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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1950

159 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 8

Giant Luxury Hotel To Be Built At Clifton Gardens

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 17 April 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: A giant luxury hotel, to cost nearly £1,000,000, will be built at Clifton Gardens to attract American tourists, Sydney businessman Mr. J. Herbert announced today. Mr. Herbert is managing…

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No Materials Permit For £1 Million Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 19 April 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY: A permit will not be issued for building materials for the proposed luxury hotel at Clifton Gardens, the Minister for Building Materials (Mr. Dickson) said today…

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No Permit For Clifton Gardens Luxury Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 April 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Minister for building materials (Mr. Dickson) said to-day that a permit for building materials would not be…

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Improvements To Hotel At Greta

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 21 April 1950 · page 5

Improvements to Tattersall's Hotel, Greta, were ordered by the Licensing Magistrate (Mr. J. B. Scobie) at a sitting of the Court at…

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Hotel Sale Papers To Be Tabled

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 April 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Minister for the Interior (Mr. McBride) agreed in the House of Representatives to-day to table in the library papers relating to the sale by auction of the…

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Man Fined £20 For Betting In Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1950 · page 6

Laurence Mounter, 32, boilermaker was fined £20 by Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday for having made…

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Missing Baby Found In Hotel Storeroom

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Tues. (A.A.P.): Police today found in a hotel storeroom a tiny, prematurely-born negro baby girl who disappeared from a hospital incubator room on March 30 when nine days old…

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American Plan To Build Hotels Abroad

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 3

NEW YORK, Fri. (O.S.R.): If Australia wants luxury hotels to attract American tourists, Intercontinental Hotels Corporation can arrange it. The corporation, a subsidiary [?]…

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Hotel Liable for Car As Driver Dines

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 5

LONDON: The Appeal Court recently held that the owners of a car which was left outside the Friary Hotel, Derby,…

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Man Defrauded Scottish Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 2 May 1950 · page 2

LONDON.—Charles Douglas Conyers Lang, 30-year-old extreasurer of Devonshire Federation of Labor Parties, used a…

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Staff Walks Out As Hotel Diners Wait

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 5 May 1950 · page 1

About 100 guests were sitting down to dinner at the Great Northern Hotel last night when members of the kitchen and dining room staff walked out. Three executive staff members,…

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No Breakfast To-day: Hotel Strike Still On

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 4

Despite negotiations throughout the day, the strike, which has caused the dining room at the Great Northern Hotel to close, was…

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Hotel Staff Resumes

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 2

Members of the Great Northern Hotel's kitchen and dining-room staff who went on strike last Thursday as a protest against the…

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Hotel Licence for Hospital

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 May 1950 · page 8

LONDON.—St. Thomas's Hospital recently took over the licence. of the Royal Kensington Hotel, Kensington…

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Criterion Hotel Sold For £62,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 16 May 1950 · page 1

The freehold of the Criterion Hotel, Newcastle, has sold to a country hotelkeeper for £62,000. This information was given by Mr. J. F. Meyrick, of Casula,…

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£30,000 Sought To Resume Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 May 1950 · page 4

The Treasury would be asked for £30,000 to meet the resumption cost of the Beach Hotel property, the State Hospitals…

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Fall To Death From City Hotel Window

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 26 May 1950 · page 1

Mrs. Elizabeth Ladd, 51, a maid at the Shortland Hotel, Scott-street, City, was killed last night when she fell about 40 feet…

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Big Hotel For Newcastle An "Essential"

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 26 May 1950 · page 3

The construction of a 700 or 800 bedroom hotel was essential to cater not only for the tourist trade, but for the needs of ordinary visitors to Newcastle, Lord Mayor, (Alderman Quinlan) said today…

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Man Injured Outside Hotel: Police Inquire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 May 1950 · page 3

Newcastle police are inquiring about an elderly man who was found unconscious outside the Criterion Hotel, Wickham, on…

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Alleged Theft From Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 May 1950 · page 7

Douglas Thompson, labourer, of Newcastle, was charged before Judge O'Sullivan and a jury at Newcastle Quarter Sessions…

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