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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1929

404 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 21

Hotel Destroyed Fire at Forster FORSTER

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 9

Almost every resident of Forster became a member of a hastily improvised bucket brigade when a fire broke out in the Lakes and Ocean…

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Fire Destroys Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 June 1929 · page 6

The Lakes and Ocean Hotel at Forster was destroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning. It was a two storeyed weatherboard structure, owned by…

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Hurried Escapes Hotel Destroyed. Chinchilla (Q.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 June 1929 · page 9

Three occupants escaped only with the clothes they were, and one had to slip down a verandah post, when the Grand Hotel was burnt to the ground about…

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Transport Workers Renewing Licenses

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 4

Renewal of transport workers' licenses is expected to begin at Newcastle Customs House on Monday. Under a new system, booklets, in…

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Industrial News Waterside Workers License Renewals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 11

A start will be made at Newcastle at 9.30 a.m. on Monday with the renewal of waterside workers' licenses for the financial year 1930. A new form of license, in…

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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. J. B. Gibson, L.M.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 5

Roy Stanley, licensee of the Star Hotel Newcastle West, was given permission to hold the 35th Battalion, dinner at the hotel to-night…

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£1700 HAUL Jewels Stolen from Hotel BRISBANE

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 15 June 1929 · page 7

One of the most daring and one of the biggest robberies perpetrated in Brisbane for some time occurred at Lennon's Hotel yesterday, when…

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After Hours Men and Licensee Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 June 1929 · page 7

Found on the premises of the Northumberland Hotel, Lambton, on Sunday morning, June 2, Edward Clark, of Karoola-road, Lambton; Lewis…

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Watersiders' Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 6

Most of the members of the Volunteer Wharf Labourers' Bureau, and approximately 50 per cent. of the men employed on the Newcastle and Hunter River…

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Maitland Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 8

Mr. M. C. Nott, P.M., presided in the West Maitland Licensing Court yesterday, when applications for renewals of licenses on behalf of licensees of 60 hotels, 12…

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No License for Five Years

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 June 1929 · page 6

Harry Bryant, aged 44, a traveller, who appeared before Mr. Shepherd, S.M., at the Newtown Police Court yesterday on a charge of having driven a motor car…

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Cessnock 'Buses Question of Licenses Dismissal of Appeals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 June 1929 · page 8

Some months ago the Cessnock Municipal Council and the Kearsley Shire Council refused the applications of Stanley Barksby and George Walles for…

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Slaughtering Licenses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 June 1929 · page 6

Recently a number of members of the Legislative Assembly brought under the notice of Mr. Buttonshaw, Acting-Premier, the fact that the seven holders of…

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More Electricians Licensed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 8

The recent examination for licenses under the Electrical Contractors and Electricians Licensing Act resulted in 24 of the candidates passing. The examiners…

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Hotel Employees' Award Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 June 1929 · page 11

Mr. E. J. Kavanagh, Deputy Industrial Commissioner, will sit in Sydney on Monday at 10 a.m., to deal with the undetermined portions of the application for…

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New Hotel Application From Cardiff

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 June 1929 · page 6

Plans of a proposed new hotel, to be erected at the corner of Harrison-street and Main-road, Cardiff, and to be known as the Royal Hotel have…

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Hotel Employees Northumberland Award Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 6

Argument on the undetermined portions of the award for hotel employees in the Northumberland area was commenced to-day before Mr. E. J. Kavanagh,…

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Summons Division Expired License

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 7

A plea of "Guilty" was entered by Herbert Humpreys, of Dixon-street, Wickham, to a change of being the holder of a motor cycle rider's license, he did not…

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White Slavers Paris Hotel Arrests Robbery Alleged Paris

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 1

A big white Slave gang, covering Canada, Spain and South America. Is believed to have been broken up by the arrest of a Frenchman named…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 June 1929 · page 5

At Newcastle Licensing Court to-day, 90 applications for renewals of liquor licenses were granted by Mr. Gibson, L.M. These included 55 hotel…

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