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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1953

121 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 7

Hire - Car License Refused

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 14 March 1953 · page 6

The Superintendent of Motor Transport, Sydney, last Tuesday, advised Wallarobba Shire Council that enquiries…

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Century Old Hotel To Be Demolished

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 24 March 1953 · page 3

One of the district’s eldest hotels, the Hunter River, at the corner of Day and Melbourne streets. East Maitland,…

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New Member Of Licensing Board

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 2

A welcome was extended to Mr. J. M. Kelly, the new member of the Licensing Bench, at Maitland court by…

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Alterations To District Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 2

The full bench of the Licensing Court, sitting at Maitland, granted an application for three months for…

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Alterations To Hotel In High Street

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 4

Maitland Licensing [?] (Mr. E. S. [?] drew an application [?] the Licensing Court [?]…

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Court Orders On Hotels At Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 26 March 1953 · page 1

SINGLETON: A modem hotel worth £60,000 will built in Singleton within three years…

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Hotel Boxes Yield £369 for Spastic Appeal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 1

Boxes placed in Coalfields hotels are proving an excellent source of revenue for the Crippled Children's…

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Application To Move Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 5

SINGLETON: Jerry’s Plains may become a “dry area” if the full bench of the licensing court agrees to an application…

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Demolition of hotel ordered by court

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 March 1953 · page 2

The full bench of the Licensing Court sitting at Singleton on Wednesday ordered the demolition of the existing building known as the Agricultural Hotel and the erection of…

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Yamba Hotel Pacific Rebuilt

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1953 · page 1

Rebuilt, enlarged and refurnished, at a cost of £100,000, the new Hotel Pacific at Yamba will be officially opened…

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Spastic Centre Gets £36 From Hotel Boxes

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 3

Boxes placed in hotels are one of the means of raising money for the building of a centre for spastic children in…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Monday 30 March 1953 · page 2

The licence of the Grand Central Hotel, Bourke-street, Maitland, was transferred in Maitland Licensing Court…

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Jerry's Plains Hotel Transfer of License Opposed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 2 April 1953 · page 1

If the Full Bench of the Licensing Court agrees to an application for the transfer of the Jerry's Plains Hotel license…

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Counter Lunch At Sydney Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Prices Investigators will probe allegations that Tooth’s Brewery had told a city hotel licensee that…

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Free Lunch Hotel Gets Beer

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 5

Tooths Brewery yesterday delivered to the Welcome Hotel, Sussex Street, its full quota of beer, although the hotel was…

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Fine for Hotelkeeper

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 3

Patrick Francis Mahony of the Windsor Castle [?] East Maitland, was fined £8/8/ with 12/ costs in…

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Hotel Cold Room

Maitland Mercury · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 2

Approval was granted in Maitland Licensing Court to-day for installation of a cold room at the Railway…

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Hotel Alterations

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 3

At the Maitland Licensing Court yesterday, six months were allowed for alterations and additions to be carried out…

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Licensee Fined on Drink Charge

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 1

Pleading guilty to a charge of allowing liquor to be consumed at the Terminus Hotel during…

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A Complete Short Story minus Plus fours a Hotel Detective Demonstrates the Best Way of Putting a Crook Out of Business

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 April 1953 · page 4

It was late in the evening when the stranger entered the lobby of Mayville's leading hotel. John Palmer, house detective gave a little chuckle and nudged the clerk at the inquiries counter…

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