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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1949

135 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 1 of 7

Licenses Granted to Scone and Aberdeen R.s.l's

Singleton Argus · Monday 3 January 1949 · page 1

A special Licensing Court was held in Saone, presided over by Mr. G. Wells, Licensing Magistrate of the State Licensing…

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Fire at Percy Hotel Little Damage Caused

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 January 1949 · page 1

Singleton firemen were called from their breakfast this morning to fight a fire at the Percy Hotel…

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£1500 Robbery From Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE. Thursday.— Jewellery money end Commonwealth security bonds valued about £1500 were stolen from Mooreland. Hotel…

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Hotel Sold for £130,000

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 January 1949 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Pacific Hotel, Manly, has been sold for about £130,000 to a syndicate of Melbourne business men whose…

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New Hotel for Jerry's Plains Unlikely Disclosure in License Application

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 5

It is unlikely that any hotel will be erected to replace the Jerry's Plains Hotel, which was destroyed by fire, Mr C. R…

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Woman Gets Local Hotel License Tquity Court Finding Referred to

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 5

Reference to a N.S.W. Supreme Court Equity finding was made at the Singleton licensing court yesterday,…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Friday 21 January 1949 · page 2

SINGLETON. Friday.—In the licensing court at Singleton yesterday, Mr. J. B. Hodgson, SM, agreed to the application for the…

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Accommodation At Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 25 January 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Hotelkeepers would be prosecuted if they refused accommodation to anyone who sought it, the…

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Singleton R.S.L. Wants Dog License Matter to Be Pursued at Annual Meeting

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 2 February 1949 · page 1

The R.S.L. will pursue at its annual meeting this month an application to the Chief Secretary for a greyhound racing licence for Singleton. The local sub-branch originally made the application…

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Licenses, No Open Season for 'Roos

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 February 1949 · page 1

Mr. R. B. Nott. M.L..A for Liverpool Plains, forwards the following self-explanatory letter from the Chief Secretary's…

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Body Found in Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 February 1949 · page 1

About 8 o’clock this morning the body of Roy Kenneth Hill, about 45 years of age, was found in a bedroom at the Grand Central Hotel,…

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Hotel Boarder Found Dead

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 9 February 1949 · page 2

A boarder at Grand Central Hotel in Bourke Street, West Maitland, was found dead by a chambermaid on Monday morning. He was Roy…

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Licensing Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 1

In the Licensing Court on Wednesday, Thomas Richard Hayes was granted permission to effect material alterations at the Denman Hotel…

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Railway Hotel Licence Transferred

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 15 February 1949 · page 3

At the Maitland Licensing Court yesterday, the licence of the Railway Hotel, Cessnock, was transferred from Thomas Gilmore to William Henry…

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Licensing Court

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 February 1949 · page 3

A bench of three licensing magistrates, Messrs. J. B. Scobie, S. J. Bliss and V. Wells, will hold a Special Licensing Court at Maitland…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 February 1949 · page 2

The licence of the Railway Hotel, Cessnock, was transferred from Thomas Gilmore to William Henry Murphy, of Bent-st.,…

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Licenses

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 3

The following were granted licenses:— A. Peattie, Gresford, barber's licence; Mrs. L. Webb, Allynbrook…

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£70,000 Hotel For Swansea

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 2

NEWCASTLE: The Licensing Bench granted an application by Richard Sneddon McLeod, licensee of the Royal Hotel, West…

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Deplorable Conditions at Some Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 16 February 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed. — The NRMA is disguested at the accommodation provided and the meals served at many country hotels,…

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Licensing Court

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 1

An application by Rex K. Gorran for the transfer of the license of the Aberdeen Hotel, to Mrs. Clarice Orriel, was granted…

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