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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1946

217 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 11

Cat Gave Alarm Gunman in Hotel Room "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 September 1946 · page 3

SINGAPORE, Sept. 10.—Mrs. Hilda, Blair, of Perth, awards credit to her cat, which she bought in Melbourne, for giving the alarm when a Malay…

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Slippers for Troops at Leave Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 September 1946 · page 3

LONDON, September 10. A.A.P. —British Commonwealth Occupation Force men when they go on leave at four…

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Publicans Provide Radio for School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 September 1946 · page 4

A radio has been installed in Carrington Public School at the expense of local publicans. Following an appeal for funds by…

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Woman Found Stabbed in Hotel; Man Held

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 September 1946 · page 3

STYDNEY, Monday.—With both her hands lacerated with stab wounds, Mrs. Dulcie Isobel Chatten. 21, was taken from the Royal Hotel,…

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Confidence Man Gets Haul in Sydney Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 September 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man who returned on Monday from the Philippines, where he was working for the U.S. authorities, was robbed…

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All Hotels Closed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1946 · page 2

UNDER the Electoral Act, all hotels or other places where liquor is served will be closed to-day…

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Single Woman Granted Hotel Licence

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 October 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY: For the first time in the history of N.S.W., a single woman was today granted a hotel licence…

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Single Woman Gets Hotel Licence

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 October 1946 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Miss Dorothy Moya Hartigan, 38, is the first single woman in New South Wales to be granted a hotel licence…

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Flier Killed in Hotel Gun Fight "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 October 1946 · page 1

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—A former member of General Chenauit's Flying Tigers was killed by a stray bullet and two Filipinos were wounded in a…

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London Hotel Strike Scratch Meals For Wealthy

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 October 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Tuesday: Hundreds of wealthy guests in West End luxury hotels were eating scratch meals today as…

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2000 Workers in Hotel Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 October 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Oct. 9. A.A.P.—It is estimated that 2000 workers are now involved in the strike which began at the Savoy, and has now…

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Luxury Hotel Strike Is Spreading

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 October 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday: The strike in London's many West End hotels has spread now to the Ritz and Park Lane…

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Luxury Hotel Strike May Spread "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 October 1946 · page 1

LONDON, October 10.—Extension of the hotel strike to include key maintenance staffs is likely, according to the strike leaders who are attempting to revolutionaries life in London's luxury hotels…

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Injunction To Restrain Hotel Strike Leaders

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 October 1946 · page 1

LONDON, Oct. 11. A.A.P.—The Savoy Hotel management said it had obtained an injunction to restrain the organiser of the Catering Union (Mr…

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Move to End Luxury Hotel Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 October 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Oct. 13. A.A.P.—The Ministry of Labour announced that a joint meeting of Hotel Employers and Union…

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Hotel Strike Ends In Win For Workers

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 October 1946 · page 6

LONDON, Tuesday: The strike at 20 of London's leading hotels and restaurants has ended in a win for the strikers…

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London Hotel Strike Ended

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 3

LONDON, Oct. 10. A.A.P.—The strike at London's leading hotels has ended, says the Press Association. The representative of the Hotels…

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Hotel Strike Shattered West End Like Atom Bomb: London Laughed Gordon Gilmour's London Diary

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 October 1946 · page 10

LONDON, Wednesday: Mayfair accepted the hotel strike with as much equanimity as if an atom bomb had dropped uninvited on the thick pile of the Carlton Club reading room…

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Judge Upheld Appeal by Licensee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 October 1946 · page 8

Upholding a submission by Mr. J. Braun that a barmaid did not hear the buyer state that he wanted to take the liquor away, Judge Nield, at…

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Hotel Changes Hands

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 22 October 1946 · page 4

The licence of the Gladstone Hotel. Stockton, was transferred from Thomas A. Johnson to Clive Cameron at the Licensing Court, Newcastle…

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