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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1941

778 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 39

Memos From the Finance Editor S.T. HARGRAVES Hotel Metropole

Daily Mirror · Friday 20 June 1941 · page 22

Rising costs, heavier taxation, and some curtailment of public spending on luxuries are expected to take toll of hotel profits in the current…

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COST £10 a Week to Police Hotel. Licence Renewal Refused

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 June 1941 · page 15

Permission for Herbert Lanceiot Robinson to continue as licensee of the White Horse Hotel, corner of Sussex and Goulburn Streets, city, was refused by the Licensing Board…

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City Publican To Lose Licence Because of After Hours

Truth · Sunday 22 June 1941 · page 14

Unless he can win his appeal, Lance Robinson, who, for half a lifetime, has pulled pints in the White Horse pub, next door to the Sydney Trades Hall, will have to seek a new vocation…

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City Hotel Man Sued for Divorce Wife Tells of Other Woman and Baby

Truth · Sunday 22 June 1941 · page 12

ACCIDENTS will happen in the best of regulated families. Take the Cullens, late of the Niagara Cafe, Cessnock, for instance. In 1931 Mrs. Jesse Cullen, an attractive matron of 35, was injured in a…

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Guests Hurt In Hotel Explosion AUCKLAND

The Sun · Sunday 22 June 1941 · page 5

A terrific explosion wrecked the dining-room and kitchen at the Empire Hotel, Waluta. A high-pressure boiler, used for…

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Fined for Giving Ship Movements Conviction Of Hotel Man First of Kind in State

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 June 1941 · page 4

Stated in evidence to have divulged the movements of a ship to a constable and a civilian, Thomas Leitch, of Bennett…

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Fined for Giving Ship Movements Conviction Of Hotel Man First of Kind in State

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 June 1941 · page 4

Stated in evidence to have divulged the movements of a ship to a constable and a civilian, Thomas Leitch, of Bennett…

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Fined for Giving Ship Movements Conviction Of Hotel Man First of Kind Instate

Daily Mirror · Monday 23 June 1941 · page 4

Stated in evidence to have divulged the movements of a ship to a constable and a civilian. Thomas Leitch, of Bennett…

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Gossip About Ships. Hotel Director Fined £110. Woman Bound Over

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 June 1941 · page 11

Fines totalling £110 were imposed on Thomas Leitch, of Bennett Street, Neutral Bay, woolbuyer and managing director of the Naval Lodge Hotel,…

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Dirty Hotel Staff Rooms

The Sun · Tuesday 24 June 1941 · page 3

Convictions for failure to provide hotel staff quarters of a proper standard should count as a mark against the licensee as in certain…

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Vermin In Hotel Restrooms

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1941 · page 5

Infested with bugs and other vermin and situated below the street level, staff dressing and restrooms in…

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Union Alleges Hotel Staff Rest Rooms Are Infested with Vermin

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1941 · page 11

"INFESTED with bugs and other vermin and situated below the street level, staff dressing and rest rooms in numerous Sydney hotels are known among members of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees' Union as 'black holes of…

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Union Alleges Hotel Staff Rest Rooms Are Infested with Vermin

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1941 · page 11

"INFESTED with bugs and other vermin and situated below the street level, staff dressing and rest rooms in numerous Sydney hotels are known among members of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees' Union as 'black holes of…

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Union Alleges Hotel Staff Rest Rooms Are Infested with Vermin

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1941 · page 11

"INFESTED with bugs and other vermin and situated below the street level, staff dressing and rest rooms in numerous Sydney hotels are known among members of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees' Union as 'black holes of…

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Vermin In Hotel Restrooms

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1941 · page 5

"Infested with bugs and other vermin and situated below the street level, staff dressing and rest rooms in…

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Vermin In Hotel Restrooms

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 24 June 1941 · page 5

Infested with bugs and other vermin and situated below the street level, staff dressing and restrooms in…

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Hotelkeepers' Effort for Queen

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 1

A golf carnival held at Carnarvon Golf Links by the hotelkeepers of Parramatta and district and the U.L.V.A. last week raised £108/16/5 for the…

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Non-eligible Growers. Wheat Stabilisation Difficulties. Licensing Delays

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 8

Admitting that the problems, both economic and administrative, which confront the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Board are difficult…

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Hospital Objects to Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 3

Members of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Board unsuccessfully opposed in the Licensing Court to-day…

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Objection to Hotel Noise

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 25 June 1941 · page 5

Noises coming from the Prince Alfred Hotel, Missenden Road, Camperdown, had frequently interrupted his work, the…

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