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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1950

140 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 7

Found On Licensed Premises

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 April 1950 · page 2

Two men found on unlicensed premises of the Victoria, Hotel, Hinton. on Sunday, Match 16, were to-day fined £1/10/ ordered to…

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Assault on Publican

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 2

Two men arrested late yesterday and charged with assault and with maliciously damaging property were remanded by Mr. F…

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Two Million Licensed Radio Listeners

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 April 1950 · page 1

Briadcast listeners licences have now reached the two million mark in Australia. Announcing this, the…

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Hotelkeeper Fined £15 for Refusing Room

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY. Tuesday.—The chairman of the licensing magistrates, Mr. J. B. Scoble, fined Norman Hyman Flohm, licensee of the Kauri…

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Country Hotels May Be Repaired

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 4

Owners might now, in country areas, repair, alter or make additions to existing hotels or build new hotels, without the necessity…

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Hotel Licensee Fined Sydney Action

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 2

In the Licensing Court, Sydney, this week, Mr. Bliss, S.M. fined Mrs. Ethel Frances Richardson, licensee of the Rose Bay…

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Criticism of Sydney Hotels "Accommodation World's Worst."

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 May 1950 · page 3

Hotel accommodation in Sydney is worse than in any other big city in the world, Mr. A. R. Downer (Lib., S.A.)…

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Better Hotel Accommodation

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Saturday. —Publicans. were now providing more and better accommodation for guests, Miss B L. Waring, head of the Hotel Accommodation…

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Love for Beer Hotel's 100Th Birthday Celebration

Singleton Argus · Monday 22 May 1950 · page 1

When Tattersall's Hotel, at the corner of Melbourne's Russell and Little Lonsdale Streets, Melbourne, became 100 years old…

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Luxury Hotel On Barrier Reef Island

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1950 · page 5

The new luxury hotel on Hayman Island, one of the Barrier Rest group, not due to open for another six weeks, is already…

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Community Hotel Nambucca Heads Agitation

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 24 May 1950 · page 3

A modern community hotel at Nambucca Heads, costing possibly up to £250,000, and of a standard catering for visitors from abroad as well as…

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Luxury Hotel on Barrier Reef Island

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 May 1950 · page 1

A new luxury hotel on Hayman Island, one of the Barrier Reef group, not due to open for another six weeks, is already…

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Killed in Fall From Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Friday 26 May 1950 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Friday.—Elizabeth Ladd, [?]1, a [?]id at the Shortland Hotel, Scott-street, Newcastle, was killed last night…

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Renewal of Publicans' Licenses

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 30 May 1950 · page 1

A reminder is given all publicans that their annual licenses must be renewed by 4th June next. When renewals are applied…

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Governor Visits Clarence Town Lays Wreath on Memorial Addresses Schoolchildren Lunch at Erringhi Hotel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 3 June 1950 · page 2

It was 57 years ago since a State Governor (Earl of Jersey) paid an official visit to Clarence Town. On Thursday, when the present State Governor, Lieutenant-General John Northcott, C.B., M.V.O., arrived, it was a red letter…

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Improvements at Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 June 1950 · page 2

Kevin William Kearney, licensee of the Court House Hotel, Paterson, was to-day granted authority to carry out material…

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Publican Fined

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 June 1950 · page 5

KURRI, Thursday.—James William Wing, an Inspector of the Board of Health, proceeded against Cecil Francis Smith, licence of the…

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No Colour In Drip Tray Kurri Publican Fined

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 June 1950 · page 7

Cecil Francis Smith, licensee of the Kurri Kurri Hotel, was fined £3 with 10/ costs in default seven days imprisonment, at Kurri Kurri Court…

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Hotel Accommodation For Tourists

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 17 June 1950 · page 2

Travellers complaints about indifferent hotel accommodation for tourists in N.S.W. were confirmed by experiences of N.R.M.A…

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Explosion Wrecks Melbourne Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 June 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday. — A terrific explosion which wrecked a three-storey hotel In Swanston-street yesterday afternoon…

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