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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1949

135 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 7

Aborigines in Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Monday 3 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—A decision whether aborigines will be totally barred from drinking in N.S.W. hotels, or whether all restrictions…

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Guests Flee From Hotel. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 2

Fire caused damage estimated at £4000 at the fashionable Hotel Manly early to-day. Nearly 100 guests and staff, clad in night attire, fled from…

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Late Australian News £4000 Damage to Hotel to Manly Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 1

A fire caused damage estimated at £4000 to the fashionable Hotel Manly early today. Nearly 100 guests and staff, clad…

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Fire Exploded, Injured Hotel Cook

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 2

Eleanor Burn, 20, of Aberdare-street, Kurri, a cook at the Exchange Hotel, Maitland, received to the face, left wrist and…

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Fire at Hotel Manly

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 4 October 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Fire caused damage estimated at £4900 to the fashionable Hotel Manly early today…

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Brookfield Race Club Granted License

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 5 October 1949 · page 2

Mr. Gerard Walsh, Secretary of the reformed Brookfield Race Club, has received notification from the Chief Secretary's Department that the Club…

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Stole From Hotel Young Man Given Bond

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 October 1949 · page 4

At the Singleton Police Court yesterday Reginald Cecil Stowe was charged with stealing £4/5/- the property of the…

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Thief Robbed Hotel Safe

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 October 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A thief stole £380, including cheques for £80, from the Waitara Hotel, Waitors…

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Scone Publican Before Court Two Charges By Prices Branch

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 1

Before Mr. J. B. Hodgson. S.M., at the Scone Police Court, on Wednesday last, Bertram Cecil Price, publican, and licensee…

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Old Hotel Licenses Should Not be Transferred Address to Rotary

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 5

Old hotels in country areas should not have their licences transferred to more populous areas, because it deprived those towns of something they…

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£10,000 to Be Spent on Hotel

Singleton Argus · Friday 21 October 1949 · page 4

An application to build a £1,500 weather board cottage by Mr. R. T. Baxter, Gas Street, and another to build one of the…

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Additions to Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 October 1949 · page 3

SINGLETON, Wednesday. — At the licensing court at Singleton, applications by the licensing inspector requiring local hotels to carry…

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Work May Be Waste of Time Licensing Magistrate's View

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 26 October 1949 · page 3

Much of the re-construction and renovation work required on Singleton hotels may be a waste of time, Licensing…

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Wollombi Hotel Was Sold for £100

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 5

In the issue of the Cessnock "Eagle" of June 27, 1930, there is a report of the changing of hands of the Wollombi hotel. It states:— "The old Wollombi hotel, which was recognised as one of…

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The Haul of a Lifetime. Raid on Australia Hotel

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 6

Probably the biggest haul of public men caught in a raid in any town in Australia was that made by two Cessnock…

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Bellbird Hotel Site Cost £66 First Subdivision Sale

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 28 October 1949 · page 7

The first subdivision land sale to be held at Bellbird was on June 6, 1908, and was highly successful inasmuch as every…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 October 1949 · page 2

In the licensing court at Maitland to-day, Frederick John Vaughan, formerly of 101 Lawson-street, Hamilton, applied for transfer of the…

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Doubt Over Word “And” Delays Court Hearing Definition of Licensed Premises

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 November 1949 · page 4

The question whether the word “and” in a law text book should have been “or” caused postponement of a case in the Fair Rents Court at Maitland yesterday. The doubt arose over the definition of prescribed…

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Double Tragedy In Bedroom of New York Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 5 November 1949 · page 1

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—A bell boy yesterday found the bodies of a pretty Bulgarian-born woman and a Chinese employee…

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Threat of Stop-Work Meeting Hotel Employees Reject Award

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 3

If publicans introduce a six day week as provided in a new award, hotelworkers at Cessnock will hold a stopwork meeting…

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