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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1947

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

Move To Improve Hotels Suspended

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 4 December 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Licensing Court's drive to compel hotel keepers to modernise their premises has been suspended at the request of…

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No Extra Beer for Christmas, Publicans Fear

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 9 December 1947 · page 10

SYDNEY: Hotelkeepers said today there appeared little hope of getting increased beer quotas before Christmas…

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Probe Into Country Hotel Charges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 15 December 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Prices Branch inspectors would investigate charges that some country hotels were overcharging travellers, a spokesman for…

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Residential Hotel Employees Seek Wage Increase

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 December 1947 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday.—Sydney residential hotel employees, at a mass meeting to-day, directed their union officials to take any action necessary…

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Few Permits Yet For Hotel Repairs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1947 · page 2

Before business began at a sitting of the Licensing Court at West Maitland yesterday, the Magistrate (Mr. V. H. Wells) said that in the four…

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No Referendum On Forster Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 December 1947 · page 2

On the casting vote of the President (Cr. C. Wilson), Stroud Shire Council rejected a motion seeking a referendum on the proposed community hotel at…

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Hotels, Cafes To Face Court On Liquor Charges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 December 1947 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday.—More than 50 city hotels and restaurants will be prosecuted early next year for alleged overcharging for practically all types…

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Thousands Coming To Newcastle; Hotels Booked Out

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 19 December 1947 · page 3

Thousands of country and interstate visitors will intend their holidays in Newcastle this Christmas, and most hotels and guest houses as far south as Lake Macquarie are booked out until the end of January…

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Prices Blitz on Hotels to Continue

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 December 1947 · page 12

SYDNEY.—Prices inspectors are continuing: their blitz on liquor prices in hotels and are still finding overcharges, the Deputy…

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Publican On Charge Of Firing Pistol With Murder Intent

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 22 December 1947 · page 2

SYDNEY: The story of a Bankstown publican's intervention between his married daughter and a married man was told in Campsie Court today when the publican, Robert Theodore Galvin, 44, was charged with shooting at William Keith…

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George Hotel Licence Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 December 1947 · page 10

Police offered no objection at the Newcastle Licensing Court yesterday when Victor Abraham applied for the licence of the George Hotel, Scott and…

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Re-zone Areas For Works, Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 24 December 1947 · page 2

Greater Newcastle Works Committee agreed to allow John C. Bridge and Co. to extend their factory in Fitzroy-street, Mayfield, by the…

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Hotel Burnt Down At Jerry's Plains

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 2

The Post Office Hotel at Jerry's Plains, about 17 miles from Singleton, was destroyed by fire about 3 a.m. yesterday…

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Letters to Editor Forster Community Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 4

Sir.—A news item ("N.M.H.," 18/12/47) says Mr. Stone said a valid petition had not been lodged asking for a poll on the proposed Forster…

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Not Much Beer Today in Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 December 1947 · page 3

Beer drinkers had to adjust themselves to the available sources of supply today as a number of hotels didn't serve…

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Sydney Hotel Robbery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 December 1947 · page 1

Early this morning police were searching for two men who stole £40 from a man named Maria, who had a room on the third floor of the…

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Hotel Murder; Woman's Body In Trunk

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — The body of a woman, battered almost beyond recognition, was found in a large trunk in a room at the Hotel Burlington, at the corner of Hay and Sussex Streets, this afternoon…

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Hotelkeepers Hope For Cool Weather

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 December 1947 · page 2

Hotelkeepers hope for cooler weather to offset the beer shortage, said the President of Newcastle U.L.V.A. (Mr. P. J. Ryan)…

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Patronise Only "Union" Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 31 December 1947 · page 2

Trade unionists in Newcastle in the new year would be asked to patronise only "union hotels," the secretary of the Hotel. Club and Restaurant…

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