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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

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Licensee Fined for Watering Brandy

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1944 · page 6

Brandy for sale at the Rest Hotel, Milson's Point, contained 10 per cent. water, a Customs inspector (Mr. G. B. Lethbridge) said at North Sydney Court…

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Licensee Remanded

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 January 1944 · page 4

An hotel licensee, who was charged in Kogarah Court yesterday with having failed to keep open all bars of his hotel on November 6, was remanded to…

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Many Hotels Without Beer Supplies Today

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 5

Most hotels inn Sydney and suburbs wall be without beer today. Manny hotels will mot receive fresh supplies until Thursday…

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Milling Crowds Rush Hotels In Beer Quest

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 2

Few hotels in the metropolitan area had beer for sale today, and those which had beer did a roaring trade, crowds at times getting almost out of control. A CROWD of 500 which had waited…

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Milling Crowds Rush Hotels In Beer Quest

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 2

Few hotels in the metropolitan area had beer for sale today, and those which had beer did a roaring trade, crowds at times getting almost out of control. [?] CROWD of 500 which had waited…

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Milling Crowds Rush Hotels In Beer Quest

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 January 1944 · page 2

Few hotels in the metropolitan area had beer for sale today, and those which had beer did a roaring trade, crowds at times getting almost out of control. A CROWD of 500 which had waited…

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Beerless Day for Most Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 7

It was almost a "peerless day" in Sydney and many holiday resorts yesterday. Many hotels in the city and suburbs…

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Crowd of 600 Drink Hotel Dry in Eighty Minutes

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 5

The White Horse Hotel, Crown Street, Surry Hills, sold 114 gallons of beer in an hour and 20 minutes yesterday morning. The hotel was one of the few…

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Beer at Few City Hotels

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 5

Holiday-makers who returned to the City today found the beer market a black and barren concern, because few hotels…

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Hotelkeeper Not Guilty

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 5

A charge against Eric Frederick Logan (48), former licensee of the Northern Hotel, Parramatta North, of having…

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Beer at Few City Hotels

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 5

Holiday-makers who returned to the City today found the beer market a black and barren concern, because few hotels…

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Hotelkeeper Not Guilty

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 5

A charge against Eric Frederick Logan (48), former licensee of the Northern Hotel, Parramatta North, of having…

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Beer at Few City Hotels

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 5

Holiday-makers who returned to the City today found the Beer market a black and barren concern, because few hotels…

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Hotelkeeper Not Guilty

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 4 January 1944 · page 5

A charge against Eric Frederick Logan (48), former licensee of the Northern Hotel, Parramatta North, of having…

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Bad Liquor At Hotel; £20 Fine

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1944 · page 9

Wine sold by a North Sydney publican would probably make drinkers feel sick, Mr. Sheridan, S.M., was told in North Sydney…

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Less meat for cafes, hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 January 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Cafes and hotels serving meals and shops selling cooked meat over the counter will have meat supplies cut in proportion to the civilian…

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More Hotels Seek Out-of-bounds Rule

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 January 1944 · page 7

Unless allowed extra beer for soldiers, be would ask the Army to put his hotel out of bounds to the local military camp, a Singleton hotelkeeper said last night. He is Mr. G. Wilkinson, of the…

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U.S. Soldiers & Women, Hotel Licensee Charged

The Sun · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 3

Evidence of American soldiers having nude women in their rooms at a city hotel was given in the Licensing Court today. Alexandrina Lillian Jean McKinlay Watford, the licensee of…

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Naked Women at Hotel, Police Say

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

Amazing allegations that police had found naked women and nude American servicemen sharing rooms and indulging in a drinking party in a city hotel were made at the Licensing Court today by Federal police…

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Naked Women at Hotel, Police Say

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 January 1944 · page 2

Amazing allegations that police had found naked women and nude American servicemen sharing rooms and indulging in a drinking party in a city hotel were made at the Licensing Court today by Federal police…

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