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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

1,004 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 51

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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Hotel Licensee Charged Police Allegations In Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 10

Allegations that certain American servicemen and women were found practically nude in bedrooms of a city hotel were…

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Licensee's Story of Girls in Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 2

Mrs. Alexandrine Watford, of the York Hotel, King Street, said, under cross-examination in the Licensing Court today, that behaviour the police saw between women and American servicemen in the hotel was disgusting, and surprised her very…

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Licensee's Story of Girls in Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 2

Mrs. Alexandrina Watford, of the York Hotel, King Street, said, under cross-examination in the Licensing Court today, that behaviour the police saw between women and American servicemen in the hotel was disgusting, and surprised her very…

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Licensee's Story of Girls in Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 2

Mrs. Alexandrina Watford, of the York Hotel, King Street, said, under cross-examination in the Licensing Court today, that behaviour the police saw between women and American servicemen in the hotel was disgusting, and surprised her very…

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Licensee Refuses Answer; Fined £20

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 7

Richard Patrick Boylan, 43, licensee of the Star Hotel, Cootamundra, was fined £20 yesterday at Cootamundra Court on a charge of having refused to…

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Watchman's Evidence About Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 2

Samuel Moore, blockwatchman and special constable, said in the Licensing; Court today that Mrs. Alexandrina Watford…

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Hotel Staffed by Women Not Licensee Now, Says Defendant

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 January 1944 · page 5

Mrs. Alexandrina Watford, who was charged at a Petty Sessions Court on Tuesday with having, as the licensee of the…

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Pilfering by Guests in Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 7

LONDON, Jan. 13 (A.A.P.).—Hotels in London report increased pilfering by guests, who are taking towels, pillow cases, sheets, and even blankets…

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Gaoled Publican's Appeal Abandoned

The Sun · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 3

In gaol for selling whisky at black-market prices, Leo Bernard Cullen, former licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Liverpool-street, has abandoned his appeal. Cullen had applied to the Full High Court…

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Hotel Manager Fined For Refusing Room Ta Negro

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thursday.--Martin A. Nichols, manager of the Hotel Knickerbocker, New York, has been fined £32 for refusing o room to a negro. It was the first case of its…

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Police Visit City Hotel Say Nude Women, Men In Bedrooms

Truth · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 10

EXTRAORDINARY scenes were discovered by police in hotel rooms when members of the Commonwealth Vice Squad raided the York Hotel, King Street, on November 14 and 27, according to evidence given in the…

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13 Arrests in Brawl at Hotel

The Sun · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 2

Following a brawl outside the Hotel Merrylands, Merrylands, late yesterday afternoon, charges were preferred against 13 men…

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Hotel as refuge for fire victims

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sat.--The Red Cross has turned the Beaumaris Hotel into a refuge for people injured and made homeless by the fire which destroyed 100 homes in the district…

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U.s. Soldiers Told to Leave Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 2

Twenty U.S. soldiers were ordered out of a city private hotel at 11 p.m. yesterday. A major of the U.S. Army Provost…

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Police quell riot outside hotel; fight for glasses

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 January 1944 · page 6

Nearly 1000 people rushed the Hotel Merrylands, Merrylands, yesterday when they learned that the hotel had beer. The men fought for possession of glasses to get a…

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Woman Publican, 93, Dies

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 8

LONDON, Monday. -- The death has occurred at the age of 93 of Mrs. Sarah Crabtree. the oldest licensed publican in England. She…

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Woman Publican, 93, Dies

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Monday. -- The death has occurred at the age of 93 of Mrs. Sarah Crabtree, the oldest licensed publican in England. She…

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Woman Publican, 93, Dies

Daily Mirror · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 8

LONDON, Monday. -- The death has occurred at the age of 93 of Mrs. Sarah Crabtree. the oldest licensed publican in England. She…

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