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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1931

459 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 23 of 23

Hotel Keeper Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1931 · page 2

A fine of £2, costs 30/, in default five days' imprisonment, on Thomas John A. Mollugo, licensee of the Exchange Hotel, Newcastle, who pleaded "Guilty" to a…

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Rent Problem Newmarket Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1931 · page 4

The rental of the Newmarket Hotel, which was responsible for heated controversies when it was increased, is again perplexing Newcastle Council…

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Licensing Cases

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 December 1931 · page 8

The license of the Cricketers Arms Hotel, Cook's Hill, was transferred from Charles Nelson Jackson to James Frederick Keys by Mr…

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Billiard-room Licenses

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 December 1931 · page 8

Billiard license renewals were granted to James Murnain, of Mainroad, BoolarQo; Thomas Mass, of Nelson-street, Wallsend; Alfred…

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Constable Sued for Hotel Board Third Adjournment

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 December 1931 · page 9

A third adjournment to January 19 was granted at Cessnock Small Debts Court to-day in the case in which Giacomo Nodarl, licensee of the defending the claim. ,…

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Left Hospital Mr. Churchill Goes to Hotel New York, December 21

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 December 1931 · page 7

His face still patched with strips of adhesive plaster, Mr. Winston Churchill was taken to-day to a hotel from the hospital in which he spent eight days. He was…

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Hotel Transfers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 December 1931 · page 13

James Frederick Randolph Keys, George and Dragon Hotel. East Maitland, applied for a transfer of the licence of the Cricketers' Arms Hotel, Cook's Hill, from…

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Licensing Court Billiard Licences Renewed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 December 1931 · page 13

The renewal of billiardroom licences were granted to the following persons— James Murmain, Main-road, Boolaroo; Thomas Mass, Nelson-street, Wallsend;…

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Unpaid Hotel Bill Muswellbrook

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 December 1931 · page 3

Donald Smedley, chiropodist, of Quirindi, was charged at Muswellbrook Police Court with having failed to pay for his board at Eaton's Hotel. The amount in dispute…

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NEW £8,000,000 Hotel Luxuries New York, Nov. 3

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 24 December 1931 · page 5

The new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, which has been built at a cost of £8,000,000, will be at once the largest, highest, and most…

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Mascot Coursing Ground Offer of £10,000 From Kindred Body One with the License Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 26 December 1931 · page 7

It is said that an offer of something like £10,000 from the Greyhound Coursing Association for the purchase of ground and plant has…

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Famous Hotel on Fire Visitors Escape in Night Clothes Only One Case of Panic London

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 December 1931 · page 6

While the Union Jack flared defiance to the glaring flames which shone far over the Channel, the hundreds of disconsolate…

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Cornish Riviera £30,000 Hotel Burned Guests' Dramatic Escapes London, December 27

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 December 1931 · page 7

A £30,000 hotel was burned to the ground at the end of a guilt evening. Hundreds of visitors, spending Christmas in the Cornish Riveira in…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 December 1931 · page 6

An application by John Smith McNaughton for the transfer of the [?]cense of the Albio Hotel. Wickham, from himself as executor, was…

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Theft From Hotel Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1931 · page 5

While Edwin Boyle, the licensee of the Railway Hotel, Prince's Highway, Sutherland, was absent from the hotel for two hours last night, thieves broke in and stole…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 December 1931 · page 8

Mr. Cohen made application for the transfer of the licence of the Albion Hotel, Wickham, to J. S. McNaughton, who had held it as executor under a will…

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Angry Publicans "Vicious Propaganda" Anti-liquor Campaign

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 December 1931 · page 9

Reference to "vicious propaganda" was made at the half-yearly meeting of the General Council of the Licensed Victuallers' Defence League of England and…

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Hotel Incident Alleged Knife-slashing ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 31 December 1931 · page 6

Mrs. Jean Morrison, 33, married, of Semaphore, was the victim of as knife-slashing incident at an hotel at Exeter to-day, Snatching a broken table-knife,…

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At the Hotel Toronto

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 December 1931 · page 8

Among the visitors at the Hotel Toronto for the holidays are: Mr. D. Stacey (Singleton), Mr. and Mrs. A. B. McKenzie (Sydney), Mr. and Mrs…

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