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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1921

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Emu Vale Tragedy. Hotelkeeper Charged with Murder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1921 · page 2

James Richard Comerford He[?]sec of the Ema Vale Hotel, was charged at the Warwick Court (Q), with having on December 31 wilfully murdered…

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Drugged Chocolates Thieves Big Hauls in Paris Hotels

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 5

"Keep your money, loweis, and furs carefully locked up" is the advice now given by hotel managers to all visitors to Paris…

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Hotel Thieving. Epidemic in Germany

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1921 · page 5

Except for the university epidemic of thieving and for a few survivals of war-time rstrictions, the German hotels have practically returned to normal…

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Emu Yale Tragedy. Hotelkeeper Charged with Murder

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1921 · page 6

James Record Comericerd [?]of the Ema Vale Hotel was charged at the Warwick Court (Q.) with having on December 31. which murdered…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 January 1921 · page 2

Messrs, G. Atkin, Elias Bowden and J.W. Birkenhead, L.Ms, presided at the West Maitland Licensing Court this morning…

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Hotel License. Application for Removal. From Maitland to Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 6

An application by Mary Heuston, licensee of the Royal Oak Hotel, West Maitland, for the removal of the license to premises situated at the…

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Owners of Firearms. Must Be Licensed. Provisions of the New Act

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 2

The Gun License Act, hurried through the State' Parliament in the last hours of the session, is to be brought into operation at a very early…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 January 1921 · page 4

At the Quarterly Licensing Court held at the Courthouse, West Maitland, yesterday, the report for the period dealing with conditions respecting…

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Gun Licensing Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1921 · page 4

According to Mr, E. B. Harkness, Under-Secretary, Chief Secretary's Department, the necessary machinery to allow of the enforcement of the Gun…

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New Gun Act. Must Be Licensed. Provisions of the New Act

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 January 1921 · page 4

The Gun License Act, just passed by the State Parliament, is to be brought, into operation at a very early date. Thereafter no person…

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A Cessnock Billiard License

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 January 1921 · page 4

John Lewis was on Monday granted a billiard licence for premises situated in Vincent Street, Cessnock, the license of which was recently taken away from…

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Another Hotel

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 January 1921 · page 4

On the facts produced the Licensing Bench had no other option than to grant a license for the fifth hotel in Cessnock, especially as it was not…

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Maitland Hotel Licence Transferred to Cessnock. the Fifth Hotel

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 January 1921 · page 6

At the Licensing Court, held at the West Maitland Courthouse on Monday afternoon, Mary Heuston, licensee of the Royal Oak Hotel, West Maitland…

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Transfer of Hotel License

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 4

Messrs G. Atkin. P.M., and A. Simmons, J.P., sitting as a Licensing Bench yesterday granted a transfer of the license of the Agricultural Hotel from…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

At a sitting of the Licensing Court yesterday a transfer of the license of the Agricultural Hotel was granted Iron Raymond Bede Byron to Walter James…

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Quarterly Licensing Report

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 4

At the Licensing Court yesterday. (Messrs Gr. Atkin P.M. and A. Simmons J.P. on the bench) Sergeant Menary presented his quarterly report as…

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Royal Oak Hotel Premises

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 4

The Hon. Walter Bennett,' M.L.A. has been advised by the Under-Secretary of the Chief. Secretary's . Department with reference to previous…

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Found Shot. Licensee of Hotel. Tragical Affair at Tamworth

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 4

A sad shooting affair occurred in Tamworth on Wednesday night about 7.45, when. Mr. M. J. Hughes, licensee of the Royal Hotel, was…

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Found Shot. Tamworth Hotelkeeper's Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 January 1921 · page 6

Mr. J. Hughes, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Tamworth, died at two o'clock on Thursday morning, as the result of a bullet wound in the head…

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