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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1949

929 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 47

Safe in Hotel Blown

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 January 1949 · page 3

While guests were asleep in the York Hotel, King St., City, early today, thieves blew the safe in…

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Home Now Hotel

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 7

LONDON. -- Hitler's mountain home at Berchtesgaden is to be converted into a luxury hotel…

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Chatswood Hotel Plan

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 8

A licensee told the Full Bench of the Licensing Court today that he would withdraw a Quarter…

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Chatswood Hotel Plan

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 8

A licensee told the Fu[?] Bench of the Licensing Court today that he would withdraw a Quarter…

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Chatswood Hotel Plan

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 February 1949 · page 8

A licensee told the Full Bench of the Licensing Court today that he would withdraw a Quarter…

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Late News Phone: M2406 Six Believed Dead in Hotel Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 24

MONTREAL, Tues.--Six are believed burned to death in a fire which destroyed the 75-years-old Grand View Hotel at Wisconsin…

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Hotel Profit Down. Div. Steady

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 19

Mallee Hotels, Ltd., earned £4480 net profit for the year ended December 31, compared with £5826 for the previous…

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Minister Jibs on Hotel Room Bureau Questions

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 18

WHEN five questions concerning the Hotel Accommodation Bureau were put to the Minister of Justice (Mr. Downing) today by the Daily Mirror, only the first was answered by the Minister. THE Bureau functions under…

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Minister Jibs on Hotel Room Bureau Questions

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 18

WHEN five questions concerning the Hotel Accommodation Bureau were put to the Minister of Justice (Mr. Downing) today by the Daily Mirror, only the first was answered by the Minister. THE Bureau functions under…

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COURT K.O. for Joe Louis No License For Firm Capone Gang Tie-up

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 10

NEW YORK, Thursday. --A firm headed by world heavy weight champion, Joe Louis,…

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COURT K.O. for Joe Louis No License For Firm Capone Gang Tie-up

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 10

NEW YORK, Thursday. --A firm headed by world heavyweight champion, Joe Louis,…

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Minister Jibs on Hotel Room Bureau Questions

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 18

WHEN five questions concerning the Hotel Accommodation Bureau were put to the Minister of Justice (Mr. Downing) today, by the Daily Minor, only the first was answered by the Minister. THE Bureau functions under…

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COURT K.O. for Joe Louis No License For Firm Capone Gang Tie-up

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 February 1949 · page 10

MEW YORK, Thursday. --A firm headed by world heavyweight champion, Joe Louis,…

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Hotel had no color line, says official

The Sun · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 3

Panamanian sprinter Lloyd La Beach was never officially booked into the Australia Hotel,…

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Country Folk Sore "Private Hotel" Amenities

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 18

Sydney publicans -- so says Magistrate Scobie of the N.S.W. Licensing Court -- will have to let rooms as well as sell beer. Excellent, But what about the exploitation of country visitors by certain unscrupulous residential-keepers?…

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Hotel "Drew Color-line" -- La Beach

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 1

Panamanian sprinter Lloyd La Beach last night accused the Australia Hotel of having "drawn the colorline" against him…

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Hotel Color Bar Denied

Daily Mirror · Saturday 5 February 1949 · page 3

Manager of the Australia Hotel (Mr. Rentoul) today denied a morning newspaper report that,a "color bar" had prevented Panamanian sprinter Lloyd La Beach from staying at the hotel. MR. RENTOUL said he had…

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Hotels say no color bar

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 6 February 1949 · page 6

Australia Hotel manager Lex Rentoul denied yesterday that the hotel management had "drawn the color line" against Panamanian sprinter Lloyd La Beach…

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Council Plans To Build Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 10

Town Clerk of Randwick (Mr. R. T. Latham) said yesterday that Randwick Council would ask the Licensing Court on February 22 to grant it a…

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Salvage Sheets For Hotel, Not For Home

Tribune · Wednesday 9 February 1949 · page 3

THE Board of Fire Commissioners, which recently said it was no longer supplying salvage sheets to protect storm-damaged homes, has…

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