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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1950

159 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 8

Guilty of Theft From Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 June 1950 · page 4

Douglas Thompson, 26, labourer, was found guilty in Newcastle Quarter Sessions yesterday on a charge of having broken into the Bellevue…

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Basher Uses Iron Spike On Man In Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 June 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Police are searching for a man who struck another man twice on the head with an iron spike in the Hotel…

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Publican's Damages

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 13 June 1950 · page 3

LONDON: William George Nobes, licensee of the Town Hall Tavern, Bond Street. Coventry, whose arm was said…

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Open Finding On Hotel Death Fall

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 June 1950 · page 2

The acting City Coroner (Mr. A. R. Raschke, S.M.) today returned an open finding on the death of a woman who fell 40ft. from a Newcastle hotel window…

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Hotel Wrecked by Blast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 June 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—An explosion wrecked the three-storied Town Hall Hotel and damaged 18 other buildings in the heart of the city this afternoon…

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Coal Gas May Have Caused Hotel Blast

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 June 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE: Experts said today that either a strong leakage of coal gas, ignited by a small flame, or a heavy charge of high explosive caused the explosion which rocked the heart of the city yesterday…

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Voting Will Not Affect Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Hotels would not close next Saturday in areas where voting in the State elections would occur, the Minister of…

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High Explosive May Have Wrecked Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Experts are investigating a theory that a big charge of high explosive and not gas caused yesterday's mystery…

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Smallgoods Shops Must Be Licensed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 June 1950 · page 3

The Chief Health Inspector (Mr. J. C. Meddows) said today that an amendment to the Local Government Ordinances…

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Hotel Passed In At £70,700

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Max Hotel, Moree, one of the most modern hotels in the north-west, was passed in at 70,700. at…

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Police Seeking Four Men On Hotel Blast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Police are seeking at least four men for questioning about the explosion which wreeked the Town Hall…

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English League Team's Threat To Leave Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 12

TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday.—The English Rugby League team to-day threatened to walk out of a hotel because it considered the…

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Hotel Owner At A Loss In Feeding English R.L. Team

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 June 1950 · page 16

TOWNSVILLE. (O.S.R.): Proprietor of the hotel at which the English Rugby League footballers are staying told me today he would make nothing out of them…

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Rain Damage To Hotel Set At £1709

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1950 · page 2

Repair of rain damage to the Central Hotel was estimated at £1709, the Town Clerk (Mr. Burges) said yesterday…

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Hotels Seen As "Appendages"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 22 June 1950 · page 9

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Australian hotels were generally little better than poor appendages to the bar trade, Mr. W. J. Allison, of Melbourne, said at the annual conference of the Associated Chambers…

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Modern Tourist Hotel Sought For Newcastle

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 June 1950 · page 15

Newcastle Council will be asked to consider building and controlling a modern hotel designed to attract and meet the requirements of tourists in this disrict…

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Hotel Licensees Must Police Premises Says S.M.

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 3

Whether he was on the premises or not, it was still the licensee's duty to ensure that liquor was not served…

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50 Years Licensee

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 23 June 1950 · page 2

LONDON: William Ashford, Who claims to be the only London licensee to have completed 50 years in one house—The…

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Man Injured At Wrecked Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 June 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—E: C. Tedner, chief of the Explosives Department, was injured by falling masonry when part of the wrecked…

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Thieves Drank Rum As They Rifled Hotel Safe

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY: Thieves broke into Hurlstone Park Hotel during the night, robbed the safe and poured themselves drinks in the bar, while the hotel occupants slept undisturbed. The safebreakers stole more…

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