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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

509 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 26

Old Hotel Comes Down

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 20

Demolishers at work on the Royal Exchange Hotel, in Hunter-street, Newcastle, preparatory to the erection of a new building…

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Royal Exchange Old Newcastle Hotel to Go History of the Site

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 20

The Royal Exchange Hotel, illustrated on this page, occupies an historic site at the corner of Hunter and Wolfe Streets. It is now in the hands of the demolishers…

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Summons Division on Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 15

For having been found on the Criterion Hotel, Islington, at a prohibited hour on March 18, the following men were each fined £1, with 8/ costs, in default three…

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New Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 2

For the new building for the Royal Exchange Hotel a contract has been let to Messrs. J. C. Davis and Sons, of Hamilton. The architects are Messrs…

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S.P. at Hotels Is Still "Suspected" Inspector's Report Presented

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 1

Starting price betting and after hours trading in hotels in the Newcastle district' have been given strict attention and a number, of…

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Theft From Hotel at Carrington

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 10

Spirits valued at £3 15s and £4 5s in cash were "stolen from the bar or the Glasgow Arms Hotel, Carrington, last night…

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Licensing Court Booth Licence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 13

Charles William Weiss, of the Imperial Hotel, Sydney, was granted a booth licence for the Hamilton Bowling Club on May 2…

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MAITLAND — KURRI — CESSNOCK West Maitland Licensing Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-boyd, L.m.)

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 11

Eliza Ann Sucker and Rose May Sucker, executrices of the will of Eliza Ann Sucker, made application for the transfer of the Commercial Hotel,…

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Former Licensee Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 April 1938 · page 8

Frederick John Vaughan, former licensee of the Hamilton Station Hotel, was fined £2 with 8s costs by Mr. M. E. Soane. S.M. in the…

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Licensee Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1938 · page 4

A fine of £2, with 8/ costs, in default five days imprisonment, was imposed on Frederick John Vaughan, who pleaded "Guilty" to having been the licensee of the…

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In Hotel After Hours

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 2

For having been on licensed premises in illegal hours. Harold Ward, of Fern-street, Islington, and Robert Scott, of Maitland-road. Islington, were…

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Summons Division Found in Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 6

Harold Ward, Fern-street, Islington, was fined £1, with 8/ costs, in default three days' imprisonment, for having been found in the Park View Hotel,…

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Fewer Hotels in State 498 Less Than 18 Years Ago SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 8

Hotels in New South Wales have decreased by 498 since the year 1920, though the copulation in that period has increased by about 700,000. Large…

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Hotel Changes Hands

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 2

The licence of the Parkview Hotel. Islington, was transferred from John Mayer to Mary Ada Owen, of James Street, Hamilton, by Mr. Soane. L.M.,…

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Licensing Court Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 7

The licence of the Park View Hotel, Islington, was transferred from John Mayes to Mary Ada Owen. Mr. K. W. Barnett (Messrs. Br eye., Cragg, and…

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Fewer Hotels Serve Bigger State Population SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 13

According to the report of the Licensing Bench and Licences Reduction Board for 1937 furnished to the Minister of Justice (Mr. L. O. Martin) hotels in New South…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 8

For having been found on the Shortland Hotel. Newcastle, in prohibited hours on March 23, Malcolm McInness. of the ship Iron Knight, was fined…

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New Hotels £20,000 Job on North Coast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1938 · page 18

Messrs. C. Davis and Sons Proprietary Ltd., Adamstown, have completed a modern hotel at Port Macquarie. The expenditure will exceed £20,000…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1938 · page 9

Malcolm McInnes. of the steamer Iron Knight, care of the Broken Hill Pty Company Ltd., was fined £1, with 8/ costs, in default three days'…

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Nurse and Publican Romance That Failed Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 May 1938 · page 5

The story of what counsel described as a case of love at first light, an alleged promise of marriage, and failure to carry out…

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