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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

230 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 12

Hotel Purge After-Hour Trading Church Campaign

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 June 1938 · page 4

"It was quite clear," said Rev. Owen Evans, secretary of the Maitland Ministers' Association yesterday, "that the campaign Inaugurated by the…

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Found in Bar Imperial Hotel Case 'No Liquor Served'

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 June 1938 · page 6

At 12.30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 17, Sergeant A. Madelin entered the bar of the Imperial Hotel, West Maitland, and found two…

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To Cost £45,000 New Hotel for Darwin DARWIN

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 June 1938 · page 5

Plans for a modern tropical hotel at. Darwin were lodged at a meeting of the Northern Territory Licensing Bench for Mr. H. G. Kirkpatrick,…

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Hotel Robbery North Shore Licensee's Loss SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1938 · page 1

Nearly £4 in halfpennies, £8 in silver, and £2 in notes, together with jewellery worth £100, were stolen early to-day from a bedroom at the…

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Show Booths Move by Publicans Serious View

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 June 1938 · page 7

Fearing that its income from the sale of rights to conduct publicans' booths at the annual Maitland shows might be affected, the…

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Licensing Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 17 June 1938 · page 1

At the Licensing Court yesterday all hotel, wine and spirit merchants' licenses for the Muswellbrook district were renewed for the year…

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Ban Revoked On Four Sydney Hotels SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1938 · page 1

Four hotels, which were recently declared common gaming houses by the police, have now had the linn revoked…

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Safe Blown At Seven Seas Hotel NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 June 1938 · page 5

The safe at the Seven Seas Hotel Carrington, was blown last night and money to the value of £5/7/ was stolen…

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Hotel Licences Renewals Granted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 June 1938 · page 7

In the West Maitland Licensing Court to-day, Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, L.M, granted renewals of licences to 58 hotels within the licensing district, in…

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'Bus Case at Cessnock Court. Refusal of Kearsley Council to Grant License. South Maitland Railway Company's Appeal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 21 June 1938 · page 3

The appeal by South Maitland Railways Ltd. against the refusal, by Kearsley Shire Council, to agree to the issue of a license by the Tarra Shire Council, to the appellant company to run buses for public hire between…

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Licensing Act Protest Ungarie

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 June 1938 · page 4

The Lake Cargelligo Show Association has decided to protest against the proposed amendment in the Licensing Act, applying to booths on show or…

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Threw Bomb Exploded in Hotel SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 June 1938 · page 2

Before Mr. C. G. Carr Boyd, P.M., at Singleton to-day William Baddeley, of Sydney, was convicted and fined £3, with 8/ costs, on a charge of…

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Publicans' Booths at Shows Discussed by Shows Assn

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1938 · page 5

At the annual meeting of the Central Coast Shows' Association, held at Gloucester on Saturday last, Mr. Dawson, one of the Gloucester delegates,…

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After Hours Found in Hotel NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 July 1938 · page 7

At 8.10 p.m. on Juno 4. Sergeants Warden and Fyffe, visited the Exchange Hotel, Hamilton, and found seven men in the bar…

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Appeal Against Refusal to Grant 'Bus License. South Maitland Railway v. Kearsley Council. Case Adjourned to Kurri Kurri

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 July 1938 · page 5

Hearing was resumed at Cessnock Court yesterday of the case in which South Maitland Railways Ltd. appealed against the refusal of the Kearsley Shire Council to agree to the granting by Tarro Shire Council of a license to the…

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Cancelling of Drivers' Licenses Comment on Power of Department. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 July 1938 · page 2

Mr Percy Spender, K.C., M.H.R., commenting on the power of the Transport Department to cancel drivers' licenses after the magistrate had…

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Safe on Trolley Hotel Licensee Disturbs Thieves Six Shots Fired Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 1

Derrimut Hotel, near Sunshine, was entered by thieves early this morning. They were in the act of removing the halfton safe from the premises when…

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Thieves in Hotel Licensee's Wife Fires Six Shots. Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Friday 8 July 1938 · page 6

The Derrimutt Hotel, near Sunshine, was entered by thieves early this morning. They were in the act of removing a…

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Publican Fined Gaming -After Hours Poker Machine Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 1

In the Summons Court to-day, Mr. Soane, S.M., gave his reserved decision , in the police case against Norman Santamaria, licensee of the Pacific…

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Hotel Raid Ban on Soft Drinks Names Taken Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 July 1938 · page 1

Referring to complaints by many people whose names were taken when the police visited the Hotel Sydney late on Saturday night,…

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