DIES FROM BURNS Mystery Fire In Hotel Room SYDNEY. Friday.— When a room in the Woolpack Hotel, Parramatta, was burning today people, hearing screams, ran in and found Samuel Newlands, 36, lying on the floor gasping and crying out in… Read More ›
Publicans
Stepney Hotel, Alexandria
By MICK ROBERTS © JUST why Italian immigrant and Alexandria publican, Benjamin Lafiura prematurely ended his life in such an agonising method will probably never be known. Like the small two storey corner pub where he ended his 48… Read More ›
Publican takes it easy
Mr John Dorahy, president of the Illawarra branch of the U.L.V.A. (Later Australian Hotels Association), and licensee of the Wollongong Hotel, spent last Thursday ‘resting up,’ when employees at his hotel decided to join in a stoppage for 24 hours… Read More ›
Sturt Arcade Hotel, Adelaide
THE death of Mr W. Sandover, of Hose Park, in his eighty-seventh year, removes an old publican and politician who was an active public man in Adelaide from the early fifties to the eighties. Going to the Victorian diggings, he… Read More ›
White Hart Hotel, Adelaide
THE LATE MR. F. W. A. KLAUER. Mr. Frederick William Augustus Klauer, late landlord of the White Hart Hotel, Hindley street [Adelaide], died on Friday, August 16, at the North Adelaide Private Hospital. The deceased, who was 76 years… Read More ›
Parkview Hotel, Alexandria
From bloodhouse to gentrified watering hole By MICK ROBERTS © REVIEW: Who would have thought that Alexandria’s Parkview Hotel was once one of Sydney’s toughest pubs, the haunt of hard drinking men, frequented by members of the notorious razor gangs that… Read More ›
Commercial’s plucky barmaid
PLUCKY BARMAID When Jack Quigley, a former noted jockey, and now licensee of the Commercial Hotel, Bathurst, was attacked by a man with great ferocity, a barmaid, Mary McNamara, picked up a mallet, used to open barrels of beer, and… Read More ›
Scratchy sleep at the Royal
THE Royal Hotel at the corner of Abercrombie and Codrington Streets, Darlington, like many Sydney pubs, struggled to survive through the war years. Beer rationing, and even, as the following story reveals, restrictions on the availability of bed linen made… Read More ›
Justice Chubb on teetotalers
DURING the reading of an affidavit at the Supreme Court, Townsville, it was stated that a certain person was a strict teetotaller. Mr. Justice Chubb thereupon said: “I very much admire him. I wish I were a teetotaller too. I… Read More ›
Publican’s 270km beer pilgrimage
MR. T. T. FOX, licensee of the Bordertown Hotel, waited from midnight to 8.45 a.m. today at the West End Brewery to replenish his beer supplies, which ran out on Christmas Eve. Mr. Fox was the first in a queue… Read More ›
