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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

534 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 27

Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1939 · page 11

The licence of the Volunteer Hotel, West Maitland, was transferred from William Clendinning to Harry Holden Walker, of Cessnock…

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Hotel Prosecutions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1939 · page 11

Clarence Allen Smith, licensee of the Metropolitan Hotel, was fined £3 with 8/ costs, for being the licensee of premises on which a person was found…

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Case for Defence Trial of Harry Bridges Recording Device in Hotel Room (Australian Associated Press.) San Francisco, August 8

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1939 · page 10

The ease for the defence was opened, when the deportation proceedings against Harry Bridges were continued, yesterday. An attempt will be made to prove that…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 August 1939 · page 7

For having been found on the licensed premises of the Duke of Wellington Hotel, New Lambton, at an unlawful hour, on July 7, each of the following defendants…

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Broken Hotel Window Insurance Company Bet and Lost SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 August 1939 · page 13

Mr. Sutherland, S.M., at Redfern Court to-day, refused to order a man who had broken a window of a hotel to pay compensation to an insurance company. He…

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Darwin Wants New Hotel Approach to Minister DARWIN

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 August 1939 · page 12

Representatives are being made to the Minister for the Interior (Senator H. S. Foll) for a licence for a new £20,000 hotel…

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Hotel Burglary Money, Rings, Liquor Taken SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 August 1939 · page 7

Thieves broke into the Kauri Hotel, Pyrmont, Bridge-road, Glebe, during the proprietor's absence this afternoon, and stole £50 in notes and silver, two…

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Hotel Takings Were Taken Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 14 August 1939 · page 7

Breaking into the Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay. last night, thieves stole a small safe containing £300 in cash, £60 in cheques and shares and…

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Hotel Safe Burgled Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1939 · page 8

Thieves broke into the Golden Sheaf Hotel, Double Bay, last night, and stole a small safe containing £300 in notes and £60 in cheques, also shares and…

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Shooting in Hotel Inquest Into Man's Death Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 August 1939 · page 7

William James Anderson, 22, was inclined to be effeminate, said his father at the inquest today…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 August 1939 · page 5

An application for the transfer of the licence of the Australian Hotel, Cessnock, from Melville Eric Jurd to Allen Percy Davidson, a former…

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Hotel Changes Hands

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 August 1939 · page 5

The licence of the George Hotel, Newcastle, was transferred from John Knox Arnold to Allan Dunsmore, commercial traveller, of Ada-street,…

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Licensing Court Hotel Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 7

An application by Allan Dunsmore, of Ada-street, Waratah, for the transfer to him of the licence of the George Hotel, Newcastle, from John Knox Arnold,…

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MISSED £105 in Hotel Bar Thieves Took Only Beer GRAFTON

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 10

Although £100 was in an unlocked safe and over £5 in the till in the bar of the Royal Hotel in Pound-street, Grafton, only a small quantity of bottled…

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Hotel Shooting Inquest Victim "Was Effeminate" SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 10

William James Anderson, 22, who was shot down in cold blood in the wash-room of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Clarence-street, Sydney, on March 22, had many…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 11

The licence of the Australian Hotel Cessnock, was transferred from Melville Eric Jurd to Alan Percy Davidson, formerly a postal official at Cessnock. Mr…

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In the Courts Hotelkeeper Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 August 1939 · page 8

John David Evans, licensee of the Duke of Wellington Hotel, New Lambton, was fined £2. with 8s costs, in default five days' imprisonment, at…

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Hotel Licensee Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 August 1939 · page 13

The conviction was not recorded in the case in which John David Evans was fined £2, with 8/ costs, in default five days' imprisonment, for having been the…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 August 1939 · page 10

A fine of 20s, with 8s costs, in default three days, was imposed by Mr. Carr-Boyd at Wallsend Summons Court to-day on a number of men…

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Great Northern Hotel Guests

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 August 1939 · page 2

VISITORS at the Great Northern Hotel this week include:— Mr. and Mrs. Sinfield (Chicago), Mr. and Mrs. C. Smart (Gladesville),…

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