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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1942

195 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 10

Sport, Hotel Ban on Anzac Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Amending National Security Regulations, gazetted to-day, ensure that Anzae Day throughout the Commonwealth…

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Price Inspectors Watch Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 2

SYDNEY: Inspectors of the Price Commissioner are on the watch for some hotelkeepers who, encouraged by the beer shortage…

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Plan to Cut Hotel Hours Abandoned

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 April 1942 · page 3

MELBOURNE: As a result of discussions at the Premiers' Conference to-day the Commonwealth proposal that…

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Hotel Closing Hours Labour Council to Get Union Views

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The New South Wales Trades and Labour Council decided to-night to defer consideration of hotel closing hours…

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Hotels Closed To-morrow

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 April 1942 · page 3

Hotels. with two non-trading days ahead. are regarding the coming week with confidence so far as beer supplies are…

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50,000 Bricks from Old Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1942 · page 3

The delicensed Prince Alfred Hotel, in Derby-street, now almost demolished, has yielded over 50,000 bricks in an excellent state of…

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Fourth Fatal Fall at Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 April 1942 · page 8

The Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) referred to a number of fatalities at the Commercial Hotel, Newcastle, at an inquest yesterday at Newcastle…

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Workers Want Hotel Hours Changed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 April 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Claiming that the existing hotel laws prevented war workers from obtaining liquor after they ceased work and that the…

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Man Fatally Burned in Hotel Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 April 1942 · page 4

GRAFTON, Monday.—A man was fatally burned, but two other persons escaped uninjured from a blazing hotel at Jerseyville, on the Macleay…

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No Govt: Order For Hotels To Open After 6 p.m

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 April 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY: "No instruction has been issued by the Department of Justice or myself, permitting hotels to be opened until 9.30 p.m…

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Man's Death in Hotel Room

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 April 1942 · page 2

A man was found dead in a room at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Carrington, this morning. Papers he carried bore the name of…

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Tasmanian Hotel Hours Cut to 10

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 April 1942 · page 1

HOBART, Wednesday.—Stating that the Cabinet had decided that a drastic reduction of hotel hours was not warranted in Tasmania, the…

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Hotel Canberra Ban Against Soldiers Lifted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 30 April 1942 · page 6

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The ban placed on N.C.O.'s and privates at the Hotel Canberra had been lifted, said an Army spokesman…

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Axis Diplomats Quarrel At Swanky Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 May 1942 · page 1

NEW YORK, Thurs. (Our Special Representative).—Axis diplomats staying with their families in the world's swankiest…

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Licensing Court Licence Replaced

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 May 1942 · page 4

Mrs. Bridget Maud Whitford, licenses of the Prince of Wales hotel, Merewether, was granted a duplicate licence by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, SM. in…

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Racing, Hotel Hours Left to Premiers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 May 1942 · page 3

CANBERRA, Monday.—The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) made it clear to-day that the control, prohibition, or restriction of racing, hotel hours,…

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Hotel Licensee Robbed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 4

Apparently gaining entry through a side window which opens on to the hotel verandah outside, thieves entered the…

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Publican Must Sell Beer or Close Bar

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 May 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—If a hotelkeeper had any beer on his premises he must sell it, the President of the U.L.V.A. (Mr. Connelly) said…

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Hotels To Open, Beer Or Not

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 May 1942 · page 1

"The policy of the Newcastle and Northern branch of the ULVA is to keep hotels open during normal trading hours whether they…

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"Soldier-struck Girls" at Hotels Deplored

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 18 May 1942 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Sunday.—Hundreds of soldier-struck girls regularly hang round hotels near closing time waiting for men in uniform, according…

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