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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

509 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 26

Council Row Over Hotel

Daily News · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 2

ALLEGATIONS that the Civic Reform Party was attempting to play into the hands of…

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Stole From Hotel

Liverpool News · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 1

While the new licensee of Hotel Mainsbridge was asleep, an intruder stole £7 from his pocket, last Sunday night. Mrs. Laughton woke her husband, but the…

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Knacker's License Wetherill Park Resident Complains

The Biz · Thursday 15 February 1940 · page 3

Mr. H. E. Lucas, of We[?]her[?]ll Park, In a letter to Fa[?]lleld Council, on Monday night, w[?]ote expressing his surprise and dismay that council should have…

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Hotel-trained Model Husbands

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 3

DETROIT, January 31.--A limited supply of completely and expertly trained "model husbands" is now available among the personnel of a national…

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£30,000 PROJECT. Additions to Hotel Cecil

The Observer · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 1

Extensive alterations and additions are to be carried out to the Hotel Cecil, Cronulla, by Messrs. Tooth and Co. Ltd., involving an…

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A City Hotel and Some Puzzled Reform Aldermen Problem They Can't Solve What to Do With the Sir Walter Raleigh?

Truth · Sunday 18 February 1940 · page 27

FOR months now that protector of civilian rectitude, the Civic Reform party, has been struggling frantically with the stupendous problem of properly disposing of one of the…

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Licensing Knot Can Spinster Keep Hotel?

The Sun · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 3

An unmarried woman's right to secure the transfer of a publican's licence provided a problem for the…

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Mount Kosciusko Ceremony. Centenary Tablet. Picturesque Gathering. From Our Special Representative. Hotel Kosciusko

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 13

Standing on the summit of Mount Kosciusko, the Consul-General for Poland, Mr. L. de Noskowski, unveiled yesterday a large bronze tablet to…

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Intruder Caught. Hotelkeeper's Resource. Smart Police Work

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1940 · page 11

The resource of a hotelkeeper this morning enabled police to catch an intruder in a city hotel. Mr. Kdward Hannan, proprietor of the…

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Licensing Banqueried by Spinster

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 8

Can a publican's licence be transferred to an unmarried woman? This question was before the Full…

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Supreme Court. Full Court. Broken Hill Hotel Licence

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

A rule nisi for a writ of mandamus calling upon A. B. Collins. Licensing Magistrate of Broken Hill and C. J. Homan, licensing inspector, to show cause[?] why they should not…

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Liverpool Hotel Tariff Up

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 20 February 1940 · page 2

Soldiers' wives have protested against the increased tariff which has been introduced in a leading Liverpool…

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Dry Ban Pickets Were Thirsty. Beer From "Black" Hotel. Barman's Intervening Leap. Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 14

Barmen in Darwin's leading hotel stopped strike pickets from drinking on the verandah of the hotel to-day, after the building had been declared "black" by the North Australian…

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Illegal Trade Chief Justice On Hotels

The Sun · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 3

"If 90 per cent. of the hotel population is flouting the law, then it is time the law did something about it,"…

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Union Declares Hotel "Black"

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 February 1940 · page 4

DARWIN, Tuesday.--Darwin's leading hotel has been declared "black" by the Australian Workers' Union. This action follows the wage dispute…

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Sale of Hotel. Appeal in Full Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 11

In the Full Court of the Supreme Court yesterday before the Chief Justice, Sir Fredcrick Jordan, Mr Justice Davidson and Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, judgment was reserved…

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Union Ban on Steamer Volunteer Licensed Crew Secured

The Sun · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 17

Following a dispute between a shipping company and the Seamen's Union, an interstate freighter has left Sydney with a volunteer licensed…

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Darwin's Hotels Threatened Strike Off DARWIN

The Sun · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 9

A threate by the North Australian Workers' Union to call out on strike this morning 60 odd employees…

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Demand Equal Pay in Hotel

Daily News · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 2

Replacement of male labor by female labor at lower rates of- pay in Sydney is being investigated by the Council of…

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Hotel Case Appeal

Daily News · Thursday 22 February 1940 · page 3

Whether the sale of an hotel, in which part of the takings were admittedly'quoted as being the proceeds of after-hour trading, made…

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