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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1947

1,285 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 65

Referendum on Hotel Closing February 15

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 1 January 1947 · page 12

The referendum to determine what hours New South Wales hotels shall close—6, 9 or 10 p.m.—will be held on…

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Community Hotel On Golf Links

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 5

Permission from the Local Government Department to borrow £10,000 for the purchase of St. Andrew's Golf Links at Blacktown…

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Hotel Hours

The Sun · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 4

The referendum on hotel hours is ill-thought out and badly framed. Why consider opening the bars until 9 or 10 pm? The…

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Publican Couldn't Even Give Away £1000

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Wednesday.--Police yesterday arrested a publican who tried to give a way £1000 to Bowery derelicts. A policeman took the publican,…

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Escapes in Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thursday.--An early morning fire yesterday destroyed the Cadiz Hotel, Kentucky, and an ice plant, but 20 guests escaped…

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Escapes in Hotel Fire

Daily Mirror · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 5

NEW YORK, Thursday.--An early morning fire yesterday destroyed the Cadiz Hotel, Kentucky, and an ice plant, but 20 guests escaped…

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"Herald" Week-end Magazine Tenant or Lodger?—Hotel "Life" At Lae—Mystery of the Down-and-Out—Japanese Whalers—British Opera—Africa's Secret Killers—Short Story—General Articles Boiled-egg Brigade on the Rampage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 9

LANDLADIES all over Sydney are falling over themselves every morning with breakfast trays. They belong…

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Licensee Wanted In Darwin, N.T.

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 3

DARWIN, Saturday.--Lease of a perfectly good hotel, the new Hotel Darwin, is going begging. After accepting the…

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Hotels ignore law, close doors on Saturday afternoons

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 5 January 1947 · page 4

In a 24-mile tour of the city and suburbs between 3 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. yesterday, a Sunday Telegraph reporter found 60 hotels closed. The bars of 89 hotels were open for business…

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Ex-Defective Gets Publican's Licence

The Sun · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 2

Aubrey Francis Keating, who was formerly a detective- sergeant, was today granted a publican's licence and will take over…

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Shire to Build 5 Communal Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 11

Hastings Shire Council had decided to build me community hotels at a cost of £30,000 each, Mr. V. C. Ranson said yesterday, Mr. Ranson is shire clerk of…

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Woman Found £500 in Lift of City Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 3

A woman lift- driver, who found a parcel containing £500 in notes in her lift on Friday morning, said that she "felt…

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Former Opera Star Loses £240,000 From Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 12

PARIS, Monday. -- Jewels valued at £160,000 and securities worth £80,000 were stolen yesterday from the former opera singer, Mrs. Lucinne Denitez-Rejach, wife of an American…

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Woman Found £500 in Lift of City Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 3

A woman lift-driver, who found a parcel containing £500 in notes in her lift on Friday morning, said that she "felt…

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Former Policeman to Manage Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

FORMER Det.-Sgt. Aubrey Francis Keating was granted a publican's licence by Mr. Scoble, S.M., at the Licensing Court today…

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Former Opera Star Loses £240,000 From Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 1

PARIS, Monday. -- Jewels valued at £160,000 and securities worth £80,000 were stolen yesterday from the former opera singer, Mrs. Lucinne Denitez-Rejach, wife of an American…

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Former Opera Star Loses £240,000 From Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 12

PARIS, Monday. -- Jewels valued at £160,000 and securities worth £80,000 were stolen yesterday from the former opera singer, Mrs. Lucinne Denitez-Rejach, wife of an American…

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Woman Found £500 in Lift of City Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 2

A woman lift-driver, who found a parcel containing £500 in notes in her lift on Friday morning, said that she "felt…

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Former Policeman to Manage Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 6

FORMER Det.-Sgt. Aubrey Francis Keating was granted a publican's licence by Mr. Scobie, S.M., at the Licensing Court today…

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Former Opera Star Loses £240,000 From Hotel Room

Daily Mirror · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 1

PARIS Monday. -- Jewels valued at £160,000 and securities worth £80,000 were stolen yesterday from the former opera singer, Mrs. Lucinne Denitez Rejach, wife of an American…

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