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Hotels & licensing, 1942

1,131 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 57

Explosion Rocks Bankstown Hotel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 August 1942 · page 3

Windows were shattered, files were lifted from the floor, and air-venfs were blown out when a plug of gelignite exploded in a toilet room at the Hotel Banksfown, corner of North Terrace and Chapel Road,…

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Explosion Rocks Bankstown Hotel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 29 August 1942 · page 1

Windows were shattered, tiles were lifted from the floor, and an air-vent was blown out when a plug of gelignite exploded in a toilet room at the Hotel Bankstown, Rickard Road, Bankstown, just after…

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Real Blowout In Suburban Hotel

Truth · Sunday 30 August 1942 · page 19

SATURDAY lunch-time imbibers at the Hotel Bankstown received a shock yesterday when a terrific explosion rocked the building and…

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Explosion Damages Suburban Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 30 August 1942 · page 27

Practical jokers scared hundreds of Bankstown residents yesterday by firing a detonator in an outhouse of the Hotel Bankstown…

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Hotel glasses with a "moral"

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 30 August 1942 · page 5

"It's not worth it. It costs you a fiver if you're caught." This brand will in future be carried on posters to be issued to hotels by…

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Hotel Doors Opened An Hour Later Today

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 August 1942 · page 2

Hotels in the metropolitan area opened today at 11 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. For some publicans, the hour lopped off their trading time coincided with a 15 per cent, cut in beer supplies…

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Hotel Doors Opened An Hour Later Today

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 August 1942 · page 2

Hotels in the metropolitan area opened today at 11 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. For some publicans, the hour lopped off their trading time coincided with a 15 per cent, cut in beer supplies…

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Hotel Doors Opened An Hour Later Today

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 August 1942 · page 10

Hotels in the metropolitan area opened today at 11 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. For some publicans, the hour lopped off their trading time coincided with a 15 per cent, cut in beer supplies…

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Hotel Doors Opened An Hour Later Today

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 August 1942 · page 10

Hotels in the metropolitan area opened today at 11 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. For some publicans, the hour lopped off their trading time coincided with a 15 per cent, cut in beer supplies…

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Hotel Doors Opened An Hour Later Today

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 August 1942 · page 10

Hotels in the metropolitan area opened today at 11 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. For some publicans, the hour lopped off their trading time coincided with a 15 per cent, cut in beer supplies…

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Hotel Doors Opened An Hour Later Today

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 August 1942 · page 10

Hotels in the metropolitan area opened today at 11 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. For some publicans, the hour lopped off their trading time coincided with a 15 per cent, cut in beer supplies…

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Hotel Hours, Beer Reduced

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 August 1942 · page 5

Many hotels will commence new restricted trading hours today with reduced supplies of draught beer, and depleted…

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Hotel Explosion Arrest

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 31 August 1942 · page 5

Detectives yesterday found fragments of a detonator in a Bankstown hotel outhouse, which was damaged by an explosion on Saturday…

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Hotelkeepers Fined for Security Breaches

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 August 1942 · page 10

JOHN ALLEN MENDES, licensee of the Mayfair Hotel, King's Cross, and John Rees, keeper of Menzies' Private Hotel, Elizabeth Street,…

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Menzies Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 3

Menzies Hotel, Ltd., earned £13,306 for the year to June 30, compared with £8,288 for 1940-41. No ordinary dividend was paid last year, but 1 per cent, is being paid…

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War Workers in Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 7

In the Licensing Court yesterday, Oswald Algernon Valentine Bush, licensee of the Observer Hotel, George Street North, was charged with having…

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Beer Cut in All Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 7

The 15 per cent, cut in beer supplies for September will apply, it is understood, to all hotels supplied by breweries…

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Security Breaches at Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 8

For breaches of the National Security (Aliens Control) Regulations John Rees, of Mer[?]ies Private Hotel, Elizabeth Street and John Allen Mendes,…

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Explosion In Hotel Costs Soldier £7

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 5

An explosion at the Bankstown Hotel on Saturday had its sequel at Campsie Court today, when Eric Dibbs (29), soldier,…

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Explosion In Hotel Costs Soldier £7

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 September 1942 · page 3

An explosion at the Bankstown Hotel on Saturday had its sequel at Campsie Court today, when Eric Dibbs (29), soldier…

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