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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1951

1,069 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 54

Liquor Inquiry Told Two Breweries Own 840 Hotels

Daily Mirror · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 2

The Royal Commission inquiring info the liquor trade in N.S.W. was fold today that the brewery firms, Tooth's and Toohey's, owned 328 and 78 hotels respectively in the metropolitan licensing…

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Attack On Woman In Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 3

Police are searching for a man who punched a woman in the Hotel Austra lia, Castlereagh Street,…

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1,003 Hotels "Tied" to Tooth's Liquor Commission's First Witnesses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 4

The main New South Wales brewery, Tooth and Company Limited, had a total of 1,003 New South Wales hotels "tied in some way or other" to it, the company's assistant general manager,…

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Woman Attacked on Hotel Stairs

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 1

A young man attacked and injured a woman on a crowded staircase in the Australia Hotel last night. A 19-years-old law…

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Brewery Interests Disclosed Tooth's holdings in 1323 N.S.W. hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 7

Breweries owned or had an interest in at least 1572 of the 2028 hotels in New South Wales, witnesses said yesterday at the Royal Commission into liquor. Evidence at Royal Commission…

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Hotel Managers' Salaries Quoted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 2

The assistant general manager of Tooth and Co. Ltd. (Mr. S. J. Burt) told the Royal Commission on Liquor yesterday that salaries paid to managers of a number of Sydney and…

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Hotel Managers' Salaries Quoted

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 2

The assistant general manager of Tooth and Co. Ltd. (Mr. S. J. Burt) told the Royal Commission on Liquor yesterday that salaries paid to managers of a number of Sydney and…

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Hotel Sydney Steady Profit

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 8

Little variation is shown in net profit of Hotel Sydney Ltd. for the year ended June 30, the amount at…

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False Figures in Hotel Sales, Broker Claims

The Sun · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 1

Hotels were sometimes sold at fictitious figures, a hotel broker told the Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Maxwell) today. Robert Arlington Steele, Martin Place, City, who was called as a witness by Tooth & Co. Ltd. told Mr. W. R…

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Hotel Sale Prices "Differ" Evidence By Broker

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 2

A witness told the Royal Commission on liquor today that he had heard of sales of hotels in which the actual price paid was…

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'Fictitious' Sale Price on Hotels Court Story By Broker

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 1

A hotel broker told the Royal Commission on liquor today that he had heard of sales of hotels at ficticious prices…

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Hotel Sale Prices "Differ" Evidence By Broker

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 2

A witness told the Royal Commission on liquor today that he had heard of sales of hotels in which the actual price paid was…

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Court Told Of File On Hotels

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 2

Assistant general manager of Tooth and Co. Ltd. (Mr. Burt) told the Royal Commission on Liquor today that his company did not always know the price paid by…

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Liquor Inquiry- Third Day Secret Price in Hotel Lessees' Transfer Brewery Manager Says He Will Give Names

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 4

City manager of Tooth and Co. Ltd., Alexander Martin Bentley, yesterday promised to reveal to the Royal Commission on Liquor the names of several lessees of Tooth-owned hotels who, he thought, had sold their interest in the hotels for "a consideration" above the…

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Councils shy of hotels

The Sun · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 13

Fewer applications were made by councils last year for community hotel licenses than the licensing magistrates expected…

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No Vic Beer in 'Tied" City Hotels ' Commission told of "transport difficulty"

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 7

Several Sydney hotels which sold Victorian beer in recent years were now "tied" to sell only Tooth's beer, the brewery's city manager said yesterday. The manager, Alexander Martin Bentley, said this in evidence…

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511 Hotels Were Closed In 30 Years

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 4

From 1920 to 1950 in N.S.W. the number of persons to each hotel has risen from 803 to 1566, but in the same period the number…

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511 N.s.w. Hotels Closed in 30 Years, Says Report

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 9

From 1920 to 1950 in N.S.W. the number of persons to each hotel has risen from 803 to 1566, but in the same period the number of hotels dropped from 2539 to 2028. Despite the drop in hotel…

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Attack in Hotel: Police Seek Man

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 5

Dets. Sothern and Ellis (B030-362) wish to contact the tall man, aged about 45 and dressed in a grey…

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511 N.s.w. Hotels Closed in 30 Years, Says Report

Daily Mirror · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 9

From 1920 to 1950 in N.S.W. the number of persons to each hotel has risen from 803 to 1566, but in the same period the number of hotels dropped from 2539 to 2028. Despite the drop in hotel…

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