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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

213 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 11

Splendid Work Footpath Near Hunter River Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1940 · page 6

Many Morpeth citizens, who regularly travel by train, speak highly of the action of [?] East Maitland Council in recently arranging for the…

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Raymond Terrace Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1940 · page 4

The tender of Messrs. Murdoch and Turner, contractors, of Islington, for alterations to the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Raymond Terrace, has been…

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Licensing Laws Problem of Night Clubs SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 8

In the Licensing Court in Sydney the Chief Licensing Magistrate, Mr. Laidlaw, stated that convictions for selling liquor without a licence had…

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Two Hotels Licences Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 4

Applications tor the transfer of the licences of the Rutherford end Belmore Hotels were granted by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, L.M. in the West…

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Waste Bier Insufficient Colouring Matter Licensees Fined Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 5

The Board of Health recently launched a companion in Newcastle against hotelktapers for having in driptraye waste beer…

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Hotel Raids Sequel at Kurri Court Kurri Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 5

The School to [?] on the Criterion and Ab[?] Winton on the sight of [?] was beard before Mr. C. G. Cary…

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On Licensed Premises Weston Men Fined

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 3

At the Kuril Kurri Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., four men pleaded guilty to a charge of, on April 24, having…

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Caused Trouble Drunk at Hotel CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 May 1940 · page 8

Bert Jones, 47, a farm labourer, pleaded guilty at Cessnock police court to-day to a charge of having teen drunk and disorderly in the bar…

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Hotel Man Fined

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 2

For a breach of the gas and electricity regulations, Bernard Trimnell-Ritchard, of the Railway Hotel, Hornsby was fined £5, with £2/10/…

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West Maitland Licensing Court

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 4

Before Mr. C.. Carr-Boyd, P.M., in the West Maitland Licensing Court yesterday, Peter James Murphy, executor of the will of the late [?]…

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Licensing Bill Growing of Potatoes

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 9

The Potato Gro[?] Licensing Bill, recently paused in the state Parliament will come into [?] July [?] Statement to this eff[?]…

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Selling Liquor Without License Man Fined £200

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 1

In the Licensing Court, Sydney, on Monday, George Nomico, described as a laborer, was fined £200 on two counts of selling liquor without a…

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Auchentorlie Milk Licenses Available

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 2

In connection with the subdivision sale of Auchentorlie Estate at the Court House Hotel, Dungog, this (Friday) afternoon, Messrs. A. S…

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Hotel Fire

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 8 June 1940 · page 1

In the small hours of this morning a fire broke out in a. storehouse at the rear of the Grand Junction Hotel west Maitland The West Maitland…

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Licensing Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 1

Renewals of hotel licences were granted to the following at yesterday's sitting of the Licensing Court:—Eaton's, Railway, Prince of Wales,…

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Greyhound Racing. No Further Licenses

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 1

Applications outstanding for a number of years for the issue of mechanical greyhound coursing licenses at 49 country centres were were considered by…

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Licenses Renewed

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 2

In Dungog Licensing Court, before Mr. R. Soiling, P.M., the licenses for the Court House, Royal, and Bank Hotels, Dungog, and Erringhi Hotel…

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Failed to Return License Kurri, Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 June 1940 · page 8

For having felled to return a [?] Ma[?]rk, of Maitland-street, Kurri Kurri was fined [?] with [?] costs, it the Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day…

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“SCANDALOUS” Hotel Accommodation Criticised

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 June 1940 · page 7

The lack of accommodation in West Maitland hotels was described as scandalous by Mr. Campbell Roy of the Royal Commission inquiring…

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Failed to Return License

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 June 1940 · page 1

Failure to return an expired motor drivers l'cense cost Stanly B. Mattick of Maitland-street, Kurri Kurri, 5/- with 8/ costs, or 2 days, when he was…

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