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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

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New Year's Eve Spoiled Hotel Staffs on Strike Nice

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 January 1937 · page 1

Owing to a stay-in strike by the staffs. New Year festivities were cancelled to-night at two of the most fashionable hotels…

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Projected Works Business Premises and Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 12

The number of large projected contracts for 1937 is stated to be greater than those carried out in 1936. A modern hotel on the eastern…

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Hotel Kurrajong Two New Wings May Be Built CANBERRA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 6

The building of two new wings to Hotel Kurrajong, to relieve pressure on living accommodation in Canberra, and to provide hotel suites for Ministers and…

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£2000 Jewellery Haul Thieves at Monte Carlo Hotel Monte Carlo

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 6

Thieves stole £2000 worth of jewellery from the hotel bedroom of the 27-year-old daughter of the late Sir Winthrop Hackett, who was a…

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Stolen From Hotel Jewellery Worth £2000 Australian Girl's Loss Monte Varlo, January 4

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 5

Thieves stole £2000 worth of jewellery from the hotel bedroom of the Australian, Miss Jean Hackett, daughter of the late Sir Winthrop Hackett…

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Licensing Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 7

In the Licensing Court, the licence at the Court Rouse Hotel, Paterson, was transferred from Thomas Blunden to Arnold Hayes, of Market-street. Sydney…

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Princess Juliana Honeymoon in Poland at Jan Kiepura's Hotel the Hague, January 11

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 7

Definite news has been received that Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld are honeymooning at the Patria Hotel, Krynica, Poland…

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Three Months' Gaol Notorious "Hotel Barber" LISMORE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 8

Described by the police as one of the most notorious "hotel barbers" in New South Wales, Percy Smith, 27, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment at…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 8

For having been on the Northumberland Hotel, Cessnock, after hours, Ernest Pryor, of Anstey-street, Cessnock, and Alexander Muir. of…

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Licensing Court (Before Mr. T. W. Cohen, L.m.) Wine Licence Removed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 2

Walter Charles Twyford was granted permission to remove an Australian wine licence from premises in Carrington-street, West Wallsend, to another site in the…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 9

For having been found on the licensed premises of the Northumberland Hotel, on December 11, during prohibited hours, Ernest Pryor, of Anstey-street, Cessnock,…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 11

Charged with having been found on the licensed premises of the Station Hotel, Kurri Kurri, during prohibited hours on December 19, James Laird, of…

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Referendum and Hotels Closing of Liquor Bars Uncertain Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 9

An interesting position has arisen regarding the opening or closing of hotels on March 6, when the Federal…

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Hotels to Open On Day of Referenda Effect on Country Shows Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 9

Although hotels close on days on which general elections are held, they will remains open as usual on March 6, the date of the referenda…

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Licensing Unlikely Government and S.P. Betting Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 1

Thorough investigations of betting and gaming legislation in South Australia and Queensland will be carried out by the…

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On Hotel Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 6

Twelve men were each fined £l, with 8s costs, in default three days' imprisonment, by Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M., at Newcastle Summons Court to-day,…

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To-day in the Courts On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1937 · page 6

For having been in the Station Hotel, Kurri, during prohibited hours on December 19 David Nesbitt was fined £1 with 8s costs or three days, by…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 11

David Nesbitt, of Kurri Kurri, who did not appear, was fined £1, with 8/ costs, on a charge of having been found on the licensed premises of the Station Hotel,…

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Summons Division on Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1937 · page 3

When Sergeant C. J. Homann, of Hamilton, went to the Northern Star Hotel, Hamilton, at 9.15 p.m. on December 18, he found 12 men on the premises. Brought…

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For the Sultan Pots of Curried Chicken London Hotel Scene

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 January 1937 · page 14

Those waiting in the courtyard of one of London's luxury hotels recently were astonished to see a procession of servants carrying 15 steaming pots from the…

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