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Hotels & licensing, 1939

853 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 43

Hotel Plaza Decision Magistrate Raises Counsel's Fee

The Sun · Tuesday 28 March 1939 · page 12

After a hearing spread over 13 days, the Chief Industrial Magistrate (Mr. Prior) to-day dismissed without costs, the application of Mona…

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Urges De-licensing of Dirty Cafes Law Needed to Give More Power to Councils

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 March 1939 · page 4

Legislation providing that cafe licences should carry a penalty of cancellation after two or three convictions for filthy premises was urged yesterday by the secretary of the Institution of Health Surveyors (Mr. Nankervis)…

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A Modern Hotel on Europe’s Highest Peak

Construction · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 7

Streamlined to minimise the extremely high wind velocities, this hotel is being completed in the Caucasus by the Soviet Government on the slopes of Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in Europe The hotel is built at about an elevation of 15,600 feet. It was necessary to construct a ten mile road to the site before the work could be commenced…

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Plaza Hotel Claims One Dismissed; Two Successful

Daily News · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 6

In a reserved decision given yesterday, the Chief Industrial Magistrate, Mr. E. A. Prior, dismissed without costs the claim of Mona Corbett, pantrymald, against the…

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Stewards Bar Jockey Mount a Winner Rider's Country License

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 20

THE stewards at the Gosford race meeting yesterday refused to allow W. Donaldson to ride Prairie…

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Rings As Clue. Hotel Murder Mystery. Vendor Sought

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1939 · page 10

Detectives investigating the shooting of Robert James Anderson in the hasement lavatory of the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Eiskine and Clarence Streets,…

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Sydney Accommodation—hotel Windsor

The Catholic Press · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 30

Only three minutes from Central Station, yet right in the heart of Sydney, the Hotel Windsor, cur. Castlereagh and Park Streets, offers a faultless cuisine and most modern…

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Hotel Useful Makes Himself Very Useful

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 10

Detailing his daily duties, in the Industrial Court yesterday, a useful employed at an hotel in Goulburn Street, City, said:-- "I whitewash the steps, open the bar, serve customers, wash out parlors, scrub down bars and outhouses, empty garbage tins, damp and…

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Hotels Booked Out By Easter Visitors Record Crowd Coming Show Exhibits Worth Over £1,250,000

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 10

A record influx of visitors to Sydney is expected for the Easter holidays. Already most city hotels have…

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Great Southern Hotel

The Land · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 16

The Great Southern Hotel Ball will be held at the Wentworth Ballroom on Monday, 26th June, 1939, and a cordial invitation is extended to all…

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The Great Southern New Modern Hotel

The Land · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 10

THE GREAT SOUTHERN, the countryman's hotel, is being rebuilt, and its large clientele will be pleased to hear that the new building…

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Hotels Ban Counter Lunches. Action in Newcastle. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 11

Counter lunches have been abolished in hotels controlled by the Newcastle district members of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association…

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Hotel Useful Gets Back Wages

Daily News · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 8

George E. Aldous yesterday claimed £26182, alleged to be back wages and overtime from Colin S. Tisch, proprietor of the Star Hotel, Goulburn and Sussex…

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Hotels Cut Out Counter Lunch

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--All Newcastle hotels have decided to cut out counter lunch. The move follows the lead of the…

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Hotel Murder

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 1

(Left) Father of the victim... "He was a clean-living boy." (Right) Gus Wright, choirmaster of St. John's Church, Balmain, friend of the murdered boy…

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Signet Ring Vital Clue In Hotel Wash-Room Mystery Bearded Stranger Mentioned By Dead Youth's Friend

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 1

FROM THE SHROUD OF MYSTERY THAT STILL SURROUNDS THE SHOOTING TO DEATH OF YOUNG AND HANDSOME ROBERT JAMES ANDERSON, IN THE LAVATORY OF A SYDNEY HOTEL, THERE HAS EMERGED THE ONE IMPORTANT CLUE OF A MISSING SIGNET RING…

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Had Bacon in Bed May License Shops

Daily News · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 7

THE bacon-in-his-bed cafe owner served meals for 11 days after the health inspector summoned him for…

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Bundanoon Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 6

A new wing costing over £4,000. is being added to the Royal Hotel. Bundanoon[?] which will add ten bedrooms, a dining-room, kitchen. and other modern equipment, to the hotel…

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Dirty Hotels May Be Hit Board's Review of Licences Drip Beer Reports Will Be Studied

The Sun · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 2

Undesirable hotels are threatened with loss of their licences next month, when the Licences Reduction Board commences its consideration of licence renewals for 1939-40…

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Bomb Hits Hotel Bursts on Roof Damage To Bar MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 3

A bomb, which was thrown on to the roof of the St. Andrew's Hotel, Queenstown, 25 miles from…

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