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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

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Newcastle Publicans Won't Sell Bulk Beer

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 February 1948 · page 4

Newcastle publicans decided yesterday not to sell draught beer in bulk and to keep hotels open during the…

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Peeps Into the Past SINGLETON 50, 25, 15 Years Ago 50 Tears Ago From issues of "Argus" for period ended March 12, 1898). Licensing Court

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 March 1948 · page 2

Permission has been given to Miss Harriet Budden to assume control as licensee of the Percy Hotel for three months owing to…

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Bank Hotel Mr. J. McCAULEY on Holidays

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 13 March 1948 · page 2

Mr. J. McCauley, licensee of the Bank Hotel, intends taking a holiday with his wife and family and will go to Forster for a time and then to…

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Charge of Stealing From Room of Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 16 March 1948 · page 2

Harold Edward Edwards, 25, designing sighing engineer, pleaded not guilty at West Maitland Court yesterday afternoon to having on…

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Show Week Royal Hotel, Dungog, in 1889

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1948 · page 4

Show Week in 1889 was a very important occasion. There were no cars or buses in those days and folk from outside areas stayed in town at the…

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Can Hold Hotel And Spirit Licences

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 2

The holder of a spirit merchant’s licence was not prohibited having a publican’s licence as well, Mr. K.W. Barnett, a…

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Stole Clothing From Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 4

SINGLETON, Friday.—A former Singletonian, Arthur Simonds was fined £10 in default 20 days hard labour by the Stipendiary…

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Traveller Supplies His Own Extras Fed Up with Hotel Shortages

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 1

Guests lunching at a Newcastle hotel yesterday were surprised when a diner produced his own pepper, salt,…

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Wages For Hotel Employees

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Saturday. — Victorian hotel employees will receive substantially higher wages than New South Wales hotel workers as the result…

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Televisions’s New Type Hotel Guests (From a Reuter Correspondent)

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 22 April 1948 · page 5

NEW YORK (By: Air Mall): Television has developed a new type of hotel guest—the man who takes off His shoes to see the…

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License of Central Hotel Transferred

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 April 1948 · page 6

In the Licensing Court yesterday, before Stipendiary Magistrate J. B. Hodgson, the licence of the Central Hotel was…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Friday 23 April 1948 · page 5

SINGLETON, Friday—At the Licensing Court at Singleton, transfer of the licence of Central Hotel was made from James…

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Judge Grants Appeal for Renewal of License

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 April 1948 · page 3

His Honour Judge Neild, at the Singleton Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, granted the appeal of Hunter Bruce…

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Camberwell Had School in Days of Three Hotels

Singleton Argus · Friday 23 April 1948 · page 8

Camberwell's present school was built In 1882, replacing the old school, which was taught by Mrs. Groffety…

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Judge Grants Appeal for License Renewal

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1948 · page 2

His Honor, Judge Neild, at the Singleton Quarter Sessions on Wednesday, granted the appeal of Hunter Bruce Haydon for renewal…

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Miners’ Ban on Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 May 1948 · page 4

LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Vale of Clwydd miners yesterday issued a statement criticising the Lithgow Trades and Labour Council…

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Letter To The Editor Hotels or ‘Grog Shops’?

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1948 · page 5

Sir—Apart from a few of the leading hotels of Maitland, any visitor to the city who desires accommodation for a night or more…

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Picketing of Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 6 May 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs. — A case stated to be the first of its kind in New South Wales, came before Mr. M. S. Meagher, SM, in…

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Took Suitcase From Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Friday 7 May 1948 · page 2

SINGLETON, Friday. — Edward Allen, 62, a stranger to Singleton, was sentenced to one month at the Singleton court by…

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Beer Supplies to Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 May 1948 · page 2

New South Wales hotels affected by the beer strike are hot expected to have draught beer for sale before next Monday…

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