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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

429 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 22

Hotel Robbery

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 7

Robberies' are ' not frequent: here but they occasionally occurr, and in 15th instant, the .Shamrock Hotel, next the Police Station, Was…

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Motorist Fined. Drove Car While Drunk. License Suspended

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 2

Thomas Lumsden Seath, who was represented by Mr. W. J. Enright, pleaded not guilty at Kurri Kurri Court, to a charge of having, on…

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License Suspended. Driver Under Influence of Liquor. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 5

Eugene Thomas Neal, 43, a plumber, was fined £10 in default three months' imprisonment at the Central Court to-day on a charge of having…

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Drove Car While Under Influence of Liquor Abermain Man Is Fined and License Suspended

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 5

At the Kurri Kurri Kurri Police on Wednesday, before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., Thomas Lumsden Seath, pleaded not guilty to a charge of having driven…

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Liquor Case. Gate on Licensed Premises

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 16

A special ease stated by Mr. Longfield, S.M. respect of a decision given by him on November 17 last at the Central Police Court, in…

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Motorist Fined. Drove Cab While Drunk. License Suspended

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 5

Thomas Lumsden Seath, who was represented by Mr. W. J. Enright, pleaded not guilty at Kurri Kurri Court, to a charge of having, on…

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Hotel Chancres Hands

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 4

At the Singleton Licensing Court, before Mr. D. W. Reed, P.M., an application was made for the transfer of the Percy Hotel from George…

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Radio notes and news By our Special Correspondent Radio for Publicans Brisk Business Reported

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 3

An increase in the sale of radio sets is reported since the beginning of the year, owing to new regulations making it easier for hotelkeepers and billiard…

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Transfer of License

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 8

At the Licensing Court held at the Singleton Court House yesterday, the magistrate, Mr D. W. Reed, granted the application for transfer of the license…

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A Flying 'Hotel.' Huge Airship

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 January 1928 · page 8

A huge 5,000,000 cubic-feet Empire airship is being built for the Air Ministry and is nearing completion in a lonely airship shed on the…

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Sanitation. Lack of Facilities at Country Hotels

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 7

The Minister for Justice, Mr. Lee expressed surprise at the lack of sanitation at a number of country hotels at centres recently visited by…

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Rich Booty. Discovery at Cloncurry Hotel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 2

At Cloncurry (Q.) a yardman at Rose's Hotel, which was recently built on the site of the Triangle Hotel, found a dirty corn sack…

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Sanitation Lack of Facilities at Country Hotels

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 3

The Minister for Justice, Mr Loc, expressed surprise at the lack of sanitation at a number of country' hotels at centres recently visited by him within…

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Accommodation at Country Hotels

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 4

The Minister for Justice, Mr. Lee, on Wednesday, had a lengthy inter-view with Mr. Adrian, chairman of the Licenses Reduction Board…

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Country Hotels—lack of Sanitation

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 2

The Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) has expressed surprise at the luck of sanitation at, a number of COUNTRY hotels at contres recently visited by…

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A Flying "Hotel." Huge Airship

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 February 1928 · page 2

A huge 5,000,000 cubic-feet Empire airship is being built for the Air Ministry, and is nearing completion in a lonely airship shed on the East…

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Sanitation. Lack of Facilities at Country Hotels

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 16

The Minister for Justice Mr. Lee, expressed surprise at the lack of sanitation at a number of country hotels at centres recently visited by…

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Rich Booty. Discovery at Cloncurry Hotel

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 6

At Cloncurry (Q) a yardman at Rose's Hotel, was recently built on the site of the Triangle Hotel, found a dirty corn sack,…

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License Suspended. Driver Under Influence of Liquor

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 7

Eugene Thomas Neal, 43, a plumber, was fined £10 in default three months' imprisonment at the Central Court Sydney on a charge of having…

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Country Hotels

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 February 1928 · page 4

The Government proposes to appoint a number of special inspectors to assist the police in carrying out the provisions of the Act relating to…

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