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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

675 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 34

2 New Hotels Get Licences

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 July 1948 · page 4

The Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday approved the transfer of two licences to hotels yet to be built. One of the new hotels will be at Cremorne…

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Amazing Story of Woman Recluse Left Estate Valued At £3,000,000 Death in Dirty Room at Hotel

Truth · Sunday 25 July 1948 · page 4

NEW YORK, Saturday.—Surrounded by filth, rubbish and junk, and clad in clothes at least 26 years old, 72-years-old recluse, Mary B. Powers, died this week in the hotel…

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Secrecy Over Release of Criminal Even Police Left In Dark Allegation of Hotel Visits

Truth · Sunday 25 July 1948 · page 5

A cloud of departmental secrecy surrounds the release of notorious underworld figure Clifford Tasman Thompson from Long Bay Penitentiary this week, after serving only…

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Publican Beats Drum for Salvation Army

The Sun · Sunday 25 July 1948 · page 4

BY day Jack Kay, 71, licensee of the Goulburn Hotel, Goulburn and George Streets, Sydney, sells beer. At night he turns out to help the Salvation Army. He borrows a Salvation Army officer's cap, takes…

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150 girls missing, some found in hotels, circuses

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 July 1948 · page 6

In the past 12 months 150 girls and young women have been reported missing to police. Police have found missing girls in brothels…

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TODAY... Science, Medicine This hotel had no guests

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 25 July 1948 · page 15

When pressmen this week saw Britain's new atom station near Didcot (Berkshire) they named…

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Hotel Licence Transfer Lindfield Protest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 3

A meeting called by the Kuring-gai Council at Lindfield last night passed a resolution protesting against the…

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Opposition to Hotel

The Sun · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 5

Kuring-gai Council will file an objection on Friday to the proposed building of a hotel at Lindfield, where…

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Salary Doubled in Hotel

The Sun · Tuesday 27 July 1948 · page 8

Manageress of the Hotel Arcadia, city, had her salary doubled after Sir Joynton Smith's death,…

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Thief Enters Hotel Window

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 3

A thief climbed the fire escape and entered a window at the Wentworth Hotel, city, last night. He stole clothing and a watch…

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Yallourn Workers Need Licensed Club

Tribune · Wednesday 28 July 1948 · page 7

MELBOURNE.—-Demand of Yallourn workers for a licensed workers’ club has been supported by Iron-workers’ State Secretary Mr. Bert…

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Minister Queried On Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 5

Mr. Bate said last night that line believed the Chief Secretary (Mr…

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Cliffie Thomas, blonde at Mountains hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 3

After a week's holiday, spent incognito at the Carrington Hotel, Katoomba, gunman Clifford Thompson, better known as Cliffie Thomas, returned to Sydney last night…

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Hotel Land Resumption for Report

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 2

Certain Housing Commission resumptions of sites proposed for hotels would be referred to a…

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Hotel Land Resumption for Report

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 2

Certain Housing Commission resumptions of sites proposed for hotels would be referred to a…

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Hotel Land Resumption for Report

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 2

Certain Housing Commission resumptions of sites proposed for hotels would be referred to a…

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Hotel Land Resumption for Report

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 4 August 1948 · page 2

Certain Housing Commission resumptions of sites proposed for hotels would be referred to a…

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Czech Hotel Keeper Expelled

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 1

LONDON, Wedn. (JTA). The Association of Czechoslovak Hotel keepers has expelled from its membership the proprietor of the Orel…

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Clerics Oppose Hotel Transfer

Truth · Sunday 8 August 1948 · page 6

PRESBYTERIAN, Methodist and Anglican ministers lined up with Lindfield Progress Associations and Kuring-gai Municipal Council in the Licensing Court on Wednesday to oppose transfer of a Redfern hotel licence to Pacific Highway, Lindfield…

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Licensee's Denial in Smith Case

Truth · Sunday 8 August 1948 · page 23

Suggestions that the Hotel Arcadia bar takings were being mulct of £20 a week at the time of Sir…

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