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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

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Broke Into Hotel Sentences Aggregate 50 Years SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 13

When. John Jones, 42, pleaded "Guilty." at the Quarter Sessions to-day, on a charge of having broken into a hotel at Pymble, police evidence was given that…

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Licensing Court Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 11

The licence of the Commercial Hotel, Adamstown, was transferred from Thomas Rawls to Beatrice Millie Grover. Mr. A. Nathan (A. A. Rankin and Co.)…

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May Restrict Hotel and Bar Radio State Opposition to S.P. Betting Amendments to Liquor Law Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 1

The restriction of race broadcasts in hotel bars is being considered by the Government as a means of lessening starting price betting. "Every aspect of the problem is being…

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Newcastle Hotel Rebuilt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 20

The Beach Hotel, at the corner of King and Watt Streets, Newcastle, the reconstruction of which has just been completed…

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On Modern Lines New Beach Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 20

Among the building changes so marked in Newcastle in the past and current year is the demolition of the old Beach Hotel, at the corner of Watt and King Streets,…

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Pepper in Face Hotel Manageress Robbed Assailant Escapes Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 12

Temporarily blinded when pepper was thrown into her face, Maud Violet Hardy, manageress of the Royal Hyde Park Hotel, City, was robbed of £50 by…

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"Parson's Pub" Bishop Was Licensee Wellington (N.z.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 4

In a discussion at the Anglican Synod on complaints that as a result of her wages and shorter hours drinking had increased, Bishop Holland urged the…

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Hotels Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 8

An application by Edith Rue Woodlands, formerly of Surrey-street, Darlinghurst, for the transfer of the licence of the Rawson Hotel, Newcastle, from…

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Newcastle Courts Tuesday, April 13 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Licensing Court Licences Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1937 · page 7

The licence of the Rawson Hotel, Newcastle, was transferred from Carl Albert Wright to Edith Rue Woodlands. The licence of the Parkview Hotel,…

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Hotel Employees New Claims Prepared

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1937 · page 15

The Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Employees' Union has prepared new claims for submission to the Court. An effort will be made to have metropolitan…

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Hotel Manager for Trial Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 April 1937 · page 11

On a charge of having stolen £310 while employed as a manager, Francis Joseph Raftery, 28, was committed for trial from Central Police Court to-day…

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Armed Men Daring Hotel Robbery Four Guests Menaced New York, April 18

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 7

Three bandits entered the fashionable Delmonico Hotel in Park-avenue, New York, menaced four guests and the lift operator with guns, and took 15,000…

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In the Courts Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 April 1937 · page 8

At Newcastle Licensing Court to-day, the transfer of the licence of the Locomotive Hotel was granted from Joseph Davidson to Lindsay Stone…

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Licensing Court Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 2

The licence of the Locomotive Hotel. Newcastle, was transferred from Joseph Davidson to Lindsay Stone, of Robert-street Wallsend. Mr. G. Nathan (A. A…

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Vienna Scramble Money Shower from Hotel Englishmen's Jest Vienna, April 20

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 9

The civic authorities are inconsed by the escapade of two Englishmen who disorganised traffic in one of the busiest streets of Vienna's most fashionable…

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Summons Division in Hotel on

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 11

Early on Sunday morning February 28, Sergeant A. Madelin visited the Royal Hotel, West Maitland and found a number of men in the bar, As a result…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 11

Charles William Fraser Shaw was granted a transfer of the licence of the Royal Hotel to Joseph Patrick Kenny, of Mount-street, Coogee…

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Woman Auctioneer Licensed Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 10

Miss Leila M. Smith, who for five years has been an estate agent, to-day became Melbourne's first woman auctioneer. After a Magistrate had granted her a…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 April 1937 · page 7

For having been found at a prohibited hour on the Crown and Anchor Hotel, Alfred Gardiner, Union-street, Cook's Hill, was fined £1, with 8s costs,…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 April 1937 · page 3

For having been found on the licensed premises the Crown and Anchor Hotel, Newcastle, at a prohibited hour on March 13, Alfred Gardiner, of Union-street,…

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