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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

304 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 16

Summons Division on Licensed Premises

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

For having been found on the premises of the Northern Star Hotel. Hamilton, at an unlawful hour, Harold Ashton, of Lindsay-street, Hamilton, and Kenneth…

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Great Northern Hotel Guests

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 May 1940 · page 2

VISITORS at the Great Northern Hotel this week included:— Mr. R. Mason (Brisbane). Mr. B. Perksky (Brisbane), Dr. and Mrs…

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Found Guilty of Murder Publican Sentenced to Death Shot Woman in Flat Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 18

William Griffiths, 38, hotelkeeper, was found guilty to-day, in the Criminal Court, of the murder of Evelyn Grace Gabell, 46, on February 16. Mr. Justice…

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Raid On Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 6

When police visited the Rawson Hotel, Newcastle, at 8 p.m. on April 26. they found 14 men and six women in the lounge bar on the first floor…

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Found In Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 6

Found in the Hamilton Station Hotel during prohibited hours on May 4. Raymond Ashton Brown, of Swan- street. Hamilton, and Frederick Power,…

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Raymond Terrace Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 18

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

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On Licensed Premises

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 18

Sequel to a visit to the Hotel Rawson, Newcastle, on the night of April 26, by Sergeant G. G. Noble and Constable Rooted, woo the…

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Licensing Act for Potato Growers to Be Introduced in July Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 5

After October I—three months from the commencement of the Polate Growers' Licensing Act—It will be illegal for any person to use more…

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Warning to Wheat Merchants Abuse of Licensing System SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 3

The State Superintendent of the Australian Wheat Board (Mr. G. A. H. Holborow) stated to-day that some merchants who had acted this season as…

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Summons Division Licensee Fined

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

For having been the licenses of the Northern Star Hotel, Hamilton, when a person was found on the premises during prohibited hours Joshun Jenkins was…

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Licensing Court (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.M.) Booth Licences

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 8

Alton Thomas Cusick, licensee of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted three booth licences for each of the Newcastle race meetings on June 6…

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Single Woman Refused Hotel Licence Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 10

An unmarried woman under the New South Wales Liquor. Act cannot obain the transfer of an hotel licence. This judgment was given by the State Full…

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Licensing Court Booth Licences

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 5 June 1940 · page 11

Alton Thomas Cusick, of the Hotel Gosford, Gosford, was granted booth licences for Newcastle races to-morrow, June 17 and June 25…

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£17,000 Hotel at Glen Davis Lithgow

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 14

Permission for the removal of the licence of an hotel at Mount Victoria to premises at Glen Davis was granted by the Licensing Court at Lithgow…

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New Cambridge Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1940 · page 18

Tenders for the construction of the Cambridge Hotel, at the corner of Hunter and Wood Streets, Newcastle West, will close at noon on Monday. Messrs. Pitt…

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Early Hotels As Civic and Social Centres

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 June 1940 · page 4

The Northumberland (writes Mr. W. J. Goold) was perhaps the best-known of all the Maitland inns, and when George Yeomans was the proprietor it was famous throughout the colony. In its long room many important events took place,…

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Stone Through Hotel Window

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 June 1940 · page 10

A fine of £2, with £4/16/ compensation, was imposed on Lancelot White, 30, labourer, for having, at the Maryville Hotel, on June 9, maliciously damaged a…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 June 1940 · page 9

Application by Albert J. Brown, licensee, to make alterations to the Grand Central Hotel, West Maitland, was granted. Brown stated that it was proposed…

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Internees Live in Holiday Hotels (Special Correspondent: Air Mail.) LONDON, May 18

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 5

The authorities are taking no chance with the 3000 Germans and Austrians rounded up in the Eastern and Southern counties this week. Many of them will…

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On Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 6

The following were each lined £1. with 8s costs, for having been found on the licensed premises of the Oriental Hotel at Cook's Hill during…

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