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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

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Hotel Darwin Profit

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 13

First public accounts of Hotel Darwin, Ltd., disclose a profit of £4378 for 10 months to December 31, after providing £560 for taxation, and writing off…

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Publican's Death

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 February 1940 · page 4

Philip John Glover, 61, licensee of the Macquarie Hotel, Wentworth Place, City, collapsed and died yesterday in his wife's mixed goods shop in Botany Road,…

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To Stand Bull Licensing Act in United Kingdom

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 9

THE British Minister for Agriculture and the Secretary of State for Scotland have decided to arrange for the resumption of bull licensing in order…

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Council's Hotel. Lease Recommended. Reform Aldermen at Variance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 11

A division of opinion amongst Reform aldermcn at the City Council finance committee yesterday enabled the Labour Party to carry a…

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Hotel Sydney. Decline in Profit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 6

Hotel Sydney Ltd. reports a fall in the gross profit of £4,260 for 1939. The net profit was £5,858, compared with £8,897 in 1938, the highest, since 1929…

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Hotel Lease Renewed

Daily News · Thursday 29 February 1940 · page 3

The finance committee of the City Council decided yesterday to lease the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, Oxford Street, City, to the present licensee,…

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Carlton Waratah v. Grand Hotel, Wollongong

The St George Call · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 4

The match between the two above teams took place at Wollongong last Sunday and the Grand Hotel landed the “bacon”. C. Pinch, who plays for Glebe…

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Supreme Court. Full Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Sir Frederick Jordan, Mr. Justice Davidson, and Mr. Justice Halse Rosers.) Broken Hill Hotel Licence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 9

The 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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"Picketing" Australia Hotel

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 2 March 1940 · page 3

ALLEGING that women have displaced men in sections of the Australia Hotel (Sydney), New South Wales Council of…

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Lease or Sale Of a City Hotel? Govt. Inquiry Needed

Truth · Sunday 3 March 1940 · page 22

THE feverish interest that aldermen of the Sydney City Council display…

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Hotel Destroyed. Occupants Escape by Rope. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1940 · page 13

Trapped in a burning hotel at Sarina early to-day, the licensee, T. Woodley, his wife, and several boarders, saved themselves by sliding down a rope, hand over hand…

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Rope Descent To Escape Hotel Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 March 1940 · page 1

MACKAY, Sunday.--Cut off from escape in a hotel in Sarina, which was destroyed by fire early today, the licensee, T. Woodley, his wife, and several…

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Council's Hotel. Sale Authorised. Lord Mayor's Casting Vote

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 13

The City Council, on the casting vote of the Lord Mayor, Alderman Crick, authorised, yesterday, the sale by the council of the Sir Walter Raleigh…

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Rescission Move on Hotel Sale

The Sun · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 3

Labor aldermen have submitted a rescission,motion on the City Council decision yesterday to sell the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, Oxford-street,…

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Juggler Dies From Asphyxiation. Fire in Hotel Bedroom. WALCHA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1940 · page 10

William Clifford, 64, known as "Gazzo the Greal Juggler," who for the past five months has been under engagement to Thorpe McConville's Wild Australia Show, was found…

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Move to Stop Hotel Sale

Daily News · Wednesday 6 March 1940 · page 3

Labor aldermen of the City Council yesterday gave notice of a rescission motion against the decision to [?] the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel,…

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Bomb Bursts Outside Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 March 1940 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday.--At 1.50 this morning a bomb exploded against the front of Grosvenor House, the fashionable hotel in Park Lane, West End…

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Knacker's License Petition From Wetherill Park

The Biz · Thursday 7 March 1940 · page 4

Seven residents of Daniel Street, Wethcrill Park, signed a petition, which was forwarded to Fairfield Council on Monday night by C. Travers. The petition…

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Improved Hotels. £4,000,000 Spent in Last Four Years

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 5

More than £4,000,000 has been spent in New South Wales during the last four years on hotel improvements. The Licensing Bench and the Licences…

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Hotels Spend £4,000,000

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 8

In the last four years more than £4,000,000 has been spent on hotel improvements in New South Wales…

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