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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

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Presentation to Queen Pleasant Function at the Carlton Hotel

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 12 December 1940 · page 8

The Queen cadidates of last year's J.N.F. ball who made such a splendid effort in raising funds for the Jewish National Home were recently entertained…

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Girl's Night In Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 December 1940 · page 12

Joan Shirley Reid, 14, of McNamara Road, Concord, told the Quarter Sessions yesterday that she had stayed a night in…

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Tasks for Cabinet. Police, Hotel Hours. Liquor Vote Possible

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 December 1940 · page 10

Police administration and liquor trading hours urgently require investigation by the State Cabinet, in the opinion of many Ministerial…

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"Thousands Want To Book At Mac's Hotel"

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 December 1940 · page 9

Michael Nejaim, assistant manager of Mac's Hotel, Pitt Street, told the Police Appeals Board yesterday that since the Caesar divorce case "thousands and thousands have called at the hotel wanting to…

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Boxers' Seconds Stadium to License Them. Sequel to Brawl

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 December 1940 · page 14

Mr. H. Miller, the manager of Stadiums, Ltd., said yesterday that the directors of the company would take strong action to control boxers'…

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Trautwein Deals in Hotels

The Sun · Wednesday 18 December 1940 · page 8

The Coogee Bay Hotel paid Theodore Charles Trautwein a special bonus of £7700 on his…

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Xmas Scope for Hotels Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 19 December 1940 · page 3

Hotel proprietors in Melbourne are to be permitted to serve liquor with meals till 1 a.m. on Christmas Day and on New Year's morning,…

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Darwin Meningitis Theatre, Hotels Closed Darwin

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 December 1940 · page 2

Determined attempts are being made in Darwin to prevent the spread of a meningitis outbreak…

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12,000 Workers Ban Beer Pickets Guard Hotels on South Coast Wollongong

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 20 December 1940 · page 5

From midnight tonight 12,000 South Coast trade unionists will go on a beer strike until hotels reduce prices. The decision was made by a special sub-committee…

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Wives As Pickets at Hotels

The Sun · Saturday 21 December 1940 · page 3

Miners' wives to-day are picketing South Coast hotels, and woe betide any unionist who is sufficiently thirsty to…

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Death Follows Hotel Quarrel Perth

The Sun · Saturday 21 December 1940 · page 3

Police are investigating the death of Arthur Joseph Tilbrook, 53, sleepercutter, who was found dead early today outside the Mt. Helena Hotel, at…

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Nock and Kirby's Amazing Circular to Hotels Startling Attempt to Exploit Public

Truth · Sunday 22 December 1940 · page 1

THIS IS A TIME of grave national crisis. The nation as a whole realises it. Again and again Australians have been exhorted to make sacrifices; to bear heavier burdens as a contribution to Australia's war effort. They have responded magnificently…

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On Drink No late hotel hours on holiday eves

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 22 December 1940 · page 6

Sydney hotels are not likely to be allowed extended trading hours on Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve. The Minister of Justice (Mr…

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Hotel Sydney Higher Dividend

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 December 1940 · page 5

An increased final dividend of 3 per cent, makes the dividend of Hotel Sydney, Ltd., 5 per cent, for the year. This compares with 4½ per cent, last year, for…

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U.S.A. May License Imports. Washington, Dec. 23. (A.A.P.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 December 1940 · page 6

Officials in Washington are reported to be discussing the question of a rigid licence control system for imports, which mainly would be directed against Japan…

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Carlton Hotel. Benefit from Alterations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 December 1940 · page 3

Mr. Norman B. Rydge, chairman of Carlton Hotel, Ltd., said at the annual meeting yesterday that certain structural alterations at present in progress at…

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Carlton Hotel Prospects

The Sun · Tuesday 24 December 1940 · page 7

Substantial Increase in the company's profit from £ 10.004 to £13.275 during the past year, said the chairman of Carlton Hotel, Ltd. (Mr. N. B. Rydge), at the annual…

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Order to Enforce Licensing Hours Rouses Criticism

The Sun · Tuesday 24 December 1940 · page 5

Stricter enforcement of the closing hours of hotels will begin immediately, said the Minister of Justice (Mr. Treatt) to-day. Fear that this move to tighten- up the liquor laws…

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Carlton Hotel Alterations

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 24 December 1940 · page 9

Structural alterations now in progress should yield even a greater return in the current year, the chairman of Carlton Hotel, Ltd., (Mr. N. B. Rydge) told…

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An Old-Time Hotel Menu Kangaroo Soup

Nepean Times · Thursday 26 December 1940 · page 1

Looking through an old file of "The Sydney Morning Herald," we struck the following advertisement (states "Wingham Chronicle"). The paper…

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