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Hotels & licensing, 1945

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Firebug Blamed for Hotel Fires

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- Fires which broke out in three Geelong hotels within half an hour last night are believed to be the work of a…

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Laborer Gaoled for Being on Hotel Roof

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 7

ON a charge of having been found on the roof of the Unicorn Hotel, Oxford St., City, yesterday for an unlawful purpose, William Farquahson…

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Laborer Gaoled for Being on Hotel Roof

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 7

ON a charge of having been found on the roof of the Unicorn Hotel. Oxford St., City, yesterday for an unlawful purpose, William Farquahson…

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Laborer Gaoled for Being on Hotel Roof

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 7

ON a charge of having been found on the roof of the Unicorn Hotel, Oxford St., City, yesterday for an unawful purpose, William Farounhson…

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Heavy Wartime Tipping for Good Hotel Service

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 January 1945 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Good service was no longer possible in some Australian hotels without heavy tipping, an overseas visitor to Melbourne said today. The visitor, who is staying at…

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Doctor And Woman Die In Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- A Ballarat doctor and a Queensland woman were found dead…

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Publican "Not in Cafe Brawl"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 6

A man sitting in Central Court today was given permission to enter the witness box. He warmly denied that he had been at Romano's night club on the night of an alleged fracas…

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Publican "Not in Cafe Brawl"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 6

A man sitting in Central Court today was given permission to enter the witness box. He warmly denied that he had been at Romano's night club on the night of an alleged fracas…

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Publican "Not in Cafe Brawl"

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1945 · page 2

Mr. J. J. Plasto, leading city publican, denied at Central Court today that he had been involved in a brawl at Romano's night club. THE incident occurred in the ease…

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Doctor, Nurse Found Dead In Hotel Suite

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 January 1945 · page 4

MELBOURNE. Wednesday.— A well-known Ballarat doctor and a former Army nurse wars found dead in a city hotel s[?]e…

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50-50 Convert Hotels Into Homes Letterettes in Fifty Words New Home

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 14

Many hotels are only open two hours a day, so the Government should take them over and convert them into…

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Rosehill, Rosebery Licensed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1945 · page 10

Rosehill Racing Club ann the Rosebery Turf Club yesterday received licences to conduct meetings this year Under the programme drawn up by…

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Woman's Amazing Story of Loans to Alleged Pseudo Publican Police Officer

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 13

"IT was too easy to let go —money far the asking asking." So said 30-years-old laborer John Henry Kearney, according to a detective's evidence in Newcastle Police Court…

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Publican Denies He Saw Alleged Brawl at Romano's

Truth · Sunday 14 January 1945 · page 9

WHEN the case arising out of a disturbance at fashionable Romano's on the night of December 23 was resumed at Central Court last week an American officer indicated a man sitting…

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