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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1934

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Million Dollar Blaze Brooklyn Hotel Destroyed New York, December 31

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 5

Four hundred firemen from 65 prominent companies were unsuccessful in a day-long fight to save an eight-storey Brooklyn hotel from destruction by fire in the city's…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 January 1934 · page 9

Arthur John Balks, of Beaumont and Tudor streets, Hamilton, was granted a billiard license, at Newcastle Licensing Court to-day…

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Licensing Court Billiard Licence Granted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1934 · page 3

An application by Arthur John Balks, for a billiard licence in premises at the corner of Beaumont and Tudor Streets. Hamilton, was granted…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1934 · page 7

Mr. E. A. Mahony, P.M., presided at the West Maitland Licensing Court yesterday. District auctioneers' licences were granted to Robert L. Lindsay and…

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Two Shots Fired Intruders at Hotel Struggle at Lock-up Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 5

After all exciting chase late to-night, in which two shots were fire, a policeman at Smithfield, near Liverpool, arrested a man who, it is alleged, had previously…

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Summons Division on Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 11

Fines of 10/; costs. 8/, in default imprisonment for two days were imposed on William Smith, Government-road, Jesmond: George Carlton, Union-street,…

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Maitland Hotels Raided Many Men Fined To-day

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 January 1934 · page 8

A number of men appeared at West Maitland Police Court to-day, on charges alleging breaches of the Liquor Act, following raids, which…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1934 · page 4

Joseph Herman Kreckler was granted an additional bar permit for the Shortland Hotel, Newcastle. Joseph James Blackford was granted a…

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Lake Fishing Compensation Scheme Licensing Amateurs No. 3

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 6

Deputations requesting complete closure, or closure of large areas of the lake, have invariably been met with the Minister's refusal, mainly for the reason that the…

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"Dole Will Be Stopped" If Men Found in Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 9

Incensed at complaints from three members that the police had threatened thorn with their dole being stopped if they were…

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Sequel to an Accident Drove Without License Laborer Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 7

The sequel to a lorry accident in Newcastle on December 10. when a passenger was killed, was the appearance of Jack Neal (20), laborer…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1934 · page 4

Alton Thomas Cusick of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted three booth licences for Newcastle races on January 26…

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Car's Terrific Crash Hotelkeeper Badly Hurt GRAFTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 6

George Parnell, hotelkeeper, of Yamba, is in the Clarence House Private Hospital, South Grafton, suffering from a probable fracture of the skull, a fractured knee,…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 January 1934 · page 8

Police proceeded against a number of persons at Newcastle Summons Court to-day for having been found on licensed premises. Cornelius Phelan, of Fitzroy-street…

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Licensee Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 11

A fine of 10/, with 8/ costs, in default two days imprisonment, was imposed on George Messenger, licensee of the Criterion Hotel Carrington, on a charge…

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Summons Division on Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 11

Fines of 10/, with 8/ costs, in default two days' imprisonment. were imposed on Edward Patrick Share. Carrington parade, New Lambton, and Ernest…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 9

The licence of the Caledonian Hotel, West Maitland, was transferred from Emily Elizabeth Roarty to Percy Allen Duff, of Marks Point, Sydney. Messrs…

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Must Be True to Label When Liquor Is Purchased Licensees Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 23 January 1934 · page 8

"When a man walks into an hotel and calls for a certain brand of drink—he is entitled to get that brand."…

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Hotelkeepers Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 2

"It is a case of a man going into a hotel and asking for a certain brand of whisky and not getting-it," said the Magistrate, imposing a fine of £3, with £4/4/…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 January 1934 · page 2

John Patrick Breen was granted permission to supply liquor with meals at the Oxford Hotel, Newcastle. Mr. C. A. K. Cohen (Messrs. Braye, Cragg and Cohen)…

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