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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

534 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 27

At the Great Northern Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 March 1939 · page 4

VISITORS this week at the Great Northern Hotel were: Mr. G. A. Todner (Wollongong), Mr. A. Ondreyco (Sydney), Mr. S…

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Fire Horror in Hotel Big Death Roll Halifax, Nova Scotia

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 8

Scene of a wartime explosion which cost 3000 lives, Halifax again had a ghastly disaster this morning when 21…

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To-day in the Courts Found in Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 8

Three men who appeared before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M., at Newcastle Summons Court to-day charged with having been found on the premises of…

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Law on Hotel Licences

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 5

There is no power to deal immediately with hold licensees who are being convicted of having sold drip beer. This…

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Guests Plead for Help Canadian Hotel Fire Twenty Missing: 21 Dead Halifax, March 2

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 March 1939 · page 11

Men women, and children clung to the windows piteously begging for aid, only to drop back into the flames, when fire swept the historic Queen's Hotel…

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To Be Rebuilt Historic Aberdeen Hotel

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

The Segenhoe Hotel, Aberdeen, is to be remodelled and rebuilt at a cost of £3000. The new structure will occupy the site on which the present building…

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Threat to Shoot Robbery in Crowded Hotel Bar Gunman at Alexandria Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 March 1939 · page 8

Amazing audacity was shown by an armed robber, who helm up the licensee of the Star Hotel, Botany-road, Alexandria, in a crowded bar yesterday, and…

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Storekeeper Free Brisbane Murder Trial Ends Death of Hotelkeeper Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 7

"Not guilty of murder. Not guilty of manslaughter," was the verdict given by the jury to-night in the case in which Edwin Claude Helton, 36, storekeeper,…

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Hotel Changes Hands

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 March 1939 · page 8

The licence of the oxford Hotel. Newcastle, was transferred from Henry Bonominl to John David Berkeley, former licensee of the Windsor Castle…

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Redfern Hotel Tragedy. Evidence at Inquest SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1939 · page 7

An inquest on Erie Gordon Carlson, 50, whose body was found at the rear of a hotel at Redfern on February 8, was opened by the Acting City Coroner (Mr…

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Licensing Court Booth Licences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1939 · page 5

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

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Hotel Licence Transferred

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

The licence of the Commercial Hotel, Paterson, was transferred from David Thomas Parkinson to Clifford Theodore O'Donnell, of Port Macquarie. Mr. A…

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Safe Blown in Hotel at Speers Pt

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 March 1939 · page 4

Cracksmen blew the safe at the Speer's Point Hotel early this morning and stole £90 in notes and silver…

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Man's Suicide After Arrest: Hotel Tragedy

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 11

An inquest was held at Maitland to-day into the death ol William Hird. 60, a master tailor, who was found dead in a toilet room of an hotel on…

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To Be Tried on Charge of Murder Seaman's Death In Hotel SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 9 March 1939 · page 11

Timothy Ryan, 44, laborer, was committed for trial by the Acting Coroner (Mr. C. T. Wood) at the end of the…

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Ryan to Stand Trial Redfern Hotel Tragedy Detective's Evidence at Inquest "Barman . . . Has Blown My Alibi Out" SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 20

"That barman picking me has blown my alibi out," Timothy Ryan, 44, labourer, charged with the murder of Eric Arthur Carlson, 50, seaman, is alleged…

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Contracts Let New Hotel at Dungog

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1939 · page 20

A contract for the new Royal Hotel, at Dungog, has been let to Messrs. Field and Roach. The building will have a frontage of 109ft. 5½in. to…

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Industrial Court Former Licensee Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 March 1939 · page 9

Inspector D. A. Geddes, of the Department of Labour and Industry, proceeded against Mrs. Ada Jenkins, a former licensee of the Hamilton Hotel…

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Hotel Employees' Award

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 2

The State Conciliation Commissioner (Mr. G. J. Baker) has advised the parties that the application for an award will be heard by the Hotel Employees' State…

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"Not Scientific" Licensing of Imports Australian Looks at N.Z. System Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 3

The opinion that the New Zealand Government was taking very extreme action in its import licensing system was expressed yesterday by Mr. F. W…

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