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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1947

239 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 12

Court Says Members Can Drink At Any Hour In Licensed Clubs

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 October 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY: Members have a legal right to drink liquor in licensed clubs at any hour, the State Full Court ruled today when, by a majority verdict, it upheld a test case appeal by a golf…

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Topics of the Day Guns for Publicans

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

AT BELMONT Court yesterday Mr. G. L. Berry, S.M., said it had been his experience that it was a kind of general rule for publicans to apply…

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Wage Rise For Cafe, Hotel Workers

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

Under a new agreement with the U.L.V.A., females would get a weekly increase of 4/2, the Organiser of the Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees'…

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Prosecute 25 Hotel Licensees

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 October 1947 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Police to-day announced their intention of launching prosecutions against 25 country and city hotels for alleged failure to supply…

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Meatless Day For U.S. Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 October 1947 · page 1

NEW YORK, Oct. 7. A.A.P.—President Truman's appeal to the nation to save meat, poultry, eggs and bread, has been supported by the national…

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Rebuilding Cost of 150 Condemned Hotels Set at £3M

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

SYDNEY, Friday.—Orders to be sought for the demolition and rebuilding of more than 150 hotels in New South Wales are estimated to involve more than £3 million…

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Police Seek Orders For Demolition Of District Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 October 1947 · page 2

Orders for the demolition and re-erection, of 12 Newcastle city and district hotels, made as part of a clean-up blitz by police licensing inspectors on the State's 2028 hotels, were before the Licensing Court in Newcastle today…

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Demolition Sought of 12 Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 October 1947 · page 5

Applications for orders for the demolition, remodelling, improvement, or the provision of additional accommodation concerning 39 hotels were made…

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Must License Vehicles Carrying Meat

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 October 1947 · page 5

The Master Butchers' Association, meat carriers and Newcastle Abattoir would be informed that all vehicles used to carry meat must be licensed…

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Permit Issue For "Critical" Hotel Repairs

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

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Minister for Building Materials (Mr. Matthews) said to-night he would defer indefinitely the issue of…

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Blitz On Hotels Which Do Not Serve Meals" First Cases Reach Court

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 20 October 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY: George John Williams, licensee of the Rawson Hotel, Ultimo and George-sts., City, was fineds £5 in the Licensing Court today for failing, without reasonable cause, to provide a meal during the normal meal hours…

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Hotel Licensee Fined £5: Refused Meal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1947 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday.—A hotel licensee was fined £5 in the Licensing Court to-day for failing to provide meals and accommodation…

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Bodies Found In Brisbane Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 October 1947 · page 3

BRISBANE, Monday.—The bodies of a 30-year-old ex-Air Force man and of a stillborn baby were found in city hotel rooms early this morning…

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Arrest In Hotel On Employee's Identification

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 October 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man whom Melbourne police wish to interview was arrested while drinking in a Sydney hotel to-day…

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£1300 Stolen From Sydney Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 October 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Thieves stole £1300 belonging to the licensee, Mr. Albert Aubin, while all occupants were absent from the Observer Hotel,…

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Soldier Punches Police Commissioner In Hotel Brawl And Is Fined £34

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 3 November 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY: An 18-year-old soldier who pleaded guilty to assaulting the Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. J. MacKay) was fined a total of £34 and ordered to pay 15 guineas compensation for offences arising out of a brawl in the lounge of the King's…

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Many Hotels Are Faulted By Licensing Squad

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 November 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY: Continuing their drastic check and clean-up of the State's 2028 hotels, police inspector of the Licensing Squad have completed their inspections of 51 hotels in the western districts…

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Hotels Condemned In West Districts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 6 November 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—About a third of the hotels in western districts visited by the Licensing Squad recently had been condemned, it was announced…

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Non-Drinkers To Probe Hotel Trade Complaint

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 November 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The New South Wales Trades and Labour Council to-night decided to investigate reports that hotels in most Sydney…

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Warning Served On Hotel Strikers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 November 1947 · page 3

LONDON, Nov. 7. A.A.P.—A number of the striking members of the catering workers employed by the Savoy group of London hotels,…

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