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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1936

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Betting in Hotels Quarterly Report of Inspector

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 October 1936 · page 5

"Those hotels where after hours trading and S.P. betting are conducted should take a him before the renewal of their licences is due and cut out that sort of…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1936 · page 6

Egerton Cedric Scarlett, of High-street, West Maitland, had his application granted for a spirit merchant's licence for premises on the first floor of Brambie…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1936 · page 6

The following were fined £1, with 8/ costs, in default three days imprisonment, for having been found after trading hours on September 26 on the…

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Cup Fever in Melbourne Sweeps in Hotels and Alleys Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 31 October 1936 · page 5

Anything that looks like a lottery or a sweep or a chance is taboo in Victoria but there is not an office or shop or factory and very few…

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Licensee Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 November 1936 · page 7

For having been the licensee of the Hotel Bennett when Mark J. Askew was found there at a prohibited hour, Robert Greta Robinson was fined £1,…

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Summons Division Licensee Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 November 1936 · page 2

For having been the licensee of premises on which a person was found at an unlawful hour on September 4, Robert Greta Robinson, of the Hotel Kent,…

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New Hotel at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 November 1936 · page 7

An application for the removal of the licence of the Hamilton Hotel to premises for which plans have been prepared by Messrs. Pitt and Mereweather…

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Girl at Hotel Vindictive Attitude of Wife

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 November 1936 · page 4

Dear Miss Dix.— I am a married woman with two children. Recently I discovered that my husband Is Interested in some one…

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Man Shot Dead Thought It Was Joke Armed Robbers in Hotel New York, November 9

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1936 · page 7

Isaac Sheean 56, with his wife, entered a bar room for the first time in their lives, to-day to seek medicinal drink, They blundered into four armed invaders…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 10 November 1936 · page 9

The transfer of the licence of the Gladstone Hotel. Stockton, from Chesley William Armstrong to Richard Victor of Aberdare, was granted at…

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The Howling Sequel to a "Dumper" Hotel Luxury of Empire Airliner

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 10 November 1936 · page 10

MOTHER LOVE.—The jaguar cubs at Taronga scuffle over a large bone, while their mother looks od is stately…

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Licensing Court Music Permit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 November 1936 · page 2

A. McGuiness was granted a music permit for the Hotel Orient for November 12…

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No Radio Licenses Many Suburban Listeners Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 11 November 1936 · page 6

The Postmaster General's Department, through Inspector E. P. Miller. gave another "cheerioh" to unlicensed…

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Improvements to Hotels Applications Granted

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 November 1936 · page 11

"It is my opinion, and the considered opinion of the Licensing Court, that if a hotel charges 12s a day for accommodation it is a…

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Overcrowding of Pleasure Boats Licensing Proposed Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 November 1936 · page 5

Licensing of pleasure boats to preventing over-crowding is being considered by the Maritime Services Board. The suggestion arose at the tion is said to be an obstacle. Inspection of thousands of boats in all N.S.W. ports would be expensive. At the Hawkesbury inquest the…

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Pleasure Boats Question of Licensing SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1936 · page 9

Following comment by the Coroner yesterday at the inquest on 12 people who were drowned in the Hawkesbury River, the President of the Maritime Services…

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No Dinner on Fridays Auckland Private Hotels Sequel to Staffs' Short Week Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 November 1936 · page 9

Because new legislation which brings the employees under the Shops and Offices acts provides for a 44-hour week, instead of 48, and a day and a half off, no…

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In the Courts Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 November 1936 · page 5

At Newcastle Licensing Court to-day, the transfer of the licence of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Carrington, from Walter Allport to Richard Jones was…

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Newcastle Courts Tuesday, November 17 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 November 1936 · page 11

The licence of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Carrington, was transferred from Walter Allport to Richard Jones. Harry Beresford Carroll was granted…

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No Commission on "Ted" Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 November 1936 · page 6

The Government does not propose to set up a Royal Commission to investigate the methods of the breweries in dealing with "tied"…

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