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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1918

132 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 7

Maitland District. Billiard License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 February 1918 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., and Messrs. W. J. Birkenhead, and Elias Bowden, L.Ms. occupied the Bench at the West Maitland Licensing Court yesterday. The hearing…

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America's Activity. Great War Work. All Commerce Licensed. (Australian Cable Association.) WASHINGTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 February 1918 · page 5

Mr. Daniels, the Secretary to the United States Navy, has announced a world's record in ship construction, an American battleship having been launched four…

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Illegally at Hotel

Northern Times · Wednesday 20 February 1918 · page 5

Richard M'Groder, Charles Richards and James Rowe pleaded guilty at Newcastle Police Court this morning to charges of having been found…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, February 21. (Before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 February 1918 · page 3

Harold J. B. Robinson was granted booth licenses for the Newcastle Show round on February 27 and 28, and March 1 and 2…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Wednesday, February 27. (Before Mr. A. Gates, D.S.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 February 1918 · page 2

A transfer was granted of the license of the Miners' Exchange Hotel, Hamilton, from W. G. Absalom to F. Dexter. J. Rodgers, Terminus Hotel, Merewether,…

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£7 Missing. Maitland Hotel Mystery

Northern Times · Monday 4 March 1918 · page 5

The West Maitland police were informed yesterday morning by the proprietor of the Caledonian Hotel, that a sum of about £7 was missing from…

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Illegally on Premises Maitland Hotel Cases

Northern Times · Monday 4 March 1918 · page 5

At the West Maitland police court to-day, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M.. James Goodwin and Alfred Bristowe pleaded not guilty to having been on…

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Man Seeks a Rest. Commits Theft at Hotel

Northern Times · Wednesday 6 March 1918 · page 4

Arthur Hubert Dalton, alias Hubert Carlton, and several other names, aged 28, a surgeon dresser, was charged at Newcastle Police Court this…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 March 1918 · page 7

The license of the Rhondda Hotel, Rhondda, was transferred from R. A.[?]rew to George Hopkinson. Renewals of licenses were granted to…

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Illegally at Hotel

Northern Times · Wednesday 13 March 1918 · page 3

At Newcastle Police Court, this morning, before Mr. A. H. Gates. D. S.M., Robert Turton. Thomas Collins, jack Keating, james M'Intosh…

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Publican Fined

Northern Times · Wednesday 13 March 1918 · page 5

A fine of £3 was imposed on Joseph Johnson, licensee of the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Carrington, by Mr. A. H. Gates, D.S.M., at the Newcastle…

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Benefit of the Doubt Islington Publican Summoned Police Witnesses Contradicted

Northern Times · Wednesday 13 March 1918 · page 5

A case under the Liquor Act which possessed come extraordinary features occupied the attention of Mr. A. Gates, D.S.M., to-day, in the…

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Licensing Court Sitting at Maitland

Northern Times · Thursday 14 March 1918 · page 5

At the West Maitland Licensing Court, to-day, before Messrs C. H. Gale, L.M., E. Bowden and J. W. Birkenhead, J's P., renewals of…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. A. Gates, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 15 March 1918 · page 3

Transfers were granted of the licenses of the Cardiff Hotel, from Arthur Lewis Streeter to Edith May Streeter, and of the Birmingham Hotel, Bolton-street,…

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Farmer Disappears Missing From Stockton Hotel Victim of Insomnia

Northern Times · Saturday 16 March 1918 · page 3

The sudden disappearance of a young man who was staying at Stockton has been reported to the Newcastle police…

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London Jewellery Robberies Losses at Hotels Thief Who Left Her Shoe

Northern Times · Wednesday 20 March 1918 · page 2

One night recently a young woman, believed to be French, vanished from Almond's Hotel, Clifford-street, Bond-street, with a necklace of 200 graduated pearla and…

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Hotel Case Fails Police Witnesses Disagree

Northern Times · Wednesday 20 March 1918 · page 5

At the Newcastle Police Court to-day, before Mr. C. F. Butler, S.M., Alexander Olsen, licensee of the Royal Hotel, Stockton, was proceeded against on a charge of…

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Wickham Publican Fined Hotel Open on

Northern Times · Friday 22 March 1918 · page 5

James S. Brown, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Wickham, was before Mr. C. V. Butler, S.M., at the Police Court to-day, [?] a charge of having his licenced promises…

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After-hour Trading Publican Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 March 1918 · page 2

On a charge of being in the Westminster Hotel during prohibited hours. Duncan Urquhart, Allan George Douglas, Alfred Sparks, Matthew Lynch and Jack Harrison…

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New Northern Union Hotel and Restaurant Workers

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 March 1918 · page 3

A meeting of the recently-formed Hotel, Club, Caterers' and Restaurant Union was held under the presidency of Mr. A. Forbes in the Trades Hall last night. A separate…

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