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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

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In the Courts Hotel Transfer

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 March 1937 · page 2

The licence of the Federal Hotel, Newcastle, was transferred from David Button Adamson to Edward Thomas Shipley, by Mr. Sheridan,…

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Licensing Court Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 10

The licence of the Federal Hotel was transferred from David Hutton Adamson, to Edward Thomas Shipley. Mr. A. Nathan (A. A. Rankin and Co.)…

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Ladder Is Used Stockton Hotel Robbery

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 3 March 1937 · page 1

Thieves took £24 and a cash register valued at £60 from the Gladstone Hotel at Stockton with the aid of a…

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Fight in Hotel Ships' Firemen Quarrel Murder Charge Sequel Cairns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 10

A special Court was held late last night at the bedside of a patient in the Cairns Hospital. Charles Falzon, 21, a fireman, was charged with having, on March 2,…

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Cash Register Stolen Thieves Raid Stockton Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 8

The theft of a cash register containing £6, and £18 in notes and silver in a bag, from the Gladstone Hotel, Stockton, was reported by Newcastle police yesterday…

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Assault in Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 9

On n charge of having unlawfully assaulted Sergeant G. A. Read, in the execution of his duty William John Gibbons, 36, was fined £10 or 20…

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Thief Showed Speed in Bar of Hotel Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 March 1937 · page 1

A man last night snatched £20 from a Queensland visitor in a crowded city bar. The man, with wonderful speed, had seized the money and…

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Feferendum Hotels Will Not Be Closed Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 March 1937 · page 4

Hotels will be open throughout the State to-morrow, when the poll on the Commnowealth's marketing and aviation proposals will be taken. This is…

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Answer to Correspondent. "Cricket."—Yes. Hotels Open To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 March 1937 · page 10

Hotels will remain open for the usual hours to-day—referendum day. This is a departure from the custom observed on days on which general elections are…

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New Hotel in Newcastle Remodelling of Flats Will Cost £17,000

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 March 1937 · page 2

A start has been made with the remodelling of Moongl Flats, Telford-street into a hotel for Messrs. Tooheys' Ltd. The expenditure will…

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Central Hotel Renovation Plans Approved

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 6

Newcastle City Council held a brief special meeting, at the conclusion of loot night's fortnightly meeting of the Works Committee, to give formal approval to a…

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"Nightmare to Police License Refused for Billiards Room

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 March 1937 · page 9

After the police had described a billiards room in Barton Street. Kurri, as a nightmare to them, the Magistrate at West Maitland…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 9

The licence of the Carrington Hotel, West Maitland, was transferred from Albert Norman Brissett to Claude Mervyn Case, of Crookwell. Mr. A. Nathan…

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Natural Causes Body Found in Hotel Yard

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 3

A verdict that death was due to natural causes was returned by the Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin), at an inquest held at Newcastle Courthouse yesterday into…

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Licensing Court Booth Licences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1937 · page 5

Alton Thomas Cusick, of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted booth licences for Newcastle races on March 18…

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Fire Breaks Out in Hotel Little Damage Done

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 5

There was a commotion in the bar of the Sydney Junction Hotel, Hamilton, to-day, when fire broke out. Flames began to spread rapidly from…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 12 March 1937 · page 6

For having been found at a prohibited hour on the premises of the Wickham Park Hotel. Edward Ball. Young-st., Carrington; George Oliver,…

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Sunnyside Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 20

Messrs. Pitt and Merewether, architects, have designed a modern saloon bar for the Sunnyside Hotel, Georgetown. Tenders for the work are now called…

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Tattersall's Hotel Big Armidale Contract

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 20

Messrs. F. G. and A. C. Castleden, architects, of Newcastle, have completed plans and specifications for the modernising of Tattersall's Hotel, Armidale. The…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 March 1937 · page 6

For having been found on the licensed premises of the Wickham Park Hotel, Islington, at an unlawful hour, fines of 12/, with 8/ costs, in default 48 hours'…

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