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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1943

129 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 7

Alderman Would Close All Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 May 1943 · page 2

Commenting on a request from Mascot Municipal Council for cooperation in urging the Federal Government to nationalise the…

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Police Promise Clergy Action Against Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 6 May 1943 · page 2

"Special attention" to certain individual hotels complained of by Newcastle Clergymen's Committee has been promised by Newcastle police following a deputation to the Superintendent of the North-eastern Police District (Mr. A…

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Hotelkeeper Solves Labor Shortage

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 May 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY.—A city hotelkeeper who lost all his male staff to manpower, has had his problem solved by certain old and faithful…

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Raids on Victorian Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 May 1943 · page 2

MELBOURNE—Manpower officers and police questioned 540 men found in four hotels in the Footscray-Maribrnong area on…

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Tips Mean Big Money in London's Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 21 May 1943 · page 1

LONDON. Thurs.—The head cloakroom attendant at a big London hotel received £140 a week, asserted Lord Hemingford…

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Bar Doors Closed, Licensee Charged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 May 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Magistrate at Parramatta Court reserved his decision when a hotelkeeper was charged with not having kept open…

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Compared with Best Hotels Union Secretary on C.C.C. Meals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 29 May 1943 · page 2

Preparation and serving of meals in a Northern C.C.C. camp he had visited with other union officials was comparable with that at any…

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Inspectors to Watch Hotels A.L.P. Council Wish

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 May 1943 · page 2

A force of inspectors under joint Commonwealth and State control to watch hotels in Sydney and Newcastle for price racketeering and…

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Voluntary Inspectors for Hotels Mayor Favors

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 31 May 1943 · page 2

The Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. Dunkley) favors an ALP suggestion that inspectors be appointed to…

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Alp Defence of Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 June 1943 · page 4

Many people who had criticised Newcastle hotels for alleged breaches of the law had "talked through their hats," Mr. T…

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Murder Charge Follows Hotel Brawl

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 June 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY. — "The issue in this com is not whether the shot fired by the accused caused death but whether he had reasonable…

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Gunman Holds Up Hotel Manager

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1943 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. F. Black, Manager of the Exchange Hotel, Bridge-street, City, was held up by a gunman in his office early to-night…

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Mother Must Not Live at Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 June 1943 · page 2

SYDNEY —At the Licensing Court to-day a hotelkeeper was granted a renewal of his licence on condition that his mother did…

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Five Licensees Fined

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 June 1943 · page 3

GOSFORD, Friday.—Blaming employees who, they alleged, had for-gotten to carry out the work, five hotelkeepers were fined at the Gosford…

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Bruisers Who Retired To Keep Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 June 1943 · page 4

Once upon a time it was the ambition, and, in a lot of cases, the custom, for boxers at the close of their, careers to become "mine host" of a hotel. They put their hard-earned…

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Drama Behind Two Hotel Register Entries

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 26 June 1943 · page 3

PERTH.—Behind two entries in the register of a Perth hotel lies a pathetic story of a thwarted reunion between a British Army official and his French wife and baby. These are the entries:…

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Licensing Court

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 July 1943 · page 2

The following applications for transfers of hotel licences were granted:— Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle, from John Philip Trim to Elsie Grace Gibson…

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Small Fire in Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1943 · page 2

Cook's Hill and Newcastle East Fire Brigades were called to the Westminster Hotel yesterday. There was a small fire in a bedroom…

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Officer Cleared At Same Hotel as A.W.A.S.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 July 1943 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Captain Vivien Norman Lionel Walker, of the Ninth Divison. A.I.F., was found not guilty by a general court…

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Bellemore Announces Hotel Keepers' Call-up

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 July 1943 · page 3

Newcastle hotel keepers in Classes 1, 2 and 3 are being called up for military service. Tills was stated to-day by the…

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