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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1949

929 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 47

Publican Admits He Kicked Wife

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 5

BALLARAT, Wednesday.--Charged with having murdered his wife, John Lilley (53) admitted today at Ballarat Supreme Court that he had smacked her on the cheek four times with his open hand because…

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Publican Admits He Kicked Wife

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 5

BALLARAT, Wednesday.--Charged with haying murdered his wife, John Lilley (53) admitted today at Ballarat Supreme Court that he had smacked her on the cheek four, times with his open hand because…

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Publican Admits He Kicked Wife

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 5

BALLARAT, Wednesday.--Charged with having murdered his wife, John Lilley (53) admitted today at Ballarat Supreme Court that he had smacked her on the cheek four times with his open hand because…

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Paris police urged a return to licensed houses

The Sun · Sunday 9 October 1949 · page 17

Because vice has grown worse in the past three years, Paris police and civic leaders want to abolish a law passed in 1946. On October 7, 1946, the…

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Council to Run Hotel for Boys, Girls

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 October 1949 · page 15

LONDON, Sat. -- The London County Council will open a hotel for children next month. Boys and girls…

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Last Minute News Hotel Robbery

The Sun · Monday 10 October 1949 · page 24

Sneak-thief today stole £300 in cash and number of cheques from office safe at Wultara Hotel, Pacific…

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£300 Taken by Hotel Thieves

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 9

Thieves yesterday stole £300 in cash and cheques for £65 from the safe of the Waitara Hotel, Pacific Highway,…

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Extension of Time for Hotel Alterations

Nepean Times · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 7

At Penrith Licensing Court on Thursday an application by H. N. Strudwick, licensee of the Park View Hotel, St. Marys, for an extension of…

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Cat Burglar Escapes From Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 6

A daring cat burglar vaulted over a balcony and slid down a post when disturbed in the first floor…

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Cat Burglar Escapes From Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 6

A daring cat burglar vaulted over a balcony and slid down a post when disturbed in the first floor…

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Cat Burglar Escapes From Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 October 1949 · page 6

A daring cat burglar vaulted over a balcony and slid down a post when disturbed in the first floor…

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More Profit for Hotel Record Business

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 October 1949 · page 8

An increase of £2,079 to £12,322 is shown in net profit of Wentworth Hotel Ltd. for the year ended June 30…

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Arrest in City Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 October 1949 · page 5

A detective yesterday arrested a 38-years-old laborer who allegedly tried to sell a diamond ring for £15 in city hotel bars…

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£2,750 Fines On Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Oct 20 (A. A. P.).— Fines totalling £2,750 with £20C costs were imposed at the Old Bailey to-day on a number…

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Robbery at Hotel

The Sun · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE. Friday.-- Thieves, who broke into the Jika Jika Hotel, North Fitzroy, early today, stole a…

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“Kibbutzim Not Hotels” Important Letter from Israel

The Sydney Jewish News · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 4

The Zionist Youth Council has received the following important letter from Lishkat Hakesher shel Habonim, setting out the procedure…

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West End Hotels Fined Over Black Market Food

Daily Mirror · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 7

LONDON, Friday.--The final chapter in the great West End hotel poultry scandal, which involved hotels, restaurants and clubs in blackmarket deals, mounting to £75,000, Was Written at the Old Bailey yesterday, when five firms, their directors, chefs and former employees were convicted…

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Truth's World Report Top-Notch Hotels In Big Food Racket

Truth · Sunday 23 October 1949 · page 8

LONDON, Saturday.—In the most sensational line-up of hotel and restaurant blackmarket activities yet exposed in England, fines totalling £2750 sterling were imposed this week on a member of…

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Thief Breaks Into Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 October 1949 · page 3

A thief broke into the Rose of Denmark Hotel, Waterloo, yesterday, jemmied the licensce's door, and stole £200 left in a…

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Earl's Son in Tragedy at London Hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 27 October 1949 · page 3

LONDON, Thursday.-- The Hon. Peter Beattfy (39),- partially-blend second son of the late Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beauty, crashed to his death yesterday from the sixth floor of London's famous Ritz Hotel…

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