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Hotels & licensing, 1944

1,004 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 51

£20 Fine for Hotel Bookie

The Sun · Monday 23 October 1944 · page 3

For taking bets in Clovelly Hotel, Clovelly, on Saturday, John Holding, 28, laborer, was fined £20 or 40 days in Central…

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Students Dust Foyer of Hotel

The Sun · Tuesday 24 October 1944 · page 3

Two University freshmen today "cleaned up" the foyer of a well-known city hotel. On orders from University…

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Wentworth Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 October 1944 · page 8

Prospects of Wentworth Hotel Ltd. for the current year continued to be bright, said the chairman, Sir Norman [?] at the annual meeting yesterday…

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Publican Wins £4000; Buys Drinks for 650

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 October 1944 · page 5

A publican who won £4000 at the Epsom and Metropolitan race meetings gave free drinks yesterday to about 650 customers. The free "shout" was given by…

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Actor's Room in Hotel Burgled

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 October 1944 · page 3

Well-known actor Don Nicol, lost clothing, an electric razor, a clock, and a suitcase when a thief burgled his room at…

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Actor's Room in Hotel Burgled

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 October 1944 · page 3

Well-known actor Don Nicol, lost clothing, an electric razor, a clock, and a suitcase when a thief burgled his room at…

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Actor's Room in Hotel Burgled

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 October 1944 · page 3

Well-known actor Don Nicol, lost clothing, an electric razor, a clock, and a suitcase when a thief burgled his room at…

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Actor's Room in Hotel Burgled

Daily Mirror · Friday 27 October 1944 · page 3

Well-known actor Don Nicol, lost clothing, an electric razor, a clock, and a suitcase when a thief burgled his room at…

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Vicki Baum's "Grand Hotel" Now Servicemen's Leave Club

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 October 1944 · page 14

PARIS, Sunday.--Grand Hotel, Paris, the original of Vicki Baum's famous novel, "Grand Hotel," is being made into the first Allied Expeditionary Force Leave Club for enlisted men. General Eisenhower himself decided…

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Licensee Failed to Label Bottles

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 3

WILLIAM ARTHUR MARSHALL, licensee of the Beach Hotel, Harbord, was fined £10 at the Special Federal Court today for failing to…

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City Publican Fined

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 5

FOR failing to put methyl-violet in his drip-trays on October 16, Austin Negus, licensee of the St. James Hotel, Elizabeth St., City, was fined…

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Licensee Failed to Label Bottles

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 5

WILLIAM ARTHUR MARSHALL, licensee of the Beach Hotel, Harbord, was fined £10 at the Special Federal Court today for failing to…

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City Publican Fined

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 5

FOR failing to put methyl-violet in his drip-trays. on October 16. Austin Negus, licensee of the St. James Hotel, Elizabeth St., City, was fined…

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Licensee Failed to Label Bottles

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 5

WILLIAM ARTHUR MARSHALL, licensee of the Beach Hotel, Harbord, was fined £10 at the Special Federal Court today for failing to…

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Licensee Failed to Label Bottles

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 5

WILLIAM ARTHUR MARSHALL, licensee of the Beach Hotel, Harbord, was fined £10 at the Special Federal Court today for failing to…

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City Publican Fined

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 5

FOR failing to put methyl-violet in his drip-trays on October 16, Austin Negus, licensee of the St. James Hotel. Elizabeth St., City, was fined…

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N.R.M.A. Gets Complaints On Lack Of Hotel Service

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 3 November 1944 · page 11

TRAVELLING motorists are furnishing the N.R.M.A. with additional proof of the failure of hotel proprietors to realise that…

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New hours for hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 November 1944 · page 6

Scrambling for drinks in hotels will end next week, U.L.V.A. president N. H. Connolly said yesterday…

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Bushfires Threaten 40 Homes, Hotel 500 Fight Flames; House Destroyed

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 November 1944 · page 5

Bushfires yesterday destroyed a house at Cottage Point, near Cowan, threatened 40 houses, and surrounded the Lapstone Hotel, Glenbrook,…

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£15,000 Fire Damages Big Country Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 November 1944 · page 4

WAGGA WAGGA, Monday.--A fire which gutted the third story of the Commercial Hotel in the early hours of yesterday morning caused…

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