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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

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

Hotel And Bookmakers' Licences

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 March 1944 · page 4

Action designed to compel hotelkeepers to relinquish bookmaking licences if they wished to continue as publicans was to be…

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Want Hotels Open on Anzac Day

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 1 April 1944 · page 2

Cessnock Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has protested against the Government's order for the closure of hotels on…

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Early Closing of Hotel Bars Minister Asked to Inquire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 2

"I should like to know how much longer the Federal Government is going to allow this Saturday beer racket to continue in Newcastle,"…

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Saturday Closing Of Hotels Is Criticised

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 April 1944 · page 3

Members of the Waratah Electoral Council of the ALP yesterday decided to ask the Minister for Trades and Customs…

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City Hotels Are Booked Out

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1944 · page 2

The demand for accommodation in Newcastle was greater to-day than ever before. Nearly every hotel in the district was booked out and at…

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No Municipal Hotel Council Rejects Plan

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1944 · page 4

A recommendation by tine Finance Committee that the lease of the Central Hotel, Hunter-street, held by Tooheys Ltd., should be renewed for…

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Letters to Editor Municipal Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 April 1944 · page 3

Sir,—The report of the debate on a municipal hotel reveals that both Ald. McGrath and Ald. Scott-Daisley are dissatisfied with the present…

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Hotels and Flats

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 April 1944 · page 3

Sir,—At a meeting of Greater Newcastle Council on April 5 a recommendation was made that £20 a week increase in rent from Tooheys…

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English Publicans Dilute Whisky

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1944 · page 3

LONDON, April 14. A.A.P.—Inspectors of the Middlesex County Council, who in the last three months have been conducting an energetic…

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All Hotels Must Show Price List

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 April 1944 · page 2

CANBERRA, Monday.—An order was published in the Commonwealth Gazette to-night requiring all hotel-keepers to exhibit in their bars a…

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Still Bookmaker-publican

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Full Licensing Bench decided that in future hotel licences would not ordinarily be transferred to licensed…

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Closure of Hotels Condemned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 April 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Closure of hotels to-day forced Diggers who wanted to have a drink with their old comrades into sly grog shops…

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"10 Hotels Provide Full Tariff"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 April 1944 · page 2

At Greater Newcastle Health Committee last night, Ald. Armstrong said there were only 10 out of 14 hotels in Newcastle and suburbs…

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Publican Took the Pledge

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 28 April 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY.—A publican solemnly took the pledge at North Sydney Court to-day. He was Frank Hilton Watson. 48…

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Manpower "Visit" to Hotel Australia

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—Manpower officers are making a check on 100 men and women found in the vestibule and wintergarden sections of…

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Publicans Fined for Closed Bars

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The first prosecutions since the High Court of Australia ruled that the regulations required hotels to keep their bars…

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Less Friendliness at Country Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 2

THE FRIENDLY atmosphere which obtained at country hotels before the war no longer exists. Coldness is shown to…

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Sydney Bookmakers Get Renewals Of 'Hotel Licences

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Three registered AJC bookmakers were granted renewals of hotel licences at the Licensing Court to-day…

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Board And Beds Hard To Get In Country Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 10 May 1944 · page 3

In the Licensing Court to-day Mr. J. Scoble, SM. said the Licencing Board had received a number of complaints from…

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Denifs 16-Year-old Girl Sent to Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 11 May 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The State Director of Manpower. (Mr. Bellemore) said he had no knowledge of a girl of 16 being directed to work…

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