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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

675 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 34

Jewels Go at Posh Hotel

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 May 1948 · page 3

NEW YORK, Tuesday.--The F.B.I. is investigating a 300,000-dollar jewel theft at the fashionable…

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Hotels to Sell Beer on

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 7

All hotels in the metropolitan area would sell bulk beer on Friday, the president of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association (Mr. N. H. Connolly) said yesterday,…

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500 Welcome First Beer At Penrith City Hotels Tomorrow

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 May 1948 · page 5

Five hundred people gathered outside a Penrith hotel yesterday to cheer the arrival of the first beer for 70 days. Penrith, 34 miles from Sydney, was the…

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New hotel opposed

The Sun · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 8

Manly Council "urgently hoped" that no hotel would be built at Balgowlah, the Mayor of Manly (Ald. C. R…

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All Hotels Will Sell Beer Today

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 1

All hotels in the Sydney metropolitan area will have beer by 4 p.m. today…

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Beer on at All Hotels

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 3

All hotels in the city area will serve beer today. SOME hotels will have beer this morning, but the…

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£50 Hotel Robbery

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 2

KATOOMBA, Friday.--Using a car lever to force a side window, thieves entered the Blue Mountains Hotel at…

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Beer on at All Hotels

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 3

All hotels in the city area will serve beer today. SOME hotels will have beer this morning, but the…

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£50 Hotel Robbery

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 2

KATOOMBA, Friday.-- Using a car lever to force a side window, thieves entered the Blue Mountains Hotel at…

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£50 Hotel Robbery

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Friday.-- Using a car lever to force' a side window, thieves entered the Blue Mountains Hotel at…

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£50 Hotel Robbery

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Friday.--Using a car lever to force a side window, thieves entered the Blue Mountains Hotel at…

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£50 Hotel Robbery

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Friday.-- Using a car lever to force a side window, thieves entered the Blue Mountains Hotel at…

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£50 Hotel Robbery

Daily Mirror · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Friday.-- Using a car lever to force a side window, thieves entered the Blue Mountains Hotel at…

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Many hotels drunk dry; city beer scarce today

The Sun · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 2

Sydney drinkers took such a heavy toll of draught beer yesterday that drought conditions prevailed in many city hotels today, and others were open only for short periods. Most city hotels had…

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Publican's Fund for Pensioners

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 2

The licensee of a city hotel hopes to raise £150 to assist the partially- blind 76- years -old…

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Publican's Fund for Pensioners

Daily Mirror · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 5

The licensee of a city hotel hopes to raise £150 to assist the partially- blind 76- years -old…

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Beer Drought Not Ended Most Quotas Insufficient; Hotels Close

Truth · Sunday 16 May 1948 · page 32

SYDNEY'S beer strike is over, but the drought is far from broken. Closed hotels yesterday afternoon were eloquent of this…

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Policemen Injured in Fierce Brawl Punched, Kicked At Rockdale Hotel Melee; Two Arrested

Truth · Sunday 16 May 1948 · page 3

Two police constables were punched, knocked to the ground and kicked, when they went to the Grand Hotel, Prince's Highway, Rockdale yesterday afternoon to break up a…

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Most hotels will have no beer and won't open tomorrow

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 May 1948 · page 5

Only a few city hotels will serve beer tomorrow. Most hotels will not get supplies until…

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Policeman kicked in hotel brawl

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 16 May 1948 · page 5

Constable Walker, of Rockdale, was knocked down and viciously kicked while trying to stop a hotel brawl yesterday. Walker and Constable…

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