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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1947

239 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 12

"Motels" May Solve Our Hotel Worries

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 January 1947 · page 6

Favorable reports by the N.R.M.A. on the first day of the State's roadside cabin camps is expected to start a new phase of outdoor living along the highways of New South Wales. The day of the Antipodean "motel" is apparently…

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Restaurants, Hotels Not Worried By Meat Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1947 · page 2

THE problem of stretching a meat ration out over a week or more of closed butcher's shops does not appear…

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Police Story Of S.p.Raid On City Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 2

"I have £2000 in this hotel. Do not charge me, Superintendent, or I will do my licence," is what John…

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War-Bride Alleged To "Barber" Big Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1947 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sunday: A gorgeously befurred 23-year-old English war bride was arrested today in fashionable Fifth Avenue and charged with the theft of 25,000 dollars worth of luxury items from "smart" hotels…

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Hotel Licensee On S.P. Betting Charge

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1947 · page 4

John Thomas Gibson, licensee of the Westminster Hotel, Hunter street, appeared before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, S.M., in Newcastle…

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Hotel Hours Vote to Cost £40,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— The liquor referendum on February 15 will cost the State Government £40,000. This will include payment of nearly 10,000…

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Hotels, Cafes Feeling Meat Strike Strain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1947 · page 4

AT the close of the first week of the butchers' dispute, Newcastle hotels, cafes and guest houses are beginning to feel…

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Hotel Licensee Is Fined £20 For S.P. Betting In His Bar

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 3

Convicted at Newcastle Police Court today of a charge of S.P. betting in the hotel bar, John Thomas Gibson, licensee of the Westminster Hotel, Newcastle, was fined £20. Evidence was given at the previous…

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Aid Hotel Hours Campaign

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 January 1947 · page 4

Mr. H. A. Allbright, a member of the South Australian Temperance Alliance staff, who is on loan to the Northern circuit of the New…

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Hotel Licensee Fined £20 For S.P. Betting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 10

John Thomas Gibson, licensee of the Westminster Hotel, Hunter-street, Newcastle, was fined £20 in Newcastle Summons Court yesterday…

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Natives Stone Taxis, Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 January 1947 · page 3

MOMBASA, Jan. 14. A.A.P.—The authorities drafted armed police into Mombasa when striking native labourers stoned taxis and a hotel,…

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Hotel Hours Poll Cost Will Be £40,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 January 1947 · page 5

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The State Government's referendum to decide hotel closing hours in New South Wales on February 15, will cost…

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Hotels to Close on Referendum Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 January 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister of Justice (Mr. Downing) said to-day that the Executive Council would next week issue a…

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Hotel Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 January 1947 · page 12

Sir,—No guarantee has been given by the U.L.V.A. that people voting for 10 o'clock closing will be assured of better drinking facilities…

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What Urban Hotels Of The Future Will Offer

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 January 1947 · page 6

NEW YORK.—What can the traveller expect to find in the urban hotel of the future which will make his stay more comfortable, entertaining and restful ? The annual National Hotel Exposi-…

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Hours Posters Ordered Down in Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 January 1947 · page 2

Following a police order, liquor referendum posters were removed from the interior of a hotel at Maitland yesterday,…

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Hotel Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 January 1947 · page 6

Sir,—To catch votes on the liquor referendum, the breweries have promised modern hotels aid beer gardens—in fact, everything but…

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"Stay-in" Strike at Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 3 February 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Sunday.—When the beer ended at the Palace Hotel, Mortlake, yesterday, four men staged a "stay-in strike" in protest…

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Hotel Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 5

Sir,—I have not seen any agitation from the people to warrant a referendum on hotel hours. If more facilities and more hours are given the…

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Seeks Temperance Hotel For Canberra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1947 · page 6

CANBERRA, Monday. — Queensland temperance organisations are negotiating with the Department of the Interior to erect a large hotel in…

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