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Hotels & licensing, 1946

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Unionists Dismissed At West End Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.) .--Some West End luxury hotels sacked employees who were found to be trade unionists, said the Minister for Labor (Mr. Isaacs) in the House of Commons last night…

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Lack Ban on Hotels Move

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 15

Delegates from the Sheet Metal Workers' Union will recommend to the Labor Council night that all metropolitan…

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Sydney's Drinking "Uncivilised" Brisbane Man Seeking Better Hotels

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 10

BRISBANE, Thursday.--Sydney hotel drinking conditions are "uncivilised," according to Dr. J. V. Duhig,…

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Black Ban on Hotels Move

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 15

Delegates from the Sheet Metal Workers' Union will recommend to the Labor Council tonight that all metropolitan…

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Black Ban on Hotels Move

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 3

Delegates from the Sheet Metal Workers' Union will recommend to the Labor Council tonight that all metropolitan…

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Black Ban on Hotels Move

Daily Mirror · Thursday 14 February 1946 · page 15

Delegates from the Sheet Metal Workers' Union will recommend to the Labor Council tonight that all metropolitan…

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Licensees Leave Meeting At Bankstown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

There were lively scenes at a meeting in Bankstown last night, called to discuss alleged anomalies at local hotels, and two hotel…

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Hotel Men Revolt Against Breweries’ “Tied House” Grip

Tribune · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 3

Hotel-keepers, through an under-cover committee of 11 city and suburban publicans, have lunched a revolt against the tied house” system which binds them to the breweries. In this revolt, which must remain “unofficial” because many publicans…

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Country hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 8

SIR,--In my recent car trip through North Coast towns I was impressed by the need for more hotel licences…

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No Action Yet on Hotel Ban

Daily Mirror · Friday 15 February 1946 · page 5

No immediate action will be taken by the N.S.W. Trades and Labor Council on two proposals to declare all…

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Modern Hotel for Alice

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 16 February 1946 · page 5

CONTRACT for building a modern hotel, costing more than £20,000, at Alice Springs, in thirsty Central Australia, will…

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A.L.P. Suggests Liquor Reforms Executive Urges Community Hotel Licences

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 February 1946 · page 5

The State Executive of the Australian Labor Party has recommended the State Government to grant liquor licences for community hotels and workers' clubs…

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For Your Information Community hotels offered comfort

The Sun · Sunday 17 February 1946 · page 4

COMMITTEES, consisting mostly of men who have the public welfare at heart, are working quietly, but…

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£100 Prize for Community Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 February 1946 · page 56

The municipality which established the first community hotel in New South Wales was certain to win the A. R. Bluett Memorial Prize of £100, Mr. A…

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Hotelkeeper has £50 to back ace barmaid

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 February 1946 · page 56

Sydney barmaid Daphne Nolan is ready to meet all-comers in beer-pulling contests for £50 a side. The manager of the Liverpool Arms Hotel, Pitt and King…

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Customers may be asked to put black ban on suburban hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 17 February 1946 · page 56

A public meeting called by Ryde-Gladesville-Hunter's Hill Citizens' Committee will be asked today to declare one of the four hotels in the district black. When a representative of the Sunday Telegraph told him…

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Trapped In Hotel Lift-well

The Sun · Monday 18 February 1946 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Monday. -- Trapped in the lift-well at the Westminster Hotel for half an hour this morning,…

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Girl On 5-year Bond For Hotel Theft Of £1700

The Sun · Monday 18 February 1946 · page 3

A girl employee of the Carlton Hotel, Sydney, who stole £1700 from the safe, was released on bond at the Quarter Session today, Judge Markell saying she had acted under the influence of a scoundrel…

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Hotel 'Black' Next

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 February 1946 · page 12

The Royal Hotel, Ryde, would be declared "black" from next Saturday, a public meeting at Ryde decided yesterday…

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Death After Fight Story To Coroner Alleged Brawl in Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 February 1946 · page 9

AS the result of an alleged brawl in a room at the Pyrmont Bridge Hotel, Bridge Road, Pyrmont, on January 30,…

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