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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1941

220 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 11

The Beer Strike. Lodge Committees and Hotelkeepers Conter. Vote to Be Taken To-night

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 February 1941 · page 2

Representatives of the Muswellbrook hotelkeepers and the committees of the Muswellbrook and St. Heliers' Miners' Lodges conferred last night in…

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Publican Fined Short Measure Beer NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 February 1941 · page 5

For selling a quantity of beer less than was purchased, Michael Tobin, the Merewether Beach Hotel, was fined £4, with 8/ costs, in the…

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Wanted Beer Found on Licensed Premises CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 February 1941 · page 8

Andrew McCuIIoch, William McDonald of Kurri Kurri, and Lewin Golchie, of Kitchener, were each fined £1, with 8/ costs at Cessnock police…

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On Licensed Premises Three Men Fined

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 February 1941 · page 1

Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, P.M., at Cessnock Police Court, yesterday. Andrew McCulloch. Rawson-street. Kurri Kurri William McDonald…

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Victorian Drive on Hotel Betting

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 14 February 1941 · page 6

Starting price betting in hotels will be the subject of a drive by the Licensing Court, the Chairman (Mr. Dixon Hearder) said yesterday…

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Sleep Walker Injured In Fall From Hotel Window SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 19 February 1941 · page 1

Shortly before midnight last night Aircraftsman P. Loosemoore fall from the first floor window of a hotel at Ultimo and suffered a fractured lett…

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Licensing Board Alterations To Premises Plans Approved

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 February 1941 · page 6

A number of applications under section 40a of the Liquor Act came before the chairman of the Licensing Board (Mr. J. Laidlaw)…

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New Hotels Expenditure Of £110,000

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 February 1941 · page 6

During the past 10 months contracts have been let or are about to he entered into by Tooth and Co., involving an expenditure of £110,…

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Attempted Suicide in Hotel Bathroom

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 February 1941 · page 2

A young man who procured a bottle of iodine and went to a hotel bathroom and tried to take his life by drinking half a cupful of it appeared…

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Hotels Reopen Beer Strike At Broken Hill Broken Hill

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 3

Despite the decision of the Barter industrial Council that all liquor is “black” until prices are reduced to pre-war levels hotels are during…

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Rebuilding Hotels in the State £1,000,000 Spent During 1940

Singleton Argus · Monday 24 February 1941 · page 1

During 1940 the amount spent on rebuilding hotels in the State was between £800,000 and £1,000,000. The action of the Federal Government in…

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Carry On! Business As Usual Eaton's Hotel

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 February 1941 · page 5

RENOWNED among country hotels for its first-class accommodation and outstanding service in bar and house, EATON'S HOTEL is a business…

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Some Additions Licensing Of Agents Bill

Maitland Mercury · Friday 28 February 1941 · page 4

In the Legislative Assembly the Minister for Justice, Mr. H.V. Treatt, moved for leave to bring in a bull to provide for the licensing of…

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“Swear Box” At Hotel MESWELLBROOK

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 2

All things are done well in Muswellbrook apparently even in more ways than one. Mrs. F. E. A[?] of the Red…

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Found on Licensed Premises Kurri Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 March 1941 · page 5

Before Mr. Sheridan, PM, at Kurri Kurri Court, to-day. Eric Davles, Robert Story and William Goy, of Abernain, were bach fined 12/…

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Taxi Cab License

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 5

The Stroud Shire Council forwarded for the Committee's opinion a letter from the Transport Board advising that Mr. J. E. Currer ,of…

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On Licensed Premises

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 6

Three men, Eric Davies, of William-strret, Abermain, Robert Storey, of Old School Hill, Abermain, and William Guy, of Old School Hill…

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Midnight Scare Hotel Window Broken Three Men Fined Newcastle

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 1

At about midnight of Sunday a window in a Hamilton hotel was broken and later a man was arrested. Two other men, one the…

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Ten Men Charged Found On Licensed Premises CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 5

Ten men who were charged before Mr. Sheridan at Cessnock police court to-day with having been found on licensed premises after hours were…

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Petrol Licenses Details This Week the New Issue Melbourne

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 4

The Controller of Liquid Fuel, Mr. J. E.. England, said that statements from Canberra that each State authority had…

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