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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1947

1,285 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 65

Prices Officers To Check City Hotels

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 December 1947 · page 8

THE drive against blackmerketing in liquor would be intensified and all hotels in the metropolitan area would be checked before Christmas, the Acting Deputy Prices Commissioner (Mr. A. H. Weir) said today…

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Blitz on Liquor Blackmarket Check On All Hotels Before Christmas Drive to Be Intensified

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 December 1947 · page 6

THE drive against blackmarketing in liquor would be intensified and all hotels in the metropolitan area would be checked before Christmas, the…

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Price Check On All City Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 15

Liquor prices in all metropolitan hotels would be checked before Christmas, Mr. A. H. K. Weir said yesterday…

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City hotel party; K.C's. charges in Prince's assault case

The Sun · Tuesday 2 December 1947 · page 3

A witness in Central Court today said that after the adjournment of an assault case yesterday he discussed the evidence with others in the Hotel Australia lounge…

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Cafe, Hotel Workers Win Big Gains

Tribune · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 5

ALMOST 12,000 workers in restaurants, cafes, kiosks and hotels, most of them women, have gained substantial wage…

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2 Witnesses Met in Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 16

A grazier said yesterday that alter the adjournment of an assault case on Monday he discussed the evidence in the presence of a woman witness in…

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Hotels Open One Hour a Day in Vic

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- All but a few city and suburban hotels were closed today, and will open…

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Shortage of Materials Hits Hotels

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 2

The Licensing Court's drive to compel hotelkeepers to modernise their premises has been…

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Hotels Open One Hour a Day in Vic

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- All but a few city and suburban hotels were closed today, and will open…

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Shortage of Materials Hits Hotels

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 3 December 1947 · page 10

THE Licensing Court's drive to compel hotelkeepers to modernise their premises has been suspended at the request of the Minister for Building…

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Shots Fired In Quarrel Outside Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 1

Two shots were fired in a brawl between a licensee and a barman outside a hotel in Chapel Road, Bankstown, late last night…

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Licensee on intent to murder charge

The Sun · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 4

His head bandaged and face bloodstained, Robert Theodore Gialvin, 44, licensee of the Bankstown Hotel, Chapel-road, Bankstown, was charged at Campsie Court today with having shot at William Keith Todd…

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Publicans to be charged

The Sun · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 11

Prosecutions alleging overcharging for lounge drinks are pending against several city hotels, the Prices…

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Shots Fired; Police Arrest Publican

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 1

Police last night arrested a publican after two revolver shots had been fired during a struggle outside his hotel in Chapel Road, Bankstown…

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Baddeley to Probe Hotel Glass Report

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 2

THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) will investigate reports that half-pint glasses in use in city hotels have not…

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Baddeley to Probe Hotel Glass Report

Daily Mirror · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 2

THE Chief Secretary (Mr. Baddeley) will investigate reports that half - pint glasses in use in city hotels have not…

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Review Of Licenses

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 2

IMPORT licences involving about £17,000,000 cancelled last week were new being re-examined, said the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley…

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Hotels say Xmas parcel price right

The Sun · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 6

Hotelkeepers today claimed the price of 34- for a Christmas parcel of liquor being charged by an Eastern…

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Xmas Box for Hotel Customers

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 3

Two thousand customers of Sydney's most popular suburban beer-garden hotel, the Golden Sheaf at…

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Xmas Box for Hotel Customers

Daily Mirror · Friday 5 December 1947 · page 3

Two thousand customers of Sydney's most popular suburban beer-garden hotel, the Golden Sheaf at…

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