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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

534 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 27

"Some Suspicions" Betting in Hotel Report to Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 5

"Does that mean that starting-price betting is still being carried on in some hotels?" inquired the Magistrate (Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan), in the Newcastle…

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Licensing Court Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 5

The licence of the Commonwealth Hotel, Cook's Hill, was transferred from James Patrick Piggott to William Robertson Clark, of Lang-street, Kurri Kurri…

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On Licensed Premise

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 November 1939 · page 9

Pleading guilty to having been found on the premises of the Albion Hotel. Wickham, during prohibited hours without lawful excuse, on October 1…

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Ship's Engineer Killed in Hotel Fall Melbourne

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 November 1939 · page 12

When he fell 43 feet from the third floor window of a city hotel to-day, David Menzies Mitchell, 53, third engineer of a freighter, was killed…

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COST £15,000 Modern Hotel at Scone

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1939 · page 20

Erected at a cost of £15,000 for Tooheys Ltd., the new Golden Fleece Hotel, Scone, is situated in a commanding position on a busy intersection. It is an important…

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£11,000 for Maitland Hotel Contract to Newcastle Builders

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 November 1939 · page 20

The building of the new Volunteer Hotel at West Maitland will be carried out by Messrs. McGrorey and Keenan, of Bar Beach, Merewether…

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Hotel Disturbance

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 November 1939 · page 8

Les[?] George [?]hers, 27, laborer, pleaded guilty at the Newcastle Police Court to-day to having behaved in an offensive manner in Robertson-street,…

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New and Modern Hotel at Scone

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 November 1939 · page 3

Erected at a cost of £15,000 for Tooheys Ltd., the new Golden Fleece Hotel, Scone is situated in a commanding position on a busy…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 9

The licence of the Commercial Hotel, Paterson, was transferred from Carl Albert Wright to Stanley Pearce, of King's Cross, Sydney. Mr. A. K. Barnett…

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Licensing Court Booth Licensed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 10

Alton Thomas Cusick, of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted three booth licences for Newcastle races to-morrow…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 7

Bernard Watts of Nobbys camp, Newcastle, was fined £1 with 8s costs, in default three days' imprisonment by Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan, S.M., at…

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Solicitor's Complaint to Court Sunday Raid on Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 5

Seth Jenkins, licensee of the Albion Hotel, Wickham, pleaded guilty before Mr. N. L. C. Sheridan, S.M., at Newcastle…

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Collapsed In Hotel MOREE

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 November 1939 · page 6

Vivian Wilson, aged about 50, a traveller for James Hardie and Co. Pty. Ltd., collapsed and died in an hotel vestibule to-day. Wilson lived…

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Publican Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 November 1939 · page 3

Pleading "Guilty" to a charge of having failed to keep his bar closed at an unlawful hour, on October 1, Seth Jenkins, licensee of the Albion Hotel, Wickham,…

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In The... COURTS Illegally On Hotel Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 November 1939 · page 8

When he visited the Rawson Hotel on Sunday, October 15. he found a number of men sitting at tables in the lounge room, the servery open and…

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Hotel Betting Charges

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 November 1939 · page 8

Harold Frank Douglas of the Rawson Hotel, Newcastle, was charged at the Summons Court to-day with having been in the hotel for the purpose…

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In Hotel After Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 November 1939 · page 2

For having been found on the licensed premises of the Rawson Hotel, Hunter-street, Newcastle, at a prohibited hour on October 14, Richard Bath, of…

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Luxury Imports Can Be Stopped Licensing System Will Be Ready Soon CANBERRA

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 November 1939 · page 5

An import licensing system will be introduced by regulation shortly. The Federal Cabinet is completing a schedule divided into four categories of goods…

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Muddling in Britain Government's Tacit Admission Hotels To Be Surrendered LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 November 1939 · page 9

The Government's latest tacit admission of muddled administration is its decision to build huts for 25,000 civil servants…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 November 1939 · page 11

Arthur Edward Dunn, of Church-street, West Maitland. Ernest Green, of Church-street, West Maitland, and Lyndon Russell Kirkwood, of Mount Pleasant-street,…

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