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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

509 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 26

Queensland Hotels Must Close 8 p.m. BRISBANE

The Sun · Sunday 20 October 1940 · page 6

From to-morrow, Queensland liquor laws, requiring closing of hotels at 8 p.m., will be enforced to the letter…

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Hotel hold-up in air-raid

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 October 1940 · page 1

LONDON, Saturday. -- While German planes droned overhead and bombs were falling, three men held up and shot…

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Investor's Diary. Australia Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 October 1940 · page 7

The profit of £35,080 disclosed in the accounts of the Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., for the year ended June 30, 1940, after providing…

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Historic Hotel Now Social Club

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 October 1940 · page 4

NEW YORK, October 1. -- The Steamboat Hotel, Burlington, New Jersey, built in 1744, and bombarded by the British in 1778, has ended its career as a…

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Vice-regal Hotel on Fire Wellington (N.z.)

The Sun · Tuesday 22 October 1940 · page 4

Three separate fires broke out early to-day in a Nelson hotel at which the Governor-General (Lord Galway) was staying with a Vice-Regal…

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Hotel Set on Fire. N.Z. Governor-General Was a Guest. AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 October 1940 · page 11

Three incendiary fires were discovered in the Hotel Nelson at Nelson, where the Governor-General, Lord Galway, and Lady Galway were…

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Wentworth Hotel. Less N.Z. Tourist Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 October 1940 · page 9

Sir Norman Nock, chairman of Wentworth Hotel, Ltd., said at the annual meeting yesterday that the profit for the year could be considered satisfactory in view of the adverse trading…

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Wentworth Hotel's N.z. Trade Reduced

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 23 October 1940 · page 11

In view of a reduction in the hotel's New Zealand clientele, which had contributed materially in the past to the company's income, the past year's…

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Licensing of Potato Growers

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 October 1940 · page 6

In a statement recently issued by the Minister for Agriculture (Hon A. D. Reid, M.L.A.) potate grower's were reminded that persons who since…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 October 1940 · page 3

The Chief Licensing Magistrate, Mr. Laidlaw, yesterday granted the following transfers of hotel licences:—Willoughby Hotel, corner Penshurst and McMahon…

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Supreme Court. Causes in No. 2 COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Bavin and a jury.) Hotelkeeper Awarded £966

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 October 1940 · page 3

W. E. Mofflin, licensee of the Tourist Hotel, Port Macquaire, who sued James William Riddett, the former licensee, was awarded £966/18/6 damages…

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"At the Haunted Hotel." Sans Souci Amateurs' Play

The Propeller · Thursday 24 October 1940 · page 3

Many laughs and thrills were experienced by the large audience which attended St. Andrew's parish hall, Sans Souci, on October 17th and 19th,…

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More Riots in Brisbane. Hotel Closing Resented. 18 Soldiers Arrested. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 October 1940 · page 11

Five hundred military pickets an[?] all available police were rushed, to Queen and Adelaide Streets to-night to quell more demonstrations by…

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Hotel Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 October 1940 · page 4

Transfers of hotel licences were granted yesterday by the Metropolitan Licensing Court as follows:—Gilbert McI. Gillespie, to Louis Ferran, Warren View…

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Soldiers Again Demonstrate. Brisbane Hotel Hours. Disturbances Soon Quelled. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 October 1940 · page 10

For the third successive night, soldiers demonstrated in the city to-night against the Governments enforcement of the liquor laws, but a strong body…

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Hotel Damage

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1940 · page 6

After knocking at the door of a Parramatta hotel after closing-time on October 24, William Francis O'Connor (39) kicked he door, damaging the…

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Affairs of T. C. TRAUTWEIN. Hotel at Penrith. Woman's Evidence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 October 1940 · page 7

The name of Mrs. K. J. E. Trautwein, J.P., wife of Theodore Charles Trautwein, bankrupt hotelkeeper and former M.L.C., figured…

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Trautwein Case. Licensee of Hotel at Penrith

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 October 1940 · page 3

Mrs. Agnes May Morrison, who gave evidence in the Bankruptcy Court about the affairs of Theodore Charles Trautwein, has been described as a former…

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Tatt's Hotel Evidence in Trautwein Case Trouble About Licence

Nepean Times · Thursday 31 October 1940 · page 1

EVIDENCE relative to trouble over the running of Tattersail's Hotel, Penrith, was given in the Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday…

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Licensed Agents Proposed Restriction of Numbers

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 31 October 1940 · page 9

WITH the object of eliminating unsatisfactory features which developed last season as a result of having numerous receiving agents…

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