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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 16

Guests at Great Northern Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 28 March 1940 · page 4

VISITORS at the Great Northern Hotel this week included— Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jackson (Kempsey), Mrs. L. Latham (Scone), Mr…

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To-day in the Courts Newcastle Licensing Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, L.M.) Hotel Changes Hands

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 6

The licence of the Albion Hotel, Wickham, was transferred from Seth Jenkins to Alfred Thomas Boyle…

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Licensing Division Hotel Transfer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 3 April 1940 · page 13

Transfer of the licence of the Albion Hotel, Wickham. from Both Jenkins to Alfred Thomas Boyle, of Islington, wma ratified…

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Summons Division (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) On Hotel Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 8

"I'm sick and tired of telling hotel-keepers to keep people out of their bars after hours. It's getting a bit more than it should be." said Mr…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 6

For having been found on the premises of the Shortland Hotel after hours, each of the following defendants was fined £1, with 8/ costs, in default three days'…

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Licensing Court Wine Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 April 1940 · page 18

The application by J. R. Croydon for the transfer of the Australian wine licence from Hunter-street, Newcastle, to Newcomen-street, Newcastle, was granted…

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Man Fatally Injured Fell From City Hotel Window

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 6

Falling 25ft. from a second story window at the Commercial Hotel, in Scott-street, Newcastle, on Saturday night, John Anthony Hughes, 48, received fatal…

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Killed in 25Ft. Fall From Hotel Window

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 5

John Anthony Hughes, 48, died in Newcastle Hospital on Saturday night following a fall of 25 feet from a second story window at the…

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After-hour Trade "No Hotel in Sydney Without It" Woman Granted Leave to Appeal Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1940 · page 2

A suggestion that there was no hotel in Sydney, that did not trade in liquor sales alter hours was made in the High Court of Australia to-day…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 April 1940 · page 7

Eight men who pleaded guilty to having been round on the licensed premises or the Maryville Hotel during prohibited hours on March 15, were…

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In Hotel After Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 April 1940 · page 6

James Aitcheson, of Hannell-street, Wickham. Robert Ballenden, off Union-street Tighe's Hill, Raymond Camps, of Downie-street. Smedmore, Ronald Camps,…

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Lower Fee Urged Bill to License Potato Growers Fund Will Help Growers Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 6

During further, debate in the Legislative Assembly on the bill providing for the imposition of a licensing fee on potato growers in the State, Mr. J. M…

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Only Hotel at Ourimbah Is Threatened Residents Oppose Transfer Move Gospord

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 April 1940 · page 5

for an Ourimbah have applied for an injunction to restrain Tooth's Brewery from securing the transfer of the Ourimbah Hotel to The Entrance…

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Ourimbah Wants to Keep Hotel Gosford

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 April 1940 · page 9

Residents of Ourimbah will ask at Gosford Licensing Court on Tuesday that the Royal Hotel, the only hotel in a town of more than 2000 people, be…

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Summons Division (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 15 April 1940 · page 7

Eight men who were found on the licensed premises of the Grand Junction Hotel, Newcastle, during prohibited hours on March 16, were each fined…

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Here and There Hotel Windows Smashed.—

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 6

Armidale, Tuesday: Six plateglass windows of the Imperial Hotel, valued at about £50. were smashed, on Saturday night. Police were told to-day…

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Hotel Proposal for the Entrance Board Chairman Rebukes Witness GOSFORD

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 5

Emmett Patrick Collins, licensee of the Royal Exchange Hotel, Ourimbah, and Tooth and Co, applied to the Brisbane Water Licensing Court to-day for…

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To-day in the COURTS (Before Mr. M. E. Soane. S.m.) Summons Division On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 18 April 1940 · page 9

For having been found on the licensed premises of the Orient Hotel, Newcastle, during prohibited hours on February 2, Reuben Frith, of…

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Man Found Shot in Hotel Room Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 21

The body of Henry George Woods, 48, a hairdresser, of Elizabeth Bay-road, Potts Point, was found in a room at the Hotel Australia, Sydney, to-night…

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Newcastle's First Publican

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 April 1940 · page 4

During the period when Newcastle was a convict settlement (writes Mr. W. J. Goold) there were no hotels here, but immediately the convicts were transferred to Port Macquarie a notice appeared in the Sydney Press that "Gentleman" Smith…

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