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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1917

175 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 9

Hotel Rents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1917 · page 7

Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., yesterday sat at the Newcastle Courthouse, and heard further applications for abalement of hotel rents, under the Liquor Amendment…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., and Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 April 1917 · page 7

Redactions of assessment and license fees were granted to G Hyde, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Newcastle, and F. Garnham, licensee of the Newmarket…

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Special Licensing Court. Points of Law

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1917 · page 9

In the application for abatement of rent by Reginald G. Burn, licensee of the Terminus Hotel, Newcastle; Mr. R Old (Messrs. Asher, Old, and Jones, of…

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Liquor Act Charges. Junction Hotelkeeper Summoned. Good Friday Fish

Northern Times · Monday 30 April 1917 · page 1

Three prosecutions under the Licensing Act were before Mr. C. H. Gale, D.S.M., at Newcastle Police Court this morning, when Alfred T. Bowie…

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Hotel Fracas, Ship's Fireman Arraigned

Northern Times · Tuesday 1 May 1917 · page 5

Before Judge Firzhardinge, at the Newcastle Quarter Sessions to-day, Thomas David Munro appeared to answer a charge of having occasioned…

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Appeal Succeeds. Criterion Hotel Episode. Two Bottles of Beer

Northern Times · Thursday 3 May 1917 · page 5

At the Newcastle Quarter Sessions today, before Judge Fitzbardinge, the licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Wickham, James Brown, appealed against…

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Kurri Court. Interesting Hotel Cases

Northern Times · Thursday 3 May 1917 · page 3

At Kurri Kurri Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. W. J. M. Fincham, P.M., Robert Thomas pleaded not guilty to having been drunk in…

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Hotelkeeper's Appeal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1917 · page 2

Mr. H. M. Cohen appeared for James Brown, licensec of the Criterion Hotel, Wickham, who appealed against his conviction by Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M., on a…

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Hotel Hours on Polling Day. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1917 · page 5

Some doubt having arisen as to the obligations of hotelkeepers on polling day, the Solicitor-General was asked to-day to define the position…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1917 · page 7

Booth licenses for the Newcastle races, an May 12 and 16, were granted to Thomas Dalton, for the Leger stand, and to Alexander Frew, for the grandstand. A…

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Maitland Hotel Cases. a Technical Breach

Northern Times · Monday 14 May 1917 · page 5

At the West Maitland Police Court, to-day, before Mr. Fincham, P.M., Mary Ann Silcox, licensee of the Exchange Hotel, was charged with having…

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Alleged Licensing Breach. Case Dismissed

Northern Times · Monday 14 May 1917 · page 5

At the Newcastle Police Court to-day, before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M., Thomas M'Carter pleaded not guilty to a charge of having been unlawfully…

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A Hotel Case. Breaches on Election Day

Northern Times · Monday 14 May 1917 · page 5

This morning, in the Summons Division at Newcastle Police Court, before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M., Henry Scully, Harry Herbert…

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Maitland Hotel Cases. Entertaining a Visitor

Northern Times · Tuesday 15 May 1917 · page 3

In connection with the cases under the Liquor Act heard at West Maitland yesterday, in which James Thomas Burrell and John Naven were…

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Summons Division. Licensing Cases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1917 · page 7

Henry Scully, Harry Herbert, William Linlott, and James Summers, denied that they were wrongfully on licensed premises after hours, and Richard Lancey, licensee…

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A Hotelkeeper's Guest. Liquor Cases Withdrawn

Northern Times · Friday 18 May 1917 · page 3

At Maitland Police Court yesterday Inspector Walker withdrew charges against Mary Ann Silcock, licensee of the Exchange Hotel, and John Nauer. The former was charged on Monday…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, May 17. (Before Messrs. F. G. Adrian, and C. F. Butler, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 May 1917 · page 7

Booth licenses were granted Alexander Frew, for May 26, and a renewal of colonial wine license was granted Joseph Williams, of Mayfield. "How long have…

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Chamber of Commerce Requests. Proposed Licensing of Porters

Northern Times · Monday 21 May 1917 · page 5

Mr. J. C. Held (president) headed a deputation of the council of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce. The first request wag for additional…

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Woman Fined for Stealing. Theft From Hotel

Northern Times · Tuesday 22 May 1917 · page 5

Before Mr. F. G. Adrian, S.M. at Newcastle Police Court this morning. Ada Onslow, 29, domestic servant, was charged with having stolen, at…

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Aberdare Sensation. Intruder in Hotel. Lady Visitor Disturbed. Boarders' Clothes Rifled

Northern Times · Thursday 24 May 1917 · page 5

CESSNOCK, Thursday.—A lady visitor at the Aberdare Hotel, at a quarter-past three this morning was awakened by a man in her room,…

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