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Hotels & licensing, 1942

1,131 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 57

Bowral Butcher Boy Denies Adultery With Wife Of Hotelkeeper

Truth · Sunday 24 May 1942 · page 28

OMAR KHAYYAM once wrote: "I wonder what the vintner buys one half as precious as he sells." If the Persian sage had been able to listen in on a Sydney divorce action last week, he might well…

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Hotels still overcharging for beer Sunday Telegraph special investigation shows

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 May 1942 · page 7

Prices approved by the Prices Commissioner on December 4, 1941, for liquor in Sydney and…

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Beer Drought in City Licensees' Fears

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 May 1942 · page 7

By the end of this week many Sydney hotels will be without beer, the president of the N.S.W. branch of the United Licensed…

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Wedding Hotels Popular

The Sun · Monday 25 May 1942 · page 3

Every tourist resort has its "honeymoon hotel" because so many servicemen are marrying on…

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Hotelkeeper Given Divorce

The Sun · Tuesday 26 May 1942 · page 3

After a hearing lasting seven days, Norman James Smirl, AJC bookmaker and licensee of the Albert View Hotel…

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Hotels Threatening War On Breweries

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 May 1942 · page 2

Small hotel keepers are about to declare war on the breweries, as they claim the monopoly is crushing them out of business, while their beer sales have been cut by nearly half-- and with it, their profits-- the hotel rents remain the same…

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Wider Hotel Hours Urged By Clergyman

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 May 1942 · page 2

As a solution to the controversy over the selling hours of liquor, Rev. C. M. Churchward, of Beecroft, suggests that for…

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Wider Hotel Hours Urged By Clerayman

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 26 May 1942 · page 2

As a solution to the controversy over the selling hours of liquor, Rev. C. M. Churchward, of Beecroft, suggests that for…

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Intemperance in Part of Army Bishop Blames Some Hotelkeepers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 May 1942 · page 6

A section of the public concerned with the sale of liquor was chiefly to blame for intemperance among a minority in…

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Divorce for Hotelkeeper

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 May 1942 · page 6

Norman James Smirl, 48, bookmaker and licensee of the Albert View Hotel, Redfern, was granted a divorce from Gladys Ida Smirl, 39, in the Divorce…

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Hotel Hours Sanders Talks Of Alleged Govt. Promise

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 May 1942 · page 5

A suggestion that the Premier (Mr. McKell) had given hotelkeepers a promise before the last elections that they…

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Hotel Hours Sanders Talks Of Alleged Govt. Promise

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 May 1942 · page 5

A suggestion that the Premier (Mr. McKell) had given hotelkeepers a promise before the last elections that they…

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Stop Press Petrol Licenses

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 May 1942 · page 12

CANBERRA, Wedneday --Petrol licenses in the business and industrial classes are to be reviewed, the Minister for supply…

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Stop Press Petrol Licenses

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 27 May 1942 · page 12

CANBERRA, Wednesday--Petrol licenses in the business and industrial classes are to be reviewed,the Minister for Supply (Mr…

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"Army Should Take Over Hotels Before Schools" Archbishop Mannix Warns of Danger To Lives of Children

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 28 May 1942 · page 5

Catholic boarding schools and other educational institutions should be the last to be taken over by the Government for military purposes, said his Grace the Archbishop of Melbourne (Most Rev. Dr. Mannix)…

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Hotel Darwin Profit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 May 1942 · page 3

Hotel Darwin, Ltd., earned a profit of £3,654 for the year ended Decem[?]er 3[?] Provision for taxation for 1941, plus additional taxation for 1940 is £8,151. The balance…

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Staggered Hotel Hours Are Likely

The Sun · Thursday 28 May 1942 · page 3

Staggering of hotel trading hours in New South Wales to enable munition workers to obtain a drink will be considered by State Cabinet next Monday. It is considered probable that Cabinet…

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Hotel Hours for Cabinet Review

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 May 1942 · page 2

It was announced today that State Cabinet would deal with a proposal for the staggering of hotel hours, at a meeting on…

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Hotel Hours for Cabinet Review

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 May 1942 · page 6

It was announced today that State Cabinet would deal with a proposal for the staggering of hotel hours, at a meeting on…

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Hotel Hours for Cabinet Review

Daily Mirror · Thursday 28 May 1942 · page 6

It was announced today that State Cabinet would deal with a proposal for the staggering of hotel hours, at a meeting on…

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