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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1920

193 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 10

Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 June 1920 · page 2

At a sitting of the Licensing Court before Messrs G. Atkin P.M., and A. Simmons and W. Bailey Js.P., renewals of licenses were granted to the following:—James…

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Local and General News Thn Licensing Court

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 June 1920 · page 2

The names of Mr James M' Grogan, Royal Hotel, and Mr C. H. Hardcastle, Criterion Hotel, were inadvertently omitted from the list of those reported…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 June 1920 · page 4

The quarterly Licensing Court for the licensing district of Maitland will be held at the courthouse, West Maitland, on Monday July 26…

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Melbourne Hotels. Twenty-seven to Be De-licensed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 June 1920 · page 9

The Victorian I cousins Reduction Board announced its decision 27 hotels in Melbourne and suburbs, as from the end of the current year…

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A Gruesome Find Suicide in Hotel

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 June 1920 · page 4

A man, registered under the name of Miller, was discovered dead in bed at a Katoomba hotel on Saturday morning. The housemaid, being unable to get a…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 July 1920 · page 2

The license of the Exchange Hotel Large, was transferred from Alfred. William Tarran to Stewart B. Mitchell. A billiard Heeuse in West Maitland was…

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Subsidising the Upper-ten Kosciusko Hotel Losing £4000 a Year

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 6 July 1920 · page 3

Mr Dooley, who attended a meeting of the propaganda committee of the Australian Labor Party, stated, according to an official report issued on Saturday, that…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 July 1920 · page 5

The license of the Exchange Hotel, Largs. transferred from Alfred William Tarran to Stewart B. Mitchell. A billiard license in West Maitland was…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 July 1920 · page 4

Ernest Griffiths applied to-day to the West Maitland Licensing bench, consisting of Messrs. G. Atkin, P.M., Elias Bowden and J. W. Birkenhead L.M.'s…

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West Maitland Court. Friday, July 23. (Before Mr. G. Atkin, P.m.). Stealing in a Hotel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 July 1920 · page 4

Thomas Edward Thorley (20), John Sylvester Brennan (24), and Edward Mellon (21) were charged with having in company, at West…

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Hotel Sanitation. Departments Pamphlet

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 July 1920 · page 6

A revised edition of this pamphlet, entitled "Sanitation of Hotels," has just been published by authority of the Minister for Public Health and…

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Hotel Sanitation. Departmental Pamphlet

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1920 · page 14

"A revised edition of the pamphlel, entitled "Sanitation of Hotels," has just been published by authority of the Minister for Public Health and…

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West Maitland Court. Friday, July 23. (Before Mr. G. Atkin, P.m.). Stealing in a Hotel

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 July 1920 · page 9

Thomas Edward Thorley (20), John Sylvester Brenna (24), and Edward Mellon (21) were charged with having, in company, at West…

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Hotel Licenses Transferred

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 August 1920 · page 4

At the Licensing Court held at the West Maitland Courthouse this afternoon the license of the Carrington Hotel, West Maitland, was transferred…

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Transfer of Hotel License

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 August 1920 · page 5

The application for a transfer of the license of the Abermain Hotel from John Walace Stewart to William Young Lister came before the Licensing Court…

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Auctioneer's License

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 August 1920 · page 4

In the Licensing Court held at the East Maitland Courthouse this morning, an auctioneer's license was granted to Matthew Lee…

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An Elephant Hotel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 August 1920 · page 8

What is probably the queerest hotel and restaurant in the world is that recently erected at Atlantic City, U.S.A. It takes the form of a monster elephant. Seen…

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Noxious Trades Licenses

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 August 1920 · page 4

The Shire Council's Inspector under the Noxious Trades Act reported, at the Council's meeting on Thursday, that, while very few of the premises for which…

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Reduction of Licenses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1920 · page 5

When the Licensing Reduction Board met to-day, Mr. Watt, who appeared for one of the parties, declared that the hands of the bench…

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Licenses Reduction. Reduction Board Sitting. Objections Overruled

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1920 · page 2

The objections raised by Mr. Watt, before the Licenses Reduction Board in Sydney, were subsequently overruled by the board…

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