HOTEL BAR HOURS
CUT IN AUSTRALIA DRINKING RESTRICTIONS (2.40 pun.) MELBOURNE, Aug. 11. The State Premiers’ conference has decided to reduce by at least one hour a day the hotel trading hours in the capital cities and in such other towns as the States decide. The Prime Minister, Mr. J. Curtin, announced that the Commonwealth will give the States the necessary authority for the imposition of drastic penalties on hotelkeepers who serve inebriated servicemen with liquor, and also to ban women from public The Prime Minister added that a proposal by the Commonwealth that drinking in parks and public places should be made unlawful had been agreed,to by the State Premiers. A recommendation that mixed drinking in hotel lounges should be prohibited was not adopted by the conference..
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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