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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

230 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 12

Gang of Forgers at Work Name of City Hotel Licensee Used. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 2

Detectives are investigating a report that a gang of forgers, using the name of a well-known city hotel licensee, had secured nearly £600…

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Three Visits to Hotel Licensee Has Recourse to Revolver

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 1

Two men who were seen three times early yesterday acting suspiciously in the yard of the Hotel Albury in Oxford-street, Darlinghurst,…

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After Hours Licensee Charged SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 6

Mrs. Uneta Muriel McManus, of the Terminus Hotel, was fined £2 with 8/ costs at the Singleton Court to-day on a charge of being the licensee of…

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Local and General. Court House Hotel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 2

Mr. Stan Phillips, late licensee of the "Parkview" Hotel at Islington, has taken over the business of the Court House Hotel at Dungog from…

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Fatally Shot in Hotel Bar Man Committed for Murder. Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 4

After hearing evidence at the inquest on Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 23, of Sydney, who was fatally shot in an affray at a hotel bar in…

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Money Found Hotel Licensee in Court Verdict for £21 SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 2

In the Small Debts Court at Singleton yesterday, Joseph Lambkins, grazier, of Bridgman-road, was successful in an action to recover £21/18/9 from…

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Not Licensed Driving a Tractor

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 January 1938 · page 7

On December 6, Sergeant J. Clements saw Claude Malcolm Gibson (21), of Odd-street, West Maitland, driving a motor tractor in St. Andrew-street…

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Hotel Robbed £370 Taken from Safe SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 9

Mr. John L. Hunter, licensee of the Hotel Earlwood, in Homer-street, Earl-wood, reported to the police that during Saturday night or early on Sunday…

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Two Fined On Licensed Premises CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 6

Lance Murrell, of Hickey-st., Cessnock, and Athol Rouse, of Maitland road, Cessnock, were each fined £1, with 8/ costs, by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd,…

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On Licensed Premises Two Men Fined

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 1

Lance Mural and Athol Rouse both pleaded guilty at Cessnock Police Court yesterday to a charge of being found…

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Assault in Hotel Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 7

Yesterday afternoon Allan Anderson Williams, a ship's fireman, was assaulted in a Newcastle hotel. In the Police Court to-day, John William Lang…

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"SUSPECTED" Starting Price Betting Newcastle Hotels Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 1

According to the police, "some hotelkeepers are suspected of allowing S.P. betting to be carried on." The public, however, has more than a…

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Motorists, Beware New Act Jeopardises Licenses

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 1

Motorists who have committed breaches of the Traffic Act since the beginning of the year have found that there are no "beg pardons" about the…

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Less Drinking Longer Hotel Hours HOBART

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 February 1938 · page 5

The first charges of drunkenness in Hobart for a fortnight were heard in the police court yesterday. This record of sobriety, which is all the more…

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New Liner The Stratheden Arrives "Floating Hotel" Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 1

Rivalling in luxury any passenger vessel that has visited Australia, the new P. and O. liner, the Stratheden, reached Sydney to-day on its maiden voyage from…

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Scone-Muswellbrook Road Transport Licenses Cancelled

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 5

Scone residents reported on Sunday last, that the Commissioner of Road Transport had informed lorry owners in Scone that no further licences…

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Hawking Without a License

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 5

At the Moree Police Court, on Friday, before Mr. J . Gibson, J.P., Frederick Albert Rhodes was proceeded against on a charge of…

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Cricket Albion Hotel v. Bellbird Hotel

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 February 1938 · page 7

Quite an interesting cricket match will be played at Bellbird on Sunday next, between a team from the Albion Hotel,…

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Paid the Bill Lord Mayor's Problem Hotel Expenses Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 February 1938 · page 3

The Lord Mayor (Ald. N. Nock) was involved in a difficult situation by a section of the Local Government Act when Lord Mayors and Lady…

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Scone-Muswellbrook Road Transport. Licenses Cancelled

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 2

Scone residents reported on Sunday last, that the Commissioner of Road Transport had informed lorry owners in Scone that no further licences…

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