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Hotels & licensing, 1947

1,285 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 65

Pro Bono Publican Liquor Reform -- Promise And Fulfilment

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 19 July 1947 · page 3

McKell Government's Liquor Act which was introduced ostensibly to make drinking more civilised in a world capital city of close on 1,500,000 people has made drinking less civilised…

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Licensed clubs

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 July 1947 · page 6

SIR,--The public feel they have been hoodwinked and are very sore. Properly conducted clubs, which in…

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Permit WAS Given For Luxury Hotel

The Sun · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 2

No breach of the law had been committed in building a £30,000 luxury hotel at Ulladulla (South Coast), said the Minister for…

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LETTERS to the EDITOR Bad hotels blamed for liquor restrictions Outdoor drinking

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 6

SIR,--The number of indignant protests regarding the new times operating for all establishments holding liquor…

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Hotel Builder Given Permit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 2

Investigations had disclosed that a permit had been obtained to build a luxury hotel, now under construction, at Ulladulla…

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Hotel Builder Given Permit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 2

Investigations had disclosed that a permit had been obtained to build a luxury hotel, now under construction, at Ulladulla…

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Hotel Builder Given Permit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 2

Investigations had disclosed that a permit had been obtained to build a luxury hotel, now under construction, at Ulladulla…

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Hotel Builder Given Permit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 2

Investigations had disclosed that a permit had been obtained to build a luxury hotel, now under construction, at Ulladulla…

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Hotel Builder Given Permit

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 July 1947 · page 3

Investigations had disclosed that a permit had been obtained to build a luxury hotel, now under construction, at Ulladulla…

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Luxury South Coast Hotel "No Breach Of Law"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 July 1947 · page 4

The Minister for Building Materials, Mr. Matthews, said yesterday that the persons who had begun to build a £30,000 hotel…

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Contests Before Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 July 1947 · page 2

The full Licensing Board will visit Penrith on August 15, and, among other matters, will hear an appeal lodged against the granting of a spirit…

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New Hotel and Brewery in N.t

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 July 1947 · page 6

A brewery and a tourist hotel will be erected at Coomalie, 55 miles from Darwin, by Northern Territory Brewery, Ltd., which has been registered…

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Proposals Of Wheatgrowers' Organisations Criticised Licensing Plan Condemned Gunnedah Farmer Defends Federal Scheme

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 July 1947 · page 18

WHAT wheatgrower's organisations and "vote-catching politicians" and what wheatgrowers as a whole and the Australian people as a whole said had always been two different things, declared…

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Redbaiting Couldn’t Stop Vote For Community Hotel

Tribune · Friday 25 July 1947 · page 3

Despite “Red Bogey” attacks from a united front of brewery agents and temperance fanatics, a voluntary poll in the Wade Shire has decided that the council should borrow approximately £100,000 to establish a community hotel in…

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Proposed Hotel at Kingsgrove

The St George Call · Friday 25 July 1947 · page 1

The Mayor intimated that an application was being made for the issue of a license to permit the conducting of a Hotel at Kingsgrove. He considered the…

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Team Told to Quit Hotel Damage By N.S.W. Men In Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday.—The N.S.W. Rugby League team was asked this morning to leave the hotel where they were…

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A.j.c. Refuses to License 12 Riders

The Sun · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 12

Twelve jockeys have not been re-licensed by the AJC for the new season's racing, which opens on Saturday, because they have not had sufficient riding in the metropolitan area this season…

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Four Years For Hotel 'Barber'

The Sun · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 3

Described by a detective as "the most active and most accomplished hotel barber in Australia," Charles Winters,…

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Footballers In Hotel Incident League Men to Pay for Damaged Rooms

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday.--Several members of the New South Wales Rugby League team early this morning created a disturbance in a Brisbane hotel at which they were staying…

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League Team to Be Reported Sequel To Riotous Celebration Admission of Hotel Damage

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 July 1947 · page 4

MEMBERS of the N.S.W. Rugby League team, who caused havoc in the Hotel Daniel, Brisbane, early yesterday, will be reported tonight to the N.S.W.R.L…

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