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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

534 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 27

Milk Trade Interests A.L.P. CONFERENCE Support for Second License Claim Unions Want to Hold Preselection Ballots

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 4

The action of the Hamilton branch of the Australian Labour Party in refusing to cooperate in an effort to obtain a wholesale milk distributor's licence for a Newcastle cooperative organisation caused a long debate at the Northern regional…

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Hotel Safe Containing £250 Stolen Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 March 1939 · page 1

Early this morning thieves carried away a heavy safe containing £250 from the Coronation Hotel in Park-street, City…

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Hotel Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 March 1939 · page 8

The licence of the Rawson Hotel. Newcastle, was transferred from Alan Henry McEwan to Harold Prank Douglas. newspaper proprietor, of Cessnock…

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Newcastle Courts Tuesday, March 14 (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Licensing Court Booth Licences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 March 1939 · page 5

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

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Award Breaches Alleged Against Hotel Licensee

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 March 1939 · page 11

The hearing was continued to-day in the Newcastle Industrial Magistrate's Court before Mr. Soiling. S.M., of the three award breaches alleged against…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 March 1939 · page 12

The transfer of the licence of the Rhondda Hotel at Rhondda from Keith Ronald Daniels to Albert Lovell Thompson was granted to-day by Mr…

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Great Northern Hotel Party

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 March 1939 · page 2

Mrs. P. L. Wyatt was smartly frocked in navy blue, with which she wore a matching hat and carried a large white bad. when she received her…

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Manslaughter Verdict Fatal Scuffle Near Hotel Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 March 1939 · page 11

"Downing went to put his hands in my pockets and I swung hard, knocking him against an Iron fence. I had no intention…

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Licensing Court Hotel Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 18

The transfer of the licence of the Rhondda Hotel, Rhondda, from Keith Ronald Daniels to Albert Lovel Thompson, formerly of Captain's Flat, was…

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Mayfair Man Peels "Spuds" . Studies The Hotel Business LONDON, March 1

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 March 1939 · page 11

The Hon. John Fane, grandson of the 21st Lord Clinton, is leaving his job as a waiter in a London hotel to peel potatoes at 5s a week in Monte…

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Sleep-walker Injured Falls From Second Floor of Hotel PARKES

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 8

A printing "house traveller, Alexander Parker, 38, of Newcastle, sustained a compound fracture of the skull, three fractures of the fingers, and abrasions…

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Sydney Hotel Murder Man Shot in Basement Police Station Opposite Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 7

Robert Vincent Anderson, 22, of Balmain, was murdered in the basement of a hotel opposite the Erskine-street police station this…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 9

Hugh McLaughlin, of Northcote-street, Aberdare, and Robert Pritchard, of Hall-street, Cessnock, were each fined £1 with 8/ costs, for being found on…

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Shooting of Young Man in Sydney Hotel Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 7

Certain important discoveries have been made by detectives who are investigating the shooting of Robert James Anderson (22), in the lavatory…

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Hotel Changes Hands

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 March 1939 · page 8

The licence of the Esplanade Hotel, Newcastle, was transferred from Sydney Charles Pierre to John Fahey, former licensee of the Belmore Hotel,…

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Licensing Court Billiard Licence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1939 · page 12

Mervyn Thomas Ryan was granted a billiard licence for premises at Carrington-street. West Wallsend…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 March 1939 · page 11

Two hotel licences were transferred in the Licensing Court. The licence of the Metropolitan Hotel, West Maitland, was transferred from…

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Union Boycott of Hotels Melbourne Award Trouble MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 March 1939 · page 11

Alleging that certain hotels in the city and suburbs are endeavouring to avoid higher wages and shorter hours prescribed in the Federal award be…

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Rebuilding Gloucester Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 20

Extensive alterations are to be made to the Gloucester Hotel at Gloucester. The piano and specifications will be submitted to the authorities shortly. The…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 March 1939 · page 6

The following were each fined £1, with 8/ costs, in default three days' imprisonment, for having been found on the licensed premises of the Merewether…

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