restaurants. including some of Bucharest's largest establishments, to close by February 15…

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New Hotels for Darwin Darwin

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 9

Efforts to relieve the acute shortage of accommodation at Darwin will be made shortly by the Administration…

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Full Investigation Of Radio Licensing P.M.G. Acts on Disclosure of Low Rents and Huge Profits Complete Review To Go Before Cabinet

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 1

The Postmaster-General (Mr. Cameron) is having a full investigation made into the licensing of B-class broadcasting stations. He disclosed this last night in an interview on…

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Hotelkeeper Wins with First Horse

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 19

MELROSE, winner ol the first division of the Nursery Handicap at Ascot yesterday, is the first horse raced by Mr. D. Ahern. a city hotelkeeper. Melrose, a daughter of Melfort'…

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Publican Must Not Have Son in Bar

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 8

A Manly hotelkeepber can see his child two days week, but must not take him into the bar…

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Escape in Pyjamas Guests Make Dash From Fire Fierce Blaze Destroys Hotel At The Oaks

The Sun · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 2

Clad in pyjamas and nightgowns, four women and 11 men fled from The Oaks Hotel, at The Oaks, near Camden, at 1 p.m. to-day, when fire broke out on the second floor…

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Saved Till in Hotel Blaze West Wyalong

The Sun · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 2

The Girral Hotel, near Ungarie. was burned early to-day. A large timber structure, it was owned and occupied by Robert…

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Hotels Burnt. Guests Escape

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 19

Two hotels—the Oaks at The Oaks, ten miles from Camden[?] and the Girral Hotel, eight miles from Ungarie—were destroyed by fire yesterday…

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"Hollywood Hotel"

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 19

A FAIR amount of rebuilding has taken place in "Hollywood Hotel" since its rather tottery existence in Sydney, and Melbourne has shown that…

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Waiter for Trial Alleged Altercation In Hotel

Daily News · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 2

John Emer Jones, 27, head-waiter at the Hampton Court Hotel, King's Cross was yesterday committed for trial on a charge of occasioning bodily harm to Frederick…

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Hotel Waiter for Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 2

John Emyr Jones, head waiter at a king's Cross hotel, was committed for trial yesterday on a charge of having caused bodily harm to a lounge customer…

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Boy's Death Not in Vain Fire Escape Regulations Tightened Up Big City Hotels Examined Guests Must Be Told About Facilities

The Sun · Sunday 8 January 1939 · page 11

William Redmond, a 13-year-old schoolboy, who died in a city hotel fire on September 19, did not die in vain. Since his death the fire escapes and other means of egress of 200 hotels have been examined by officers of the…

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Sound-proof Hotel

The Sun · Monday 9 January 1939 · page 12

The Venctian Court at the new Hotel Australia, Melbourne, now in course of construction, will comprise modern reception rooms for weddings, parties and formal…

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New Demand on 2Ky Company Required Condition Of Licensing

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1939 · page 2

Station 2KY, the N.S.W. Labor Council broadcasting station which was recently cut off the air for a period,…

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New Hotel-keeper

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 11 January 1939 · page 2

Tom Sweeney, of the Hotel Cecil, Casino, has purchased Nick Devery's interest in the Golden Fleece Hotel at Liverpool. He will take over next…

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