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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1937

460 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 23

On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 8

Found at Parkview Hotel, Islington during prohibited hours, on April 25, nine men were fined 10/, with 8/ costs, in default 48 hours' imprisonment. They were…

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Party to Equity Case Brown's Hotel Transactions SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 13

A dispute between Ernest Henry Brown, the victim of the Garah murder, and Ethel Mary Mullen over the Commercial Hotel, Ulmarra, was mentioned…

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Licensees Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 May 1937 · page 7

For having been the licensee of the Locomotive Hotel, Newcastle, at a time when a person was found there after hours without lawful excuse…

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Minmi's Vanished Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 May 1937 · page 10

Minmi has only one hotel to-day. Sixty years ago it had nearly a dozen, and with 500 men employed at the colliery, the town went merrily along. With the…

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Police and S.P. Radio Sets in Hotels Police "Request" to Publicans

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 31 May 1937 · page 1

Latest move in the campaign by the police against S.P. betting is a request to hotel keepers to remove radio…

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Radio Ban in Hotels What Publicans Think of It

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 8

Opinion is divided among Newcastle hotel-keepers as to the effect that the police ban on wireless sets in bars is having…

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Radio in Hotels "No Special Instructions" SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 1 June 1937 · page 9

The Chief Secretary (Mr. F. A. Chaffey) stated to-day that he had no knowledge of wireless sets having been removed from hotel bars at Cessnock on…

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Duke's Wedding Put Forward Half an Hour Great Public Interest Hotels Crowded: Motor Coaches Booked Out (Australian Associated Press.) MONTS, June 1

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1937 · page 7

Mr. Herman Rogers, announces that the wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Warfield will take place at the Chateau de Cande…

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Licensing Court Application Granted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1937 · page 4

The application by Walter John Horn, represented by Mr. K. W. Barnett (Messrs. Braye, Cragg and Cohen), for the transfer of the licence of the Royal Exchange…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 June 1937 · page 6

For having been found at a prohibited hour on the premises of the Prince of Wales Hotel. Thomas Williams, Morgan-street, Merewether, Frederick…

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Radio Sets in Hotels "An Amicable Arrangement" Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 June 1937 · page 5

The removal of radio sets and the cessation of race broadcasts in hotel bara on the Northern Coalfields was a matter of amicable arrangement between the publicans…

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Licensee Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1937 · page 5
Also in The Newcastle Sun

Colin Chapman Bentley, the licensee of the Princ[?] of Wales Hotel, Merewether, was fined £2, with 8/ costs, in default five days' imprisonment, for having…

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Found on Hotel Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1937 · page 5

For having been found on the Prince of Wales Hotel, Merewether, during prohibited hours on April 24, the following were each fined £1, with 8/ costs, in…

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Guests of Guest at Hotel Can Accept Drinks If Host Pays Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 June 1937 · page 12

"You may call on your friend who lives at an hotel and enjoy a few quiet spots after hours, providing you do so socially or in connection with your…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 June 1937 · page 12

Charged with having been found on the premises of the Colliery Inn Hotel, Wallsend, at 10 p.m. on April 23, George Robert Scott, of Bunn-street…

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Property of Guest Hotelkeeper's Liability Limited Money Given to Wrong Man Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 14

The effect of a judgment given by Judge Curlewis, in the District Court to-day, is that when a man enters a hotel and purchases a drink he is…

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Radio Sets in Hotels Supt.'s Report to Minister Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 4 June 1937 · page 1

"That the removal of radio sets from hotel bars on race days in the Newcastle district had had a good effect is…

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Cessnock Wireless Sets in Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 9

It was disclosed at the week-end that the wireless sets which had been removed from local hotel bars, following a suggestion from the police, had in many cases…

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Clothing Stolen From Hotel Thefts Reported Over Week-end

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 June 1937 · page 6

Newcastle police are investigating the theft of a suit case containing a quantity of clothing valued at £20 from the…

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