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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

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New Name for Old Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 3

The Commercial Hotel, in High-street, will be known in future as the Doch and Doris. Mr. J. M. Kelly, S.M.,…

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Publican Gave £60 for Valueless Cheque

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 4

The licensee of a Merewether hotel was introduced to a man on 22nd February, and soon after gave him £60 for a…

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Migrant Claimed Assault in Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 2

A New Australian charged another migrant in Maitland Court with assault in the Metropolitan Hotel on January 16, and charged another man with using [?]reatenning words…

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Hotel for Shoal Bay

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 24 March 1954 · page 4

The Licensing Bench sitting at Newcastle yesterday granted an application by L. Hoffman to transfer the licence of…

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Shoal Bay Country Club to Be a Luxury Hotel

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 6

The applicaton to transfer a license from Bathurst to the Shoal Bay Country Club was…

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Luxury Hotel at Shoal Bay

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1954 · page 6

A luxury hotel, on which at least £35,000 will be spent, is to be built at Shoal Bay, Port Stephens…

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In Hotel 2¾ Hours, Then Drove

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 3

An 18-years-old youth, Brian William Norman, of John-street, Morpeth, said in court this morning that on…

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Hotel Licence

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 2

The Licence of the Exchange Hotel, Largs has been transferred from Mrs. Eva Annie Cooper to James Kenneth…

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Princess Works Hotel Switichboard

Maitland Mercury · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 2

LONDON: For four years a grey-haired window, Frau Muller, who operated the switchboard of a hotel at Essen,…

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U.S. Returns Hotels To Austria

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 3

VIENNA: The United States forces in Austria last year, returned to Austrian ownership 591 hotel rooms, four villas…

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Five Deaths in Hotel Explosion

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 6

The death roil in the fire and mystery explosions, which destroyed the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla,…

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Hotel Fire Investigation

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE: Arson Squad detectives have began an in resignation into the cause of the explosion and fire at…

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Hotel Transfer

Maitland Mercury · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 3

Mr. F. H. Wood S.M., this morning granted an application for the transfer of the licence of the Kurri Hotel…

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Arson squad probe hotel fire BRISBANE

Singleton Argus · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 2

Arson squad detectives have begun an intensive investigation into the cause of the explosion…

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Change of Name for Hotel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 1

One of the oldest hotels in Maitland, the Commercial, at the corner of High and Charles Streets, will in future be…

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Extracts From ‘Mercury’ 5 Files 50 Years Ago APRIL 6, 1904. New Hotel At Kurri

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 2

The new hotel situated in Railway-street, Kurri Kurri, and built by Messrs. Southon Brothers, of Newcastle, for Mr…

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Convicted for Theft From Hotel Gaol Sentence Imposed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 10

At the Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. J. B. Hodgson, S.M., Leonard Charles Adnum was charged with having stolen a bottle of gin, valued at 17/-, the property of L. J. McRitchie. He was…

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Arson Squad Probe Hotel Fire

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 10

Arson squad detectives have begun an intensive investigation into the cause of the explosion and fire at a…

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Correspondence Forster Community Hotel

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 8

The Editor, Sir,—The Forster Community Hotel question has again been raised after a welcome…

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Big Fire Damage to Hotel

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 3

CANBERRA: Fire to-day gutted the public and saloon bars of the new Hotel Canberra…

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