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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

312 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 16

Australia Hotel Changes Hands MR. A. Davidson Is New Licensee

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 August 1939 · page 7

Mr. Mel Jurd has disposed of his interest in the Australia Hotel at West Cessnock, and next week he will become the…

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On Licensed Premises After Hours

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 August 1939 · page 2

Charged with having been found on the licensed premises of the Denman Hotel, Abermain, during prohibited hours…

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Landing Ground Council Wants "A" Class License Department's Suggestion

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 August 1939 · page 3

After consideration of a letter from Mr. A. E. Corbett, Director-General of Civil Aviation, Wallarobba Shire Council decided, at last Tuesday's…

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Licenses Granted

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 August 1939 · page 3

Applications for hairdressers' licenses were made by Miss Anne Abbott, Frank Foster, C. N. Morris, A. S. Burrage, and G. A. Lloyd…

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Hotel Robbed Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 August 1939 · page 2

When thieves broke into the Kauri Hotel, Prymont, Bridge-road, Glebe, during the proprietor's absence, they stole £50 in notes and silver, two…

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Hotel Hours Views of Ministers SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 August 1939 · page 4

Many Ministerial members of the State Parliament are pressing for legislation to permit an extension of hotel trading hours…

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Thieves at Double Bay Safe Stolen From Hotel. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 14 August 1939 · page 2

Another big robbery was perpetrated during the we,ek end when thieves broke into the Gulden Sheaf Hotel at Double Bay and removed a small…

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Bullet Through Heart Found Dead At Hotel SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 August 1939 · page 7

The inquest was opened to-day concerning the death of William James Anderson, 22, who was found shot in the washroom of…

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Thieves Took Only Beer Missed £105 in Hotel Bar

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 2

Although £100 was in an unlocked safe and over £5 in a till in the bar of the Royal Hotel in Pound-street, Grafton, only a small quantity of bottled…

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Failed to Take Out Radio Licenses People Fined Last Year. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 2

During the year ended June last 2757 people were fined in sums aggregating £6000 for failing to take out radio licenses…

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Dungog News Eleven Fined On Licensed Premises at Clarence Town Dungog

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 August 1939 · page 10

Eleven men were fined 5/ with 8/ costs, in default two days' hard labour, before Mr. R. Solling, P.M., at the Clarence Town Court yesterday, on a…

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Hotel Murder New Turn at Inquest "I Am Innocent" Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 August 1939 · page 7

The inquest concering the death of Robert James Anderson, who was found shot in a hotel washroom on March 20 at the…

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Hotel License Transferred

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 7

At the Maitland District censing Court this week the [?]cense of the Australia Cessnock, was transferred from…

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Hotel Shooting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 4

The inquest on Robert James Anderson, 22, grocer and amateur actor, who was found shot through the heart in a city hotel, on March 20, was…

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Four Fined On Licensed Premises Carrington Hotel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 6

Four men, who pleaded guilty to being on the licensed premises of the Carrington Hotel, West Maitland, on July 7, were each fined…

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Hotel Hours North Coast Proprietors Meet SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 August 1939 · page 2

A conference of North Coast hotel-keepers, held at Casino, decided to support, by Parliamentary agitation, the move for a change in trading…

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Hotel Trading Hours North Coast Support for Change

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 8

A conference of North Coast hotelkeepers decided to support by parliamentary agitation a move for a change in trading hours…

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Pleaded Guilty Hotel Licensee Fined

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 August 1939 · page 6

A plea of guilty to a charge of being the licensee of the Imperial Hotel where persons were found after hours on July 28, was entered by Mary…

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"Retention of License Under a Bond" Plea by Grazier Rejected

Singleton Argus · Friday 1 September 1939 · page 8

A plea by Bruce Ryrie Campbell, of Goorianawa Station, Gular, for the retention of his driving licence under a bond, after he had been…

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Failed to Return License

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 September 1939 · page 1

For failing to return an expired motor cycle rider's license, Andrew J. Craft was fined 2/-, plus 8/- costs at…

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