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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1918

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 March 1918 · page 7

A music permit was granted to Francis R. Black, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Newcastle, for a smoke concert to be tendered to Balmain cricketers…

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Hotel Servants Too Many Aliens

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 April 1918 · page 4

Americans engaged on war work in London express their surprise at the number [?] of doubtful character employed [?] hotels and who seem to have…

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

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 April 1918 · page 7

Renewals of hotel licenses were granted to Patrick Joseph Greeley, Gladstone Hotel, Stockton; and Alexander Stewart, Killingworth Hotel, Killingworth…

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Licensing Cases Dismissed

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 April 1918 · page 4

John Hitchcock, licensee of the Royal Crown Hotel, Adamstown, appeared before Mr. Gates, D.-S.M., at the Newcastle Police Court to-day on a charge of allowing a…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, April 11. (Before Messrs. A. Gates and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 April 1918 · page 7

Herbert Sidebottom was granted a renewal of colonial wine license for premises at Boolaroo. Alexander Frew was granted licenses…

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Drunk on Good Friday Licensing Prosecutions

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 April 1918 · page 5

In the summons division at the Newcastle Courthouse this morning. Flora Anne M'Neill was proceeded against by the police on charges of having a person on her…

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Whisky Up Publicans Not at One Combating Stockholders Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 17 April 1918 · page 4

Although it was unanimously decided at a general meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association last night to increase the price of all spirits for which 6d is now…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. Butler and Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 3

John Samuels, licensee of the Crown and Anchor Hotel, Newcastle, was granted a music permit for the evening of Red Cross Day…

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Maitland Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1918 · page 6

Mr. C. H. Gale, chairman, and Messrs. J. W. Birkenhead and Elias Bowden, L.Ms., occupied the bench at the West Maitland Licensing Court yesterday…

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Federal Hotels Success in Northern Territory MELBOURNE

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1918 · page 3

In a report to the Home and Territories Department, Mr. J. W. Callan, supervisor of hotels in the Northern Territory, states that as in investment the control of the…

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Wallsend Police Court Licensee Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 24 April 1918 · page 4

At the Wallsend Police Court this morning, George Swan was fined 5s, with 6s costs, for being drunk. For using indecent language, Arthur Edmund Burke was…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, April 25. (Before Messrs. A. Gates and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 April 1918 · page 2

A renewal of publican's licensee was granted to Catherine M. Carroll, of the Burwood Inn, Merewether. The license of the Westminster Hotel,…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, May 2. (Before Messrs. C. F. Butler and C. Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 May 1918 · page 7

Catherine Gilbert, West Wallsend, was granted a renewal of wine license for premises in that centre, and applied for the transfer of the license to Alexander Duncan…

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Vanishing Berlin Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 May 1918 · page 6

Another of the best known Berlin hotels, the Kaiserhof, has had to close its doors owing to the stress of war. It is probable that the premises, which are close to the…

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Forty More Recruits Cardiff Publican Enlists SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 May 1918 · page 6

Forty recruits were accepted in New South Wales for the 24 hours to 11 o'clock to-day. Including A. Streeter, hotelkeeper, Cardiff; A. L. Donnelly, Hamilton; R…

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Inquest Opened Actions at Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 May 1918 · page 5

Mr. Judges, of Penrith, conducted a c[?]ronial inquiry to-day as to the death of Mrs. Joel. The first witness was Mrs. Wilson, sister-in-law of the license of the Grand…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, May 9. (Before Messrs. Gates and Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 May 1918 · page 7

The following applications for transfers were granted:—George Hudson, Post-office Hotel, Newcastle, to Thomas Abern; Christopher Alfred Thomas, Argenton…

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Shooting at Merewether. Ex-publican Arrested

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1918 · page 6

The Beach Hotel, Merewether, was the scene of a shooting affray at six o'clock last evening, as a result of which Leon Hicks, aged 32 years, a labourer, living…

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Beach Hotel Case Hicks Fined for Assault

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 May 1918 · page 5

Before, the hearing of the footing charge, agains: James William Reld, at New castle Police Court this morning, Leon Hicks appeared before Mr. Butler, on…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. Thursday, May 23. Before Messrs. Adrian and Hibble, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 May 1918 · page 3

The license of the Royal Crown Hotel, Dudley, was transferred from William Robinson to W. Arthur Bradford. Both licenses for the Newcastle races…

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