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Hotels & licensing, 1946

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Remanded On Hotel Charge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 June 1946 · page 3

Colin Smillie (41), laborer, was remanded at Central Court today until June 28 on a charge of inflicting grievous bodily…

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Licensee on Car Receiving Charge

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 18 June 1946 · page 2

MR. HARVEY, S.M., at Ryde Court today committed Herbert Peter Kortum (33), licensee of the Shakespeare Hotel. Devonshire St., Surry…

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Diggers' Club to Seek Liquor License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 19 June 1946 · page 2

Granville R.S.L. has formed a social club to be known as the "Granville Diggers' Club." Application will be made for a…

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Publican's Shot Cost Hem £15

The Sun · Thursday 20 June 1946 · page 2

Leonard Alan Evans, 44, hotelkeeper, was fined a total of £15 at Central Court today on charges of unlawfully discharging a firearm and behaving in a threatening manner on May…

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Fired Shot in Street; City Publican Fine

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 June 1946 · page 2

Leonard Allan Evans (44) licensee of the Northern River[?] Hotel, Sussex and Erskine Sts[?] City, was fined £10 at Centr[?]…

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Fired Shot in Street City Publican Fined

Daily Mirror · Thursday 20 June 1946 · page 2

Leonard Allan Evans (44), licensee of the Northern Rivers Hotel, Sussex and Erskine Sts, City, was fined £10 at Central…

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Americans Shy At Our Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 6

AMERICANS are getting ready to resume their globe-trotting and soon will begin flooding over the world in enormous numbers,…

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Eight Dead In Hotel Explosion

The Sun · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 1

DALLAS (Texas) Friday.-- Explosion in a basement at the 16-storey £1.600.000 Baker Hotel killed eight persons and…

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Returned Soldiers' League Slates Chifley Hotel Purchase Stopped

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 2

FEDERAL Treasurer (Mr. Chifley) has intervened to stop the purchase of a Hobart hotel for £35,000. Hotel was to be used as a hostel for Hobart Diggers. CHIFLEY'S action, under…

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Six Skilled in Hotel Explosion

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 7

NEW YORK, Saturday.--Six persons were killed and 36 injured by an explosion and ammonia fumes in the basement of the skyscraper Baker…

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Woman's Naked Body Found in Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--Police are investigating the mysterious death of Margery Gardner (33), artist, whose naked body has been found…

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Tragedy At U.S. Hotel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 2

POLICE, SOLDIER, SAILORS AND CIVILIANS lend a hand as a victim is carried down a fire escape of the La Salle Hotel, Chicago, where 58 persons were killed and 200 injured during a fire last month…

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Woman's Naked Body Found in Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--Police are investigating the mysterious death of Margery Gardner (33), artist whose naked body has been found…

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Woman's Naked Body Found in Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--Police are investigating the mysterious death of Margery Gardner (33), artist. whose naked body has been found…

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Woman's Naked Body Found in Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--police are Investigating the mysterious death of Margery Gardner (33), artist, whose naked body has been found…

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Woman's Naked Body Found in Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 2

LONDON, Saturday.--Police are investigating the mysterious death of Margery Gardner (33), artist, whose naked body has been found…

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5 Years for Deaf Mute Airman Dies In Hotel Fight

Truth · Sunday 23 June 1946 · page 36

THE deaf mute, Michael Courtney Bereyne Allen, laborer, of 338 Pacific Highway, Lane Cove, had pleaded not guilty to the murder of a 21-years-old airman, Francis Amiens Smith,…

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£150 Bills for Meals in Luxury Hotels

Truth · Sunday 23 June 1946 · page 52

LONDON, Saturday.—Luxury spending, hitherto confined mainly to May fair and West End districts, has now spread to the Thames-side stretch, which contains some of the wealthiest houses in Britain…

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Five Killed by Hotel Explosion

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 June 1946 · page 3

NEW YORK, Sat.--Five people were killed and many injured when a boiler exploded in the basement of the Baker Hotel at Dallas, Texas, yesterday…

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Civic flare-up likely on sale of hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 23 June 1946 · page 12

A major boil-over in civic affairs may result from last week's statement by Lord Mayor Hartley that city-owned properties must be sold to pay for street repairs…

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