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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1949

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25 p.c. Beer Cut To Some Sydney Hotels To-day

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—The President of the United Licensed Victuallers Association (Mr. N. H. Connolly) to-night confirmed a…

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'Flying Hotel' Due For Big Air Test

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 February 1949 · page 5

Britain's "flying hotel," the 130-ton Brabazon airliner, is due to undergo its first air tests within the next few weeks to decide whether it is the answer to future air travel, or a £12,000,000 white elephant…

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New Standard of Hotel Meals 'Very Ordinary'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 March 1949 · page 2

The minimum standard of meals ordered to be served at licensed hotels appeared to be for very ordinary menus in very ordinary…

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37 Died In Plane Licensed To Carry Two

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Lockheed Hudson plane which crashed at Lae (New Guinea) or April 18 last year, killing 37 people…

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Inclusive Hotel Tariff "A Racket"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 March 1949 · page 3

The Government should investigate the use of inclusive tariff by hotels following its excellent regulations on the serving of meals by…

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Hotel Brawl Arrest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 March 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Late to-day detective arrested a man and charged him with assault occasioning actual bodily harm to James…

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Hotel Licensees Fined For Not Supplying Meals

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: Two Sydney hotelkeepers in the Licensing Court today were fined a total of £40 for having refused to serve meals. Mr. Wells. S.M, said that…

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Licensees Fined; No Meals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Two Sydney hotelkeepers were fined a total of £40 in the Licensing Court today for having refused to serve…

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N.Z. Votes On Hotel, Betting Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 March 1949 · page 1

WELLINGTON, March 9. A.A.P.-Reuter.—New Zealand voted to-day in favour of legalised off-the-course betting, and…

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Shortages "Cut Hotel Building Improvements"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday—The demand for building materials for housing meant little could be done to improve the condition of licensed…

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Premier Likens Asylum Food To Hotel Fare

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 March 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Food supplied in New South Wales mental institutions was probably as good is that at some of the leading…

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Two Shot Dead In Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 March 1949 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Tuesday.—William Hyson, 26, believed to have come from Tamworth, New South Wales, and Sister Beth Ashley, 24, of…

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Nursing Sister And Man Shot Dead In Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 March 1949 · page 1

ADELAIDE: A young man, formerly of N.S.W., and a nursing sister from Unley, were fatally shot in a bedroom of Coombe'g Railway Hotel, Peterborough, yesterday…

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Publican Tells Of Man's Death

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 March 1949 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—After a dispute over two bottles of beer, a customer had knocked a man unconscious to the floor of a hotel…

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Old Hotel Gutted at Byron Bay

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 1

BYRON BAY, Monday.—The Pier Hotel was gutted by fire in 45 minutes this afternoon. The fire started in a rear room…

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Byron Bay Hotel Gutted By Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 March 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY:—The Pier Hotel at Byron Bay was Rutted by fire late yesterday before the fire brigade arrived…

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Hotels Booked Out For Easter In Newcastle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 March 1949 · page 2

Hotels in Newcastle are almost completely booked out for Easter. Only one hotel manager in the city yesterday said he could still offer…

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To Push Publican In Wheelbarrow

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 March 1949 · page 3

MELBOURNE.—To win a £10 bet, Jack Baxter is going to push a 13st 71b. publican 11½ miles in 24 hours…

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Made 1120 Germ Tests in Cafes, Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Health Department officials had taken 1120 swabs from utensils used in city restaurants, milk bars and hotels to…

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Hours Fixed For Hotel Meals

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Prescribed hours to serve meals in hotels in the Metropolitan area were made by an order of the Full Bench at…

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