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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

853 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 43

'Monopoly Handed Hotels'

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 December 1939 · page 7

"Nasty rumors are circulating about the sale of the City Council's hotels to the brewery monopoly."…

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The Great Southern New Modern Hotel

The Land · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 8

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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Gov’t Winks at Law Breakers in Q’land Hotels Brisbane. Dec. 7

Tribune · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 4

To deal with the questions of after-hour (illegal) trading by hotels in Queensland, and the breaking of awards by the monopolies and their servants, a special meeting of the Liquor Trade Union has been called for Sunday, December 10…

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Darwin Refused Hotel Licence

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 2

DARWIN, Thursday.--The Minister for the Interior (Senator Foll) has refused to grant an additional hotel licence in Darwin…

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Hurt In Leap From Hotel Fire MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 9 December 1939 · page 3

Awakened by a fire in his bedroom in the Alpine Retreat Hotel, Warburton, at 1.15 a.m. to-day, Ray Purton (23), plasterer, of New-street,…

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Referendum on Hotel Hours Advocated By Union Secretary

Daily News · Saturday 9 December 1939 · page 1

The secretary of the Liquor Trades Employees Union, Mr. Owens said last night that his members, strongly advocated that a referendum…

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Hurt In Leap From Hotel Fire MELBOURNE

The Sun · Sunday 10 December 1939 · page 9

Awakened by a fire in his bedroom in the Alpine Retreat Hotel, Warburton, at 1.15 a.m. to-day, Ray Purton (23). plasterer, of New-street…

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Brewers Buy Up Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 December 1939 · page 4

Tooth's or Toohey's breweries have bought eight of the nine hotels sold by the City Council in recent years, for £135,850…

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Darwin Hotels. Syndicate Acquires Two More. DARWIN

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 12

An Adelaide syndicate, which already owns the Hotel Darwin, has acquired leases of the licences of the Victoria Hotel and Don Hotel, the only other public-houses in the town…

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Hotel Policy of City Council. Lease Granted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 6

The City Council, by 15 votes to two yesterday reversed a policy, which has been pursued by the Reform Party for many years, of selling the frechold of city hotels acquired…

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Say Hotels Were Given Away

Daily News · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 5

THE City Council had practically given away its hotels at auctions at which Tooth's and Tooheys Breweries were the only bidders, Ald. T. J. Shannon, leader of…

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Carlton Hotel. a Reduced Dividend

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 December 1939 · page 13

Net piont of £10,004 reported by Carlton Hotel, Ltd, for the year ended October 31, is £3,238 less than last year's profit…

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Waterloo Hotel, Brisbane. Modern Lighting Fixtures

Construction · Wednesday 13 December 1939 · page 17

These striking lighting fixtures in the new Waterloo Hotel, Brisbane, were executed by Wunderlich Ltd. In addition to performing their practical function and providing even illumination, they play an…

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Carlton Hotel Lower Profit And Div

The Sun · Wednesday 13 December 1939 · page 17

Increased costs of provisions and stores, higher charges for awards and taxation, and generally…

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An Investor's Diary. Wentworth Hotel Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 December 1939 · page 8

Successive improvement in earnings has been reported during the last four years by Wentworth Hotel, Ltd. The accounts for the recent trading year…

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Boxing Champion Barred From Hotel LONDON

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 December 1939 · page 1

Len Harvey, British light-heavyweight boxing champion, gave up an income of several thousand pounds a year to serve in the R.A.F. as a physical instructor at 35 a week. But he cannot lunch at either…

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City Council's Hotel. Reform Party Policy. Aldermen Reverse Decision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 December 1939 · page 12

The City Council at a special meeting yesterday rescinded a motion passed at the last ordinary meeting that the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, one of the…

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£100 Fine for Licensing Offence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 December 1939 · page 6

George Nomico, 38, a labourer, of Beaufort, Street, Surry Hills, was fined £100, in default 200 days imprisonment, in the Licensing Court yesterday on a charge of having sold…

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Fire in Hotel. Invalid Woman Rescued. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 December 1939 · page 10

Sweeping with extreme rapidity through the bar of a hotel in Malvern Road, Malvern. to-day, flames from an inflammable norning compound caused damage estimated at more…

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Christmas Party At Hotel Australia

The Sun · Thursday 21 December 1939 · page 15

MORE than two hundred guests have been invited by Sir Sydney and Lady Snow to their customary Christmas "at home" in the banquet hall of the Hotel Australia late this afternoon…

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