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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1950

1,081 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 55

Counter Lunch Hotels "Not Interested"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1950 · page 4

Sydney publicans were "not interested" in the idea of serving counter lunches, the president of…

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Former jockey now publican

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 March 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Mon. -- The Licensing Court today approved of former jockey Billy Duncan becoming licensee of the…

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Dangers lift Plan To Free Hotels From Controls

Tribune · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 8

Using the excuse that public servants need accommodation, the State Government is planning to free hotels from building controls. THIS means that millions of…

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Leslie Perrott Goes Abroad. Melbourne Architect to Study Hotels

Construction · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 2

An investigation of postwar hotel construction work overseas will be made by Mr. Leslie M. Perrott, Melbourne architect, who recently left on the "Dominion Monarch"…

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Increases in hotel tariffs

The Sun · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 16

Many city residential hotels increased prices today from 2- to 11- for single and double bedrooms…

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Man Dies After Brawl in Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 2

Boots, a bottle and wrestling holds were used in a brawl outside a King's Cross Hotel, resulting in a man dying from a fractured skull and brain injuries, the City Coroner (Mr. A. N. Bott) was told today…

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Man Dies After Brawl in Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 2

Boots, a bottle and wrestling holds were used in a brawl outside a King's Cross Hotel, resulting in a man dying from a fractured skull and brain injuries, the City Coroner (Mr. A. N. Bott) was told today…

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Man Dies After Brawl in Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 29 March 1950 · page 2

Boots, a bottle and wrestling holds were used in a brawl outside a King's Cross Hotel, resulting in a man dying from a fractured skull and brain injuries, the City Coroner (Mr. A. N. Bott) was told today…

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Houses to come before hotels

The Sun · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 7

"The Government has not the slightest intention of permitting extravagant building of new hotels in any part of…

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Tariff lift for hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 12

The Prices Branch has authorised increased charges for board and lodging in Sydney…

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New Hotels Out Says Minister

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 5

The Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Finnan) said in the Legislative Assembly today that Government policy was…

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New Hotels Out Says Minister

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 5

The Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Finnan) said in the Legislative Assembly today that Government policy was…

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New Hotels Out Says Minister

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 5

The Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Finnan) said in the Legislative Assembly today that Government policy was…

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New Hotels Out Says Minister

Daily Mirror · Thursday 30 March 1950 · page 5

The Minister for Labor and Industry (Mr. Finnan) said in the Legislative Assembly today that Government policy was…

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Joke For Menzies But While Luxury Hotels Go Up Prices Tough For Workers CANBERRA. —

Tribune · Saturday 1 April 1950 · page 6

While workers and their wives frantically try to bridge the gap between wages and the cost of living, the standard Parliamentary joke here id based on Menzies’ phoney election promise to put…

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Petty's Honeymoon hotel of the crinoline days

The Sun · Sunday 2 April 1950 · page 27

IN May, 1866, an impressive funeral cortege left Petty's Family Hotel, on Church Hill, Sydney, with the body of a French prince. Louis Marie Leopold Philippe…

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Publicans' £10 fines

The Sun · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 14

Two hotelkeepers were each fined £10 at the Licensing Court today for failing to provide accommodation to the…

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Reef island luxury hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Sun. -- Ansett Airways was establishing a £250,000 luxury holiday hotel on Hayman Island, in the Barrier…

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Warning by S.m. to Licensees

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 5

Hotels are licensed for the accommodation of the general public and must not be reserved for occasional use by publican's relatives, Mr. Bliss, S.M., said in the Licensing Court today…

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"Cocky" Prefers Hotel Regulars

Daily Mirror · Monday 3 April 1950 · page 4

"Get away, you blankety-blank!" (the words are ours) is hot what one would call a hearty welcome, but it is the stock catch-cry for many patrons of Plasto's Station Hotel, North Sydney…

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