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Hotels & licensing, 1940

509 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 26

Law Report. High Court. (Before Mr. Justice Starke, Mr. Justice Dixon, and Mr. Justice Evatt.) Sale of Hotel Licence. Neal V Ayres

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 August 1940 · page 5

Alma Phyllis Violette Neal appealed from a majority decision of the State Full Court, which had upheld a decision of Judge McGhic, who had non-suited…

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Ourimbah to Lose Its Hotel Gosford

The Sun · Thursday 8 August 1940 · page 13

By a decision of Judge Nield in the District Court of Appeal to-day. Ourimbah, eight miles north of Gosford, on the main Sydney-Newcastle…

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Menzies' Hotel Reduces Ordinary Dividend

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 August 1940 · page 17

Menzies Hotel, Ltd., has declared a dividend of one per cent. on ordinary shares and 7 per cent. on preference capital for the year ended June 30, 1940…

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Ourimbah Loses Its Hotel. Transfer to The Entrance. GOSFORD

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 August 1940 · page 8

In law, members of the public in an area in which an application is made to the Licensing Court for the removal of a liquor license to another centre in the same…

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Hotels "In Bounds" To Troops On March Move by "Drys" Failure

The Sun · Sunday 11 August 1940 · page 5

Aroused by the reported imminence of wet canteens, temperance forces made an unsuccessful last-minute…

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Hotel man back in "God's own land"

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 August 1940 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Saturday. -- After 24 years, "Doc" Edwards, known to thousands of Diggers as proprietor of an hotel at Amiens, France, has…

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Murder Charge After Brawl in Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 August 1940 · page 2

ALBURY, Saturday. -- A man was charged today with having murdered Lionel Townsend on April 28. Townsend was assaulted in an hotel…

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Federal Hotels Clears Pref. Dividend Arrears

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 13 August 1940 · page 10

Federal Hotels, Ltd., reports a profit of £5045 for the year to June 30. contrasting with £3781 for 1938-39. Dividend for the year was 8 per cent, on the 6 per cent…

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Federal Hotels Ltd. Revenue Highest for 13 Years

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 August 1940 · page 7

Profit of £5,054 for the year ended June 30 is shown by Federal Hotels. Ltd., compared with £3,781 in 1938-39. Dividend of 6 per cent, on preference…

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Show Decision to Hit Hotels

The Sun · Wednesday 14 August 1940 · page 2

In view of the serious effect that cancellation of the 1941 Royal Show will have on residential hotels, the Residential Hotels Association has…

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Hospitality Abounds at Longreach Hotel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 30

Welcome Home Hotel—the very name symbolises hospitality of the warmest kind. And proprietress Ivy Pennington adds to this an assurance that her establishment…

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Cancellation of Show. Hotelkeepers Protest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 9

The chairman of the Residential Hotels Association, Mr. A. H. Fox, said last night Shut the association was protesting strongly to the Commonwealth Government against…

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Hunger Riots Break Out in France: Hotels Barricaded London, Wednesday (A.A.P.)

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 2

Riots have broken out in many parts of unoccupied France. Hotels in some of the districts have been barricaded with A.R.P. materials…

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Hotels Want Show Held

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 7

The Residential Hotels Association decided yesterday to protest to the Federal Government against the Royal Agricultural Society's decision to…

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Rent loss on hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 August 1940 · page 5

"The City Council is losing £3328 a year rent on the Markets Hotel, Quay Street and Ultimo Road, City, which is…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 3

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday the following transfers of hotel licences were granted:—Belvedere Hotel, Bathurst and Kent Streets, from Samuel…

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Hotel Metropole Ltd. "Serious Blow if No Easter Show"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 5

The abandonment of the Royal Baster Show next year would be a serious blow to hotel businesses in Sydney, and to business Kenerully. said the chairman of…

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Hotel Explosion in Canada. Windsor (Ontario), Aug 19 (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 8

The police are investigating an explosion in the basement of the 10-storey Norton Palmer Hotel. One person was killed and 14 were injured…

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One Dead, 14 Hurt in Hotel Explosion

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 3

OTTAWA, Monday (A.A.P.).--An explosion in the basement of the 10-storey Norton Palmer Hotel, Windsor (Ontario), Canada, killed one person…

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Higher Costs And Less Trade For Hotel Metropole

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 10

"During the past year costs have increased and the volume of business has contracted." said the chairman of the Hotel Metropole. Ltd. (Mr. O. W. Evan), at the annual meeting…

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