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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

1,004 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 51

Govt. Hotel Losses Almost Equal Capital Cost Finance

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 8

It was revealed in the Senate recently that losses accumulated on the three guest houses erected and operated by the Commonwealth Government in Canberra amounted to £201,697 at June 30 last…

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Hotelkeeper Demands Money Refund

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 2

James Andrew McLeay McQuade, licensee of the First and Last Hotel, Circular Quay, proceeded against his wife. Evelvn…

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Govt. Hotel Losses Almost Equal Capital Cost Finance

Daily Mirror · Monday 8 May 1944 · page 8

It was revealed in the Senate recently that losses accumulated on the three guest houses erected and operated by the Commonwealth Government in Canberra amounted to £201,697 at June 30 last…

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Resisted Arrest After Fight in Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 5

For having behaved offensively in the bar of the Lidcombe Hotel on April 29, Cecil George Alexander Farmer (28) was fined £3 at the…

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Manpower Sent Girl To Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 3

A 16-year-old girl had been directed by Manpower to work in an hotel, despite her parents…

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Hotel Is Full Time Job

The Sun · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 3

George Albert Kennedy was refused renewal of the licence of the Beresford Hotel, Bourke-street, in the…

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S.M. Refuses To Renew Hotel Licence

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 3

Allegations that he had frequently seen reputed prostitutes being fondled by negro servicemen in the Beresford Hotel…

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S.M. Refuses TO Renew Hotel Licence

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 3

Allegations that he had frequently seen reputed prostitutes being fondled by negro servicemen in the Beresford Hotel…

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Indecencies At Hotel Denied

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 2

Allegations that he had frequently, seen reputed prostitutes being fondled by negro servicemen in the Beresford Hotel…

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Reply To Hotel Job Charge

The Sun · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 2

"It has never been our policy to direct young girls to employment in hotels," said the Director-General of Manpower (Mr…

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Robbed In Own Hotel, Man Says

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 3

Allegations that he was awakened in the middle of the night by his wife and that a man who was with her robbed…

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Robbed In Own Hotel, Man Says

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 3

Allegations that he was awakened in the middle of the night by his wife and that a man who was with her robbed…

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Robbed In Own Hotel, Man Says

Daily Mirror · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 3

Allegations that he was awakened in the middle of the night by his wife and that a man who was with her robbed…

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Hotel Broker Charged Objection to Lack of Details

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 May 1944 · page 5

After counsel had complained that details of a charge against a hotel broker were insufficient. it was announced n the Special…

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Hotel to Have Child Nursery

Daily Mirror · Saturday 13 May 1944 · page 5

LONDON. --They have ideas in Rochdale about the public house of the future. They have decided that it must have a…

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"Delicense Black-market Hotels" "Poison liquor" menace; drastic action urged

The Sun · Sunday 14 May 1944 · page 3

DRASTIC recommendations, including the delicensing of hotelkeepers for black market deals, have been made by a liquor committee of inquiry set…

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Woman swept into hotel bar in wild scramble for beer

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 May 1944 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sat. -- Mrs. Thelma Homan, of Toowong, walked past a hotel just on opening time today and was swept into the bar by the crowd of men waiting for a drink…

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Hotel Beer Sold to Racketeers

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 14 May 1944 · page 4

Many Sydney hotelkeepers are still diverting beer to the black market, a Labor Council…

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Licence Refused City Publican

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 May 1944 · page 2

An application for the renewal of the licence of the Bognor Hotel, Castlereagh Street, by former licensee, Victor George Mabey, was refused by Mr. Scobie, S.M., in the Licensing Court today…

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Airman Fined for S.p. Betting in Killara Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 15 May 1944 · page 11

FOR S.P. betting in the public bar of the Green Gate Hotel, Killara, on May 13, Arthur Hodges, airman, was fined £20 at North Sydney court…

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