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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1950

159 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 7 of 8

Honeymoon Couple Jump From Second Storey in Hotel Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY: A honeymoon couple jumped from the second storey of the blazing Ritz Private Hotel at Yamba (North Coast) when trapped by smoke and flames at 4 a.m. today…

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New Hotel for Jesmond Sought

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 October 1950 · page 8

The Full Bench of the Licensing Court yesterday began hearing an application by Claude Miller Edwards, licensee of the National…

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192 residents object To Hotel At Jesmond

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 October 1950 · page 3

A petition signed by 192 people objected to the erection of a £50,000 hotel at Jesmond, Mr. J. Braun, barrister, told Newcastle Licencing Court today. The petitions came from an…

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200 Protest Against New Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 October 1950 · page 12

About 200 Jesmond residents objected to a proposed hotel at the corner of Newcastle and Bluegum Roads, Jesmond, Percy A. Clement…

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Licence For New Hotel Asked

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 October 1950 · page 12

Alexander Jones, licensee of the Holmesville Hotel, applied to the Full Bench of the Licensing Court yesterday, for the transfer of his…

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New Jesmond Hotel 'Could Serve 5000'

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 October 1950 · page 3

A new hotel at Jesmond could serve at least 5000 people and possibly more when development plans were realised, the County Council Town Planner, Mr. F. G. D. Stone, told Newcastle Licensing…

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Jesmond Hotel Case Adjourned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 October 1950 · page 12

The hearing of an application to transfer the licence of the National Hotel, Wallsend, to a hotel to be built at Jesmond was…

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3 Hotels "Could Serve Wallsend"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 October 1950 · page 14

Wallsend licensees told the Full Bench of the Licensing Court yesterday that if two hotels were transferred from Wallsend that three…

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Briton Condemns Hotel Conditions

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 October 1950 · page 3

Drinking conditions in Australian hotels were so bad that he had practically given up drinking beer altogether, an Englishman told the Newcastle Licensing Court today…

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Hotel Conditions Appal Newcomer

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 October 1950 · page 7

Newcomers were appalled by Australian drinking conditions and the absence of first-class hotels, a recent arrival from England said in the Licensing Court yesterday…

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People Evacuated From Cowra Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 21 October 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY: Cowra police late last night evacuated 32 people from the Great Western Private Hotel minutes before water swirled into the rooms. Water in the flooded Lach-…

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Hotelkeepers, Doctors Asked To Aid Appeal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 October 1950 · page 4

A request for donations to the United Nations' Appeal for Children from doctors and hotel licenses was made last night by the…

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Second Bus Stop At Hotel Sought

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 October 1950 · page 6

The Road Transport Department will be asked by Newcastle City Council to provide another bus atop at Merewether Hotel…

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Rumanian Traders Are Licensed

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 28 October 1950 · page 6

BUCHAREST, Sat (S.S.): Since October 1 all private trading in Rumania has been done under Government licence. This is the result of a queer situation…

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Committee Urges Community Hotel

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

Erection of a community hotel at Dixon Park will be sought by Newcastle Tourist Advisory Committee. The committee decided last…

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Money, Spirits Stolen From Largs Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 2 November 1950 · page 4

Breaking into the Exchange Hotel, Largs, by means of the footpath door to the cellar, thieves last night stole about…

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Robbery at Largs Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 5

Thieves entered the Exchange Hotel at Largs on Wednesday night by forcing the footpath cover over the entrance to the cellar…

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Moves For Parnell Place Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 November 1950 · page 4

Newcastle City Council had already approved a proposal to erect a community hotel at Parnell Place when sufficient land was obtained,…

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Hotelkeepers 'Indignant' At Criticism

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 10 November 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY: A storm of protest is growing in Bathurst over Mr. Justice Dwyer's criticism of the city, its hotels and its hotelkeepers as the hotelkeepers' side of the story is being made public…

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17 Killed in Hotel Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 November 1950 · page 1

LEDUC (Alberta). Nov. 12. A.A.P.—Seven persons were killed, 16 injured and two are missing, following an explosion yesterday,…

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