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Hotels & licensing, 1946

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Brawl in Hotel Bar Costs Man £16 Fine

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 9

KENNETH ADRIAN SEYMOUR (24), laborer, was fined a total of £16 at Paddington Court today or riotous behavior in the bar of the…

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Romano Buys Wagga Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 5

WAGGA, Thursday. -- Bellair's Commercial Hotel, Wagga, has been bought for £35,000 by Mr. A. O. Romano, owner of Romano's…

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Brawl in Hotel Bar Costs Man £16 Fine

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 9

KENNETH ADRIAN SEYMOUR (24), laborer, was fined a total of £16 at Paddington Court today for riotous behavior in the bar of the…

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Brawl in Hotel Bar Costs Man £16 Fine

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 9

KENNETH ADRIAN SEYMOUR (24), laborer, was fined a total of £16 at Paddington Court today for riotous behavior in the bar of the…

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Romano Buys Wagga Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 8

WAGGA, Thursday. -- Bellair's 1 Commercial Hotel, Wagga, has been bought for £35,000 by Mr. A. O. Romano, owner of Romano's…

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Publican Wants Man To Check Hotel Beer Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 9

A Sydney hotelkeeper has offered to pay a week's wages to a customer who will spend a week checking up on sales of beer at the hotel. The hotelkeeper is Mr. Trevor…

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No Hotel Hours Change Without Referendum

The Sun · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 1

Trading hours in NSW hotels will not be changed without a referendum. This it was stated today, is provided in the Government's proposed Liquor Amendment Bill, which will come before next session of Parliament. Other features in the proposed…

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"Black" Ban on Auburn Hotel

The Sun · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 5

"Black" ban on the Melton Hotel, Auburn, has been in operation since Wednesday. A meeting of the picket…

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Threat of Ban on Hotels Beer Distribution

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 1

Imposition of a black ban on all metropolitan hotels or the withdrawal of labour from all breweries until a fair distribution of beer is secured…

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'Black' Hotel Pickets Drink at 'White' Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 7

Two cars are being used as a shuttle service to take pickets at the Melton Hotel, Auburn, to another hotel a mile away for a drink. The pickets are keeping a…

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Little Man The taxi-cab was a honeymoon hotel

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 4

A honeymoon couple got off the 9.30 pm Bendigo train at Spencer-street railway station, last week…

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"Black" hotel pickets relieve mates like changing guard

The Sun · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 3

PICKETS watching the Hotel Melton, Auburn, are relieving their mates after four hours' duty like a "changing of the guard." That is how the manager of…

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Homeless man seeks bed at Different hotel every night

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 5

A homeless man whose wife and child live in a condemned basement spends every night visiting city hotels in search of a bed for himself. The man, Mr. C. W…

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Barman discloses hotel black marketing

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 2

A barman has given Gladesville-Ryde-Hunter's Hill Citizens' Committee a signed statement containing details of black marketing at a western suburbs hotel…

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Hotels should show beer quotas K.C. demands action to end black market

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 10 February 1946 · page 2

Mr. Richard Windeyer, K.C., demanded yesterday that hotel licensees should be compelled to disclose their beer quotas to members of the general public…

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Liquor Reform Change Needed In Hotel Closing Hour To the Editor of the "Herald."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 2

Sir,—It will be a tragedy if, as is reported, the Bill to amend the Liquor Act does not provide for altering the hour of closing…

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Council to Debate Petition on Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 5

Auburn Council will tonight debate a petition demanding a public meeting to protest against poor service in hotels since beer rationing was enforced…

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Caucus Move to Break "Tied Hotel" System Strong Feeling On Brewery Influence

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 5

A strong Caucus move to release the liquor trade from the present brewery "tied-House" stranglehold would be made in the next few days, a member of State Caucus said yesterday…

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"Teed Hotel" Grip No Move For Change Further Action Planned

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 11

NO provision to curb the "tied house" stranglehold on the liquor trade has been made in the draft of…

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No Move to End 'Tied-hotel' Grip

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 5

NO provision to curb the ''tied house" stranglehold on the liquor trade has been made by the State Government's expert advisory committee, appointed to consider the Liquor Amendment Bill, it was stated…

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