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Hotels & licensing, 1954

1,225 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 62

Bitter End to Hotel Films

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 15 August 1954 · page 3

Drinkers reacted bitterly yesterday to the ending of hotel film shows…

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Films In Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 August 1954 · page 2

Sir,—So the breweries have ordered the showing of films in hotels to cease. If there was any doubt before…

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Health Check Sought on Hotel Films

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 August 1954 · page 3

The City Council Works Committee yesterday called for a report from the Council's health officers on the screening of films in Council-owned hotels…

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Live Artist Show in Hotel To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 4

Entertainment for customers in hotels will start a new phase to-day when the Castlereagh Hotel, Castlereagh Street, opens the first of a series of live-artist…

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"Black" Cash in Deals S.M.'s warning on hotel purchase

The Sun · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 35

The Licensing Court took a serious view of payment of undisclosed "black" money above the purchase price of hotels, Mr. Kelly,…

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Actors can't play in hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 35

The Palladium Theatre today prevented two artists from appearing in a city hotel before a lunch-hour bar crowd. The artists, Fred…

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Publicans have new plan

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 2

Licensees of "film banned" hotels will send a deputation to the…

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Η. P. Anderson Licensed Business Agent Bl.1932. Bl.4011

To Ethnico Vema = Greek National Tribune · Wednesday 18 August 1954 · page 5

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Hotel hours

The Sun · Thursday 19 August 1954 · page 30

Will it shock the people of NSW if, besides voting for 6 pm or 10 pm closing of public bars, a…

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Hotel Hours And The Clubs

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 August 1954 · page 2

Sir,—I congratulate the State Government on the stand taken on the hotel hours referendum…

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Theatre Co. Stops Live Hotel Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 August 1954 · page 7

Celebrity Circuits Pty. Ltd. yesterday stopped a live-artist show in the Castlereagh Hotel, city. Coloured vocalist Nellie…

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Conditions At Hornsby Hotel Criticised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 August 1954 · page 6

Hornsby Council has decided to send a report which criticises conditions at the Railway Hotel, Coronation Street, Hornsby, to the Minister for Health, Mr. M. J. O'Sullivan…

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Brandy Price Cut To Publicans Bat Not To Public

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 August 1954 · page 1

Brandy is 30/- a gallon cheaper wholesale because of the Budget cut in excise. But drinkers in the bar will go on paying the old price until the U.L.V.A…

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Hotel Closing Hours

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 August 1954 · page 2

Sir,—Contemplation of the proposed poll on hotel hours has its elements of humour. Apart from the publicans,…

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Ruling on Hotel Licences

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 August 1954 · page 7

The Licensing Court must consider alternative districts suggested by objectors to the…

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Widow acquitted of hotel murder count

Truth · Sunday 22 August 1954 · page 45

MELBOURNE, Saturday.—A Criminal Court jury to-night found a 58-years-old widow not guilty of having murdered a hotel proprietor. The widow, Mrs. Louisa…

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Floor show pianist in city hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 22 August 1954 · page 3

A live-artist show yesterday attracted record crowds to a Castlereagh Street…

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Hotel Man "Frustrated"

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 22 August 1954 · page 15

The licensee of the freehold Railway Hotel at Hornsby, Mr. B. T. Ritchard, said yesterday he had been trying to rebuild his condemned hotel…

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Randwick Council Firm Bitterness Over Hotel Plan

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 22 August 1954 · page 19

Randwick Council's decision to build the first community hotel in New South Wales has caused bitter local discussion. Aldermen said yesterday that the proposal had been…

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Protest Over Council Hotel Project

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 24 August 1954 · page 1

Residents in the south ward of the Municipality of Randwick have formed a protest committee to oppose the…

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