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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

509 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 22 of 26

New Hotel Is to Cost £17,000 at Broadmeadow

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 November 1938 · page 7

Tooth and Company were granted 12 months in which to carry out material alterations and additions to the Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow, by…

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Hotel Transfer

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 November 1938 · page 8

The Replication was granted by Messrs. T. W. Coken and W. Gelkie, Licensing Magistrates. in the Newcastle Licensing Magistrates' Court…

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Alterations to Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 3

Tooth and Co. Ltd., were granted permission to make alterations and additions to the Premier Hotel, Broadmeadow. Mr. C. A. K. Cohen (Messrs. Braye,…

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Licensing Court (Before Messrs. W. Geikle and T. W. Cohen, L.M.'s.) Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 3

The licence of the Beach Hotel was transferred from William Edward Elson to Albert Victor Sidebottom…

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On Licensed Premise

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 November 1938 · page 4

Ten men who were found on the premises of the Bellevue Hotel, Wickham, during prohibited hours on September 30 were each fined £1, with 8s costs…

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Police Court Wednesday, November 2 (Before Mr. J. A. S. Balmain, S.m.) Summons Division on Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 November 1938 · page 3

George Oates, Elcho-street, Hamilton, and James Vincent McLoughlin, Harle-street, Hamilton, were each fined £1, with 8/ costs, in default three days'…

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Disturbance at City Hotel; Charge Denied

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 November 1938 · page 11

A disturbance in front of the Esplanade Hotel, Newcastle, on the night of October 21 was described before Mr. Balmain, S.M. at Newcastle Police…

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Great Northern Hotel Guests

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 November 1938 · page 6

VISITORS at the Great Northern Hotel this week include: Mrs. A. Leon (Dungog), Misses Shephard and Pumfrey (Brisbane), Mr. J. Antill…

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Newspaper Editor Death Leap from Hotel Window New York, November 3

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 November 1938 · page 11

Mr. Victor Watson, one of the most prominent of the editors employed by Mr. R. W. Hearst leapt from a window on the eleventh storey of an hotel at…

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Summons Division on Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 November 1938 · page 16

A fine of £1, with 8/ costs, in default three days' imprisonment, was imposed on the following defendants who pleaded "Guilty" to having been found on the…

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Premier Hotel Rebuilding to Cost £20,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 November 1938 · page 7

The Premier Hotel, at Broadmeadow, is to be demolished. On the site will be erected a modern hotel in two storeys, the cost of which will be £20,000…

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Disused Council Building Rival to Black Diamond Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 November 1938 · page 7

The historic Black Diamond Hotel has its rival. This is the disused City Council building at the rear of the Strand Theatre. It has been put to no use for…

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Big Modern Hotel for Darwin Adelaide

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 November 1938 · page 4

A big, modern hotel, to suit tropical conditions, will be built in Darwin by on Adelaide syndicate at a cost of between £50,000 and £60,000…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 November 1938 · page 4

An application for the transfer of the publican's licence of the Esplanade Hotel, Telford-street, Newcastle, from Sydney Albert Young to Sydney Charles…

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Tried to Check S.P. Runners in His Hotel? Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 November 1938 · page 7

Miss Inez Florence Upjohn, giving evidence at the S.P. inquiry to-day in the Dawson case, involving former Constable Fletcher, said that her…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 November 1938 · page 8

Four men round on the premises of the Burwood Inn Hotel, Merewether, at 9.35 p.m. on October 15, were each fined £1. with 8s costs, by…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 November 1938 · page 8

Charged at the Kurri Police Court to-day with having been found on the licensed premises of Edwards's Wine Saloon, Weston, during prohibited…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 November 1938 · page 18

Four men found on the licensed premises of the Burwood Inn Hotel, Merewether, at an unlawful hour on October 15, were each fined £1, with 8/ costs, in…

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S.P. Inquiry Into Hotel Case Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 November 1938 · page 11

Judge Markell, the S.P. Commissioner, said to-day that when Henry Robert King tried to explain that he was only…

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Hotel Bettors Fined Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 November 1938 · page 15

Thomas O'Neill, 29, clerk, was fined £20 by Mr. Arnold, S.M., at the Central Police Court to-day, for having been in the street, to wit, the saloon bar of the…

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