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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 16

Merewether's New Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 October 1940 · page 12

Subject to approval by Greater Newcastle Council, Mr. W. Giekie, Licensing Magistrate, has granted an application by Tooth and Co. Ltd, for permission to…

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In the Courts (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.m.) Licensing Court Licence Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 October 1940 · page 2

An application was made by William Martin Felshaw for the transfer of the billiards licence for premises in Nelson Street. Wallsend. to…

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Lord Galway in Hotel Fire Arson Attempt Suspected

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 October 1940 · page 4

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—It is believed that a deliberate attempt was made this morning to burn down a hotel at Nelson at which the…

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State to License Motor Mechanics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 October 1940 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Certificates of competency backed by the State Government are to be issued to motor mechanics passing prescribed tests. Announcing this…

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"Lost Dole Because in Hotel"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 October 1940 · page 14

LITHGOW, Thursday.—At a meeting of Portland unemployed soma members complained that for no other reason than that they had been seen in a hotel…

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Bucket Brigade Saved Block Hotel, Store Destroyed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 October 1940 · page 11

GRAFTON, Thursday.—Hampden Hotel, a two-story building occupied by Mr. H. Neller and owned by Mr. W. Johnson, and a drapery store and…

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Hotels Raided

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 25 October 1940 · page 2

Raids by police on two suburban hotels on polling day—September 21—resulted in the appearance of a number of men charged with having been found…

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Work on Four Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 October 1940 · page 12

A start will be made shortly with the erection of another hotel at Merewether. It will take the place of the Beach Hotel, to be demolished. This work will be…

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Civilians and Troops Riot Windows Smashed Hotels Stormed Early Closing Resented

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 October 1940 · page 5

BRISBANE, Sunday.—Hundreds of soldiers and civilians took control of part of Queen-street, Brisbane, last night during rioting that…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 October 1940 · page 2

George Green, 49, cook, was fined £1, in default 48 hours' imprisonment, for having been found on the licensed premises of the Crown and Anchor…

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New Hotel to Cost £18,500 Quarterly Licensing Report

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 October 1940 · page 5

An application by Tooth and Co. for permission to erect new premises, at an estimated cost of £18,500 on the present site of the Beach Hotel,…

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New Hotels to Be Built Merewether and Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 October 1940 · page 2

The intention of Tooth and Co. Ltd., owners of the Beach Hotel, Merewether, to erect now premises on the site, at a cost of £18,500, was mentioned by Inspector…

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Illegally in Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 November 1940 · page 2

Herbert Kelly, 52, laborer, and Arthur Ernest Vanstone, 47, enginedriver, were each fined £1, on a charge ol having been round in the Empire Hotel…

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In the Courts (Before Mr. M. K. Soane. S.m.) Newcastle Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 2

The transfer of the licence of the Maryville Hotel. Maryville, from Vincent Bernard Doherty to William Victor Tucker, of Waratah, was…

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Wants His Wife Back Hinton Publican's Application

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 2

His wife and he were married for five months before they told her family, said Stephen Keith Flanagan,…

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Hinton Publican's Plea Wants His Wife Back

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 November 1940 · page 8

Mr. Justice Bonney, at the Matrimonial Causes Court at Newcastle yesterday, begun the hearing of the petition by Stephen Keith Flanagan, licensee of the Victoria Hotel,…

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To-day in the Courts Newcastle Licensing Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Hotel Transfers

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 8

The transfer of the Shortland Hotel, Newcastle, from Leslie George Flynn to Cecil Baden Brown, of Tamworth, was approved…

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Could Not Go Back Wife on Publican's Petition

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 6

Mrs. Muriel Ada Flanagan, respondent in a petition by Stephen Keith Flanagan, for restitution of conjugal rights, told Mr. Justice Bonney at a sitting of the Matrimonial…

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Airman Killed at Narromine Hotel Balcony Broke Under Three Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 November 1940 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday Morning.—A pupil Air Force pilot was killed and two others were slightly injured late last night when the balcony of the Federal Hotel at…

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Not Able to Pay Wife £2 a Week Hotelkeeper's Evidence

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 November 1940 · page 2

Stephen Keith Flanagan, hotelkeeper, of Hinton, was further cross-examined in the Divorce Court at East…

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