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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1947

1,285 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 65

Protest Against Hotel Repairs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 5

A protest against repairs being made to hotels, particularly in the country, when they were more urgently needed to schools, was made at the annual…

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Police Drive For Hotel Conditions

The Sun · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 2

Licensing police who have made a State-wide inspection of hotels, will ask the Licensing Court…

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No Prosecution of City Hotels Likely

The Sun · Monday 12 May 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday.--The Commonwealth probably will not prosecute leading Sydney hotels which recently superimposed a service charge on meals costs. Reason for this is that the…

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Schools More Urgent. Protest Against Hotel Repairs

The Broadcaster · Wednesday 14 May 1947 · page 4

A protest against repairs being made [?] hotels, particularly in the country, when they were more urgently needed to schools, was made at the annual…

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Modernisation of Country Hotels. Rebuilding Programme Foreshadowed

Construction · Wednesday 14 May 1947 · page 4

According to the new Tourist Minister, Mr. Finnan, all N.S.W. hotels will have to be “brought up to scratch” in rcspcct of the provision of good meals and adequate bathroom and toilet facilities…

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New Country Hotels Ansett Transport Industries Ltd

Construction · Wednesday 14 May 1947 · page 6

Ansett Transport Industries Ltd., who operate Ansett Airways and the Pioneer Tourist coaches, are acquiring hotels throughout Australia in order to provide proper accommodation for their patrons,…

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Keogh Inquiry: Hotelkeeper And M.L.C. Are Mentioned

The Sun · Wednesday 14 May 1947 · page 3

Mr. Spicer, MLC, had approached him before the Peak Hill sports carnival on March 17 and 18 and suggested he permit betting, Police-Sergeant Alfred John Keogh said today…

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Contests in Licensing Court Spirit Merchant's Licence Refused to St. Marys; One Granted to Penrith Demand From Country Customers an Issue

Nepean Times · Thursday 15 May 1947 · page 1

MR. J. B. SCOBIE, chairman of the Licensing Board, held a court in Penrith on Monday to hear several applications for licences, two of which were strongly contested. Building plans for a restaurant licence at the Dude Ranch,…

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Poor Hotels Block Tourists

The Sun · Thursday 15 May 1947 · page 10

CANBERRA, Thursday. -- If Australia could overcome its hotel problem, tens of thousands of…

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Swiss Hoteliers Can Teach Us Plenty Is Sydney Woman's View

The Sun · Thursday 15 May 1947 · page 14

"Australia would do well to take a lesson from Switzerland in her effort to win tourists," states Mrs. L. J. Donaldson, of Vaucluse, who has returned from a business trip to Europe with her husband…

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Import Licensing to Be Continued

Daily Mirror · Friday 16 May 1947 · page 9

CANBERRA, Friday. --The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Pollard) told Mr. White (Lib,, Vic.) in the House of…

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New Hotel For South Africans

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 May 1947 · page 31

BRISBANE, Friday. -- The South African Soccer team will stay at a Coogee hotel when it returns to Sydney on Thursday, May 29…

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Monkey business in a luxury hotel

The Sun · Sunday 18 May 1947 · page 1

In Paris, Les Ambassadeurs is famous as the hotel where international figures congregate in gold braided uniforms, dine…

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Task Force Scores in Operation Sydney Swoop on city hotels and cabarets Sing-song parties with girls liven up streets

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 May 1947 · page 2

Hundreds of Sydney girls warmly welcomed the 3500 U.S. Naval officers and men who landed in Sydney yesterday. The men, on leave for the first time since…

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Police find filthy bars, toilets in country hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 18 May 1947 · page 16

Many New South Wales hotels had not been renovated or repaired for 80 years, a Licensing Branch official said yesterday. Others were in a bad state of repair before World War II,…

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Hotel Guests Flee Fire Gunnedah Havoc

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 1

GUNNEDAH, Monday.— Fire swept through a wing of the Royal Hotel at Gunnedah early this morning and also…

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Falstein Defies Tie Rule Incident In Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 3

CANBERRA, Sunday —The member for Watson, Mr. Falstein, to-day defied the ban on guests entering the Hotel Canberra…

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Rescuers Save Four From Blazing Country Hotel

The Sun · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 3

Rescuers had to fight their way through dense smoke to save two men, a woman and a baby from the fiercely burning Royal Hotel at Gunnedah early today. One of the men--Mr. Hanlon--was dragged unconscious along…

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Leader of 380,000 clothing workers He keeps his union free of Communists He makes every member vote, gives them a holiday hotel, sport, schools

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 8

DAVID DUBINSKY, dynamic little leader of the International Ladies' Garment Workers'…

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£15,000 Loss in Gunnedah Fire Printery And Shops Gutted Heavy Damage in Hotel Wing

Daily Mirror · Monday 19 May 1947 · page 4

A NEWSPAPER office and two shops were destroyed and a wing of a hotel was badly damaged in a fire that broke out in Gunnedah early this morning…

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