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Hotels & licensing, 1950

1,081 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 55

Missing Widow's Son Tells of Hotel Talk

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 10

Two months offer police had staid his mother, missing widow Phyllis Mary Page, had been murdered, Lionel Charles Thomas told him she was alive and well and residing of on Adelaide hotel, Norman James Page said at Central…

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Missing Widow's Son Tells of Hotel Talk

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 10

Two months after police had said his mother, missing widow Phyllis Mary Page, had been murdered, Lionel Charles Thomas told him she was alive and well and residing at an Adelaide hotel, Norman James Page said at Central Court today…

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£200 Theft From Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 17

LITHGOW, Monday.--Police are investigating the reported theft of £200, the weekend takings from…

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£200 Theft 'From Hotel

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 17

LITHGOW, Monday.-- Police are investigating the: reported theft of £200, the weekend takings from…

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Missing Widow's Son Tells of Hotel Talk

Daily Mirror · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 10

Two months after police had said his mother, missing widow Phyllis Mary Page, had been murdered, Lionel Charles Thomas told him she was alive and well and residing at an Adelaide hotel, Norman James Page said at Central Court today…

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Hotel Theft

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 1

LITHGOW, Monday. — Thieves broke into the Zig Zag Hotel early to-day and stole £200…

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Issue Of Licenses For Loan Imports

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 16

CANBERRA, Tuesday.-- The Minister for Customs (Senator O'Sullivan) said today that arrangements had been completed for the issue of import licences to cover equipment imported under the 100,000 dollar loan…

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Used Car Dealers May Be Licensed

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 20 September 1950 · page 20

The Minister for Transport, Mr. W. F. Sheahan told the Legislative Assembly last week that he would look into the question…

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Beheaded in 60ft. fall from hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 20 September 1950 · page 2

A man who crashed 60 feet from a city hotel during the night struck a beam while falling…

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Council will hold poll on hotel plan

The Sun · Wednesday 20 September 1950 · page 6

Randwick Municipal last night decided to hold a poll of electors on the proposal to erect a community…

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Decapitated Body Found Near Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 September 1950 · page 13

A city caretaker who received a report that a statue was lying in a yard at the rear of Blashki Building Hunter St., City, today, found on investigation that it was the headless body of a young man…

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Decapitated Body Found Near Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 September 1950 · page 13

A city caretaker'"who received a report- that- a statue was lying in a yard at the rear of Blashki Building, Hunter St., City, today, found on investigation that it was the headless body of a young, man…

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Decapitated Body Found Near Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 September 1950 · page 13

A city caretaker who received a report that a statue was lying in a yard at the rear Blashi Building, Hunter St., City, today, found on investigation that it was the headless body of a young man…

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Man Decapitated in Fall Body Near City Hotel

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 20 September 1950 · page 7

A city caretake who received- a report that a statue was lying in a yard at. the rear of Blashki Building Hunter St., City, today, found on investigation…

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Wrecked Ship May Become A Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 September 1950 · page 4

The cargo ship Empire Gladstone, which lies wrecked on a reef on the South Coast, may become a…

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Masked Man: Hotel Chase

The Sun · Sunday 24 September 1950 · page 56

MANAGER of a King's Cross private hotel early today grappled with a masked man who had been surprised while creeping through the building with his…

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Man tries to lure showgirls with fake offers Stories of "glamor" work in hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 September 1950 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Police believe that a man who this week tried to lure Melbourne ballet girls to nonexistent jobs in interstate hotels is now operating in Sydney. The man is posing as…

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Sydney Diary Civil Service perils: A radio man's record: Old world courtesy in hotel: Flood makes lake

The Sun · Monday 25 September 1950 · page 11

DON'T say that Civil Servants have unadventurous lives. When Harry Spencer, Assistant Western Lands Commissioner, was…

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£5 Fine Over Hotel Damage

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 September 1950 · page 2

When a girl resented his attentions, a new Australian, Withold Todkowski (19), threw a bottle…

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Crown Claims Hotel Owner Stole £8,250

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 September 1950 · page 4

A hotel proprietor had "rung the changes" on a King's Cross estate agent by substituting a deed-box containing £8250 for one containing half a brick and two rolls of toilet paper, the Crown Prosecutor (Mr. Kenneth Gee) said at the Quarter Sessions today…

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