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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1946

241 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 13

License Of Agricultural Hotel Transferred

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 May 1946 · page 2

Approval was granted yesterday by Police Magistrate A. E. Hodgson for transfer of the license of the Agricultural Hotel,…

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News of Harry Fisher. Lord Roberts Hotel, Wooloomooloo

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 14 May 1946 · page 6

The Editor, Dear Sir,- I advertised that I would be with you in 1952 again after a residence between 1913-40. I may come back earlier if…

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Local and General News Review of Local Hotels by Licensing Magistrate

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 May 1946 · page 2

Mr. J. Scobie. Chairman of the Licenses Reduction Board, occupied the Bench this morning at a sitting of the local Licensing Court. Hotels…

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Startling Affair in Licensing Court Difference Between Barrister and Local Solicitor

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 May 1946 · page 2

There was a startling turn of events during the sitting this morning in the local court house of the Licensing Court. A…

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Hotel Licensee Fined

Maitland Mercury · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 4

On October 17, 1946, Into went into the bar of the Plough Lun at Sulndelah and ordered two glasses of beer and…

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Review of Town's Hotes Sitting of Special Licensing Court

Singleton Argus · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 7

A number of structural alterations anil various improvements to local hotels are under way, have been carried out, or are…

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Local Hotel-Keeper, Store-Keeper Fined For Over-Charging Serious View Taken by Stipendiary Magistrate Respective Fines £30 & £2

Singleton Argus · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 6

Local hotel-keeper Lcslie Errol Doohan, of the Criterion Hotel, was fined £30 by Stipendiary Magistrate R. C. Atkinson when…

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Publican Fined £30 Overcharged on Glass of Beer

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1946 · page 5

SINGLETON Sat.—Leslie E. Doohan, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, was fined £ 30, with £2/ 10/ costs, for charging 7d on a…

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Betting in Bar of Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 May 1946 · page 2

For betting in the bar of the Belmore Hotel, West Maitland, on May 18, Allan Richard Miller, 31, miner, was fined £20 by Mr…

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Fire in Werris Creek Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 May 1946 · page 4

WERRIS CHEEK Monday—A fire, which broke out in the upper storey of the Railway Hotel at Werris Creek did damage…

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Labor Proposal for Large Hotel

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 22 May 1946 · page 2

Sydney Labor aldermen propose to ask the City Council to take over the Hotel Sydney and to conduct it as a community hotel…

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Offensive Behaviour At Kurri Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 6

KURRI KURRI: James Them as Donne, 40, Leslie Richard O’Donnell, 26, and Herbert Ernest Webb, 37, were charged with…

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Community Hotel for Forster

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 5
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Probably one of the first Stores in the State to embrace the opportunity presented by the new liquor legislation the [?]d Shire council has decided to…

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Offensive Behaviour at Kurri Hotel

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 5

At Kurri Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. T. A. Doolan, P.M., [?] Thomas D[?], 40, Leslie Richard O'D[?], and…

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Drove Motor Vehicle Without License

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 1

Gerald Alan Dennis was called in the local police court yesterday on a charge of driving a motor vehicle whilst not being the holder of a…

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Claim on Hotelkeeper

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 25 May 1946 · page 4

SINGLETON, Sat — In the Small Debts Court yesterday a registered bookmaker, Norman Vincent Doran of Uralla,…

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Found In Hotels On

Maitland Mercury · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 2

Mr. C. R. Fry appeared and pleaded guilty for Edward Henry Naughton when he was charged at West Maitland court today to…

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Fought in Lane Near Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 28 May 1946 · page 2

Two brothers. Andrew Moffat, 23 plumber, and Roy Norman Moffat, 25. carrier, were each fined £2. expenses of witness…

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In Hotel on Good

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 6

NEWCASTLE: At 11.10: a.m. on Good Friday Sergeant Noble and other' police visited the Commercial Hotel, Newcastle; and…

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