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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1955

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 January 1955 · page 1

Maitland Licensing Magistrate (Mr. F. R. Wood) today, approved an application for the transfer of the licence of…

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Childminding Centres In Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 January 1955 · page 3

SYDNEY: Childminding centres in hotels were the “most cunningly devised place of community destruction,” the…

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Maitland Hotels Will Open Till 10 O’clock

Maitland Mercury · Monday 10 January 1955 · page 2

Mainland hotels would take advantage of the 10 o’clock closing hours, at least for a trial period, it was revealed by spokesmen this morning In a round-up of most Maitland and East…

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All-Hotels in North Expected to Stay Open Until 10 p.m

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 January 1955 · page 1

All hotels in the north were expected to remain open till 10 pm. when later closing was introduced, the President of the Northern branch of the U.L.V.A. (Mr. P. J. Ryan) said on Friday…

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Trading Hours For Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 11 January 1955 · page 3

SYDNEY: The NSW secretary of the Waterside Workers’ Federation (Mr. T. Nelson), said that the question of…

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Warning to Hotelkeepers

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1955 · page 7

SIDNEY: Hotelkeepers could lose their licences if they closed in legal trading hours, the Minister of Justice…

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In Hotels on

Maitland Mercury · Friday 14 January 1955 · page 2

SINGLETON: Nine men were fined £2/8/ and 12/ costs at Singleton Court for being on licensed premises on a…

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Police Check on Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1955 · page 1

SYDNEY: Police are carrying out an extensive “clean-up” on hotel licensees who refuse meals and…

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Hotel Hours In Canberra

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1955 · page 2

CANBERRA: A spokesman for the Canbera branch of the ULVA said that Canberra hotelkeepers expect to…

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Hotels and Cafes Had Busy Time In Extreme Heal Of Yesterday

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 20 January 1955 · page 2

Hotel end milk-bar proprietors expected e dump in sales to-day following the heavy demands for refreshments yesterday. Heat-wave conditions yesterday caused sales of…

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Licensing Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 January 1955 · page 9

At the Licensing Court on Wednesday, James John Coulter, on behalf of the Muswellbrook Mechanical…

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Licensed Drivers Nearing Million

Maitland Mercury · Monday 24 January 1955 · page 4

SYDNEY: The department of Motor Transport expects New South Wales to have one million licensed drivers and…

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Hotel Safe Stolen

Maitland Mercury · Monday 31 January 1955 · page 2

A safe was stolen from the Krambach Hotel, Krambach, on Saturday night. It contained about £30 in silver…

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Hotels Open To-night

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 1 February 1955 · page 1

To-day marks the beginning of new liquor laws in N.S.W., under which hotels are…

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Longer Hours Publicans Expect “Quiet Welcome” Preparing To Meet Changed Conditions

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 1 February 1955 · page 2

Maitland hotelkeepers believe inquisitive crowds will form the bulk of the drinkers to welcome 10 o’clock doting to-night. “We expect hundreds of people who voted both…

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Quiet Reception of Later Trading in Majority of Hotels

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1955 · page 2

The introduction of late hotel trading hours last night came soberly to Maitland in the main. Four of 12 hotels checked did brisk business between 7.30 and 10 p.m., but most of the others…

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Early Opened Hotels Packed

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1955 · page 1

SYDNEY: Twenty-three hotels on Sydneys’ waterfront and market areas were crowded early this morning— the…

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Police Bans Annoying Licensees

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 February 1955 · page 1

SYDNEY: Three Newtown hotel licensees are annoyed at police bans on card and domino playing and community…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 February 1955 · page 2

GLOUCESTER: Mr J. Betton, who was the licensee of THE Commercial Hotel, has disposed of his interest to…

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Railway Defeats Eaton's Hotel in Flanders' Cup Match

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 February 1955 · page 7

Sunday last saw the Railway Institute cricket team successfully defend the Flanders' Cup against a…

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