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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1951

1,069 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 54

Hotel's £50 for widow of driver

The Sun · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 4

Customers of the Grand Hotel, Rockdale, and its licensee, welcomed the New Year with contributions…

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Intruder shot dead by publican in bar-room

The Sun · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--An intruder was shot by an hotel licensee at Newmarket early today, as he was trying to escape from the hotel bar…

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Intruder Fatally Wounded In Hotel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- An unidentified man was fatally wounded early this morning when he broke into a Newmarket hotel and was shot by the Licensee…

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Intruder Fatally Wounded In Hotel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--An unidentified man was fatally wounded early this morning When he broke, into a Newmarket hotel and was shot by the licensee…

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Intruder Fatally Wounded In Hotel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- An unidentified man was fatally wounded early this morning when he broke into a Newmarket hotel and was shot by the licensee…

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Intruder Fatally Wounded In Hotel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- An unidentified man was fatally wounded early this morning when he broke into a Newmarket hotel and was shot by the licensee…

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Intruder Fatally Wounded In Hotel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.--An unidentified man was fatally wounded early this morning when he broke into a Newmarket hotel and was shot by the licensee…

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Intruder Fatally Wounded In Hotel

Daily Mirror · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.-- An unidentified man was fatally wounded early this morning when he broke into a Newmarket hotel and was shot by the licensee…

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Employees Of Swanky Hotel Live In Squalor

Truth · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 3

Some male employees from the swanky 52 Macleay St. Pty. Ltd. private hotel in Greenknowe Avenue, Pott's Point, have been living in shockingly squalid conditions in ramshackle rooms at…

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Licensee Kills Man in Bar

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—The licensee of a hotel at Flemington shot dead a man he disturbed in the bar early this morning. Police are not expected…

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Publican fatally shoots burglar (after hunt in darkness)

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sat. -- Hotel licensee Kenneth Alphonsus Francis this morning fatally shot a burglar he saw escaping from the bar of his hotel in Flemington. Police later identified…

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Aussie radios liven staid Savoy Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 7 January 1951 · page 13

LONDON, Sat. -- The arrival of Prime Minister Menzies' party at the Savoy Hotel has caused considerable electrical activity within that stately building…

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Hotel Safe Taken Man Arrested

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 3

A man waiting for a tram in George Street, city, at 2 a.m. yesterday saw four men roll a safe out of the front door of…

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Sandor Praises Our Hotels: Some "Gracious"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 (A.A.P.).—The pianist Gyorgy Sandor, who recently toured Australia, praises its hotels in…

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Taps in Hotels 'Now Adequate

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 2

Installation of spring water taps hotels would involve publicans in unnecessan expenditure, said Ald. J. J. Carroll at today meeting of the Metropolitan Wafer, Sewerga…

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Taps in Hotels 'Now Adequate

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 2

Installation of spring water taps [?] hotels Would involve publicans in unnecessar expenditure, said Aid. J. J. Carroll at today' meeting of the Metropolitan Water, Sewerag…

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Taps in Hotels 'Now Adequate'

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 2

Installation of spring wafer taps in hotels would involve publicans in unnecessary expenditure, said Ald. J. J. Carroll at today' meeting of the Metropolitan Water, Sewerage…

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Taps in Hotels 'Now Adequate'

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 2

Installation of spring wafer taps in hotels would involve publicans in unnecessary expenditure, said Ald. J. J. Garroll at today's meeting of the Betropolitan Water, Sewerage…

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Hotel licence for King's Cross

The Sun · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 5

Hotels existed primarily for provisions of accommodation for people not able to live in their own homes, chairman of…

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Court Removes Hotel Licence to King's Cross

Daily Mirror · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 2

An application for the conditional removal of a publican's licence to a luxury hotel to be erected in…

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