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Hotels & licensing, 1954

1,225 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 62

15 Years' Gaol for Killing in Hotel Bar

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 2

A laborer who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a man in the bar of a Parkes hotel on January 6, was sentenced to 15 years' gaol by Mr…

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15 years' gaoll for hotel bar killing

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 2

A laborer who pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a man in the bar of a Parkes hotel on January 6, was sentenced to 15 years' gaol by Mr…

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Saturday Evening at the Hotel Visit by the Police

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 7

A HOTEL licensce who had an excellent record was visited by police on a recent Saturday evening, and…

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Aldermen Approve Two Hotel Offers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 3

The City Council's finance committee yesterday recommended acceptance of the two highest…

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Council seeks lease offers for hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 15

The City Council finance committee yesterday decided to call tenders for the lease of the Council's Oxford Hotel in…

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'Copter service to hotel lobby

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 19

FORT WORTH, Thurs. (D.M.W.S.).-- Latest thing in Texas is checking into your hotel by helicopter. You land almost on the…

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Copter service to hotel lobby

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 19

FORT WORTH, Thurs. (D.M.W.S.).-- Latest thing in Texas is checking into your hotel by helicopter. You land almost on the…

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Hotel for Kosciusko

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 9

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Hawkins) said in the Legislative Assembly today that he was…

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Copter service to hotel lobby

Daily Mirror · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 19

FORT WORTH, Thurs. (D.M.W.S.).-- Latest thing in Texas is checking into your hotel by helicopter. You land almost on the…

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Kosciusko Hotel Tenders For New Building

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 9

The Minister for Lands, Mr. F. H. Hawkins, said yesterday tenders would be called for construction of a…

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15 Years' Gaol for Hotel Killing

Truth · Sunday 4 April 1954 · page 51

A returned soldier who shot dead his wife's lover in a hotel bar at Parkes on January 6, pleaded guilty in Sydney on Wed-…

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5 Die in Mystery Hotel Blast Four Others Badly Injured, Burnt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

Five men died and four men were critically injured or burnt in a mystery explosion and fire which yesterday destroyed the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla, 468 miles west of Brisbane…

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Big Wine Robbery at Hotel

The Sun · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

Thieves early today stole 480 bottles of wine from an hotel. They used a stolen car…

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Five Killed in Big Hotel Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

Five people died yesterday in an explosion and fire at a Cunnamulla hotel…

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Council Lease Of Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 3

The City Council yesterday decided to accept the highest tenders for the quarterly tenancy of the Covent…

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6 feared dead in hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 7

BRISBANE, Mon.--Police ore certain that six men died in yesterday's Cunnamulla hotel fire following an explosion. They fear that a…

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Burial of Victims Hotel Fire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 9

BRISBANE, Tuesday.— The bodies of three of the five men killed in Sunday's hotel fire at Cunnamulla…

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Guest Room in Hotel Statler, Los Angeles, U.s.a

Construction · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 5

(Top) Living Room by day, Bedroom by night. the network of halls, stairs and concourses…

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WOMAN'S 100ft. Fall From Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 1

A pyjama-clad woman yesterday tell 100ft. to her death from a city hotel. She was Mrs. Carmel…

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Fifty Years Ago (From "Nepean Times", April 9, 1904) a Cobb & Co. Hotel

Nepean Times · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

Mr. Edward Carrol (formerly of Penrith) writes from Cancbelego (with reference to Penrith of former days and with…

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