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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1953

1,122 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 57

Broken Hill's Sunday Hotels Closed Before "Time"

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 4

Believed to have resulted from mutual agreement of all licensees, every hotel in Broken Hill closed yesterday at 1 p.m., when the temperature was over the 100 mark…

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Police, Court Congratulate Blind Publican

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

A blind publican, Mr. John William Wall, was congratulated by police and the Chairman of the…

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Hotels Closed Before "Time"

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 4

Believed to have resulted from mutual agreement of all licensees, every hotel in Broken Hill closed yesterday, at 1 p.m., when the temperature was over the 100 mark…

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Hotels Close Before Tine

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 January 1953 · page 2

Believed to have resulted from mutual agreement of all licensees, every hotel in…

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An architect reports on Australia's hotel needs

The Sun · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 13

While Mr. Justice Maxwell was conducting the Liquor Royal Commission a young Sydney architect was holding his own inquiry into somewhat similar matters. When William M. Howard…

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Blind Licensee 'Sets Example'

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 7

A police sergeant yesterday said that the first blind publican in New South Wales hod set an example for other hotelkeepers…

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Blind Publican Congratulated

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1953 · page 4

Sydney's blind publican Mr. John William Wall, was congratulated by the magistrate and police at the…

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Citizens favor 10 p.m. hotel closing, but say... Gambling dens menace to The Hill's youth

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 8

THE people of Broken Hill are at variance with the rest of the people of New South Wales on two issues-- drinking after legal hours, and wide-open gambling. I've just returned from…

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Police Probe Hotel Brawl

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 January 1953 · page 2

Detectives this afternoon were probing the circumstances in which a man dying in Royal…

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Woman Explorer Dies In Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 3

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (A.A.P.).—Mrs. Osa Johnson. 58, authoress and explorer, died of a heart ailment in a…

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No Police Move Yet on Broken Hill Hotels, Gambling Dens Flout Law

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Fri.--The Commissioner of Police (Mr. C. J. Delaney) has as yet made no move to implement the decision of the Premier (Mr…

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No Police Move Yet on Broken Hill Hotels, Gambling Dens Flout Law

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Fri.--The Commissioner of Police (Mr. C. J. Oelaney) has as yet made no move fro implement- the decision of the Premier (Mr…

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No Police Move Yet; on Broken Hill Hotels, Gambling Dens Flout Law

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 January 1953 · page 2

BROKEN HILL, Fri.--The Commissioner; of Police (Mr. C. J. Delaney) has as yet made sib move fo implement the decision of the Premier (Mr…

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Books of the Week Heyday Of Our Publicans

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 8

"NO, there's no porridge, only bixies. What'll y'ave next? There's stykaneggs-or-sausagesaneggs."…

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Sunday Ban an 'Error' Say B.h. Hotels

The Sun · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 1

Any Sunday hotel ban in Broken Hill would be a "grave error" and would not prevent anyone getting a bona-fide…

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Broken Hill Sunday Hotel Ban Order to police inspector

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 3

The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Delaney) yesterday instructed Inspector J. Dogan to see that Broken Hill hotels did…

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Broken Hill Hotels Open Last Light

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 January 1953 · page 2

Hotels and bars were open in Broken Hill last night despite a direction last week by the Premier…

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Broken Hill drinkers will "take to bush" Exodus to country hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 11 January 1953 · page 5

Licensees of "bush" hotel near Broken Hill expect hundreds of drinkers offer the city hotels close at 1.30 p.m. today. They expect a…

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Liquor after hours at Aaron's hotel

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 3

Leonard Arthur Wooldridge, licensee of Aarons Hotel, city, was fined £3 in the…

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Hundreds Quit City for Drink Hotels at the Hill shut early

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 January 1953 · page 2

Hundreds of Broken Hill people yesterday congested roads leading to out-of-town hotels after city hotels closed…

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