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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

312 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 16

Investigation of Radio Licenses

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 1

The Postmaster General (Mr. Cameron) is having, a full investigation made into the licensing of B. class stations…

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Old Hotel. Destroyed by Fire. Inmates Escape in Night Attire. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 2

The Oaks Hotel at the Oaks, near Camden, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The inmates were compelled to flee clad…

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Lost All Oaks Hotel Destroyed Inmates Flee Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 1

The Oaks Hotel, at The Oaks, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The inmates were compelled to flee clad in only night attire…

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Rude Awakening: Girrall Hotel Destroyed West Wyalong

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 7

The Girrall Hotel, near Ungarie, owned and occupied by Robert Bamford, well-known south-western sporting man, was destroyed by fire early…

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Fine of £50 Sold Milk Without License Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 1

At Parramatta Court, Mrs. Eileen Fenwick, of Granville, was fined £60 with £1/12/ costs. She had pleaded guilty to four charges of having…

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Publican Granted Access to Child Must Not Take Son Into Bar

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 5

A hotel keeper, Percy Edwin Deaton, was on Wednesday granted access to his two and a half years old son on two days a week pending the…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire Inmates Flee in Night Attire Camden

Singleton Argus · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 6

The Oaks Hotel at Oaks, near Camden, was destroyed by fire early" this morning. The inmates were compelled to flee…

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Staffs Reduced N.Z. Licensing System Firms May Close Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 January 1939 · page 4

Staff reductions have already taken place as a result of the Government's Import licensing system, although many of the…

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VIEWPOINTS Readers, Opinions in Fifty Word Letterettes. What Do You Think? Trading Hours in Hotels

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 January 1939 · page 3

I read in a paper the other day that a strong movement is afoot on behalf of the liquor trade for an alteration in the hours of…

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New Zealand Licensing System Firms May Close

Singleton Argus · Monday 9 January 1939 · page 4

Staff reductions have already taken place as a result of the New Zealand Government's import licensing system, although…

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Fine of £20 Took Bets at Hotel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 January 1939 · page 6

Arthur Humphrey Lavender (26), was fined £20, when he pleaded guilty at the West Maitland Police Court to-day to having taken bets at the…

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Police Court. Betting in Hotel. Fine of £20 Imposed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 1

Thomas Mead was charged at the Muswellbrook Police Court yesterday, before Mr. G. J. Johnstone, P.M., with betting in the Prince of Wales'…

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Tin Hare License Government's Powers

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 1

Although the State Government some months ago decided to grant a licence to the New South Wales Nattional Coursing Association to…

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Hotel Betting Case at Muswellbrook Fine of £20 MUSWELLBROOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1939 · page 9

As a sequel to a recent visit of Newcastle police, Thomas Mead was charged at the Muswellbrook Police Court, before Mr. G. J. Johnstone…

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Plied for Hire But Did Not Have License

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 3

At Cessnock Police Court yesterday Robert Pratt Clark, an officer of the Transport Department, proceeded against…

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Awakened by Smoke and Fire Historic Hotel in South-west Destroyed

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 2

Guests escaped from the Tallimba Hotel, Tallimba, in their night attire, when the building caught fire. The hotel, a large weatherboard…

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Plane Delayed Hotel Was Full DARWIN

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 5

Owing to the fact that the hotel at Daly Waters could not accommodate four people, the K.N.I.L.M. Lockheed airliner will arrive at Sydney two…

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New Royal Hotel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 1

Council had before it an application for approval of plans for demolition of the existing Royal Hotel and the erection of a new building. The clerk…

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Dirty Bottles Hotelkeeper Fined

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 7

A fine of £5 was Imposed on William Madden, licensee of the Granville Hotel, Granville, at Parramatta Court, on a charge of falling to keep clean a…

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Two Charges Adulterated Liquor Licensee Fined

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1939 · page 12

William Knight, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Granville, pleaded "Guilty," in the Panamatta Court, to charges of having sold adulterated…

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