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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1945

741 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 38

Import Licenses. Valid For A Year

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 5 June 1945 · page 2

It is stated that, with a few minor exceptions, import licences issued in future will carry a validity of 12 months from the…

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Cabinet Planning Liquor Reform Community Hotels May Be Sanctioned

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

There is strong support in the State Parliamentary Labour Party for proposals to establish community hotels and to license working men's and soldiers' clubs. It is expected that provision for these will be…

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"Unfitted for Licence" Hotel Transfer Refused

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

Mr. Scobie, S.M., rejected in the Metropolitan Licensing court yesterday an application by Albert Thomas Waterhouse for…

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Petrol Retailers De-licensed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 June 1945 · page 3

The State Liquid Fuel Control Board has suspended the trading licences of six petrol retailers who supplied 6,000 gallons of…

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Pianist Gives Classical Recitals in Hotel Bars

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 June 1945 · page 5

Twenty-two-year-old Australian pianist, Noel Mewton-Wood, gave three classical recitals in hotel bars in Sheffield, several weeks before he left England. Mewton-Wood is visiting…

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Tramps Now Welcome at Fashionable Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 June 1945 · page 35

NEW YORK, Sat. -- A Scottish housekeeper was conducting a behind-the-scenes tour of one of the greatest New York hotels. "Watch out for the vacuum…

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Publican Fined for Saloon Bar Sales

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1945 · page 2

William Charles Fletcher, licensee of the Palace Hotel, Hay and George Sts., was fined £3 by Mr. Bliss, S.M., at the Licensing Court today for having sold beer in the saloon bar on April 20 without having made it available in the public bar…

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United Boycott On Bowen Publicans

Tribune · Tuesday 12 June 1945 · page 7

BOWEN.—A united boycott by the Trade Unions and the Chamber of Commerce, supported by the Town Council, was imposed on all Bowen…

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World's Most Amazing Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 June 1945 · page 11

RIO DE JANEIRO (Brazil).--Surely the most fantastic and fabulous hotel in the world must be Quitandinha, located near Petropolis, about 60 miles from Rio de Janeiro. It was thought up by Joaquim Rolla, nervous…

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Poll On Hours For Hotels

The Sun · Friday 15 June 1945 · page 3

A referendum on hotel trading hours may be held before the next State elections…

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"Black" Ban on Hotel

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 June 1945 · page 2

HOTEL PUNCHBOWL, which a local beer drinkers' vigilance committee has declared "black." The committee alleges the hotel does not open on Saturdays, does not sell bottled beer, and has not enough schooners…

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Hotel Black Ban by Beer Drinkers

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 June 1945 · page 2

A beer drinkers' vigilance committee last night declared the Hotel Punchbowl black because it was alleged it did not open on Saturday, did not sell bottled beer and did not have enough schooners…

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Support For Hotel Hours Poll

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 June 1945 · page 6

The State Cabinet may consider holding a referendum on hotel trading hours…

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Drinkers, With Beer, Flee From Fumes In Hotel Bar

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 June 1945 · page 4

A crowded hotel bar was cleared in a few seconds just before closing time yesterday evening when sulphur dioxide fumes escaped from a cellar. The hotel was the Wool Pack,…

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Both Sides Stand Firm In Hotel Beer Dispute

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 June 1945 · page 4

A dispute between the licensee of the Punchbowl Hotel (Mr. Curtis) and local residents who have declared the hotel black, has become a deadlock. A citizens' committee, which…

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Beer Drinkers' Ban on Hotel Remains

Daily Mirror · Saturday 16 June 1945 · page 5

The beer drinkers' vigilance committee is determined to continue its ban on the Hotel Punchbowl, which was declared black on Thursday night…

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Gashed with Glass, Says Publican

Truth · Sunday 17 June 1945 · page 30

He was so well known for barring people, who misbehaved themselves, from drinking in his hotel, that…

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Fatal Bashing in Hotel Bar Alleged

Truth · Sunday 17 June 1945 · page 29

THREE witnesses told the City Coroner (Mr. Harris) last week that in the bar of the Oaks Hotel, Neutral Bay, on…

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Search for living space in city Few Rooms in Hotels

The Sun · Sunday 17 June 1945 · page 8

CITY and suburban hotels, with few exceptions, no longer fulfil one of their main…

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Pickets outside hotel to enforce boycott

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 June 1945 · page 5

Residents of Punchbowl yesterday placed pickets outside the Punchbowl Hotel to enforce a "black" boycott imposed on Thursday because of local dissatisfaction with beer supplies…

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