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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1952

106 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 6

Australia Hotel Reconstruction

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: General manager of the Australia Hotel Co. Ltd. (Alexander Laurance Rantoul), told the Liquor Royal…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 April 1952 · page 2

The licence of the Exchange Hotel, High-street, Maitland, was transferred in the Maitland Licensing court this…

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Woman Burned In Hotel Bedroom

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

Mrs. Olive Youngs, 60, died in Parramatta Hospital after she had been burned in a fire in a bedroom of the…

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Fined For Being In Hotel On

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 April 1952 · page 1

Victor Walker of 42 Church Street, Singleton, was found guilty of being on licensed premises during…

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Publicans Raise £220 For Spastic Appeal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 3

The appeal for funda for the provision of a school for spastic and crippled children at Cessnock will benefit by an…

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Left Hotel Without Paying

Maitland Mercury · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 1

A man who had failed to pay for meals and accommodation at a Maitland hotel was fined £3 in Maitland…

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Probe Into Hotel Transfers. Board Orders Fuller Enquiries. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 April 1952 · page 2

The N.S.W. Licences Reduction Board has ordered fuller inquiries into hotel licence transfers and the bona-Ides of…

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Theft From Hotel Room

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 23 April 1952 · page 3

A visitor for the polo carnival had Clothes and cigarettes stolen from his Maitland hotel room early…

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Cold Room at Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 29 April 1952 · page 2

Permission for the Installation of a cold room at the [?] Hotel. Cessnock, was grafted in the Maitland…

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Licensing Court

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 6

An application In Maitland Licensing Court to-day by Patrick Francis Mahony for permission to carry out alterations…

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Hotel Bar Olympic Appeal Condemned

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY: Chairman of the Olympic Federation (Mr. Harry Alderson) condemned the boated bar appeal being…

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On Hotel After Hours

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1952 · page 3

The licensee of the Victoria Hotel, Hinton, was fined £5 with 12/ costs in the Maitland court to-day for being licensee…

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Hotels In Country ‘Unsatisfactory’

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Maxwell) said at the Liquor Royal Commission hearing, to-day that…

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Alterations to Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 May 1952 · page 2

Approval for the conversion of section of the public bar of the Chelinsford Hotel, Kurri Kurri, into a saloon bar was…

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Country Hotel Accommodation

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Commercial travellers were entitled to some consideration at country hotels at least, the…

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Wedding Night Spoilt By Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY: A young married couple’s wedding night had been completely spoilt [?] of the poor accommodation at…

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Hotel Books Were Faked

Maitland Mercury · Monday 19 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY Sammuel Edward Wellington told the Liquor Royal Commission to-day that book of an hotel had been…

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Commissioner Slates Hotel Licensee Notice Made “Tidier And More Lying”

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 20 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: W. Thompson, licensee of the Watson’s Boy Hotel, Watson’s Boy, had amended a tariff notice board of his hotel last night to make it “tidier and more lying,” the Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr…

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Tuncurry Licensee Shot Thief

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 4

The black shag which for weeks past has been helping itself to the fish in the swimming pool at the Bellevue…

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No Key In Door Of Hotel Room

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: A woman had £10 stolen from a port in a room at a Bulahdelah hotel because there was no key to lock the door, Mr. W. Dovey, Q.C., said at the Liquor Royal Commission to-day…

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