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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

853 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 43

Beer Boycott Tightened Strikers "Will Bring Trade to Standstill" Pickets To Watch Lithgow Hotels On Pay Day

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 September 1939 · page 7

Lithgow beer strikers expect local hotelkeepers to capitulate within a fortnight. Unionists are boycotting the town's 10. hotels because of an all-round increase of Id a glass in beer…

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Log Cabin Hotel

Nepean Times · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 4

Mr Cecil Hay is returning to Penrith to-day (Thursday) to assume the managership of the Log Cabin Hotel for the lessees. Log Cabin Propt. (Penrith)…

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Finance Editor's Column Menzies Hotel Profit Doubled In Four Years

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 18

FURTHER steady improvement in profits of Menzies Hotel, Ltd., for the year ended June 30, 1939, carried the total to £19,558, which is almost double…

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Amazing Features Of Beer Report Hotel Survey Made with U.L.V.A. OFFICIAL Investigator Claims No Extra Profit From Smaller Glasses

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 September 1939 · page 7

That hotelkeepers would make no extra profit by reducing the size of some glasses is claimed in a report tabled in Parliament yesterday by the Premier (Mr. Mair)…

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The Great Southern New Modern Hotel

The Land · Friday 29 September 1939 · page 6

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

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Hotel Murder. Corner's Open Finding

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 September 1939 · page 14

A finding that Robert James Anderaon, 22, a grocer, who was found dead in a lavatory at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Clarence Street, on March 20, was murdered by a person, or…

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In Equity. (Before Mr. Justice Nicholas.) Rental of a Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 September 1939 · page 3

Differences Among Persons interested. A dispute among members of a family concerning the administration of the trusts of their father's will was the background of a…

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Hotel Murder Inquest

Daily News · Friday 29 September 1939 · page 2

The City Coroner, Mr. Wood, found yesterday that Robert James Anderson, 22, was murdered by a person or persons unknown…

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Publicans Defy U.L.V.A. Order

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 30 September 1939 · page 5

Numerous Sydney hotelkeepers served 13oz. and 9oz. glasses yesterday afternoon, in defiance of the U.L.V.A. order to change…

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Beer War Rages But -- Proletarians And Publicans Not Face To Face

The Sun · Sunday 1 October 1939 · page 9

Lithgow's threatened beer war, after days of preliminary skirmishing, has flamed into front-line action No question of democracy or dictatorship has locked in struggle an army of publicans and an army of…

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Workers' Beerless Saturday Lithgow Hotels Boycott Endures Test Good Humored Banter With Barmaids

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 October 1939 · page 5

LITHGOW, Sunday. The Lithgow beer boycott brought hotel trade almost to a standstill on Saturday. Hundreds of workers, off for the day, gathered in the…

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"Hotel for Women" Elsa's Cocktail Patty

Daily News · Tuesday 3 October 1939 · page 6

"I HAVE never taken a drink, not even wine, but for those who do drink I think cocktail parties are pretty sorry affairs"--thus spake Elsa Maxwell, famous American hostess, in a recent interview; arid then she proceeded to hostess probably the most "ultra"' and lavish cocktail party yet seen…

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Hotel Keeper Big Winner

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 4 October 1939 · page 10

It is reported that one of the principal winners over the success of Feminist in The Metropolitan on Monday was a Granville…

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Profit Better. Wentworth Hotel. Dividend Raised to 3½ Per Cent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 October 1939 · page 10

Wentworth Hotel, Ltd., has raised the dividend to 3½ per cent. from 2½ per cent. Net profit for the year ended June…

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Increased Profit Wentworth Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 4 October 1939 · page 17

Improved results are disclosed by Wentworth Hotel, Ltd., on operations for the year ended June 30 last…

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Larger Profit and Higher Div. for Wentworth Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 October 1939 · page 10

After charging £1500 for depreciation (£1650 in 1938), a profit of £6539 Was earned by Wentworth Hotel, Ltd., for the year ended June 30 last…

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Publicans' Olive-Branch

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 October 1939 · page 7

LITHGOW, Tuesday.--Because members were reselling beer to unauthorised persons in the street, the Lithgow Workmen's Club restricted the sale today of…

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Film News of the Week. "Hotel for Women."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 October 1939 · page 24

ELSA. MAXWELL, [?] Beaton. Miss Maxwell wrote a good deal of the dialogue, and acts in "Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women,"…

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Licensing of Ram Breeders Supported

The Land · Friday 6 October 1939 · page 4

The annual meeting of the Victorian branch of the Australian Society of British Sheep Breeders decided to recommend to the Federal…

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The Great Southern New Modern Hotel

The Land · Friday 6 October 1939 · page 6

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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