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Hotels & licensing, 1947

1,285 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 65

Police Blitz On Hotel Closing Time

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Saturday.--Federal police have launched a large scale_blitz to prevent Canberra hotels serving beer in the bar…

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Police Blitz On Hotel Closing Time

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Saturday.--Federal police have launched a largescale blitz to prevent Canberra hotels serving beer in the bar…

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Police Blitz On Hotel Closing Time

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Saturday.--Federal police have launched a large- scale blitz to prevent Canberra hotels serving beer in the bar…

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Police Blitz On Hotel Closing Time

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Saturday.--Federal police have launched a large-scale blitz to prevent Canberra hotels serving beer in the har…

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Police Blitz On Hotel Closing Time

Daily Mirror · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Saturday.--Federal police have launched a large-scale blitz to prevent Canberra hotels serving beer in the bar…

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Hotel Darwin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 March 1947 · page 5

Shareholders in Hotel Darwin Ltd. are expected to receive payment of about 27/ a share on liquidation of the company…

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Under-counter rake-off Whisky "Ramp" in Hotels

The Sun · Sunday 2 March 1947 · page 11

BARMAIDS in some of the big city hotels are still making a big rake-off from Scotch whisky sold…

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Report on the "Tied-house" Hotel System Labor members (now silent) sought probe in 1936

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 March 1947 · page 56

In December, 1936, when Labor was in Opposition, Mr., now Premier, McGirr, and many members of his present Cabinet and Caucus, wanted a Royal Commission into the "tied-house" hotel system. Under this system 90 per cent of N.S.W. hotels are controlled by the breweries…

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"Farcical" law bars Randwick plan for community hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 March 1947 · page 55

"Even with its recent amendment, the Liquor Act is still a farce," Mayor of Randwick Alderman W. J. Heffernan said yesterday. He was commenting on…

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Your radio Can the publicans beat the Parsons?

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 2 March 1947 · page 10

A TEAM of six parsons will meet a team of six publicans in a radio quiz on Tuesday. The session is Jack Davey's Way to a Holiday Quiz (2UE, Tuesdays, 8.30 p.m.) and the prize a week's holiday. It should…

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To License Fruit Shops

The Sun · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 2

The City Council health and recreations committee decided today that a by-law should be prepared to license fruit shops…

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Inquiry Urged Into Hotels M.L.A's Seek Royal Commission On Tied-House System

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 March 1947 · page 7

State Government as well as Opposition members last night urged the holding of a Royal Commission into the tied-house system in the hotel trade…

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Some Hotels Still Serve Beer In Bars After 6 p.m

The Sun · Tuesday 4 March 1947 · page 5

A visit to city bars by "Sun" reporters yesterday evening disclosed that not all hotels were observing the ultimatum laid down by police last week that beer must not be served after 6 pm…

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Deadline for Hotel Bars Liquor Must Not Be Sold After 6 p.m

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 5 March 1947 · page 8

N.S.W. police will direct hotelkeepers to commence clearing their bars at 6 p.m. so that all drinkers will be off the…

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Strict Hotel Closing Methodist View

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 March 1947 · page 5

The Methodist Conference yesterday decided to urge the Government to strictly enforce 6 o'clock closing of hotels…

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Guests Escape From Three U.S. Hotel Fires

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Mar. 10 (A.A.P.). —Two hundred guests fied from the Lake Hotel at Gary (Indiana) last night when fire broke out in…

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Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 4

At Penrith Licensing Court on Thursday applications by C. J. K. Welch and R. D. Hope, for spirit merchant licences at Penrith and St…

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Alleged Bashing, Robbery at Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 14

DARLINGHURST detectives are investigating a report that a Brisbane visitor, Nicholas Thomas (75), was bashed and robbed of papers and…

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Alleged Bashing, Robbery at Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 March 1947 · page 6

DARLINGHURST detectives are investigating a report that a Brisbane visitor, Nicholas Thomas (75), was bashed and robbed of papers and…

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