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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

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Publican on Murder Charge

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 March 1940 · page 6

Heavily bandaged about the face and head William Griffith, 38, hotelkeeper, appeared on a charge of murder at the Central Police Court yesterday…

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Ex-Australian Boxing Champion Cannot Run a Sydney Hotel Gornik Refused License

Truth · Sunday 17 March 1940 · page 25

MAX GORNIK, former heavyweight champion of Australia, and for years idol of Queensland's sporting…

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Was Barmaid Driving the Car? Glebe Hotel-man Fined

Truth · Sunday 17 March 1940 · page 33

BEFORE Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M., at the Scone Police Court on Wednesday the story was told of how a hotelkeeper,…

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Hotel-Man and Wife In Legal Battle Alimony Application

Truth · Sunday 17 March 1940 · page 33

BEAUTIFULLY dressed, attractive young Mrs. Kathleen Priscilla Pearce was seeking alimony pendente lite from Pearce; a claim that, always intriguing, finished up in…

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Licensing Clubs for "Happiness"

The Sun · Sunday 17 March 1940 · page 2

Police cannot hope to control "happiness" or "introduction" clubs, unless the Government passes laws…

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Council Will Sell Hotel

Daily News · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 2

The City Council will adhere toll its decision, to sell the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, Oxford Street, to Mr. P. B. Wilson for £35,150…

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Food Exports to Britain. Licensing System. Details Explained. CANBERRA

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 12

Details of the general order being made by the British Board of Trade to prohibit the importation into England of foodstuffs except under licence (a…

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Publican Jailed for Blasphemy

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 8

LONDON, February 23.--Sentence of one month's imprisonment without hard labor for having published a blasphemous libel--an impious representation of…

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THE New 'Smith's' Artists' License

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 March 1940 · page 12

SIR,--For about 20 years I have been a subscriber to "Smith's." Over the years, all types of fences have been illustrated, usually in your "Dad and Dave" skits, but Jim Russell…

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London's Week Smart Hotel Filled With Diplomats

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 March 1940 · page 7

Since Lord and Lady Halifax moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel, many other politico-socialites who've given…

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Woman Fatally Shot in Hotel Mullumbimby

The Sun · Tuesday 26 March 1940 · page 7

Mrs. Thelma Constance O'Dwyer, 27, of Brisbane, was found shot in the head in a bedroom at the Ocean View Hotel, Brunswick Heads, last…

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Hotel Fracas Man's Skull Fractured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 1

In a disturbance at the Vauxhall Inn. Granville, on Saturday, Arthur Aubrey Johnson, of Railway-street, Granville, suffered a probable fracture of the skull…

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Fatal Fight at a Hotel Perth

The Sun · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 12

Allegedly hit on the head with a beer pot an Italian. Luigi Gianoncelli, died in the Southern Cross Hospital, last night…

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Shocking Filth in Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 12

The filthy condition of a city hotel was described in the Central Summons Court to-day…

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Woman Shot In Hotel

Daily News · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 3

MULLUMBIMBY, Tuesday.--Mrs. Thelma Constance O'Dwyer, 27, of Brisbane, was found with a wound in the head in her bedroom at Ocean View…

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Licensee Fined £10 For Dirty Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 8

"It sounds like a place where people might contract a disease," said Mr. Mahoney, S.M., yesterday at the conclusion of a Central Court summons case…

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Usher's Hotel Pays 2½ p.c. INTERIM

The Sun · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 38

Reporting for the six months ended February 29, 1940. the directors of Usher's Metropolitan Hotel, Ltd., state that extensive alterations made…

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£10 Fine for Dirty Hotel

Daily News · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 3

Slime half-an-inch thick and giving off a foul odor in the Kent Hotel, Goulburn and Pitt Streets, was described yesterday in Central Summons Court…

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Publican Sued by Employees

Daily News · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 5

He had received no payment for 430 hours' overtime, worked in six months, and had been obliged to sign a blank wages book, Nicholas Stoitis claimed in…

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Usher's Hotel Pays Interim 2½ p.c. On Ords

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 18

Usher's Hotel, Ltd., has declared an interim dividend of 2½ per cent. on ordinary shares for the half-year ended February 29, 1940…

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