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Hotels & licensing, 1945

741 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 38

Two Men Shot Dead In Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 April 1945 · page 1

Two men were shot dead after a fight in the bar of the Sunbeam Hotel, at the corner of Riley and Albion Streets, Surry Hills, yesterday evening. Last night, detectives were…

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Publicans Must Not Save Beer For Lounges

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 April 1945 · page 3

Hotelkeepers from to-day will be compelled to sell ale, lager, porter, and stout in public bars while they are on sale in lounges and private bars. This is provided in an order…

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Manpower Stops Farmer From Keeping Hotel

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 21

AN example of the "power" that is luvested in the Manpower authorities was recorded recently, and concerns the fate of a farmer who wanted…

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Publican on Charge of Murder

Daily Mirror · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 4

The fatal shooting of a woman in a bedroom at the Observer Hotel, George St. North, was described at the Criminal…

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Hotel Hawker Sold Lingerie

The Sun · Saturday 14 April 1945 · page 3

When arrested in the bar of a Paddington hotel last night, a young soldier was selling ladies' underwear and taking orders for…

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Licensee Guilty Of Manslaughter

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 April 1945 · page 15

Nelson Buchanan Grindal, 40, former licensee of the Observer Hotel, George Street North, was found guilty of manslaughter, without criminal intent, by…

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Standover Gunmen In Sunbeam Hotel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 14 April 1945 · page 2

About 3 o'clock this afternoon two men came to the doorkeeper of the Sunbeam Hotel and dmanded beer. When they were refused one of them produced a gun and renewed the…

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For Your Information The Beer Business: whet does a hotelkeeper make?

The Sun · Sunday 15 April 1945 · page 10

This analysis of the hotel trade in N.S. Wales shows that only 20 publicans in 100 own the hotels they run. A CUT of thirty-three and a third per cent…

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Sunbeam Hotel in limelight again Demand for Wine at Point of Gun

The Sun · Sunday 15 April 1945 · page 3

SUNBEAM Hotel, Riley-street, Surry Hills, where two men were fatally shot last Tuesday, was the scene of an armed hold-up yesterday. Two men threatened an employee with a revolver…

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Hotel Staff's Pay to Go to Charity

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 April 1945 · page 7

Hotel Manly's 70-odd employees have decided to work as usual on Armistice Day and' to give their day's wages to a local charity…

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Alleged Assault at Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 April 1945 · page 4

After they had been refused a bottle of wine at the Sunbeam Hotel. Riley Street. Surry Hills, on Saturday, two men are alleged to have threatened…

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Hotel Ban Mystifies Publican

The Sun · Tuesday 17 April 1945 · page 3

Mortdale hotelkeeper, Mr. A. W. Thrussell, is mystified why some local residents should have…

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Licensee Agrees to New Hours for Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 April 1945 · page 5

The "black" ban on the Saltwell Hotel, Mortdale, was lifted last night when the licensee (Mr. A. W. Thrussell) agreed to demands by the Mortdale citizens' committee…

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Hotel Killing, Soldier Charged

The Sun · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 3

The case of Francis Alexander Walls (46). soldier, who has been charged with murder, was mentioned at Central Court today…

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Cafes, Hotels to Get Fewer Eggs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 April 1945 · page 3

To maintain egg supplies to the general public, supplies to cafes and hotels will he reduced to 25 per cent. of normal as from next…

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£200 Theft from Hotel Wardrobe

The Sun · Saturday 21 April 1945 · page 3

Thieves stole £200 from a wardrobe at the Queensland Hotel, Erskine-street. city, last night…

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Police Fight Transfer of Hotel Licence

Truth · Sunday 22 April 1945 · page 14

AN echo of proceedings last year in which it was alleged that servicemen and girls had paid nocturnal visits to the York Hotel,…

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Hotels disobeying beer sale order

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 22 April 1945 · page 6

Some city hotels are disobeying Premier McKell's special order that ale, lager, and stout must be sold in public bars while they are on sale in lounges…

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£200 Stolen From City Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 April 1945 · page 4

Thieves stole £200 from the bedroom of Mrs. McKenzie the wife of the licensoe of the Queensland Hotel, Erkine Stieet, at the week-end,…

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Community Hotels Along The River Murray By Keith Newman. a Staff Correspondent who recently made a tour of the South Australian irrigation area

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 April 1945 · page 2

A dominating feature of the skyline as you come into Renmark, the Smith Australian irrigation settlement on the Murray River, is the modern three-storey community hotel. You are not in Renmark long before yon realise that the…

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