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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1920

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. W. Le Brun Brown and C. Hibble and Dr. W. Nickson, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1920 · page 7

Renewals of hotel licenses were granted to Catherine M. Carroll, Burwood Inn Hotel, Merewether, and to John J. Johnson, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Carrington…

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Bullet in the Lung Hotel Tragedy SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 April 1920 · page 3

George O'Regan, a middle-aged advertising agent, who was a guest at the Hotel Grand Central, was taken to the Sydney Hospital this afternoon…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown and Dr. W. Nukson, L.M.'s.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 7

A renewal of the [?]nse of the Changing Station Hotel, Islington, was granted to Frederick Garnham. A renewal of a colonial wine license was granted to…

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Thieves Enter Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 May 1920 · page 5

About midnight last night, Mrs. Christiensen, wife of the licensee of the Centennial Hotel, Newcastle, heard someone in the Scott-street bar of the hotel. She…

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The Crown Must Pay a Commandeered Hotel. LONDON, Monday Night

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 May 1920 · page 1

After protracted legal proceedings, the House of Lords has decided that De Kayster's Hotel is entitled to compensation for the Crown's occupation…

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Prince in the Bush Reefton's Reception In a Wayside Hotel REEFTON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 May 1920 · page 5

We have struck a new atmosphere in the West Coast mining district of Reefton. The cheering has not been so wholehearted, and there has been…

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Hotel Properties

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 May 1920 · page 5

There has been considerable movement in hotel properties in Newcastle recently. To-day the Grand Hotel, Church-street, changed hands for the…

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Finnie's Second Trial Manslaughter Charge Royal Hotel Case SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 May 1920 · page 1

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Albert Arthur George Finnie (25), was charged with manslaughter. He pleaded not guilty. At the first trial, which…

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Publican Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 31 May 1920 · page 5

A fine of £2 with 6s coats was today imposed at Maitland Court on William Albert Fry, licensee of the Rutherford Hotel for having allowed…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 31 May 1920 · page 5

The following were sanctioned by the Newcastle Licensing Court to-day: Booth licenses. Newcastle races, June 9 and 10, Alexander Frow…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before W. Le Brun Brown and Dr. W. Nickson, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 7

Booth licenses for the Newcastle races on June 9 and 10 were granted to Alexander Frew, of the Carrington Hotel, Wallsend. Renewals of publican's…

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Summons Division. Prohibited from Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 7

John Thomas Brady was charged that being a person against whom a prohibition order was in force, be was found in the bar of the Selbourne Hotel,…

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Hotel Altercation Death from Hemorrhage Laborer Arrested Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 June 1920 · page 5

William Georgo Collins, 31, laborer, was remanded to-day al the Centra] Police Court on a charge of having feon[?]ously slain William Hawthorn. The…

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Small Debts Court. (Before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, S.M.) The Shortland Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 7

Rose Hannah Crammond sued Michael Joseph Hughes, of Sydney, for the recovery of £46 6s 6d, alleged to be due in connection with the sale by plaintiff…

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£750 in Five Weeks Money From Hotels Litigation over Discount

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 June 1920 · page 6

In a case in the Small Debts Court yesterday, it was mentioned that Michael Hughes took over the Shortland Hotel for £3250, held it five…

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Hotel to Bank Hunter-stbeet Land a Newcastle Transaction

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 5 June 1920 · page 5

The building which stood at the corner of Hunter and Bolton streets Newcastle, for a considerable number of years, occupied by the…

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Racecourse Booths Publicans as "Dummies" Police Objections

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 June 1920 · page 5

When William Fry, licensee of the Rutherford Hotel, applied to the Maitland Licensing Court to-day for permission to conduct two booths on the…

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Licensing Court. (Before Messrs. W. Le Brun Brown and C. Hibble and Dr. W. Nickson, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 June 1920 · page 7

Renewals of hotel licenses were granted as follows:—Henry Joseph Rose, Shortland Hotel, Newcastle, Fredrick G. Givney, Royal Exchange Hotel,…

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Prohibited Hours Hard on the Publican Man with a Traveller LITHGOW

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 5

That the licensee of an hotel can be fined for a breach of the Liquor Act in his absence, and in defiance of his instructions that no one was to be…

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Maitland District. Maitland Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1920 · page 6

Messrs. G. Atkin and E. Bowden, L.Ms. occupied the bench at the Maitland Licensing Court yesterday, when the following hotel licenses were granted renewals:…

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