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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1945

741 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 38

No Changes Yet In Hotel Hours

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 May 1945 · page 4

The Government had not decided to increase or decrease trading hours of hotels, said the Acting-Premier (Mr. Baddeley) today…

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Hotel Transfer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 May 1945 · page 8

An application by William John Huntley for the transfer of the licence of the Moore Park View Hotel. Dowling Street, Waterloo, to Doyle Mallett,…

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W.A.A.F`s Refuse To Pet Willi In Luxurious "Prison" Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 May 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Twenty-five W.A.A.F. waitresses in the R.A.F. Mess in the luxury flats at St. John's Wood, have gone on strike after refusing to serve Willi Messer- schmitt and more than 100 other high-ranking Nazi captives. THE strike has been going on for…

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Spat in Faces of Two Publicans

Daily Mirror · Friday 18 May 1945 · page 4

BRISBANE, Friday.--For spitting in the faces of two hotel-keepers at Spring Hill on Monday, Len Thoms was fined £20 in the City Summons…

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Clergyman Swept Into Hotel by Beer Rush

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 May 1945 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday.--The Rev. H. L. Hawkins was swept in to a hotel one day in the beer rush, he said at the City Congregational Church tonight. He knew a woman of 73 who…

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Hotels Open On V-Day

The Sun · Thursday 24 May 1945 · page 2

Hotels in Sydney are not likely to be closed for the two- day celebration of victory over Japan. If there is any compulsory…

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Coroner Told of Double Shooting in Hotel

Truth · Sunday 27 May 1945 · page 35

TWO fatal shots were fired in the bar of the Sunbeam Hotel, Riley St., Surry Hills, on April 10. One crashed through the temple of Arthur Graham, 31-years-old City Council cleaner. The other struck Cecil…

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Meeting will boost community hotel plan

The Sun · Sunday 27 May 1945 · page 9

A public meeting has been called today to discuss the establishment in Sydney of a community hotel. The meeting, with Mr. R. Windeyer, KC, presiding, will open at…

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Hotels suffer holiday hangover

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 May 1945 · page 44

LONDON, Sat. -- Although customers are by now fairly well on their feet again, hotels have not recovered…

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Community Hotel Plan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 May 1945 · page 4

Plans for the establishment of a community hotel in the King's Cross area will be drawn up by a committee which was formed at a public meeting in the King's Cross Newsreel Theatrette yesterday…

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Community Hotel Plan Supported

The Sun · Monday 28 May 1945 · page 2

Proposed community hotel at King's Cross, featuring a beer garden, would be a step towards eliminating the present drinking conditions, which "involve clamoring and squeaking like pigs at a…

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Publican Wins Appeal On Beer

The Sun · Monday 28 May 1945 · page 3

When Customs official, Gillespie William Russell, asked publican Albert George Callinan, for a…

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Publican Succeeds In Appeal On Beer Sale

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 May 1945 · page 5

Trouble with two excise officers who went looking for a bottle of beer during the hot weather just before last New Year's Eve was that they were a little too zealous…

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No More Fruit Barrows To Be Licensed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 5

By six votes to five, the Works Committee of the City Council yesterday rejected a suggestion that 22 more fruit and vegetable…

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Licensee Wins Appeal On Beer Sale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 May 1945 · page 5

The State Full Court by a majority decision yesterday upheld an appeal by a hotel licensee against a magistrate's decision on a charge of having failed to supply a bottle of beer on demand and tender of…

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Talk of Feud in Hotel Case

The Sun · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 7

Allegations that objections to a proposed hotel licence transfer were malicious and venemous and inspired by a bitter family feud, were made by Mr. Brian Clancy, KC, in the Licensing Court today…

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People May Run Hotels Baddeley tells of liquor review CESSNOCK

The Sun · Sunday 3 June 1945 · page 2

ESTABLISHMENT of community hotels run by boards of local citizens is being considered by the Government. Acting-Premier Baddeley gave this…

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Citizen-centrolled hotels proposed

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 June 1945 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Sat.--The Government was examining proposals for establishing community hotels controlled by boards of local citizens, Acting-Premier Baddeley said today at Cessnock…

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Grade Fields tides up own room at Brisbane hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 June 1945 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sat.--Famous English access, Grade Fields, today tidied her own room and put away her suitcases. When the hotel maid went…

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Breaches of Act by Publicans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 June 1945 · page 4

The Metropolitan Licensing Inspector has reported to the Minister of Justice, Mr. Downing, that, on a tour of the southern,…

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