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Hotels & licensing, 1943

901 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 46

Police Raids On Hotels In City

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 October 1943 · page 3

Following a raid on Sydney hotels by a special police squad last night, a publican was charged at Central Police Station with having a quantity of illicit spirits…

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Police Raids On Hotels In City

Daily Mirror · Saturday 30 October 1943 · page 3

Following a raid on Sydney hotels by a special police squad last night, a publican was charged at Central Police Station with having a quantity of illicit spirits…

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Police Raid City Hotels in Black Liquor Drive

Truth · Sunday 31 October 1943 · page 19

POLICE have raided several hotels in the metropolitan area in search of illicit liquor held by licensees in excess of their legal quota…

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Hotel Bar Appeal for Liberty Loan

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 31 October 1943 · page 6

If customers in the bar of the Hotel Astra, Bondi Beach, subscribe £500 to the Liberty Loan next Friday, the hotel…

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Publican charged with possessing illicit spirits

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 31 October 1943 · page 24

A city publican was charged at the Central Police Statior late on Friday night with having a quantity of illicit spirits. He was later remanded on £500 bail. He will appear before the court tomorrow morning…

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Man Alleges City Hotel Charged £4 15s for Whisky

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 November 1943 · page 2

Charges that whisky had been sold at exorbitant prices at the Criterion Hotel, Pitt and Park Streets, Sydney, were made in the Licensing Court today, when Alexander Gordon Deane (30), commission agent, who lives in Forbes Street, Newtown, was fined £50 on a sly grog charge…

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Man Alleges City Hotel Charged £4 15s for Whisky

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 November 1943 · page 2

Charges that whisky had been sold at exorbitant prices at the Criterion Hotel, Pitt and Park Streets, Sydney, were made in the Licensing Court today, when Alexander Gordon Deane (30), commission agent, who lives in Forbes Street, Newtown, was fined £50 on a sly grog charge…

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Man Alleges City Hotel Charged £4 15s for Whisky

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 November 1943 · page 2

Charges that whisky had been sold at exorbitant prices at the Criterion Hotel, Pitt and Park Streets, Sydney, were made in the Licensing Court today, when Alexander Gordon Deane (30), commission agent, defended himself against a sly grog charge…

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Man Alleges City Hotel Charged £4 15s for Whisky

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 November 1943 · page 2

Charges that whisky had been sold at exorbitant prices at the Criterion Hotel, Pitt and Park Streets, Sydney, were made in the Licensing Court today, when Alexander Gordon Deane (30), commission agent, who lives in Forbes Street, Newtown, was fined £50 on a sly grog charge…

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Half Price Hotel--if You Make Your Own Bed

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 November 1943 · page 6

NEW YORK.--To solve the labor problem, a Springfield, Massachusetts, hotel offers a 50 per cent, reduction on the charge for its…

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Hotels to Open at Fixed Times

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 November 1943 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday. -- To meet workers' requirements and to obtain uniform trading conditions in Brisbane hotels the Government has…

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World's Biggest Hotel for Sale by Auction

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 November 1943 · page 4

CHICAGO--The largest hotel in the world, the Stevens Hotel in Chicago, is to be sold by auction. It is 22 storeys high, and has 3000…

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Hotel in Washington with 4000 Chickens

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 November 1943 · page 11

WASHINGTON.--A hotel building once used for teaching Shakespeare now houses 4000 chickens. The hotel, one of the most select…

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New Impost On Hotel Employees

Tribune · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 7

With the increase of a 1/-in the State basic wage for women last August, the cost of board and lodging for…

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Surprise Raid on Hotels: Big Black Market Drive 12s 9d Whisky Bought At £4

The Sun · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 3

Opening a big campaign to stamp out black marketing in liquor, police, Customs officers and Prices Commission inspectors swooped on many city and suburban hotels yesterday…

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Price Raid on Hotels

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 3

In the biggest raid since the regulation covering the liquor price list was amended to make it valid, police, Customs…

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Price Raid on Hotels

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 3

In the biggest raid since the regulation covering the liquor price list was amended to make it valid, police, Customs…

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Price Raid on Hotels

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 November 1943 · page 3

In the biggest raid since the regulation covering the liquor price list was amended to make it valid, police, Customs…

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Black Market in Liquor Hotelkeepers Likely To Be Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 November 1943 · page 4

As a result of visits to city and suburban hotels by police and officers of the Customs Department and the Prices…

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Black Market Liquor Probed Evidence Secured At Six Hotels, Officials Allege

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 November 1943 · page 5

Block-marketing in beer and spirits has been detected at six city and suburban hotels by Customs, police, and Prices Commission investigators since last Friday…

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