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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

141 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 8

Took Money From Hotel Till

Maitland Mercury · Monday 15 November 1948 · page 6

John Courts Moffat, 42, labourer, pleaded guilty at West Maitland court to-day to having, on November 11 at East Maitland, stolen…

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Agricultural Hotel Suit in Equity Present Licensee Ordered to Hand Over Business

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 November 1948 · page 4

On Wednesday last, a suit in which Kristian Haraidstad (plaintiff), a Norwegian diesel engineer,' applied for an order…

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Gloucester to Have £45,000 Hotel

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 2

In the Taree Licensing Court last week the transfer of. the license of the Balranald Hotel, Banranald, to a hotel to be erected…

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Tourist Hotel For Gloucester

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 November 1948 · page 4

GLOUCESTER.—A new hotel is to be built in Gloucester. At the Taree Licensing Court approval was given for the transfer…

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Community Hotel At Forster

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 25 November 1948 · page 1

Stroud Shire Council has been informed by Forster Urban Committee that it is wholeheartedly behind the Forster Chamber of…

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Snake in Abermain Hotel Hallway

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 26 November 1948 · page 7

Snakes are rather prevalent on the coalfields at this time of year but it is not often that one has the courage to make for indoors…

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Snake Killed in Hotel Bar

Maitland Mercury · Friday 26 November 1948 · page 4

ABERMAIN: A barman killed a four foot brown snake in the hallway of the Abermain Hotel, Abermain…

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Gloucester to Have £45,000 Hotel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 27 November 1948 · page 2

In the Taree Licensing Court last week the transfer of the license of the Balranald Hotel, Balranald, to a hotel to be erected by the Pioneer…

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Local and General News Grass Fire Near Hotel, Oil Depot

Singleton Argus · Monday 29 November 1948 · page 2

Singleton Fire Brigade received a call to a fire early on Saturday afternoon. Locale was railway property adjoining the…

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The Fish Scaled An Hotelkeeper

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 30 November 1948 · page 3

One of our spies who frequents a certain hotel in Cessnock, tells. us the hotelkeeper swears he will never accept another gift of fish…

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Transfer of Hotel Licence Personalities in Cash

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 4 December 1948 · page 5

At Taree last week the full Licensing Bench (Messrs. Scobie, Wells and Bliss) after hearing evidence for and against the application by Gerhard…

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Told Police He Never Had License

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 December 1948 · page 10

Kevin Warren Harris, of Bigridge, who was fined £3 and 7/- court costs yesterday for driving without a license, is alleged to…

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Amazing Escape in Leap From Blazing Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 December 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, Dee. 13.—An elderly man who leaped from the fourth floor when a fire swept through the fifth floor of the Victoria Hotel in Chicago yesterday suffered only fractured toes and a skinned nose…

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Albion Hotel Gift Parcel Scheme

Singleton Argus · Monday 13 December 1948 · page 3

The gift parcel scheme inaugurated by Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Wade of the Albion Hotel, whereby food parcels are sent to…

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Hotel Workers Seek More Pay and Fewer Hours “Would Force Up Price of Beer”

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 15 December 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday—According to Sydney publicans, a log of claims submitted by the Liquor Trade Employees Union to the Federal Arbitration Court will, if granted, force up the price of beer and compel hotels to keep shorter…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Monday 20 December 1948 · page 2

The licence of the Australia Hotel, Cessnock, was transferred from A. P. Davidson to Melville Eric Jurd, of Maitland road, Cessnock, at West…

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Licence of Australia Hotel Transferred

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 21 December 1948 · page 7

At the West maitland Licensing court yesterday an applications by [?] Eric Jurd, for the transfer of the Licence of Australian Hotel…

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Woman Killed in Terrific Blast Walls of Hotel Shattered

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 22 December 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A terrific explosion, believed have been caused by leaking gas, blew down the walls of a hotel in Surry Hills to-day, crushing a woman standing outside to death…

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Explosion at Hotel Caused Woman's Death. Crushed Beneath Masonry

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 23 December 1948 · page 5

A woman was crushed to death under two tons of mansonry when a mysterious explosion blew a huge hole in front of the Crown…

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Application for Hotel Licence Adjourned

Maitland Mercury · Friday 24 December 1948 · page 1

SINGLETON, Friday.—In the licensing court, an application for the transfer of the Agricultural Hotel from Mrs. Vera…

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