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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1915

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Hotel Bar Incident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 May 1915 · page 2

Manuel Burg and' Williamn Burgess pleaded not guilty to a charge of, at Newcastle, on April 17th, assaulting Ambrose Joseph Considine, and robbing him…

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Publicans and Distillers. Lloyd-george's Sarcasm. London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 May 1915 · page 5

Mr. Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, unveiling a memorial portrait of the Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the famous Noncomformist minister, in the…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, May 20. (Before Messrs. C. F. Butler and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 May 1915 · page 3

Renewals of licenses were granted as follows :—Sylvia Hayes, Glasgow Arms Hotel, Carrington; Samuel William, Wilson, Lemongrove Hotel, Plattsburg…

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Early Closing of Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 June 1915 · page 13

There appears to be a general recognition that the present is a time for sacrifice, and that the reduction of the trading hours of hotels from 17½ to 12 1-5 is not…

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Maitland Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 June 1915 · page 6

Messrs. C. H. Gale, J. W. Birkenhead, and E. Bowden, L.Ms., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Licensing Court yesterday, and dealt with the following…

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Early Hotel Closing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1915 · page 9

When the Licensing Amending Bill, to reduce hotel trading hours by five during the war, was introduced, Ministers were hopeful, or professed to be, that two or…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, June 24. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian and C. F. Butler, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 June 1915 · page 2

Renewals of publicans' licenses were granted to Patrick J. Tierney, Teminus Hotel, Wallsend; Agnes Bowie. Exchange Hotel, Lambton, and Mathilda Jane Evans,…

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Tobacco License Cancelled. Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 June 1915 · page 4

A notification appears in the Commonwealth "Gazette" cancelling the Because to manufacture tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes issued to Isaac Chain,…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, July 1. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian, (Chairman), and C. F. Butler, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 July 1915 · page 7

Transfers of publicans' licenses were granted of the Duke of Wellington Hotel, New Lambton, from Robert Allen Frew to Paul Turnbull and of the General…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, July 8. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 7

A transfer of the license of the Great Northern Hotel, Teralba, from Patrick Kearas to Charles Woods was granted. John H. Sperring, Belmont Hotel, was…

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Hotel Shooting Affray. Two Men Shot. Young Man Arrested

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 July 1915 · page 5

A domestic quarrel had a startling and unfortunate development late yesterday afternoon, at Goodyer's Family Hotel, which is situated next to Campbell's…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, July 15. (Before Messrs. C. F. Butler and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 7

Renewals of publican's licenses were granted: Michael Joseph Nolan, Argenton Hotel, Argenton; Patrick Hillier, Swansea Hotel, Swansea; Albert Edward Nelson,…

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Hotel Bars and Early Closing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 July 1915 · page 11

Sir,—I beg permission to bring before your many readers the urgent need for much earlier closing of public-house bars, for why should they not be shut…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 July 1915 · page 2

Booth licenses for the Newcastle racecourse were granted to J. H. Sperring, of the Belmont Hotel, Belmont. A music permit was granted to F. Dews, Lake…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Friday, July 23. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 July 1915 · page 7

A transfer of the license of the Cardiff Hotel, Cardiff, was granted to Andrew H. Latham, from Henry C. Wheatley, Mr. H. M. Cohen (Messrs. Braye and Cohen)…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, July 30. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian, Chairman, C. F. Butler, and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 July 1915 · page 2

A renewal of the license of the Grand Hotel, Newcastle, was granted to Clarissa Mabel Teece. Booth licenses for the Newcastle races were granted to J. H…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, L.m.) Friday, July 30

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 July 1915 · page 7

A music permit was granted to Mary Ann Davidson of the Travellers' Rest Hotel, Hexham…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian and C. F. Butler, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 August 1915 · page 2

A renewal of the, license of the Pacific Hotel, Newcastle, was granted to John Probert, together with a renewal of an additional bar license. A music permit…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, August 12. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler and Mr. C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 August 1915 · page 2

Music permits were granted to Daniel Genge, of the Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington, and Fred Dews, of the Lake Macquarie Hotel, Teralba. Booth licenses…

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Summons Division. Found on Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 August 1915 · page 2

Thomas Wilson (an elderly man), Archibald Alexander Rodgers, and Joseph irwin pleaded guilty to being found on the licensed premises of the Cesmopolitan…

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