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Hotels & licensing, 1944

1,004 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 51

Cyanide Death in City Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

Cyanide fumes killed Gustave Frederick Krentler (41), German alien, Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, in his room, at the Great Southern Hotel, George Street, City, this afternoon…

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Court Cuts Hotel Fines

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 2

Fines of £100, separately imposed on three leading Sydney hotels, were today each reduced to £15 by Judge Studdert in the…

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Publicans on Price Charges

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Two Melbourne hotelkeepers-- Eli Phillips, City Club Hotel, Collins Street, and Charles…

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Court Cuts Hotel Fines

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 2

Fines of £100, separately imposed on two leading Sydney hotels, were today each reduced to £15 by Judge Studdert in the…

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Cyanide Death in City Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

Cyanide fumes killed Gustave Frederick Krentler (41), German alien, Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, in his room, at the Great Southern Hotel, George Street, City, this afternoon…

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Publicans on Price Charges

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Two Melbourne hotelkeepers-- Eli Phillips, City Club Hotel, Collins Street, and Charles…

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Cyanide Death in City Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 3

Cyanide fumes killed Gustave Frederick Krentler (41), German alien, Mt. Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, in his room, at the Great Southern Hotel, George Street, City, this afternoon…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Court Cuts Hotel Fines

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 2

Fines of £100, separately imposed on three leading Sydney hotels, were today each reduced to £15 by Judge Studdert in the…

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Publicans on Price Charges

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 February 1944 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday. -- Two Melbourne hotelkeepers-- Eli Phillips, City Club Hotel, Collins Street, and Charles…

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Overcharge for Hotel Meals Fines Reduced From £100 to £15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 7

Fines of £100 imposed on each of three hotels were reduced to £15, with £3/3/ costs, by Judge Studdert in the…

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Death in Hotel Bedroom

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 7

Gustav Frederick Kruentler, 41, a technician at the Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, was found dead on the floor of a bedroom at the Great…

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Trautwein Hotel Finance

The Sun · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 2

Interest-free loans by Coogee Bay Hotel. Ltd., to Theodore Charles Trautwein and his son were referred to in the…

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Judge Reduces Hotel Penalty

The Sun · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 5

A fine of £100, imposed on Hotel Sydney, Ltd., for supplying meals above the maximum price fixed by National Security…

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City Hotels Going Dry

The Sun · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 3

More than 50 per cent. of Sydney hotels had no beer for sale yesterday. "The beer shortage is to blame…

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Fumes Kill Man In City Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 9

Cyanide fumes killed a man yesterday in his room at the Great Southern Hotel, George Street, City…

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Crowd Chases Brawlers 1000 Gather After Stabbing Of 2 Soldiers In Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 7

A crowd of nearly 1000 gathered outside a Pitt Street residential after a brawl in a hotel yesterday afternoon. Two soldiers were stabbed in the brawl and…

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Trautwein's Hotel Sale Investigated

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 3

Gerald Sydney Burton, chartered accountant, said in the Bankruptcy Court today that for the first three months after…

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Excise Officer Tells of Raid on William Street Hotel

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 3

James Francis MacCormick, excise officer, told Mr. Atkinson, S.M., at the Federal Court of Special Sessions today that a bottle of liquor he confiscated at the Hotel William William Street, on January 21, showed evidence of being…

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rautwein's Hotel Sole Investigated

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 3

Gerald Sydney Burton, chartered accountant, said in the Bankruptcy Court today that for the first three months after…

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Witness Says Trautwein Had Interest After Hotel Sold

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 29 February 1944 · page 3

Gerald Sydney Burton said in the Bankruptcy Court today that for the first three months after the sale of the Oceanic Hotel, Coogee, in June, 1939, from Theodore Charles Trautwein to his son, Theo William Nugent Trautwein, and…

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