One Shilling deposit is demanded on these glasses being handed to beer drinkers in a Townsville hotel. No beer is served until all glasses are issued. If glass is chipped or broken drinker forfeits the shilling. – The Sun (Sydney, NSW)… Read More ›
Queensland hotels
Story Bridge Hotel, Brisbane
Second Man to Fall From Same Hotel Room Accidentally falling 30 feet from his bedroom at the Story Bridge Hotel, Kangaroo Point, about 11 o’clock last night, David McCandlish, 32, a rivetter, was seriously injured. Three years ago a man… Read More ›
Palace Hotel croc attack
CROCODILE IN STREET ATTACKS A CONSTABLE. BRISBANE, Friday. While two constables were walking along the main street of Townsville early yesterday morning, a crocodile, three and a half feet long, suddenly rose from the gutter, and snapped at a leg… Read More ›
Rocklea Hotel, Rocklea
Rocklea’s skeleton in the closet By MICK ROBERTS© FOR a pub that has served up beer for more than a century, there’s sure to be a few good yarns, and a skeleton or two in the closest, when researching its… Read More ›
New Year’s Eve attack on pub
ARSON SUSPECTED Hotel At Mungungo DEBRIS AND KEROSENE What is believed to be an attempt at arson occurred at Mungungo on New Years Eve, and only for timely intervention the Waratah Hotel would be in ruins. The husband of the… Read More ›
Pub on Aboriginal burial site
Twice fire destroys Chinchilla’s Commercial Hotel By MICK ROBERTS © IT’S probably not a good idea to build your pub on top of an Aboriginal burial site. The Commercial Hotel has traded from the same site at Chinchilla, a small… Read More ›
Cairns Stout
Great Northern Breweries are placing on the market a new and local brand of stout. It will be in all hotels today and is said to be “of very mild quality and suitable for rebuilding the constitutions of invalids”. Those… 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 ›
Sinking a few Queensland beers
BRISBANE, Wed: When the minesweeper Warrnambool was sunk by a mine off Queensland last September, her captain, Commander A. J. Travis, little thought that he would retrieve anything from the wreck. However, a diver was recently sent to examine the… Read More ›
Cut down beer bottles
– The Sun (Sydney, NSW) Monday 25 March 1946
