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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

193 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 10

Found Unconscious in Hotel Room

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 September 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Karlis Sarzants, 52, a Latvian member of the United States Transport Service, was found unconscious in a room…

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Hotel Offence Proved Information Was Dismissed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 23 September 1944 · page 4

In the part-heard case against Joseph Abrahams, occupier of the George Hotel, Newcastle, charged with having failed to keep the…

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Sold £600 Fur Coat for £10 in Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 September 1944 · page 5

SYDNEY: A stolen brown ermine coat, valued at £600 and insured for £300 bad been sold in a hotel for £10, Judge Markell was told in the Quarter Sessions today, Francis Arthur Brown, 26, who pleaded guilty to the theft of the…

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Strikes Again Charged with Hotel Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 29 September 1944 · page 4

MELBOURNE.—On the charge of having murdered George Binns at Horsham on September 19. Donald McClean. 36, of Wilson Street,…

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A.L.P. Branch Hits at Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1944 · page 2

Association of liquor interests with the A.L.P. was criticised by several speakers at last night's meeting of the Georgetown-Waratah, branch of…

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Publicans Are Putting the Boot in

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 30 September 1944 · page 4

Beer rationing had been described by one hotelkeeper as the greatest thing that had ever happened for the publicans…

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Made Bets in Hotel Passage

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 October 1944 · page 3

When Sergeant H. Larkin arrested Leo Patrick Gardiner, 34, laborer, on Saturday for betting in the passageway of the Marquis of Lorne…

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Longer Hotel Hours Early Move After War Ends

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 October 1944 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Representations for an extension of hotel trading hours in New South Wales will be made to the State Government…

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U.l.v.a. to Plan New Hotel Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 October 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY Wednesday—A Federal committee of the U.L.V.A. has been set up to investigate a general change in drinking hours after the war. The…

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Promised to Keep Away From Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 October 1944 · page 3

On her giving an undertaking to keep away from the hotel altogether in future, George Garlick, licensee of the Grand Hotel, Newcastle,…

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Change in Hotel Hours Is Unlikely

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 October 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Early action to amend the liquor laws to improve drinking hours is unlikely. The State Cabinet is likely to examine the question soon, but it is improbable that any…

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Preferred Hotel to Hospital

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 October 1944 · page 5

Assaulted in the cells at Newcastle Police Station, where he was locked up for being drunk earlier in the week, John Smythe, 63, invoked much…

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Bagdad's Hotel Conjure Up Weird Dream Of Peace

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 October 1944 · page 8

CALCUTTA.—Bagdad is the only city I remember, this side of 1940, in which it is possible to experience anew the gratification of being able to choose hotels, and to choose rooms in them. That is something to remember a place by when, all the way…

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Licensees Unable to Obey Food Order

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 October 1944 · page 3

GOSFORD, Friday.—Five hotelkeepers told by the Licensing Magistrate (Mr. J. Beavers, P.M.) to improve accommodation services to the…

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The New Castle Sun Stop Press Famous Hotel Figure Dead in London

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 12 October 1944 · page 16

LONDON, Wed. (AAP).—One of the best-known figures in the social life of London has passed from the world scene with the death of…

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Publican Fined £35 for Tax Breaches

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 October 1944 · page 6

Fines and costs totalling £38/8/ were imposed by Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., at Newcastle Summons Court on Michael Tobin, proprietor…

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Saturday Beer Problem Hotelkeepers, Trades Hall Confer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 October 1944 · page 2

More careful allocation of beer by hotelkeepers was advocated at a meeting of the U.L.V.A. yesterday by Trades Hall Council…

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Nurses Had To Take Rooms At Hotel When They Were Sick

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 27 October 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE.—When nurses at the Repatriation Hospital, Coulfied, contracted measles they were told to leave the hospital and as they could not get hospital accommodation they rooms at a city hotel, pulled down the blinds, treated…

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"S.p. Betting Practically Eliminated From Hotels"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 October 1944 · page 8

Starting price betting has been practically eliminated from all hotels and wine saloons in the Newcastle district, according to the quarterly report of Licensing Inspector (Police Inspector T. Hill). "All hotels," he adds, "are now I…

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Robot Smashes Hotel

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

LONDON, Oct. 31. A.A.P.—Flying bombs demolished, a hotel in southern England early to-day. At least five, possibly seven, guests…

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