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Hotels & licensing, 1946

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"Tied 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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"Tied 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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'Govt. Must Compel Hotels to Sell Quota’ Lawyer Hits Drink Racket

Tribune · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 3

The Government should introduce legislation compelling hotelkeepers to sell their liquor quotas to the public and providing for inspection of liquor stocks by police or…

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Govt. Wants Electors To Fix Hotel Hours

The Sun · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 7

There is no provision in the Liquor Act requiring a referendum for the alteration of hotel trading hours. Hours could be altered by legislation, but the Government…

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Masked Bandit Steals Hotel Saf[?]

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 12

A masked man yesterday stole a safe containing £260 from the Mansions House Privat[?] Hotel, City, after kicking a nightwatchma[?] in the stomach…

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Hotel Trading Hours Meeting

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 15

Auburn Council decided last night to call a public meeting on Friday to discuss hotel hours and the distribution of liquor…

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Referendum on Hotel Hours Mooted Government Favours Course

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 3

The State Government feels that no alteration should be made in hotel trading hours without the approval of the electors at a referendum. Some of the Government's…

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Liquor Clean-up Demanded "Appalling Conditions In Hotels" Straight Talk at Public Meeting

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 1

A motion urging drastic action against any brewery, hotel-keeper, or wine saloon proprietor convicted of blackmarketing was carried by an overwhelming majority at a public meeting at Parramatta last Thursday night…

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'Working Holidays' at Hotel for Musicians

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 6

When Laurl Kennedy, world-famous 'cellist, and his wife, Dorothy Kennedy, well-known pianist, could not find a home in Sydney last year after completing a series of concerts in 1944 they decided to buy a hotel…

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Co-operative Hotel Movement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 4

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—An application was made to the Registrar of Friendly Societies to-day to register a society in the name of Queensland…

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Romano Buys Hotel at Wagga

Construction · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 3

Mr. A. O. Romano, owner of Romano’s Restaurant, Sydney, has bought Bellair’s Commercial Hotel at Wagga for £35,000 and plans to make it the leading hotel between Sydney and Melbourne…

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Pepper-pot for Hotel Bandit

The Sun · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 3

Accustomed from childhood to sleeping with a box of pepper beside her bed, originally for protection against gipsies, a woman foiled a hold-up early today by flinging the pepper in the face of a…

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Move On Hotel Hours Opposed

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 17

The Liquor Trades Employees' Union would oppose any move to extend hotel hours,…

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Licensees Seek Royal Commission Opposition To Tied House Plan M.L.A.s Asked for Wider Law

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 16

A LIQUOR reform plan, including a Royal Commission to inquire into tied houses, bonuses, increased rents charged by breweries and the practice of breweries conducting hotels…

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Hotel Bandit Foiled Woman Threw Can of Pepper Into Face of Intruder

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 7

THE 68-years-old proprietress of a city private hotel, at 1 a.m. today, threw a tin of pepper in the masked face of a young would-be bandit. THE woman, Mrs. Olive May…

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Licensees Seek Royal Commission Opposition To Tied House Plan M.L.A.s Asked for Wider Law

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 16

A LIQUOR reform plan, including a Royal Commission to inquire into, tied houses, bonuses, increased rents charged by breweries and the practice of breweries conducting hotels…

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Licensees Seek Royal Commission Opposition To Tied House Plan M.L.A.s Asked for Wider Law

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 16

A LIQUOR reform plan, including a Royal Commission to inquire into tied houses, bonuses, increased rents charged by breweries and the practice of breweries conducting hotels…

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Hotel Bandit Foiled Woman Threw Can of Pepper Into Face of Intruder

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 February 1946 · page 7

THE 68-years-old proprietress of a city private hotel, at 1 a.m. today, threw a tin of pepper in the masked face of a young would-be bandit. THE woman, Mrs. Olive May…

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Licensing Court Liquor Permit Refused

Nepean Times · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 1

At the Penrith Licensing Court on Thursday, 7th inst., Ethel May Wolff, licensee of Log Cabin Hotel, Penrith, applied for extension of Section 57A…

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Black Ban Mooted On All Hotels

The Sun · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 2

NSW Labor Council tonight is expected to discuss a "black" ban on all hotels and withdrawal of…

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