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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

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Dry Veto Will Damp Enthusiasm All Hotels Must Close

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 March 1938 · page 11

Hopes that the Hamilton electorate would be an oasis in that its hotels could open on polling day when all other hotels must…

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Licensing Burden Storekeepers Are Critical Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 11 March 1938 · page 7

Strong criticism of the cost and number of licences which the average grocer and storekeeper is bound by law to possess was voiced to-day by…

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Hotel Extension

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 7

In the Licensing Court at West Maitland to-day, before Mr. E. Geike, application was granted for extensions and alterations to the Imperial Hotel…

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Must Not Conduct S.p. Betting Billiard Licensee Warned

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 2

On his giving an undertaking that during the time he is the holder of the licence he will not engage directly or indirectly in S.P. betting or permit…

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Hotel Hours Controversy Alliance Fights Extension SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 March 1938 · page 4

Because it considers there is no public demand for later closing of hotels, the Temperance Alliance sees no justification for…

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Licensing Court Alterations to Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 11

Sitting in the Licensing Court at the West Maitland Courthose yesterday morning Mr. W. C. Celkie, a member of the Licences Reduction Board, heard…

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Licensing Court Billiard Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1938 · page 2

The application by John Proudlock, of Thomas-street, Wallsend, for the transfer of a billiard licence, for premises in Lambton-road, Lambton, from Francis…

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From Hotel Balcony Station Owner's Fall Fatal MOREE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 8

Mr. William Ronald M[?] of Whyembah station Dirranbandi, who fell off the balcony of Hotel Max early on Sunday morning and fractured his thigh,…

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Hotel Shooting Man Acquitted of Murder MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 10

In the Criminal Court to-day, Harcourt Lee was acquitted of a change of having murdered Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 23. Lee claimed that he has shot Taplin in…

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Great Northern Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 March 1938 · page 6

Visitors at the Great Northern Hotel this week included: Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bettington (Muswellbrook), Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Bowden (Merriwa),…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 18 March 1938 · page 2

Alexander James Wilkinson, of Dawson-street, Cook's Hill, who pleaded guilty, was fined £1 with 8s costs in default three days' imprisonment by…

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Girls for Hotels Training School Suggested Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 March 1938 · page 5

The establishment of six or seven training colleges for domestic servants was advocated to-day by the president of the…

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Fewer Hotels in Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 6

The number of hotel in Victoria has been reduced from 3507 to 1711 in the last 30 years, according to the annual report of the Licensing Court, and the…

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Lively Night in Hotel at Wallsend Sequel In Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 March 1938 · page 6

Allegations that during a disturbance at the Racecourse Hotel. Wallsend, early in the morning of February 19, somebody took the opportunity of…

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In the Courts Disturbance At Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 8

As the result of a disturbance at the Queens Arm Hotel, West Maitland, shortly before 7 o'clock on March 4, Harold Coulter (26), and Gordon…

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Hotel Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 March 1938 · page 2

The licence of the Lake Macquarie Hotel, Teralba, was transferred from John Convery to Robert Hunter by Mr. Soane, L.M., at the Newcastle…

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Training for Hotel Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 8

The Superintendent of Technical Education (Mr. A. H. Hicks) announced yesterday that the Government had decided to institute classes at the east Sydney…

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Licensing Court Booth Licences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 5

Alton Thomas Cusick, of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted booth licences for Newcastle races on March 31…

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What People Think Hotel Hours

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 6

In answer to "Moderation," everybody knows that the specious plea of the publicans that "more drinking (an inevitable result of longer hours) means less…

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More Pay in Busy Period Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 9

From April 1 to 28 the members of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees' Union will receive a 5 per cent. increase above the award rates as compensation…

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