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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1941

778 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 39

M.p's. Said to Have Bashed Publican

Truth · Sunday 6 April 1941 · page 19

ALLEGATIONS that he had been knocked down and kicked unmercifully by two military policemen, in his own saloon bar, were made at Central Police Court last week by John Vincent Gallagher, licensee of the…

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Wentworth Hotel Raises Div. Rate

The Sun · Monday 7 April 1941 · page 11

Having decided to pay dividends in future half-yearly instead of annually, as profits permit, the directors of Wentworth Hotel, Ltd.. have declared an Interim dividend for…

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Hotel Is Under Police Eye

The Sun · Monday 7 April 1941 · page 5

A majority of the Licensing Bench to-day granted a transfer of the licence of the Westminster Hotel from…

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Surplus" Hotels in Some Suburbs Liquor Act Anomalies. Sergeant's Evidence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 12

The provisions of the Liquor Act made it impossible to build high-class residential hotels in places where they were wanted, but it created a surplus of hotels in industrial…

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Interim Dividend for Wentworth Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 7

Directors of Wentworth Hotel, Ltd., announce an interim dividend of 3 per cent for the half-year Previously dividends were paid yearly, that for last year…

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Reshuffling Hotel Licences

The Sun · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 3

The State Government will, if returned at the State elections, amend the Liquor Act to make the system of transferring licences more…

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Wentworth Hotel Raises Dividend

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 16

Wentworth Hotel Ltd. has declared an interim dividend of 3 per cent. for the half-year ended December 31. For the year ended June 30, 1940, a…

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Law Blamed For Misplaced Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 April 1941 · page 9

The Liquor Act prevented the proper distribution of hotels, Sergeant Young, of No. 7 Police Station, admitted in the Licensing Court yesterday to Mr…

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The Seamen and Our Debt to Them. Rev. Father D. Kelly Tells of Our Obligations. Interesting Function at the Carlton Hotel, Sydney

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 11

"It is not charity but our obligation to look after the spiritual and material comforts of the seamen when they are ashore," was…

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Hotel

The Sydney Jewish News · Thursday 10 April 1941 · page 2

“The Board, animated by the sole desire to save children, has at last decided to carry into effect the establishment of a Hostel. This venture is meant…

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Survey of Uneven Hotel Distribution

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 April 1941 · page 5

Two Sydney Council areas--Balmain and Redfern--have a total of 60 hotels; two others--Strathfield and Ermington-Rydalmere--have none. This is revealed by a survey of…

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Soldiers Refuse To Go From Hotel

The Sun · Sunday 13 April 1941 · page 7

More than 60 soldiers refused police orders to leave a hotel in Cowra at 6.20 p.m. yesterday. Eight Cowra police had been…

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Uneven Hotel Spread Inquiry

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 14 April 1941 · page 4

The uneven distribution of hotels in New South Wales is being investigated by the Minister of Justice (Mr. Treatt)…

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Hotel Safe Stolen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 April 1941 · page 11

Thieves entered the Court House Hotel, Wellington, through a servery window, early yesterday morning, and stole a small safe, containing £3[?]/10/. Police believe that a…

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Photographers in Streets. Licensing Plan. Figures for City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 April 1941 · page 6

The City Council will shortly consider proposals for the licensing of street photographers and also a request from the Professional…

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Thieves Take Hotel Safe with £39

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 April 1941 · page 2

Thieves climbed through a window of the Court House Hotel, Wellington, on Sunday night and stole a safe containing £39…

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Hotel Issue in Elections

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 April 1941 · page 9

Some hotelkeepers favor making an election issue of hotel licences and trading hours…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 April 1941 · page 3

The following applications for transfer of publicans' licences were granted by the Licensing Court yesterday:— Benjamin Walter Cary, Friend-in-Hand…

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Wentworth Hotel Makes Another Grade

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 19 April 1941 · page 9

LAST week's increase from 5 to 6 per cent, per annum in Wentworth Hotel's interim dividend, means the company has…

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News rooms in hotels during air-raids

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 April 1941 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday. -- Australian news agencies had to work from hotel bedrooms during Wednesday night's mass air-raid on London. When the bombing was at…

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