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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1928

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Newcastle Licensing Court. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 11

Booth licenses were granted to James Cusack, Clarendon Hotel. Newcastle, Wallsend races on September 12 and 15. and for the Newcastle races on September…

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Maitland District Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 8

Messrs. F. G. Adrian, chairman, Le Brun Brown, and W. H. Fletcher, members of the State Licensing Board, sat at the Maitland Licensing Court. West Maitland…

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Madly in Love Publican and Actress Murder-suicide Los Angeles

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 1

Captain Pepper, 60, a retired hotelkeeper from Winnipeg, shot Bertha Kirk, a character actress, in a street in Hollywood early to-day, and then…

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"Need Beer" Kurri Miner's Belief New Hotel Wanted

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 September 1928 · page 5

"If you have a drink an hour before you have something to eat you will eat twice as much," said Arthur James Watson, a Kurri miner, giving…

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Maitland District Licensing Court Application for Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 6

Messrs. F. G. Adrian, chairman Le Brun Brown, and W. H. Fletcher, members of the State Licensing Board, heard further evidence at the Maitland…

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Slow Drinkers "Four Hours For Two Pints" Kurri Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 8

Explaining the contention of the bars in Kurri hotels, Sergeant Lake of Kurri police, said that on Saturday afternoons men took four hours to…

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The History of Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 7

It is said that hotels were invented by the Romans, and that Italy was the first country to have them. "Ostoria," they were called, but they were slovenly…

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THREAT 10 SHOOT Rail Officer's Allegations Unemployed "Hotel"

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 13 September 1928 · page 7

That an unemployed man who took refuge in the loco. sheds at Woodville Junction had threatened to shoot a railway officer who…

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Licensing Court Application for Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 September 1928 · page 8

Messrs, F. G. Adrian, chairman, Le Brun Brown, and W. H. Fletcher, members of the State Licensing Board, heard further evidence at the Maitland…

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REFUSED Another Hotel license Kurri Application

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 September 1928 · page 5

The application for an additional hotel license at Kurri was refused by the State Licensing Court, sitting at East Maitland,…

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Motor License Breach

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 September 1928 · page 8

For having failed to return his expired certificate of motor registration. Albert Benson, of 68 McMichael-street Maryville, was fined 5s, with…

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Licensees' Ditties Should See Lodgers S.M.'s "LECTURE"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 September 1928 · page 8

The control hotel licenses should exercise over their premises was dealt with by Mr. Cohen, S.M., at Newcastle Police Court to-day…

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Licensing Court Hotel License Refused

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 September 1928 · page 7

At the conclusion of the evidence in respect to an application by Robert Everson for a publican's license for premises to be erected at the corner of Alexandra…

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Hotel Scuffle Man in Hospital Hit on Head

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 September 1928 · page 7

During a scuffle at a West End Hotel early this morning, Richard Williams, of Hamilton, was hit on the head with a blunt instrument,…

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Won't Tell Police Hotel Assault Victim

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 September 1928 · page 5

Though he has admitted to the police that he knows the name of his attacker. Richard Williams, who was hit on the head with a…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 September 1928 · page 6

The application by Joseph O'Hanlon at Newcastle Licensing Court to-day for the transfer of the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Carrington, from Jessie O'Brien,…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. T. W. Cohian. R.L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 September 1928 · page 5

Booth licenses for Saturday were granted to Thomes L. Fines, of the Lemongrove Hotel Wallsend, for Hobart Park, and to Gordon Seater Luscombe of the…

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Dispute Over Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 September 1928 · page 6

Finality was reached yesterday in the case before Mr. Justice Forguson and a jury in which John Eric Stephenson sued Adelaide Dolbridge, foremerly licensee of…

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Gaming Act Publican Charged Cases Dismissed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 September 1928 · page 5

At Newcastle Police Court yesterday, before Mr. T. W. Cohen, R.S.M., the police proceeded against Sydney E. McAuley, sen., licence of the Lake Macquarie…

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Hotel Transfer Application Adjourned

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 September 1928 · page 6

0n the application of Mr. Malcolmson, the case at Newcastle Licensing Court to-day in which Joseph O'Hanlon applied for the transfer of the…

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