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Hotels & licensing, 1943

901 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 46

Knife Attack in Hotel Alleged

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 6

A colored soldier was chased and captured by police after an American soldier had been allegedly stabbed in the back in…

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Knife Attack in Hotel Alleged

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 6

A colored soldier was chased and captured by police after an American soldier had been allegedly stabbed in the back in…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Knife Attack in Hotel Alleged

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 7

A colored soldier was chased and captured by police after an American soldier had been allegedly stabbed in the bank in…

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Knife Attack in Hotel Alleged

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 6

A colored soldier was chased and captured by police after an American soldier had been allegedly stabbed in the back in…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Knife Attack in Hotel Alleged

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 7

A colored soldier was chased and captured by police after an American soldier had been allegedly stabbed in the back in…

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Knife Attack in Hotel Alleged

Daily Mirror · Thursday 9 December 1943 · page 7

A colored soldier was chased and captured by police after an American soldier had been allegedly stabbed in the back in…

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Five City Hotels Raided In New Prices Swoop

The Sun · Friday 10 December 1943 · page 3

Five city hotels have been raided in a new series of swoops by police and Customs and Prices Commission officials. Three men have been detained under National Security…

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Carlton Hotel Profit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 December 1943 · page 5

Net profit of Carlton Hotel, Ltd., at £16,128 for the year ended October 31 is a further improvement, comparing with £14,718 last year…

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Vast Black Liquor Plot in City Alleged: 3 Remanded--No Bail "£30,000 At 2 Hotels"

The Sun · Saturday 11 December 1943 · page 3

A vast black market in liquor, involving £30,000 for two hotels alone, has been carried on in Sydney according to a statement made today before a special Federal Court…

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Trade, Finance & Produce Markets Good Rise in Hotel Profit Carlton Groos 25 p.c., Net 10 p.c. Higher After Doubling Taxes

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 December 1943 · page 12

Gross income of Carlton Hotel for the year ended October 31 last, at £100,704, was 25 p.c. higher than that for 1941-42. Net profit of £16,127 compares…

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Liquor black-market charges: 3 remanded without bail Allegation of £30,000 Hotel Plot

The Sun · Sunday 12 December 1943 · page 1

Allegations of a conspiracy for the black- marketing of liquor -- £30,000 worth for two Sydney hotels alone--were made in a Court of Petty Sessions in the…

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£700 Cache in Hotel Ceiling: Two Arrested Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 12 December 1943 · page 5

TWO men were arrested by detectives today at Hotel Beaumaris in connection with the robbery of £1000 from Mr. Stanley Hammond, a Sydney company manager, at Dandenong on Tuesday…

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Coins for charity in hotel chandelier

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 December 1943 · page 4

More than £25 a month in pennies and small change is tossed into four chandeliers in the long bar at the Australia…

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Hotel Bars Congested Ban on Schooners Increases Rush

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 December 1943 · page 6

Many people could not be served in hotels on Saturday because of the increased labour involved in serving middy beers…

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Licensee Charged

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 7

Charged with having sold a bottle of whisky and a bottle of gin to two U.S. military police on November 4 at greater than the maximum fixed…

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Liquor Black Market by Gang Alleged Hotel Man On 3 Charges; K.C. Tells Of Customs Raid

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 December 1943 · page 7

A bookmaker and hotel manager charged with liquor black-marketing was described by Mr. Dovey, K.C., yesterday as "one of a gang out to exploit the country at all costs."…

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Licensee Assaulted Man in Ladies' Parlor

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 15 December 1943 · page 1

Apparently in state of collapse, Alexander Robinson Brodie Hudson (21) was found by the licensee, Arthur Deighton, in the ladies parlor of he…

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S.m. Warns Em Hotel Transfer

The Sun · Wednesday 15 December 1943 · page 2

'Granting Arthur Edwards Staines a transfer of the licence of the Macquarie Hotel, Wentworth-avenue, today, Mr. Scobie, SM, warned him that "this place will be pretty…

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City Hotel Manager Accused

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 December 1943 · page 4

A city hotel manager was alleged in the Special Federal Court yesterday to have been implicated in black-market liquor…

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Licensee Contests Price Regulation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 December 1943 · page 4

A Sydney hotelkeeper asked the Full Court yesterday to rule that liquor price regulations were invalid. He is Leo Bernard Cullen, licensee…

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