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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1950

159 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 8

Tourist Hotel On Tropic Isle

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 5

Guests relax in the grounds of the new luxury tourist hotel which was opened this week on Hayman Island, off the…

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Hotels Picketed In Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 July 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE.—Drinkers are picketing Richmond and Footscray hotels which are charging an extra Id a nobbier for gin…

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Punter Found Hanged In London Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 1

LONDON, July 11. A.A.P.—John James Rowan, 82, an Australian professional punter, who once lost £100,000 in six weeks, was found…

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Advice To Publicans On Public Bars

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 3

LONDON.—The chairman of the licensing justices (Lieutenant-Colonel A. E. Redfern) said at Richmond that publicans…

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Transmitters Must Be Licensed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 2

CANBERRA, Sunday.—The Postmaster-General (Mr. Anthony) has issued a warning against the installation or use of unlicensed…

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Eviction Case Against Hotel Licensee

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 2

Newcastle Building and investment Co. Ltd. is seeking to eict Goodman Joel Pyke, Criterion Hotel licensee, from 10…

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Eviction Of Licensee From Rooms Sought

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 19 July 1950 · page 12

The eviction of Goodman Joel Pyke, licensee of the Criterion Hotel, Newcastle, from 10 sample rooms, off Bolton-street and…

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Namatjira Lunches At Exclusive Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 20 July 1950 · page 4

DARWIN, Wednesday.—Albert Namatjira, famous aboriginal painter, to-day made history in the colour-conscious Northern Ternitory by being the first full-blooded aboriginal to dine at the exclusive…

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Hotel Sold for £47,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 22 July 1950 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—The Royal Hotel. Bundanoon, was sold at auction for £47,000 in Sydney to-day to an undisclosed buyer…

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Ruth Khama Ejected From Hotel "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1950 · page 1

LONDON, July 24.—Mrs. Ruth Khama, British wife of Seretse Khama, chief-designate of the Bamangwato tribe of…

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Wind, Rain Dooms £35,000 Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 25 July 1950 · page 1

GRAFTON, Monday.—The Hotel Pacific, which overlooks the beach at Yamba, will be demolished…

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Police Find Escapee Under Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 28 July 1950 · page 1

COOLANGATTA, Thursday.—A police sergeant crawled under a Tweed Heads hotel to-day to recapture a man who had escaped…

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£125,000 Hotel for Nurses

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 11

LONDON.—The Spa Hotel here, which has 130 bedrooms and a ballroom for 200 dancers, has been bought by the…

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More Hotels Urged For Tourists

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 2

The first necessity to attract tourists to Newcastle was adequate and attractive accommodation the Secretary of Newcastle Chamber of…

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Modern hotel rises in mid Australia

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 20

THIS MODERN HOTEL (above) is rising at Alice Springs, as its licensee, Lycurgus John Underdown (right)…

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Hotel Suggested For Memorial

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 August 1950 · page 2

A large community hotel in Parnell Place would be the ideal memorial to mark the Jubilee Anniversary of the Commonwealth the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) said yesterday…

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Hotel Sues Gas Co. Over Blast

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 August 1950 · page 2

MELBOURNE: Claiming unspecified damages, Town Hall Hotel (Melbourne) Pty. Ltd. today took out a Supreme Court…

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Question Raised Of Licensing Migrant Doctors

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 August 1950 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—The Commonwealth Government had raised with the British Medical Association the question of granting…

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Frau Goebbels's First Husband Dies In Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 August 1950 · page 5

LONDON, Sun. (O.S.R.).—Fritz Quandt, 55-year-old German engineer, and first husband of Frau Goebbels, who arrived a week ago from Australia was found dead in his Bloomsbury hotel room with a phial…

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Newcastle Court Before Mr. R. A. Hardwicke, S.m. Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 August 1950 · page 10

APPLICATION GRANTED.—An application by Benjamin Morgan. Secretary of Lake Macquarie Yacht Club, to make alterations to the club's…

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