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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1946

217 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 11

Coupons for Hotel Meals

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 May 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY.—Hotels would have no difficulty in providing full meals if they asked guests for their coupons, the Deputy-Director of Rationing…

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German Liner Suggested As Luxury Hotel "Herald" Service from London

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 May 1946 · page 3

Plans to buy the 40,000-ton German liner Europa anti convert her into a luxury hotel and social centre for Plymouth, one of Britain's worst…

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Magistrate Tells Woman To Keep Out Of Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 13 May 1946 · page 3

Imposing a sentence of one year's gaol on a 25-year-old woman in Newcastle Police Court this afternoon the Magistrate,…

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Death Leap by Blonde From Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 15 May 1946 · page 2

NEW YORK, Tuesday: Dolores Lila Chavez, 24, pretty blonde night club photographer, plunged to death from the ninth…

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R.S.L. Against Closed Hotels On Anzac Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The State executive of the Returned Soldiers' League to-night rejected an appeal from the Women's Christian…

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Magistrate Marks Hotel Licence

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 May 1946 · page 2

Commenting that when men were found standing at the bar drinking during prohibited hours it was impossible not to give a…

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Conviction of Publican "Escape" Section Refused

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 May 1946 · page 7

Mr. T. A. Doolan, S.M., in the Wallsend Summons Court yesterday, refused to extend to an erring hotelkeeper the advantage of the "escape"…

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Court Seeks Hotel Quota "Man Had 194 Bottles of Beer"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 4

Directing that evidence be obtained of the consignments of bottled beer to the Town Hall Hotel. Wanatah, during the period, the Magistrate…

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Hotel Licence Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 May 1946 · page 3

The application for the transfer of the Terminus Hotel. Wallsend. from Cecil Charles Drinkwater to Thomas Turner was granted at the…

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Holiday Pay for Hotel Workers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 5

The Northern Organiser of the Hotel and Restaurant Union (Mr. J. Wilson) said yesterday that employers and employees were…

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No Extra Coupons for Hotel Meals

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 May 1946 · page 6

SYDNEY: No additional food coupons would be made available to hotels to enable them to provide meals for the general public as well as bona fide travellers, said the Deputy Director of Rationing (Mr. Ford)…

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Was in Hotel to Steal, Crown Alleges

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 May 1946 · page 3

An allegation that accused was one of three men disturbed in the act of interfering with a safe containing £400 in the Lass o' Gowrie…

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Men Found In Hotel On Good

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 29 May 1946 · page 2

After some delay in gaining admittance to the Commercial Hotel, Scott Street. Newcastle, on Good Friday morning, April 19. Sergeant…

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Seamen Fined for Being in Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 June 1946 · page 5

Three seamen on Friday night pushed through the door of the Great Northern Hotel and demanded a drink. They refused to go and police…

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Hotels Change Hands

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 June 1946 · page 4

The licence of the Northumberland Hotel, Lambton, was transferred from William H. Cowcher to Percival Ludington, at the Newcastle…

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52 Perish in Chicago Hotel Fire Panic-Stricken Guests Jump To Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 1

CHICAGO, June 5. A.A.P.—The worst hotel fire in the history of Chicago occurred early this morning. The death roll, not yet known exactly, is placed at 52 persons. Hundreds of others were injured…

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£3432 Rent for Central Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 2

Five tenders for a two-year lease of the Central Hotel, Hunter-street, were received by Greater Newcastle Council last night. The present rental…

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Fire Tragedy Hotel Had Only Two Fire Escapes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 3

CHICAGO, June 6. A.A.P.—The 22-story La Salle Hotel, in which 58 people lost their lives yesterday when a fire swept through it, had only two fire escapes, both on one side of the hotel, says the New York "Herald-Tribune." The…

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Varnish Led to Hotel Fire Deaths

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 June 1946 · page 1

CHICAGO, June 7. A.A.P.—The belief that varnish and lacquers on wood panelling contributed most to the smoke that suffocated many of…

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Another Big Hotel Fire in U.S. 15 Dead: More Bodies Believed In Wreckage

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, June 9. A.A.P.—At least 15 persons lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the six-story Canfield Hotel at Dubuque (lowa) It was the second disastrous hotel fire in…

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