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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1923

263 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 14

Hotels Must Close

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 April 1923 · page 5

Some confusion seems to have to arisen as to the relation of the hotels to Anzac Day observance. A "Government Gazette"…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1923 · page 2

John Charles M'Intyre was granted booth licenses for the Boolaroo Races, on April 28. The license of the Adamstown Hotel was transferred from William…

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Weak Mattresses In Country Hotels WAGGA

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 26 April 1923 · page 4

The Police Magistrate (Mr. W. A. Flynn) speaking from the Licensing Bench, made some caustic remarks regarding the conditions obtaining in…

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Hotel Account Refusal To Pay

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 April 1923 · page 4

Stanley Wallace Dicconson (36), traveller, on remand, was charged before Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., in the Newcastle Police Court to-day, with…

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Free Beer From Hotel Fire Desolate Mount Morgan ROCKHAMPTON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 April 1923 · page 5

With blackened and burnt masses of iron, and immense heaps of charred debris, with a street full of salved goods which have been drenched by…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw and Dr. W. Nickson, L.Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 May 1923 · page 10

Booth licenses for the Newcastle Cup race meeting were granted to James Charles M'Intyre, licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Merewether,…

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"Bring Two Beers" Hotelkeeper Prosecuted

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 May 1923 · page 5

At the police court this afternoon, Thomas Runn was charged before Mr. Laidlay, S.M. with having been found on the premises of the…

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Hotel Employees

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 May 1923 · page 5

Mrs. Duncan, Newcastle secretary to the Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Employees' Union, states that an application is pending for the restaurant section of the…

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Busiest Day At Speer' Point Hotel Drinks on

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 May 1923 · page 7

For having permitted a person on hotel premises during prohibited hours, Edith Mary Kerr, licensee of the Speers' Point Hotel was charged…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, and Dr. W. Nickson, L Ms.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1923 · page 4

The billiard license held by Albert Poole was transferred to John Henry. Charles Bacon and Basil A. Spier, licensees of the Criterion and Great…

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Served After Hours Lambton Case Hotel Proprietor Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 May 1923 · page 1

Judgment was delivered by Mr. Laidlaw, S.M., at the Police Court to-day in the case in which Thomas Bunn was charged with having been…

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£6 FOR 6d. Better Than Tote Theft at Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 May 1923 · page 5

while the inmates of the Carrington Club Hotel wore at tea last night the bar was entered and the cash resistor robbed of 16…

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Street Betting Bookmakers in Hotels Police Problems English Taxation Scheme LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 2

The select committee appointed to inquire into the proposed taxation on betting held its first sitting to-day. The detective superintendent…

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Murder at Lausanne Russian Missioner Shot Hotel Outrage Swiss Fascisti Agent LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 May 1923 · page 1

Reuter's correspondent at Lausanne reports that Voroinsky, the Soviet missioner to the Lausanne conference, was assassiuated, and…

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Fire at Hotel Glebe Outbreak

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 May 1923 · page 2

Newcastle headquarters fire station received a call at 8.30 last night for a fire at the Terminus Hotel. Merewether. A motor detachment, under District Officer…

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Sunday Closing Control of Hotels New Ulster Legislation LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 May 1923 · page 6

Sir James Craig has introduced a bill in the North Irish Parliament, providing for the complete closing of hotels on Sundays and Christmas Day…

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Hotel Licences Transfers Agreed To

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 May 1923 · page 5

At Newcastle licensing court to-day, presided over by Mr. J. W. Laidlaw, S.M., the transfer of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, Junction, from Ellen Chappell to…

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. W. M. Laidlaw, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 May 1923 · page 10

The license of the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel, Junction, was transferred from Ellen Chappell to John Toomey, and the license of the Royal Exchange Hotel,…

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Knocked Unconscious Barman Pined Dispute In Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 May 1923 · page 5

George Robert Nehl, a barman employed at the Criterion Hotel. Wickham, was proceeded against at the Newcastle Police Court this…

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Hotel Robbery £160 Stolen

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 May 1923 · page 4

Thieves entered the premises of Mr. S. W. Wilson, licensee of the Lemongrove Hotel, Wallsend, between 11.30 p.m. on Saturday night, and 6 a.m. on Sunday…

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