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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1926

310 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 16

Body of Woman. Found En Hotel. Mysterious 'Phone Message. Adelaide

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 March 1926 · page 14

When the door of the Grosvenor Hotel was forced open at the week-end, the police found the body of a young woman. Daisy Keats, inside…

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License Suspended Drove Car While Intoxicated

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 4

For driving a motor car in Pittsteet, Sydney, on Friday night, while under the influence of liquor, Cleveland owens, aged 20, a hatter, was fined…

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Hotel at Kitchener

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 30 March 1926 · page 4

Permission has been granted by the Licensing Board to Joseph William Brooke, licensee of the Central Hotel, Morpeth, to remove…

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Wireless Licenses

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 April 1926 · page 1

Wireless licenses are being issued in greatly increasing numbers in Victoria, at the end of last mouth, there were 45,274 held, as against 38,323 in…

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Melbourne Larrikinigsm Suggested Closing of Hotels

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 April 1926 · page 4

Referring to the prevalent push fights and attacks upon constables in Melbourne during the hist few few week ends. the Commissioner of Police (Mr…

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Khartoum Hotel

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 1 April 1926 · page 5

The Khartoum Hotel, the hostelry just erected at Kitchener at a cost of about £8,000, was opened for business to-day. The licensee is…

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License Suspended Drove Car While Intoxicate. Woman Knocked Down

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1926 · page 12

For driving a motor car in Pitt street, Sydney, while under the [?] of liquor, Cleveland Owens, 26, a hatter, was fined £10 at the…

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Lawlessness. Suggested Ulosing of Hotels

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1926 · page 2

Referring to the prevalent push fights and attacks upon constables during the last few week-ends, the Victorian Commissioner of Police…

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A Floating Hotel

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 April 1926 · page 2

The dining saloon of the White Star liner Majestic covers an area of 11,350 square feet and is the loftiest apartment ever built in a…

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Elephant Hunting. a License Comedy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1926 · page 12

To combat the great, damage to [?]tive crops caused by elephants in Tanganyika Territory a dozen professional big-game hunters were recently given…

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Licensing Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 April 1926 · page 4

At the West Maitland Court House yesterday afternoon, the licensing inspector's quarterly report was received and adopted by the Magistrate…

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Gun Licenses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 April 1926 · page 4

The State Cultural yesterday decided to bring down a bill to modify the Gun Licensed Act, providing that only firearms which can be…

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Gun Licenses Act

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 April 1926 · page 2

It was decided by the State Cabinet on Tuesday that the Gun Licenses Act should be amended next session, to-make it apply only to weapons that can be…

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Denman Royal Hotel WILLIS R. Slack Proprietor

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 8

Desires to inform the Public that he has taken over the above well-known House, and trusts that by personal attention to the…

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Cleaning Septic Tank Hotelkeeper Claims Charged Excessively

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 2

In the Cessnock Small Debts Court, on Tuesday last, before Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., Robert Hunter, sanitary contractor, sued Charles Hall, licensee…

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New Hotel

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 5

The new hotel recently opened at Kirchener provided for the [?] of an historic license, transferred from the old Central Hotel at Morpeth,…

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Barbers' License Fees

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 April 1926 · page 4

Applications, for banters' licenses to the number of 33 were brought before the Shire Administrator yesterday, all being granted, with the…

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Liquor for Social. Obtained After Hours. Publican and Two Men Fined

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 20 April 1926 · page 5

Three cases touching upon the question of obtaining from a hotel after hours liquor purchased previously for use at an evening social…

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On Licensed Premises. During Prohibited Hours

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 April 1926 · page 6

Before Mr. Cleeve, P.M., at the Cessnock police court on Tuesday Charles Hall, licensee of the Cessnock Hotel was charged with allowing…

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Kurri Police Court. Wednesday, April. 21. (Before Mr. M.H. Cleeve, P.m.). on Licensed Premier

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 April 1926 · page 6

Walter Chubb was charged with allowing persons on his licensed premises of the Heddon Greta Hotel Heddon Greta on Good Friday…

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