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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 16

In Hotel After Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 May 1940 · page 16

Joseph Brown Barclay, of Hall-street, Cook's Hill, and George Horsfield, of Darby-street, Cook's Hill, were both fined £1, with 8/ costs, in default three…

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Licensing Division Hotel Transfer Approved

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 5

Transfer of the licence of the Oxford Hotel Newcastle, from John David Berkley to James Laskie, living at the Esplanade Hotel, was approved…

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Single Woman As Licensee Full Court to Decide Issue SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 4

The Full Court was asked to-day to determine "once and for all" the rights of an unmarried woman to hold an hotel licence…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 May 1940 · page 6

Richard Evans, of Darby-street, Newcastle, and William Smith, of Wolfe-street, Newcastle, were each fined £1, with 8s costs, in default…

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Summons Division in Hotel After Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 4

Pleading "Guilty" to charges of having been on the licensed premises of the Commercial Hotel, Newcastle, at a prohibited hour on April 19, Richard Evans, of…

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Summons Division (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd. P.M.) On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 6

For having been found on the licensed premises of the Exchange Hotel, West Maitland, during prohibited hours on April 12. the following…

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Licensing Court (Before Mr. M. E. Boone, L.M.)

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 May 1940 · page 6

An application for the transfer of the licence of the Terminus Hotel, Newcastle, from Cecil Baden Brown to Andrew George Melville, of…

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Licensing Court Transfer of Licence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 4

The licence of the Terminus Hotel, Scott-street, Newcastle, was transferred from Cecil Baden Powell to Andrew George Melville. The police made no…

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Hotel Robbery at Tighe's Hill

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 May 1940 · page 7

Newcastle police are investigating the theft of £18 On 10d and a quantity of tobacco from the Cross Keys Hotel, Tighe's Hill. It was found after the…

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Tenders for Hotel and Cottages

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1940 · page 16

Tenders will be called shortly for the erection of the Cambridge Hotel and lock-up shops in Hunter-street West. Newcastle, at a cost of £12,000, for…

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Raymond Terrace Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 May 1940 · page 16

The tender, of Messrs. Murdoch and Turner contractors, of Islington, for alterations to the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Raymond Terrace, has been accepted…

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To-day in the Courts Newcastle Police On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 May 1940 · page 6

Pleading guilty to a charge of having been found on the licensed premises of the Albion Hotel. Wickham during prohibited hours on April 19…

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 3

Alfred James Fear, of Denison-street, Hamilton, William Alexander Hagney, of Chancer-street, Hamilton, and Albert Whalan, of Dickson-street, Wickham,…

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Licensing Courts Transfer Of Licence

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 May 1940 · page 6

Mrs. Emily May Maittlen, executrix and benificiary or the will of William James Maittlen, applied for the transfer of the licence for the Hamilton…

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Licensing Court Music Permit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 6

John Philip Trim was granted a music permit for the Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle, to-morrow night…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 11

The licence of the Belmore Hotel. West Maitland, was transferred from Wallace Earle Edwards to Edward Bland, of Fern-street, Islington…

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Publicans Fined at Newcastle

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 May 1940 · page 6

The first prosecution in the Newcastle district under the Board of Health regulation enforcing the use of methyl violet…

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Hotel Licensees Fined Waste Beer Not Coloured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 May 1940 · page 7

Thirteen hotel licensees were each fined £2, with 8/ coats by Mr. M. E. Soane, F.M., at Newcastle (Summons Court (yesterday for having waste beer in drip…

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Hotel Licence Transfer

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 May 1940 · page 6

The licence of the Farmers' Hotel, Vacy; was transferred from Peter James Murphy to Joseph Murphy. Mr. W, J. Enright (Messrs. Enright…

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Aliens Must Be Licensed Waterfront Precautions Regulations Announced Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 May 1940 · page 6

The Minister for Defence Coordination (Mr. R. G. Menzies) announced to-day it bad been found necessary to amend Notional Security (General) Regulation…

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