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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

129 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 7

Communist Leader Ordered From Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 April 1948 · page 4

DUNEDIN, Friday: A Communist Party chairman and three Waterside Workers' Union officials…

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Australian Gets Bird In New York Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, April 30. A.A.P.—The exclusive St. Moritz Hotel in Manhattan has given the Sydney liquor distiller, Mr. Solomon…

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Hotel Picketing Case Makes Legal History

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 5 May 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY: The first prosecution in the history of N.S.W. alleging picketing of an hotel where beer was declared "black" was launched against a man in Redfern Court today. Nicholas Vender Lubbe, 40…

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Made Unauthorised Hotel Repairs

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—A Newcastle hotelkeeper was fined £25 in Central Court to-day for having made repairs to his hotel without the…

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Renew Lease of Central Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 May 1948 · page 3

The renewal of the lease of the Central Hotel to Toohey's Ltd. for three years at a rental of £3640, plus rates and taxes, was…

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Soviet-Licensed Paper Banned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 May 1948 · page 1

BERLIN, May 13. A.A.P. — British authorities have banned the circulation in the British zone of the Soviet-licensed newspaper…

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Ration Beer to All Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 15 May 1948 · page 3

Beer supplies would be rationed to all New South Wales hotels for some time because of the shortage of sugar and other ingredients, the President of the U.L.V.A. (Mr. N. H. Connolly) said in Sydney last…

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Pigeons' Hotel Brood Christening Filmed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 May 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, May 18. A.A.P.—While photographers' flashlights popped, two bewildered squabs were christened "Capricornia" and "Cumberland" to-day in New York's fashionable St. Moritz Hotel…

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Concealed £11,000 In Hotel Purchase

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 May 1948 · page 1

HOBART, Friday—Ronald John Grant Hume, charged with an alleged black market deal, was sentenced to six months'…

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A Community Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 May 1948 · page 2

Although the City Council has decided that the establishment of a community hotel is at present impracticable, the proposal should…

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Rhinos, Chased By Cars, Got Tired In Brief To Use "Pull" To Improve Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 May 1948 · page 4

Two rhinoceroses, a baby elephant and three African hunting dogs arrived today for Taronga Park Zoo by the steamer Palikonda. The rhinoceroses, each of which weighs a ton…

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Hotels Open On Referendum Day

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 25 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY. — Hotels will be open throughout N.S.W. next Saturday, when the Prices Referendum is held…

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Hotels Likely To Open

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 May 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—All New South Wales hotels are expected to be open as usual next Saturday during polling on, the rents and prices…

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A.L.P. Seeks End Of Tied Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 27 May 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY: Abolition of the tied-hotel system will be discussed by the A.L.P. conference, to open in Sydney on June 12. Forty-two resolutions dealing…

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Hotel Proprietor's Appeal Fails

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 June 1948 · page 6

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Former champion boxer, Sydney George Godfrey, licensee of the Horse and Jockey Hotel, Homebush, failed in…

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Fine, Bond for Hotel Picket

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 June 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Nicholas Vander Lubbe, 40, storeman, was fined £5, and ordered to enter a hand to be of good behaviour for…

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Found Dead In Hotel Room

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The body of a man who had been dead for about two days was found by a cleaner in a room at the…

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Revolvers Found In Hotel Foyer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Two revolvers, wrapped in a brown paper parcel, were found to-night in the foyer of the Hotel…

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Man Wounded In Hotel Yard

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 June 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—After a taxi-driver fell wounded in a fight at Liverpool yesterday afternoon, a man evaded a mob which chased…

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A.L.P. Attitude To Hotels On Polling Days

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 3 July 1948 · page 4

Hamilton A.L.P. Electorate Council decided last night not to support the Hamilton A.L.P. branch request that hotels…

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