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Hotels & licensing, 1941

778 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 39

£140 Stolen From Hotel Bar

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 March 1941 · page 5

About £140 was stolen from the Rose of Australia Hotel at the corner of George and Swanson Streets, Newtown, early yesterday morning…

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Theft of £140 From Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 6

Aubrey George E[?]rton, manager of the Rose of Australia Hotel, Erskineville, has reported to the police that a canvas bag containing £140 in notes and silver was…

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Ex-publican Shoots Himself Brisbane

The Sun · Monday 24 March 1941 · page 3

The loss of £2000 through a fire which destroyed an hotel in Ipswich, of which he was licensee, 18 months ago, is thought to have been the…

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Hotel Darwin's Profitable Year

The Sun · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 13

Hotel Darwin, Ltd., after providing £2250 for taxation and £180 for bad debts, shows net profit of £5500 for the year ended December 31 last. This compares with…

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Profitable First Year for Darwin Hotel Cos

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 14

After providing £2250 for taxation and £180 for bad debts, Hotel Darwin, Ltd., earned a net profit of £5500 for the year ended December 31, 1940…

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Fined for Throwing Beer at Publican

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 25 March 1941 · page 9

For having thrown a glass of beer at a North Sydney publican, Edward William Chambers, 38, laborer, was fined £3 at North Sydney Court…

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Sold Adulterated Rum. Publican Fined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 6

Norbert Joseph Ferris, licensee of the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, was fined[?] £3 and 14/6 costs, in the Central Summons Court yesterday, for having sold…

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On Hotel Step Not in Street

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 26 March 1941 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Prahran Court held today that a man standing on the bottom step of an hotel porch with one foot on the footpath was not…

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Licensing Changes Opposed. Baptist Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 March 1941 · page 3

The half-yearly assembly of the Baptist Church yesterday carried a motion "viewing with alarm the inroads being made by the liquor trade on our community,"…

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Hotel awarda what are the award rates

The Land · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 31

"X.Y.Z.": What are the awara rates for girls working at an hotel as waitrasses. house-maids, etc., with and without hoard?…

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Sneak Thief in Hotel Bedroom. £250 Robbery from Guests

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 10

Jewellery valued at £225, and £25 in money were stolen early yesterday morning from the room of Mr and Mrs. C. W. Morris, guests at the Watson's Bay Hotel…

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Jewellery, Money Stolen At Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 7

Jewellery valued at £120, and £25 in money, which had been hidden in a dressing-gown pocket at the Watson's Bay Hotel, were stolen early yesterday…

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Even Lemonade Banned Now [Broken Hill Beer War Enters New Stage As Publicans Who Moved Black Beer Must Now Fetch Own Groceries]

The Sun · Sunday 30 March 1941 · page 9

Broken Hill publicans who last week defied the union ban by driving beer supplies from the railway depot in their cars, must now fetch their own groceries,…

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Many hotels do not color beer drips

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 30 March 1941 · page 5

Of 20 metropolitan hotels visited by a Sunday Telegraph representative yesterday afternoon seven had no "visible evidence" of methyl violet in the drip trays…

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"Clearing Time" in Hotels

The Sun · Monday 31 March 1941 · page 3

The liquor laws should be amended to allow publicans a reasonable "clearing time" to get customers out of the…

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Wine in the Hotel. Overcoming a Prejudice. Industry Advertising. by a Country Publican

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 April 1941 · page 8

In the discussion of the plight of the wine industry little mention has been made of the retailer—the hotel-keeper, who should be throwing every…

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Investor's Diary. Usher's Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 April 1941 · page 5

Although provision had been made for the greatly increased rates of taxation, a part recovery in profits was revealed in the…

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'Bung' and Hotel Licensing

The Sun · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 5

It would he conducting the case under "hung rules" if certain grounds of objection to a publican's licence…

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Wentworth Hotel To Pay Half-yearly Dividends

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 April 1941 · page 9

Directors of the Wentworth Hotel, Ltd., have decided to pay half-yearly dividends as profits permit. Trading results during the half-year…

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Fight Over Hotel Licence

Truth · Sunday 6 April 1941 · page 32

THE Crown Solicitor and a dozen policemen objected last week to Ernest James Coyle getting the licence of the…

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