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Hotels & licensing, 1940

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State House. Margarine Licensing Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 May 1940 · page 11

In the Legislative Assembly last night Mr. Lee (U.A.P., Drummoyne) suggested that, instead of discussing margarine, the House should be telling the world that it was…

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Urges Licensing of Bootmakers

Daily News · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 5

Welfare of the public feet can be brought about by licensing of individual bootmakers. This is one of the reasons given by…

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Finance Editor's Column Wentworth Hotel Dividend Increase Uncertain

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 May 1940 · page 11

AT the annual meeting of Wentworth Hotel, Ltd., last year, the chairman indicated that an increase in the dividend might be expected for the…

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Unclean Hotel Charge Fails

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 5

Licensing Inspectors N. D. James and A. Lavelle told North Sydney Summons Court yesterday that in the bar of the Imperial Hotel Alfred Street…

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£500 Subscribed to Mayoral Ordered to Vacate Licensee Of Parramatta Wine Saloon

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 3

Nearly £500 has been subscribed to the Parramatta Mayoral Patriotic Fund. This does not include the £120 received earlier in…

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Ordered to Vacate Licensee Of Parramatta Wine Saloon

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 3

That Penfolds Wines Ltd. had refused to supply him with wines, and were thus preventing him from earning money to pay them what…

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Hopeful of Liquor Law Change P'matta Publican's Retirement

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 3

"It is indeed regrettable that the trade should be hampered by the present obsolete law, which compels a man to drink during…

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Duke's Narrow Escape. Bombs Fall on Hotel. LONDON, May 22. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 May 1940 · page 10

The Duke of Gloucester, who is the Chief Liaison Officer of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Forces in France, had a narrow escape when two…

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An Investor's Diary. Hotel Sydney Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 May 1940 · page 6

The directors of Hotel Sydney Ltd. are to be commended for effecting sinking fund policies to provide £135,000 in 1960 for amortisation of…

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Licensing of Tobacco Imports. Canberra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 May 1940 · page 15

The Treasurer, Mr. Spender, indleated in the House of [?]tatives to-day that a full statement showing tobacco stocks held in Australia would be issued before any…

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Police Visit To Hotel Inspector Denies Sent Out to Deal with Licensee

Truth · Sunday 26 May 1940 · page 28

INSPECTOR N. D. JAMES, Police Metropolitan Licensing Inspector, admitted to Mr. Farrington. S.M., at North Sydney Court, that an order had been issued by the police for the demolition of the Imperial Hotel (a "free" house), Alfred-street. Milson's Point, and for a modern hotel of…

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Illegal Heating; Publican Fined

The Sun · Tuesday 28 May 1940 · page 6

Bernard Ritchard, publican, was fined £5 with £2 8s costs, by Mr. Oram, S.M., in the Hornsby Court to-day, for having used gas and electricity…

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"Where Is Cutlery?" Hotel Party Story

The Sun · Tuesday 28 May 1940 · page 6

Claims that after a dinner party at the Hotel Plaza he was asked "What have you done with the…

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Damages Against Hotel Licensee

The Sun · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 12

Neville Montague Hermes of Gilderthorpe-avenue, Randwick was today awarded £5 damages against Walter Ross Weekes, licensee of the…

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"No Jurisdiction" Wine License Application

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 3

An application by Reginald John Clark for the removal of his Australian wine license license and his spirit merchant's license from 196a Church-street…

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Hotel's Only Way to Pay Melbourne

The Sun · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 3

There was no chance of the hotel paying its way without after-hours trading, declared the former licensee of a North Carlton hotel, William…

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Used Bootleg Gas; Publican Fined

Daily News · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 6

For having used gas and electricity during prohibited hours on May 17. Bernard Richard, publican, was yesterday fined £5, with £28 costs, at…

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Searched In Hotel Claimed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 5

A man alleged yesterday in the District Court that an attendant at the Plaza Hotel had asked him, "What have you…

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Licensing Wharf Jobs

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 May 1940 · page 7

From Saturday, aliens and naturalised British subjects employed on wharves or ships will have to obtain special…

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Hot Pie Licenses

Liverpool News · Thursday 30 May 1940 · page 2

There were teo more applications to the Liverpool Council on Tuesday night, for permission to sell hot pies, frankfurts and smallgoods in the street of the town…

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