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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

509 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 26

£50,000 Hotel for Darwin Darwin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 12

Within the next 12 months Darwin will have an up-to-date and modern air-conditioned hotel, to be constructed of reinforced concrete at a coat of £50,000…

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South Coast Unions To Confer on Pig-iron Dispute Attitude to Licensing Threat Wollongong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 9

South Coast unionists will meet at Wollongong next Sunday to consider the Federal Government's threat to apply the Transport…

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New Hotel for Carrington to Cost £8500

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 7

The Glasgow Arms Hotel at Carrington is to be demolished and a new modem hotel erected an another site at an estimated cost of £8500…

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Bathroom Tragedy at Hotel Spinster's Death Investigated

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 7

Evidence that the deceased had said she was tired of living and admitted taking strychnine, was given by a…

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In the Courts On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 November 1938 · page 8

Charged with having been found on the premises of the Grand Junction Hotel, The Junction, Newcastle, without lawful excuse on Sunday,…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 9

Found on the promises of the Commercial Hotel, Boolaroo, at an unlawful hour, 8.45 p.m., on October 20, each of the following defendants was fined £1, with…

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To Cost £8500 New Carrington Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 3

In the Newcastle Licensing Court yesterday, before Mr. T. W. Cohen, L.M., John James Lachlan Stevens was granted permission to remove the licence of the…

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At The Great Northern Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 8

Dr. and Mrs. Acton, Goodooga; Messrs. E. Becker and H. Leavers, Messrs. F. Rush and D. S. Buttenshaw, Mrs. W. Fielding and Miss M…

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Record of Bets Police Remove Hotel Door SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 December 1938 · page 2

Unexpected action was taken by police after they had raided a hotel in Lidcombe this afternoon. After questioning a man they removed one of the hotel…

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Death Fall of 160 Ft. From Hotel Coroner Returns Open Finding Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 December 1938 · page 7

The mystery surrounding the death of Muriel Hare, New Zealand masseuse, who fell 160 feet from the roof of…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 December 1938 · page 9

Pleading guilty to having been found on the licensed premises of the Hamilton Hotel, Hamilton, at 11.30 a.m. yesterday, Harold George Matthews (36)…

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Open Verdict Woman's Fall From Hotel Had Substantial Income Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 December 1938 · page 8

An open finding was returned by the City Coroner (Mr. E. T. Oram) to-day, at the conclusion of the inquest on Muriel Here, a New Zealand visitor, who crashed…

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In the Courts Hotels Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 December 1938 · page 2

An application by Enoch Brennan, of Mayfield-street, Cessnock, for the transfer or the licence of the Burwood Inn Hotel, Merewether, from…

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Found Dead in Hotel Another Girl From Brisbane Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 December 1938 · page 7

Dressed in pink, the body of a young woman, believed to be Miss Elsa Foster, of Brisbane, was found to-day in her…

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Licensing Court Licences Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 December 1938 · page 14

The licence of the Burwood Inn Hotel was transferred from Raymond William Burns to Enoch Brennan, of Cessnock. Frederick Angus Childs was granted…

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Dead in Hotel Young Woman Visitor From Brisbane Poisoning Suspected Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 December 1938 · page 17

A young woman who booked in at the Hotel Metropole yesterday as Miss Elsa O. Foster, of Brisbane, and paid three weeks' accommodation in advance, was…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 December 1938 · page 11

Mrs. France Hinchey, of Lorn, was granted a transfer of the licence of the Royal Hotel, West Maitland, from John Albert Anderson…

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Slipped and Found Gold Hotelkeeper's Luck KALGOORLIE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 December 1938 · page 9

Hearing an altercation in a lane at the back of the Palace Hotel early to-day, the licensee, Mrs. Violet Cook, went to investigate. Stepping out of the hotel…

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S.A. Bill Rejected No Extension of Hotel Hours ADELAIDE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 December 1938 · page 31

There was no surprise in the House of Assembly to-day when a bill to extend hotel hours was defeated by 19 votes to 18…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 December 1938 · page 11

Francis Herbert Sweeney and Veronica Sweeney, of Cultivation-road. West Maitland, were both fined £1/12/, with 8/ costs, for having been on the licensed…

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