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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

288 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 15

Hotel Fire Inmates Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 May 1931 · page 1

The Panama Hotel, at Wellington, New Zealand, was destroyed by fire this morning. Six persons were taken to hospital…

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Trading After Hours Kurri Licensee Pined

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 May 1931 · page 7

At Kurri Police Court on Wednesday Charles Edwards, owner of a wine license at Weston, advanced a defence which Mr Eeed,P.M., did not accept…

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Hotel Transfer

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1931 · page 12

At the local Licensing Court, before Mr. B. T. Oram, P.M., the transfer of the license of the Bank Hotel from Mr. P. G. Meakin to Mr. P. O'Neill…

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Hotel Fire Inmates Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1931 · page 1

The Panama Hotel, at Wellington, New Zealand, was destroyed by fire this morning. Six persons were taken to hospital…

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Many Charges Scone Robberies License Revoked

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1931 · page 2

Henry Herbert Harold Warren, 31, pleaded guilty at Scone Police Court to fourteen charges of stealing at Scone and Aberdeen…

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Prinks at Hotels The Law Defined

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1931 · page 5

Mr. M. E. Soane, police magistrate, defined the duties of hotel-keepers regarding travellers when he fined five young men £1 each and…

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Hotel Robbed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1931 · page 8

Thieves forced then way into the bar of the Freemason's Hotel, Lismore and took away the cash, register and a quantity of whisky, cigars…

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Not Desirable Licensing Inquiry Agents Child's Emphatic Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 May 1931 · page 1

Police Commissioner Childs to-day expressed emphatic disapproval of the suggestions to license private inquiry agents…

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No Licenses Wharf Co. Fined Workman Also Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 May 1931 · page 1

For employing an unlicensed person on a wharf, Newcastle Contracting Co. was, at Newcastle Police Court to-day, fined…

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Licensing Private Inquiry Agents Police Commissioner Expresses Disapproval. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 May 1931 · page 2

The Police Commissioner (Mr Childs) to-day expressed emphatic disapproval of a suggestion to license private inquiry agents. He said he had…

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Interesting Case. Teetotaller on Hotel Premises Information Dismissed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 9

At the Muswellbrook Police Court to-day, George William McCoy was charged with having been found on licensed premises of the Prince of…

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Licensing Board Full Court's Ruling SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 May 1931 · page 5

The Full Court, by a majority to-day, decided that the Licensing Board had jurisdiction, at its discretion, to add accept the surrender of…

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Fishing' Licenses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 May 1931 · page 10

Mr. Booth has, been informed in relation to a request from the Hunter River Prawners' Association to amend the Fisheries Laws with a…

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Surrender Ot Hotel Licenses Important Decision by Full Court

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 June 1931 · page 4

A decision was given by the Supreme Court oil Friday that a hotelkeeper that may surrender his licence under the Amending Liquor…

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Poison Illegal. Killing of Opossums. Conditional Licenses. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 June 1931 · page 1

State Cabinet to-day reviewed the proposal for declaring an open season for opossums in New South Wales, and decided to modify the previous…

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Lost License Motor Driver Fined CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 June 1931 · page 5

There was no appearance of Ernest F. Peters, at the Cessnock Police Court to-day to answer a charge of having failed to deliver up a motor…

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Of Interest to Publicans

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 2 June 1931 · page 2

In fining a hotelkeeper and several young bloods at Bowral recently for a breach of the Liquor Act, Mr. Soane, P.M., said it was not sufficient to have…

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Failed to Return License Matorist Fined

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 June 1931 · page 3

For failing to return an expired motor driver's license, Ernest. F. Peters was fined 5/-, plus 8/- costs, in default three days, at Cessnock…

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Milk Vendors Hotels and Boarding Houses Excluded

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 3 June 1931 · page 4

The Minister for Agroiculture (Mr Dunn) said on Monday that his department had decided that hotelkeepers, boarding-house keepers, and restaurant…

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Electric Page Hotel Innovation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 June 1931 · page 9

Quests at a new hotel recently opened in London, England are "paged" by their room numbers instead of by name (says "Popular…

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