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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1930

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Admitted It Dangerous Driving Hotel-keeper Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 November 1930 · page 1

Charles Saxon (42), an hotel-keeper, was fined £5 and had his license suspended until March 30. an a charge of dangerous driving…

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Bad News—good News Hotel Porter Turned Down £6000 LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 November 1930 · page 8

"I had a premonition that I would get either a gas bill or a horse in the sweepstakes. I received both." James O'Leary, an…

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Found in Hotel Yard

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1930 · page 2

"I found the defendant in the yard of the Royal hotel, Cardiff, at 9 p.m. on November 8, and when I asked him what he was doing there he replied…

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Open Till 9 P.M. Permission for Hotels Mr. Ratcliffe's Hint Narrabri

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 November 1930 · page 6

A hint that the hours of sale of intoxicating liquor would be altered was given by Mr. Ratcliffe, M.L.A., when replying to a deputation of local hotel…

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Open Till Nine Hotelkeepers See Premier Heavy Loss of Trade Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 November 1930 · page 10

Representatives of the United Licensed Victuallers’ Association had an interview with the Premier (Mr. J. T. Lang) to-day, and urged that, in view of the heavy…

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Gone Are the Days! Hotel Abernethy Seeks a Buyer "Suitable for Church"

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 November 1930 · page 3

Gone are the days when vested interests would fight tooth and nail to secure a hotel license on the coalfields…

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Diluted Whisky Lismore Hotelkeeper Fined LISMORE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 November 1930 · page 8

Charged under the Pure Foods Act, with selling whisky which contained 3.8 per cent of added water. Edith G. Geraghty, license of the Lismore Hotel,…

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Caucus to Consider Hotel Trading Hours Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 November 1930 · page 8

The suggestion that licensed hotels should be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. instead of from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. as at present, will come before the Parliamentary…

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NINE P.M. Closing in Hotels Killed by Labor "Could Not Justify an Extension" Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 November 1930 · page 1

Any prospects that there might have been of introducing 9 o'clock closing in hotels was…

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Good Excuse Hearing Test Broadcast Police Raid on Hotel Grafton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 November 1930 · page 6

While Don Bradman was making his record secro in the final Test, five residents of Ulmarra were listoning in to the wireless broadcast of the play at the…

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Teralba Court Wednesday, November 26. (Before Mr. G. A. Stevenson, S.m.) on Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 November 1930 · page 3

For having been found on the licensed premises of the Speers' Point Hotel during unlawful hours. James McLaughlin, of Boolaroo, was fined 10/, with 8/ costs, in…

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Injury to Head Hotel Employee's Fall Accidental Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 November 1930 · page 5

About 11.30 a.m. on Sunday, November 9, William James Swords, employed at the Commonwealth Hotel, Cook's Hill, was admitted to the Newcastle Hospital,…

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Man Found Shot on Balcony of Carrington Hotel Bullet Wound in Head: Condition Critical "I Was Mad"

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 November 1930 · page 1

With a gaping hole in his forehead, and a stream of blood dying red the front of his clothing, Thomas Pearch…

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Colour Bar Operating in England Hotels' Aversion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 November 1930 · page 12

Evidence has recently been adduced proving that there is a rigorous colour bar in London which operates, in many cases, against British citizens and men…

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Service Licenses Sydney Transport Fees SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 November 1930 · page 10

At a meeting of the Metropolitan Transport Trust to-night, the first list of service licence fees was definitely fixed. Licenses will now be required to take out…

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Hotel Transfer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 December 1930 · page 6

The transfer of the license of the National Hotel, Wallsend, from the executors of the estate of Annie Mary White to Mary Alice Delaney was granted by…

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Windfall for Councils to Share 'Bus License Fees Road Improvements

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 December 1930 · page 1

District councils are going to get nice little windfalls shortly, with the help of the Newcastle Transport Trust…

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Sale of Rum Hotelkeeper Acquitted ARMIDALE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1930 · page 6

A cane of interest to hotelkeepers was heard at the Armidale police Court, when Thomas J. Coote, licenses of the St. Kilda Hotel, was charged with having sold an…

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At Another Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 13

Ernest R. J. Peters, licensee of the Colliery Inn, Wallsend, was charged with having, on November 8, kept the premises open for the sale of liquor after the…

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Unconscious on Bed Young Woman in Hotel SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 December 1930 · page 11

The police are puzzled by a case reported to-night from the Crown Hotel, in Oxford-street, Paddington. Alfred Reid, son of the licensee, rushed excitedly…

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