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Hotels & licensing, 1951

1,069 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 54

LIQUOR INQUIRY—18th Day Judge to Call at Hotels —No Warning

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 4

Mr. Justice Maxwell, the Royal Commissioner on Liquor, announced at yesterday's hearing of the Commission that he would visit a number of hotels incognito…

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Replacing Hotel Kosciusko

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 3

The Chief Secretary, Mr. Clive Evatt, said yesterday that he would be prepared to consider allowing a private…

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Woman Licensee Says She Gets More Than Ample Bottled Beer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 2

A Newcastle woman publican told the Liquor Royal Commission today that, although hey bottled beer quota was 57 dozen a week, she could get as much more as she wanted from Tooth and Co. The woman, Mrs. Elsie Grace Gibson, licensee of the Great Northern,…

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Woman License Says She Gets More Than Ample Bottled Beer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 2

A Newcastle woman publican told the Liquor Royal Commission today that, although her bottled beer quota was 57 dozen a week, she could get as much more as she wanted from Tooth and Co.. The woman, Mrs. Elsie Graze Gibson. licensee of the Great Northern…

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Woman Licensee Says She Gets More Than Ample Bottled Beer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 2

A Newcastle woman publican fold the Liquor Royal Commission today that, although her bottled beer, quota was 57 dozen a week, she could get as much more as she wanted from Tooth and Co. The woman Mrs. Elsis Grace Gibson licensee of the Great Northern…

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Woman Licensee Says She Gets More Than Ample Bottled Beer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 2

A Newcastle woman publican told the,Liquor Royal Commission today that, although her bottled beer quota was 57 dozen a week, she could get as, much more as she wanted from Toot and Co. The women, Mrs. Elsie Grace Gibson, licensee of the Great Northern,…

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Woman Licensee Says She Gets More Than Ample Bottled Beer

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 October 1951 · page 2

A Newcastle woman publican told the Liquor Royal Commission today that, although her bottled beer quota was 57 dozen a week, she could get as much more as she wanted from Tooth and Co. The woman, Mrs. Elsie Grace Gib son, licensee of the Greet Northern,…

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Hotel with No "6 O'clock Swill" Publican tells of village drinking

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 9

A country publican told the Liquor Royal Commission yesterday that there was no "six o'clock swill" in his hotel. He said he received all the beer he wanted…

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Liquor Commission 19th Day Publican Who Made Loss First, Says Dovey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 9

A publican told Mf. Justice Maxwell, the Royal Commissioner on Liquor, yesterday, that he had sold the lease of a Moree hotel without disclosing to the purchaser that he had…

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Community Hotel. For Sutherland Shire

The Propeller · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 1

Sutherland Council decided at its last meeting, by a majority of seven to two, to establish a community hotel in the Shire…

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Brighton Hotel Sold

The Propeller · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 1

The old-established Hotel Brighton at Brighton-le-Sands was sold by auction last Friday to Tooth and Co. Ltd., for…

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Beer Glasses Too Big, Says Publican

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 4

"If drinkers started off on middies and kept on them we would have a more sober population," a witness said at the Royal Commission on Liquor today…

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Beer Glasses Too Big. Says Publican

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 4

"If drinkers started off on middies and kept on them we would hove a more sober population," o witness said at the Royal Commission on Liquor today…

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Publican Wants Smaller Beers Evidence At Probe

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 2

"If drinkers started off on middies and kept on them we would have a more sober population," a witness said at the Royal…

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Publican Wants Smaller Beers Evidence At Probe

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 2

"If drinkers started off on middies and kept on them we would hove a more sober population, '' a witness said at the Royal…

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Beer Glasses Too Big, Says Publican

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 November 1951 · page 4

"If drinkers started off on middies and kept on them we would have a more sober population," a witness said of the Royal Commission on Liquor today…

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Hotels Grab Beds To Sleep Cap Crowds

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 November 1951 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—About 25,000 visitors from other States and country…

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Appointments Australia Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 November 1951 · page 6

Sir Sydney Snow has been appointed a director of The Australia Hotel Co. Ltd…

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Hotel Board

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 November 1951 · page 16

Sir Sydney snow, in December, will join the board of the Australia Hotel Co., Ltd…

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Hotels Will Have a Guest—unannounced

Truth · Sunday 4 November 1951 · page 10

The unpleasant fact that hotel licensees in all sorts of odd spots in N.S.W. can expect the Liquor Royal Commissioner, Mr. Justice Maxwell, to bob up unheralded and unsung in the midst of their peak hour "swill" in the…

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