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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

213 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 11

Beer Stolen Hotel Licensee’s Loss SINGLETON

Maitland Mercury · Monday 1 January 1940 · page 8

Icy cold beer—10 gallons of it— was taken from the cold room at the rear of Balley’s butchery in George street, Singleton, on Saturday night…

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New Hotel Work on Volunteer

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 5

Work on the demolition of the volunteer Hotel in High-street, West Maitland, to the reconstruction, was begun to-day. when the upstairs…

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Valueless Cheque Publican Victimised NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 5

Pleading gully to-day in the Police Court to having obtained [?] from [?] Higgs, of the Tea Gardens Ho[?] by means of a valueless cheque…

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On Licensed Premises

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 3

Andrew Johnson, 34, pleaded guilty at the Kurri Kurri Police Court on Wednesday to charges of drunkenness and being on…

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20 Killed in Hotel Fire (“Mercury” Service) New York, January 4

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 3

Twenty people were killed and 40 were injured when a fire destroyed the Marlborough Hotel in Minneapolis…

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On Licensed Premises Fine of £1 IMPOSED

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 January 1940 · page 3

On a charge of having been found on licensed premises during prohibited hours, Maurice Jones, of Ann and View Streets…

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Father and Two Sons Convicted Charge of Assaulting a Hotelkeeper

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 1

At the police court yesterday, Alfred Ernest Clare (53) and his two sons, Thomas Alfred Clare (28) and Leslie Clare (19) were charged with having…

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Licensing Court

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 4

The license of the Duham Hotel, Wingen, was transferred from Herbert Taylor to Clarence G. O'Brien…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire People Dashed Out Just in Time

Singleton Argus · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 2

Guests and the staff at the Star Hotel at Wauchope dashed out of, the blazing building at 3 o'clock yesterday morning just; in time. The…

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Found in Hotel Seven Men Fined

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 January 1940 · page 4

When he entered the back entrance of the Imperial Hotel West Maitland on December 16, Sergeant R. L. Harivel found seven men leaving the saloon…

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Licensing Court

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 5

In the West Maitland Licensing Court on Tuesday, the license of the Commercial Hotel at Paterson was transferred from Stanley Pearce to…

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Licensing Potato Growers Legislation Promised Funds to Organise the Industry

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 3

"Potato growing should be a much bigger and a much better organised industry than it is in this State," said Mr. J. L. Shute. secretary of the…

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Licensing Court

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 4

AT the West Maitland [?] Court to-day, the licence of the Windsor Castle Hotel, East Maitland, was transferred from Albert…

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Higher Wages Claims of Hotel Employees SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 4

About 10,000 employees in [?] throughout the State will be affected by a new log of claim which baa been filed with that…

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May be Consulted on Tuesday, February 13. at the Railway Hotel, Muswellbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 7

As mentioned in the last issue of this paper MR. LYONS DOES NOT USE DRUGS, HERBS, LOTIONS, MEDICINES, BATTERIES, DIETS,…

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Liberty, of License?

Maitland Mercury · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 6

The assurances given yesterday by the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies, relating to the Government’s censorship policy are reassuring enough to convince impartial people that no attempt is being made to [?] free speech…

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British Transport Dislocated Without Food in Lonely Moorlands Hotel

Singleton Argus · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 5

"We are absolutely starving. Food is all gone, and we are unable to get supplies from the village. There are 400 people…

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London in War Time Safety Of Hotel Clients

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 3 February 1940 · page 5

Train services to an from London are running punctually once more, but in the black-out conditions which prevail it would be a brave man who…

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