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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

1,225 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 62

Man's Body Found on Hotel Bed

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 2

With a ballet wound through his heart and a .22 calibre rifle between his knees, the pyjama-clad body of an elderly man was found slumped…

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Court Okays Hotel Plans

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 2

Application for material alterations, costing £48,484, to three hotels owned by Tooth and Co…

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Court Okays Hotel Plans

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 3

Application, for material alterations, costing £48,184, to three hotels owned by Tooth and Co…

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Council urged to lead in hotel improvement

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 12

NEWCASTLE, Mon. -- The Newcastle Chamber of Commerce thinks the City Council should set an example in the improvement of hotels…

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Stop Press City Hotel Shooting

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 28

A hall porter at Mansion House private hotel, Elizabeth St., City, today found the body of a pyjamaclad man lying on bed with a…

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Court Okays Hotel Plans

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 3

Application for material alterations, costing £48,184, to three hotels owned by Tooth and Co…

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Council urged to lead in hotel improvement News From the North

Daily Mirror · Monday 31 May 1954 · page 12

NEWCASTLE, Mon. -- The Newcastle Chamber of Commerce thinks the City Council should set an example in the improvement of hotels…

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10 P.m. Closing Sought for A.c.t. Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday. — Hotels in Canberra will be open until 10 p.m. if a recommendation by the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council is…

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Council Hotel Leases Go To Top Bids

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 4

The Sydney City Council decided yesterday to accept the highest tenders which have been submitted for the…

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Australia to license Jap pearling

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 6

TOKIO, Mon. -- Japan has accepted temporary Australian licensing of Japanese pearl fishing operations in the Arafura…

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Hotel Reform in New Act for Vic

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 1 June 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.--Within three weeks the Victorian Government is expected to…

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Late Hotel Closing is Opposed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 June 1954 · page 4

CANBERRA, Tuesday. —The Liquor and Allied Trades Employees' Union will oppose any extension of…

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Hotel Licensee Is Fined £10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 6

The licensee of the Abercrombie Hotel, Abercrombie Street, Redfern, was fined a total of £10 yesterday on charges of having refused to admit a police…

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Open verdict in hotel death fail

The Sun · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 13

Acting City Coroner A. McDonald recorded an open finding at an inquest today on a…

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Policeman saw death fall from city hotel

Daily Mirror · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 20

A police sergeant told the Acting City Coroner (Mr. A, S. McDonald) that he had seen a body fall from the fifth floor of the Hotel Metropole in the early hours of the morning. The Acting City Corone…

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Customers Went with the Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 16

AUCKLAND, Thurs.-- Customers stayed in the bar and went on drinking when the Waimera Hotel began to move today…

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Boxer's City Hotel Plan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 1

Former world bantamweight champion Jimmy Carruthers said last night he expected to buy a hotel…

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Publican Fined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 6

Albert Frederick Fountain, a licensee of the Royal Oak Hotel, Bay Street, Double Bay, was fined £5 in the…

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Bribe to Fix Fight Boxer held on £6700 charge Hotel Talk

The Sun · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday. -- Clarence Henry, former world heavyweight contender, was charged today with offering a £6700 bribe to middleweight boxer Bobby Jones…

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Traffic Police To Watch Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 1

Special traffic police will watch metropolitan hotels this week-end in an attempt to catch drunken…

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