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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1951

165 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 9

Family Of 5 Trapped In Hotel Blaze

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 2

LONDON: Five people were rescued when they were trapped in the blazing Invicta Hotel, Godinton Rd., Ashford,…

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Hotel Intruder, Shot By Licensee, Dies

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE: An intruder was shot by a hotel licensee at Newmarket early today, as he was trying to escape from the hotel bar. He was rushed to Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he died…

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Ian Healy's Suburbia, This Week A Streetcar Named Royal Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 5

The buses seemed full of tourists, people with cameras slung round their necks, who asked the conductors: "How much to Lake Macquarie?" and sometimes, naively: "Will you tell us where to get out?"…

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Old Singleton Hotel To Be Demolished

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1951 · page 3

SINGLETON, Friday—The 100-year-old Federal Hotel, in Bourke-street, is being demolished. The first licensee was William…

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Australian Hotels "Good, Comfortable"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 3

NEW YORK, Jan. 7. A.A.P.—Australian hotels were good, ranging from adequate to comfortable, American concert pianist Gyorgy Sandor, said in an article in the "New York Times."…

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Police Search For Missing Hotel Safe

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Police have not yet recovered a safe containing about £150 which was stolen from the Tatler Hotel,…

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Luxury Hotel Planned For King's Cross

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—A proposal to build a £200,000 luxury hotel at Springfield-avenue, King's Cross, was made to the Licensing Court…

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Publicans' Ire Roused By Error

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A departmental error has brought the wrath of many Victorian hotelkeepers on the State Government…

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English, U.S. Hotels "As Bad As Ours"

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 5

MELBOURNE Hotel accommodation was just as bad in England and the U.S as it was in Australia, Mr. Geoffrey…

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£300 Theft At Hotel Reported

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 3

Newcastle police are investigating the reported theft of about £300 from the Minmi Hotel last night…

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Council Moves Against Hotel; Insult Alleged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 7

LITHGOW, Tuesday.—Lithgow City Council has asked the hotel licensing authorities to take action against a hotel for having allegedly…

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£300 Theft From Minmi Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 2

Detectives Dunipace and McPherson yesterday investigated a report that about £300 had been stolen from an upstairs room at the Minmi…

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Man Falls From Hotel Balcony

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 19 January 1951 · page 2

Frederick Farrant, 55, of Viggers-road, Werribee, Victoria, fractured his right thigh and suffered bruises to his left ankle, face and…

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Chef Dismissed; Sydney Hotel Declared Black

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Hotel, Club, Restaurant and Caterers' Employees' Union has declared black the Grand Central Hotel,…

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Sorcery And Rape Charge Against Hotel Manager

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 27 January 1951 · page 2

PARIS, Sat. (A.A.P.-Reuter): An international arrest warrant for and sorcery has been issued against a 60-year-old hotel manager. He is Leopold Wartel, manager of the Hotel Cosmopolite at Beau Soleil, in south-eastern France…

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Sea Erosion Threatens Homes, Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday.—After the worst battering in the South Coast's history erosion is threatening at least eight Southport homes with…

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Honeymoon Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 29 January 1951 · page 5

KYRENIA (Cyprus).—When I Lady Mary Cambridge, the King's cousin, and her bridegroom. Mr. Peter Whitley,…

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Wangi Protest On Hotel Building Delay

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1951 · page 4

A public meeting will be held in Wangi Hall on February 11 to protest against the delay in building a hotel in the district…

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Health Officers Make Drip-tray Raids On Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 February 1951 · page 1

Seventeen hotels were raided yesterday by Newcastle City Council health inspectors to inspect drip-trays, the Chief Health Inspector…

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Hotel Equity Suit

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. Justice Sugarman heard an equity suit to-day arising from a dispute on the terms of a mortgage of the Union…

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