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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

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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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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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Munition Ship Blows Up Hotel 1½ Miles From Dockyards Smashed By Blast

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 January 1944 · page 4

In the first eye-witness account released by the authorities, Godfrey Blunden, Daily Telegraph correspondent, describes the German air attach on Bari Harbor (eastern Italy), when 17 Allied ships…

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Women Banned From Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1944 · page 7

U.S. Servicemen were told when booking in at the York Hotel, king Street, city, that women were not to be brought…

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Riot at Merrylands Fight Outside Hotel

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 2

Nearly 200 people rushed the Hotel Merrylands. Merrylands on Saturday, when they learned that the hotel had beer. The men fought for possession of…

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Licensee's Mother Banned at Hotel

The Sun · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 3

The licence of the Imperial Hotel, North Sydney, was transferred to 23-year-old John Knight Waterhouse today an condition his mother. Elizabeth Catherine Waterhouse, was not allowed…

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Griffith Challenges Hotel Monopoly

Tribune · Thursday 20 January 1944 · page 2

GRIFFITH.—The Returned Soldiers’ League called a meeting to consider setting up a Community Hotel at Griffith, on the…

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Court Ban On Hotel Licensee

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

Representation should be made to the A.J.C. to prevent hotelkeepers obtaining bookmakers' licences, Mr. Scobie, S.M., said yesterday at the Licensing Court. "An hotelkeeper's job is a…

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Publican-bookmakers Controversy for A.j.c

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 5

ANY representations concerning the holding of bookmakers' licences by hotelkeepers would be dealt with by the Australian Jockey Club…

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Publican-bookmakers Controversy for A.j.c

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 5

ANY representations concerning the holding of bookmakers' licences by hotelkeepers would be dealt with by the Australian Jockey Club…

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Diplomat's Wife Shot in Hotel

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 4

NEW YORK, Friday. -- A mysterious young woman, "in a Persian lamb coat and flowered hat," shot and…

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Mother Banned From Hotel Licence Transferred to Son

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 7

The Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday transferred the licence of the Imperial Hotel, North Sydney, from Mrs…

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License or Liberty

The Methodist · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 9

Sir,—With some diffidence may I suggest that to be correct one line in Dr. Prescott's article, 25th December, should be amended. The line reads,…

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Constable's Leg Broken In Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 9

Constable Grant, of Petersham police, had his leg broken in several places yesterday in the Prince Alfred Hotel, Missenden Road, Camperdown…

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Community Hotel Wanted

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 12

GRIFFITH, Saturday.-- A public meeting last night decided unanimously that the State Government should be approached to amend…

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Community Hotel Wanted

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 January 1944 · page 2

GRIFFITH, Saturday.-- A public meeting last night decided unanimously that the State Government should be approached to amend…

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Suicide in crowded hotel dining room

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 January 1944 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sat.--Julius F. Storing, 57, committed suicide in a crowded hotel dining-room at Columbus (Ohio)…

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Ban on Licensee

The Sun · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 3

Mrs Edna Violet Reimer, of Kessell-avenue, Kensington, was disqualified by Mr. Scobie, SM, at the Licensing Court today,…

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Soldiers And, Women In City Hotel

The Sun · Monday 24 January 1944 · page 3

Judgment was reserved today in the case in which Mrs. A. L. J. McK. Watford is charged with…

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