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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1927

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Sporting Rifles. Licenses Still Necessary

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 August 1927 · page 16

Edmund Richard Smith, aged 10 years, a windoweleaner, who was proceeded against at the Central Police Court, Sydney, on a charge of…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 August 1927 · page 4

Mr. W. Arnott, representing the Licenses Reduction Board, occupied the bench at a sitting of the Licensing Court at the West Maitland…

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Refusal of 'Bus License

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 19 August 1927 · page 9

At last night's meeting, oft the Municipal Council, Aid. Hunter asked why S. Barbsky had been refused a license for a 'bus service…

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Fined £100. Sold Liquor Without License

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 August 1927 · page 5

Arthur Joseph Barton (33) a coal lumper, was lined £100 at North Sydney Court on a charge of selling liquor without a license, at…

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Hotel license Transferred

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 August 1927 · page 4

The license of the Courthouse Hotel, Paterson, was transferred from Frederick Philip Clerk to Thomas Blunden, by Mr. M. H…

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On Licensed Premises. Fines at Cessnock. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 August 1927 · page 2

For being found on licensed premisses during prohibited hours, William Hirst, Bryan Joseph Kelly, Thomas Barracks, William Gillen and…

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Radio in the Home You Hear It All Over the Air Radio Sets in Hotels. the Licensee's Position

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 26 August 1927 · page 8

Many hotelkeepors now have wireless sots on their premsies for their own entertainment and in order to pick up sporting results for their patrons. The…

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On Licensed Premises. Five Defendants Fined

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 26 August 1927 · page 5

For being found on licensed premises during prohibited hours, William Hirst, Bryan Joseph Kelly, Thomas Barrack, William Gillen and William…

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Pistol Licenses Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1927 · page 4

According to a notification, in yesterday's Government Gazette, the Pistol License Act of 1927 will come into operation as from September 1,…

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Kurri Hotel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1927 · page 4

The license of the Kurri Kurri Hotel has been sold to Mr. WAugh, of Kearsley. The license was held by the late. William Roderick for a…

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Suspicious Fires. Outbreaks in Orange Hotel

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1927 · page 6

Two fires which occurred at the Club Hotel, Orange, early on Tuesday morning, are being inquired into the by police…

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On Licensed Premises. Fixes at Cessnock. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1927 · page 16

For being found on licensed premises during prohibited hours, William Hirst. Bryan Joseph Kelly. Thomas Barrack. William Gillen and…

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Huge Hotel. Could House a Town

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 3

Big enough to house the entire population of any one of 1000 towns acclaimed as a "local metropolis," the Hotel Stevens, said to be the world's…

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Inspection of Wireless Licenses

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 2

The heavy fines which have recently been inflicted on numerous listeners-in in the metropolitan area for operating radio sets without the necessary…

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The Singleton Argus TUESDAY, 30th AUGUST, 1927. LOCAL & General News Pistol Licenses Act

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 30 August 1927 · page 2

According to a notification in Friday's "Government Gazette," the Pistol License Act of 1927 will come into operation as from September 1, a license…

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"GREG." McGIRR and His Hotels

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 September 1927 · page 4

"Grey." MsGirr now owns over a dozen hotels in the State. Last work he successfully applied for a license for a central block at Lake Cargelligo…

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Taxi Stand Alteration. Near Cessnock Hotel

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 2 September 1927 · page 5

A complaint of overcrowding by taxi-cars near the Cessnock Hotel was dealt with by the municipal council last night…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 September 1927 · page 4

The license of the Sportsmen's Arms Hotel at Greta was transferred from John Enright to Charles Stephen McConville by Mr. M. H…

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Hotel License Transferred

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 September 1927 · page 4

The license of the Kearsley Hotel was transferred from Mary Waugh to Albert William Dains by Mr. M. H. Cleeve, P.M., at the Maitland…

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Guests Alarmed. Fire at Grand Central Hotel. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 September 1927 · page 5

A fire which broke out in the dinin, room on the ground floor of the Grand Central Hotel, Clarence-street, city, at five o'clock this morning,…

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