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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

312 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 16

"C.t.a." Badge Hotels and Garages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1939 · page 8

For many years past, "C.T.A." hotels in the principal cities and towns of the Commonwealth have been identified by a distinctive emblem or badge issued…

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Five Fined Oh Licensed Premises CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 July 1939 · page 5

Five men were fined at the Cessnock Court to-day for being found on licensed premises for the purpose of obtaining liquor. They were Alvin…

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Smashed Hotel Window Labourer Fined £2 NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 July 1939 · page 5

On Saturday night. Thomas Watts (22), labourer, went to the Royal Hotel, Newcastle, and asked for brandy, saying he was sick…

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Drove Car While Drunk Fined and License Cancelled. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 July 1939 · page 2

At the Redfern Court to-day, Reginald Webster Mooney, 24, garage attendant, was fined £15 for having driven a car while under the…

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"After Hours" Case Police Visit to Ellalong Hotel

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 25 July 1939 · page 3

Echoes of a visit by police to the Ellalong Hotel on the night of Saturday, June 17, were beard at Cessnock Court…

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Advice Given Licensing of Cafes the Regulations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1939 · page 6

The health inspector of West Maitland Council (Mr. A. Reay) stated to-day that so many people are concorned with, the matter of…

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Betting at Hotels Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1939 · page 7

In his quarterly report to the Licensing Magistrate. Inspector A. Duckworth says "stalling price betting has been eliminate from most…

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Illegal Betting Found in Hotel Bar

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1939 · page 6

Leo Bartlett, of East Maitland, was fined £20, In default 40 days' imprisonment, at the West Maitland Court to-day on a charge of having been…

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Licensing Board

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1939 · page 6

A special sitting of the Licensing Board, presided over by Mr. W. C. Geikie, L.M., was held at Stroud on Thursday…

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Hotel Accommodation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 July 1939 · page 6

Sir,—I would like to support the remarks of Ald. H. C. Morton, Mayor of East Maitland, on the insufficient modern accommodation of the hotels in…

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Maitland Hotels Improvements In Progress

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 July 1939 · page 6

The Bench of Licensing Magistrates advised West Maitland Council last night, regarding hotel accommodation in West Maitland, that the…

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Our Stupid Licensing Laws

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 2

LIKE THE GOOD FRIDAY PROTEST against the Sydney Show, we have periodical protests against the licensing laws of N.S.W. Although the Premier (Mr. Stevens) is not a drinker himself, he is placed in his position by thousands of…

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Forster Hotel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 2

At a sitting of the Licensing Court, over which Mr. W. C. Geikie presided, on Friday last, at Taree, plans, etc., were approved for…

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Licensing Hours Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 August 1939 · page 2

Canon R.B.S. Hammond, speaking at a meeting convened by the Women's Christian Temperance Union, said that "underground engineering"…

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Drove Under the Influence Bank Manager Fined and License Cancelled. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 August 1939 · page 2

When John Murdo Morrison, 42, bank manager, was charged at Paddington Court to-day with having driven a car, in Centennial Park last…

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Hotel Tragedy At Chicago CHICAGO, August 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1939 · page 1

A woman, apparently aged about 40, and two boys 7 and 5, leapt or fell from the thirteenth storey of the…

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Hotel Tragedy

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 August 1939 · page 1

A woman, apparently aged about 40, and two boys, 7 and 5, leapt or fell from the thirteenth storey of the fashionable Congress Hotel, Chicago,…

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After Hours Men Found in Hotel Licensee Fined

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 6

For being the licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel, West Maitland, on which men were found during prohibited hours on July 8…

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FAREWELLED Popular Publican MR. W. CLENDINNING

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1939 · page 6

Mr. W. Clendinning, who has ministered to the needs of thirsty Maitland district residents for more than a quarter of a century…

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Eight Men Fined On Licensed Premises Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 August 1939 · page 7

At the Kurri Kurri Court to-day, eight men were each fined £1, with 8/ costs, for being found on licensed premises at prohibited hours…

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