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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

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

Junction Hotel

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 19 December 1940 · page 4

Same continuity of trade has favoured the Hotel Junction this years as in the past in fact this has been a busier year and trade maintained on increasing stand…

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Beer Strike 30, 000 Workers Involved Hotels Deserted Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 December 1940 · page 1

Strikes against inc[?] prices of been are in [?] swing in many parts of the State to-day, in which about 30,000 workers are…

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Air Raids Bring Money to Hotel Drinks on the House Offer Attracts Crowds

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 December 1940 · page 5

The licensee of a public-house at Hammersmith, London, is making a gamble on air raid warnings. When the sirens go he announces…

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Picking Of South Coast Hotels SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1940 · page 1

The picking of South Coses hotels against which [?] have organised a beer [?] is being carried…

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Killing Charges Alleged Altercation At Hotel PERTH

Maitland Mercury · Monday 23 December 1940 · page 3

Bernard McGrath, 24, tract driver, of Mt. Helena, was charged at the Central Police Station with having unlawfully killed Arthur Joseph…

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Hotelkeepers Assist Hammondville Homes

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 December 1940 · page 2

"It is a very nice gesture on your part. We are old. enemies and are likely to remain enemies," said Archdeacon R. B. S…

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Muswellbrook. Aberdeen and Scone Hotels. Declared "Black" by Aberdeen Union Workers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 December 1940 · page 7

At a meeting of union members employed at the Aberdeen Meat Works, held yesterday afternoon, it was decided to declare all hotels…

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Robbery at Hotel. Boarders' Rooms Entered

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 December 1940 · page 3

While one of the boarders at the Hotel Hunter was sleeping on Saturday afternoon a thief entered the room and stole £6…

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Beer Ban Conditions On South Coast One “Open” Hotel Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 December 1940 · page 1

White negotiations between the publication and the miners on the South Conel are still proceeding, there is only one hotel open to--day,…

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Rang Hotel Bell Three Men Fined NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 December 1940 · page 1

At one o’clock this morning three men made a nuisance of themselves ringing the door bell of the Orient Hotel in Watt-street, Newcastle, and…

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Theft From City Hotel £100 in Cash Taken. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 December 1940 · page 2

Thieves entered the Brooklyn Hotel, George Street North, City, early this morning and carried away a safe containing £100 in cash…

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More Buildings Big Increase in Value New Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 31 December 1940 · page 2

During the year. 127 applications for permission to build were received by the West Maitland Municipal Council, the…

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