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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1950

159 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 8

Child Film Actors May Be Licensed

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 August 1950 · page 3

LONDON, Wed. (A.A.P.). —A licensing system for child film actors in Britain is recommended in a report…

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Damages Awarded Hotel Guest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 August 1950 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A Supreme Court jury to-day awarded £710 damages to a hotel guest injured when a man fell on him…

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Eight Fined For Failure To License Radios

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 September 1950 · page 9

Eight persons were fined a total of £19/10/ by Mr. F P. Halpin, S.M., at Newcastle Court yesterday, for having had unlicensed…

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Hotel Manager Assaulted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 September 1950 · page 2

A man assaulted Harry Brindle, Manager of the Boatrowers' Hotel, Stockton, in the yard of the hotel on Saturday night. Brindle is in the…

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Parents Brawl At Hotel Over Child

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 7 September 1950 · page 2

PARIS, Thurs. (O.S.R.): An American and his English wife traded blows and wrestled for 20 minutes last night in an hotel suite battle for possession of their child…

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Ian Healy's Suburbia, This Week To E Or Not To E On Publicans' Row

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 September 1950 · page 5

To E or not to E? That is the question which people who go to live or holiday in a waterside settlement neighbouring. Toronto must eventually ask themselves. They must decide whether…

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Hobart Shop, Hotel Hours 'Set Pattern'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 September 1950 · page 3

HOBART, Sunday.—The practice in Hobart of closing hotels at 10 p.m. and closing all day Saturday had everything to…

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Community Hotel Licence Granted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 September 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—The State Full Court to-day dismissed an appeal against the granting of a licence for the community hotel…

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£200 Stolen From Lithgow Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1950 · page 3

LITHGOW, Monday.—A sum of £200 was stolen from the Zig Zag Hotel this morning. In the absence of the licensee,…

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Cash 'Switch' Alleged in Hotel Deal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A private hotel proprietor "switched" a deed box containing £8250 for one containing half a brick and two rolls…

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Financial Drive by Hotel Union

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 September 1950 · page 3

Newcastle Hotel, Club and Restaurant Employees' Union had decided to conduct a campaign for 100 per cent,…

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Hotel Bought On "Black," Proprietor Says

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A hotel proprietor told the Quarter Sessions to-day that when he contracted to buy a private hotel for £12,250 in…

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"Scandals" In Some Hotel Transfers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 September 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Some decisions by the Licensing Court on the transfer of hotel licences were public scandals, Rev. C. H…

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Hotelkeeper Not Guilty of Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 September 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—A Quarter Sessions jury found Frederick William Steen, 50, hotelkeeper, not guilty of a charge of having stolen…

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May Lift Hotel Controls

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 October 1950 · page 4

SYDNEY: The question whether remaining restrictions on the building of hotels in N.S.W. should be…

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Community Hotel Suggested For Lake Shire Area

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 October 1950 · page 4

Speaking to the Lake Shire Council last night on the need for tourist development in the district, Councillor Taylor suggested that the most urgent need at the present time was a community hotel to…

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Lake "Best" For Council Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 October 1950 · page 8

Lake Macquarie would be a better site than Newcastle for a community tourist hotel, Cr. H. Taylor told Lake Macquarie Shire…

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Clergymen Visit Kurri Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 October 1950 · page 4

Three Anglican clergymen who visited four hotels at Kurri Kurri yesterday afternoon said licensees and drinkers "welcomed them with…

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Gradings Of Hotels, Guesthouses

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 October 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Chief Secretary (Mr. Evatt) said to-day that on the recommendation of an expert committee he would…

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Fire Destroys £26,000 Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 6

MACKAY, Monday.—The £26,000 Grand Hotel was destroyed by fire early to-day soon after 20 guests and staff of five fled…

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