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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1948

129 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 7

No "Permanents" Now in Canberra Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 1

CANBERRA, Monday.—"Permanent residents" of Canberra's four licensed hotels have been transferred to the status of…

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Charges Against Man Following Visit to Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A man who was alleged to have gone to a city hotel at 3 a.m. yesterday, wear a mask and armed with a toy…

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Hobo "Hotel" Under Police Station "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 1

NEW YORK, July 8.—Police were chagrined to fine a hobo jungle sprawled beneath a police station in an ancient building in…

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Licensee's Story "Imagination "

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 29 July 1948 · page 4

SYDNEY: A controversy has started between the Sydney Salvation Army headquarters and 71-year-old city hotel licensee Jack Kay, self-styled Army helper. Jack Kay, of the Goulburn…

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Member's Query On Hotel Caused Stir

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday. — A stif was caused in the Legislative Assembly to-day when Mr. Bate (Lib. Wollondilly) referred to the…

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Probe Hotel Site Resumptions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 August 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A State Cabinet sub-committee is to be appointed to consider housing commission resumptions of sites…

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Dead Man In Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 4

A lodger at a Newcastle hotel found dead man on the third floor soon after 11 o'clock last night…

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110 Ft. Parapet Crashes at Wickham Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1

Thousands of bricks and an awning were torn from the side of the Criterion Hotel, Wickham, last night when a 110ft. parapet crashed 45ft. into a lane only a few minutes before a man and a woman had…

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Injunction On Hotel Scheme

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Francis Grady, licensee of the Lakes and Ocean Hotel, Forster, North Coast, successfully sought an injunction in…

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Not to Resign Over Community Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 August 1948 · page 2

A motion that the Stroud Shire Council resign in a body and go to the electors on the Forster community hotel question was lost on…

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Bookmakers' Clerks to Be Licensed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 August 1948 · page 5

A check of bookmakers' clerks will be made at Newcastle races on Saturday. Mr. Hibberd, N.J.C. Secretary,…

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Better Hotels Wanted

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 30 August 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY: The time has come for a drastic departure from the type of hotel building erected in New South Wales, the Licensing Board says. It believes designs of future hotels should provide for out…

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Seamen In Hotel Incident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 1

Seamen battered in a panel of the front door and smashed the entrance light and some coloured leadlights over the doorway at the…

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New Style In Hotels Advocated

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—A drastic departure from the type of hotel building prevalent in New South Wales, is advocated in the annual…

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EDITORIAL. Licensing Board On The Warpath

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 4

FROM time to time the State licensing laws are criticised, probably with justification, but expert opinion holds that strict enforcement of them as they are would do much to…

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Knife Thrown In Hotel Brawl, Police Allege

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 3

A carving knife thrown during a disturbance outside the Esplanade Hotel last night narrowly missed striking an hotel employee in the face, a detective alleged in Newcastle Court today. Before Mr. Hardwicke, S.M.,…

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Syndicate May Buy Nelson's Bay Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 2

The sale of the Seabreeze Hotel, Nelson's Bay, to a syndicate is expected to be completed within a few days. It is stated that the…

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Six Seamen Fined £180 Over Hotel Fracas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 1 September 1948 · page 3

Six seamen concerned in the disturbance at the Esplanade Hotel, Newcastle, on Monday night, were each fined £30 by Mr. R. A…

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Romano's Hotel Is Declared "Black"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 3 September 1948 · page 4

WAGGA, Fri.: Work on Mr. A. O. Romano's "luxury" Commercial Hotel at Wagga will stop to-night because the Building Workers' Industrial Union has declared the job "black."…

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"Black" Ban Off Luxury Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 4 September 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—A settlement was reached to-day on a dispute which would have held up work on Mr. A. O. Romano's luxury…

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