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Hotels & licensing, 1954

1,225 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 62

Hotel passed in at £250,000

The Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 18

The site and building of Belfields Hotel on the corner of George and King Street, city, was…

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£35,000 Plan for Luxury Hotel

The Sun · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday -- The Licensing Court was told today of a plan to spend £35,000 to…

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Hotel Sells for £52,000

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 11

A former Sydney publican has Acquired the freehold and licence of the Goulburn Hotel. Goulburn…

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Usher's Hotel Div. Raised After 13 Years

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 9

Usher's Metropolitan Hotel Ltd. is raising the dividend after 13 years at an unchanged rate…

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Vic. move to license garages

The Sun · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. -- A proposal to licence service stations would be considered by…

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Charges Arising from Brawl Outside Hotel Six Men Charged, Plead Not Guilty

Nepean Times · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 1

On Monday afternoon at Penrith Court of Petty Sessions, Mr. A. E. Stonham, S.M., began the hearing of charges against six men, arising out of an incident having to do with the distribution of bottled…

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Lapstone Hotel Application Refused Proximity to Church and School

Nepean Times · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 6

THE full Metropolitan Licensing Court, in Sydney on Thursday, gave its deferred decision in the…

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St. Marys New Hotel Building Application Coming

Nepean Times · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 4

REX Investments Ltd., advised Penrith Council, in a letter read at the meeting of Council on Tuesday…

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Publican's Big Interest In Hampton Ct

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 6

Dr. R. Pittar said last night that his family's 65 per cent. interest in the Hampton Court Hotel,…

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French hotel sales worry

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 9

NICE, Thurs. (Extel). -- Hotel- keepers on the French Riviera are worried about the selling of hotels. At one resort, Beaulieu…

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French hotel sales worry

Daily Mirror · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 9

NICE, Thurs. (Extel). -- Hotel keepers on the French Riviera are worried about the selling of hotels. At one resort, Beaulieu…

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Menzies Hotel Trading Up

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 8

Menzies Hotel Ltd, Melbourne, reports a most satisfactory trading result for the six months ended December 31…

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Hotel hours

The Sun · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 16

Your statement that the public will still have to suffer the "miseries of the six o'clock swill" may be…

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Two Black Cats The pretty daughter of the hotelkeeper wouldn't believe that black cats were unlucky, but the young sailor knew better. This is a true story of the old shipping days on the Australian coast. Names and places have been altered but facts are authentic

The World's News · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 25

THIS story began 50 years ago, when Matthew Beasley, a young ship's apprentice, walked into an hotel at Newcastle (NSW) and fell…

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Boycott Of Hotels In Q'land

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 5

BRISBANE, Friday.— Twenty-six hotels in South Queensland are being boycotted by unionists…

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Boycott on Qld. hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 10

BRISBANE, Fri. -- Unionists may boycott 26 hotels in southern Queensland, including…

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Boycott of "non-union" Q'ld. hotels

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 6

BRISBANE, Sat.--The Federated Liquor Trades Union alleges that some Queensland hotels are…

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French Actress in Hotel Drama

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 2

ROME, Sat., (A. P.). -- French actress Katherine Zago was rushed to hospital last night after she was found in her hotel room with her…

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French Actress in Hotel Drama

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 3

U ROME, Sat., (A. P.). -- French actress Katherine Zago was rushed to hospital last night a after she was found in her hotel room with her…

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Boycott of "non-union" Q'ld. hotels

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 6

BRISBANE, Sat.--The Federated Liquor Trades Union alleges that some Queensland hotels are…

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