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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1947

239 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 12

Three Hotel Fires in U.s

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, March 10 A.A.P.— Fires damaged three hotels in various parts of the United States yesterday. Three men died in a fire which…

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Other Hotel Staffs Join Savoy Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 1

LONDON, March 17. A.A.P.—One hundred employees of Simpson's Restaurant, in the Strand, which the Savoy Hotel group owns, struck…

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Hotelkeeper's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 7

The licensee of the Rutherford Hotel. West Maitland. John Campbell Berry, 46, was found dead at his home yesterday morning. He…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 12

The licence of the Travellers' Rest Hotel, Hexham, was transferred from Henry Brittliff to Donald Roy Smith, at Newcastle Licensing Court today…

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London Hotel Strike To Be Continued

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 6

LONDON, Monday: The 1150 London hotel workers, who are on strike, decided at a meeting against the advice of a union leader to…

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London Hotel Strike Spreads

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 3

LONDON, March 18. A.A.P.—The strike of staffs of the Savoy group of hotels has spread to Claridge's, where a number of members of the…

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Ley Gave Widow Debentures In Sydney Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday: Thomas John Ley, a former N.S.W. Minister of Justice, had bought her debentures in a Sydney hotel and another company, a widow said in the Old Bailey today…

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"Not Enough Hotel Space at Lake"

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 22 March 1947 · page 3

Boolaroo-Speers Point A.L.P. considers that hotel accommodation in the Lake Macquarie district is inadequate…

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London Hotel Strike Settled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 3

LONDON, March 23. A.A.P.—After further talks the strikers returned to work at the Savoy group of hotels, including the Berkeley…

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Soviet-Licensed Berlin Paper Libels Churchill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 3

BERLIN, March 24. A.A.P.— The British authorities have asked Colonel Tulpanov, Chief of the Russian Press Department in Berlin, to take…

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Hotels Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 3

The licence of the Ocean View Hotel. Dudley, was transferred from Alfred Percival S. Warmoll to John Truscott Harvie at the Licensing…

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Half Day for Hotels on Anzac Day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Hotels and wine saloons would not be permitted to open before midday on Anzac Day, Friday, April 25, said the Minister…

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Three Big Sydney Hotels to Be Prosecuted for Service Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY: Three leading Sydney hotels—The Australia, Carlton and Ushers—would be prosecuted, the State Prices Commissioner (Mr. Herlihy) said today, for adding a "service" charge of 1 /6 to luncheon and dinner…

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Warns Public Not To Pay Hotel Service Charges

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—"Members of the public who pay a service charge for meals, or who pay more than the fixed austerity prices, will…

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Hotels' Social Cricket

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 31 March 1947 · page 12

Jim Dean scored 103 not out playing tor the Shortland Hotel against an Esplanade Hotel team in a social cricket match at Swansea Oval yesterday…

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Newcastle Police Court (Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd S.m.) in Hotel After Hours

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 April 1947 · page 16

Entering the Terminus Hotel on March 1 at 9.55 p.m., Sergeant Downie saw a man in the hallway with a bottle of wine in his possession. He said he had purchased…

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Kurri Police Court (Before Mr. H. L. Sargeson, P.m.) on Licensed Premises

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 April 1947 · page 2

Leslie Herbert Merles pleaded guilty to a charge of having been found on the licensed premises of Chelmsford Hotel, Kurri. during prohibited hours on…

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Would Like To Police Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 2

The strictest attention should be said to seeing that hotels provided accommodation for tourists and the travelling public, Mr. C. G…

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Tourists Burn Down Hotel To Get Murderer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1947 · page 3

MILAN, April 16. A.A.P.—The Italian News Agency, Ansa, says that Italian tourists burned down a hotel near Merano, in which a…

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Grade Hotels, Guest Houses On Service Given

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 April 1947 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A drive to improve the standard of hotel and guesthouse accommodation throughout New South Wales…

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