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Hotels & licensing, 1944

1,004 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 51

Alderman's Attack on Dirty Hotels

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 August 1944 · page 4

"Suburban aldermen who allege that the only filthy hotels are in the city are talking with their tongues in their cheeks."…

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Alderman's Attack on Dirty Hotels

Daily Mirror · Thursday 10 August 1944 · page 4

"Suburban aldermen who allege that the only filthy hotels are in the city are talking with their tongues in their cheeks,"…

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Expired Driving Licenses

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 August 1944 · page 11

WITH the return to civilian life of men from the fighting Services, the N.R.M.A. is resolving many inquiries regarding the necessity or not…

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U.N.R.A. And Anti-Jewish Hotel

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 11 August 1944 · page 4

TORONTO. The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration which was making arrangements to hold its second…

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Publicans Work in Breweries

The Sun · Saturday 12 August 1944 · page 3

LONDON, Saturday.--A beer shortage in London. due mainly to lack of labor, is being partly solved by publicans, and some…

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Record Hotel Profit

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 August 1944 · page 6

Record profit of £13,418 was earned by Federal Hotels, Ltd., for year ended June 30. This contrasts with £7513 in 1942-43. Dividends are repeated at 9 p.c. on pref. and 3…

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Police Fear Racket, Warn Hotels on Lotteries

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 August 1944 · page 3

Police officers have been instructed to warn publicans against running unapproved lotteries in their hotels. "The practice could lead to…

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"Rude License"

The Sun · Tuesday 15 August 1944 · page 4

The rude license taken in smoking in the non-smoking compartment of public conveyances is the cause of much…

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Armed Provosts Guard Hotel Suites of Bob Hope's Party Flood Of Phone Calls From Girls

The Sun · Wednesday 16 August 1944 · page 3

Armed U.S. Provosts guarded the private suites of film comedian Bob Hope and his party of troop entertainers at Hotel Australia today…

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City Hotel Staff Meets Bob Hope

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 3

The film comedian, Bob Hope, was besieged by members of the Hotel Australia staff in a corridor…

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Hotels Barred To Brothers

The Sun · Thursday 17 August 1944 · page 3

For three years two brothers must abstain from liquor and must not visit places where, intoxicants are sold…

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Inspection of Hotels. Rockdale Council in Favor

The St George Call · Friday 18 August 1944 · page 1

In the Press and by nubile conversation of late there has been much reference to conditions said to prevail in In the washing hurriedly of l[?]quor…

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He had a 64-rooms hotel to himself

The Sun · Sunday 20 August 1944 · page 4

A special court session was held this week in the closed 64-rooms Seminole Hotel in Miami, swank Florida resort…

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Women banned from Darlinghurst hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 August 1944 · page 7

The Tradesmen's Arms Hotel, Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, has barred women from the premises. New licensee Frank Whyte refuses to serve them with…

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Hotel Girl's Death After Savage Attack

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 August 1944 · page 5

Joan Minnie Jenkins (20), waitress, who was attacked at the Royal Hotel, Moree, early on Sunday morning, died today. POLICE believe jealousy was the…

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Hotel Girl's Death After Savage Attack

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 August 1944 · page 5

Joan Minnie Jenkins (20), waitress, who was attacked at the Royal Hotel, Moree, early on Sunday morning, died today. POLICE believe jealousy was the…

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Hotel Girls Death After Savage Attack

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 August 1944 · page 5

Joan Minnie Jenkins (20), waitress, who was attacked at the Royal Hotel, Moree, early on Sunday morning, died today. POLICE believe jealousy was the…

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Record Hotel Profit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 August 1944 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Windsor Hotel, Ltd., Melbourne, reports a record profit of £15,363 for the year ended June 30 compared with £12,291 the previous year. Tax…

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Tax Dodge on Sly-grog Costs Publican £500

The Sun · Thursday 24 August 1944 · page 3

For dodging tax on money made on sly grog, an hotel keeper was fined £100 today and ordered to pay £400 tax. He is Leslie Howard Ritchie, Prince of Wales Hotel,…

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