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Hotels & licensing, 1942

1,131 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 57

Hotels Not To Blame Alone

The Sun · Sunday 2 August 1942 · page 2

"Anyone looking for trouble at night can find it, but it's not fair to blame only drink and the hotels," Mr. H. Connolly…

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He Finds Water At City Hotel

The Sun · Sunday 2 August 1942 · page 3

120 feet above the city, on the roof of the Hotel Australia, Mr. W. G. Hutchins, divining water running east to west under the hotel. Already he has divined water…

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State Hotel Control Urged by Bishop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 4

GOULBURN, Sunday.—If the State Government wanted, to practise the socialistic faith it professed, why not start with…

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Australia Hotel Dividends Maintained

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 12

AFTER allowing an additional £3000 for taxation, at £25,000, and an unchanged £10,000 for depreciation, Australia Hotel Co. Ltd. reports a net profit of £37,007 for…

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Money and Markets Australia Hotel Dividends Maintained

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 12

AFTER allowing an additional £3000 for taxation, at £25,000, and an unchanged £10,000 for depreciation, Australia Hotel Co. Ltd. reports a net profit of £37,007 for…

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Money and Markets Australia Hotel Dividends Maintained

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 12

AFTER allowing an additional £3000 for A taxation, at £25,000, and an unchanged £ 10,000 for depreciation, Australia Hotel Co. Ltd. reports a net profit of £37,007 for…

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Money and Markets Australia Hotel Dividends Maintained

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 12

AFTER allowing an additional £3000 for taxation, at £25,000, and an unchanged £10,000 for depreciation, Australia Hotel Co. Ltd. reports a net profit of £37,007 for…

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Money and Market Australia Hotel Dividends Maintained

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 August 1942 · page 12

AFTER allowing an additional £3000 for taxation, at £25,000, and a unchanged £10,000 for depreciation, Australia Hotel Co. Ltd. reports a net profit of £37,007 for…

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Soldiers and Women in Adelaide Hotels

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Picked squads of plainclothes police have been raiding hotel bedrooms throughout the metropolitan area in the early…

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Soldiers and Women in Adelaide Hotels

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 August 1942 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Picked squads of plainclothes police have been raiding hotel bedrooms throughout the metropolitan area in the early…

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Hotel Profit Metropole's Fall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 4

Hotel Metropole, Ltd., shows net profit of £15,939 for the year ended June 30, compared with £20,738 for 1940-41…

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Menzies Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 4

Menzies Hotel, Ltd., has declared an ordinary dividend of 1 per cent. No ordinary dividend was paid last year, but 1 per cent. was distributed for 1939-40. Preference…

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Ban on Girls Under 21 Entering Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Girls under 21 have been banned from hotels in South Australia unless they have lawful excuse. This is one of several new…

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Hotel Metropole Ltd Higher Tax Reduces Net

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 12

COSTS and taxation increased steeply fo the Hotel Metropole in the year to June 30. Net earnings before taxation [?] by £2699 to £26.440…

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Licensee Fined Liquor Not True To Label

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 August 1942 · page 3

William O'Neill, licensee of the Union Hotel, Lang Street, Newtown, at the Newtown Police Court today was fined…

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Escapee Taken in Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 5

Norman William Wilson, 40, soldier, on remand on a charge of stealing, who escaped from custody last Monday morning, was re-arrested in the lounge…

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Can't Meet Its Payments, Says City Hotel Firm

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 5

Wintersloe Investments Pty. Ltd., purchasers of the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, Oxford Street, City have told the Finance…

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Can't Meet Its Payments, Says City Hotel Firm

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 4

Wintersloe Investments Pty. Ltd., purchasers of the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, Oxford Street, City, have told the Finance…

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Can't Meet Its Payments, Says City Hotel Firm

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 5

Wintersloe Investments Pty. Ltd., purchasers of the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, Oxford Street; City, have told the Finance…

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Can't Meet Its Payments, Says City Hotel Firm

Daily Mirror · Thursday 6 August 1942 · page 5

Wintersloe Investments Pty. Ltd., purchasers of the Sir Walter Raleigh Hotel, Oxford Street, City, have told the Finance…

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