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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1951

165 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 9

"Tied" Hotel Verdict For Brewery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—An application for an order that Tooth and Company Ltd. should discharge a mortgage over the Union…

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Cosh Attack on Publican

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 9

LONDON: Mr. Arthur Bloomfield, licensee of the Duke of Suffolk public-house, Ellerman St., Limehouse. London E., was…

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£140,000 Hotel: Belmont Plan

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 3

Plans for a new luxury hotel on Pacific Highway, Belmont, to cost £140,000 were before the Full Bench of the Licensing Court at Newcastle today The two-storied hotel would…

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New Hotel Licence For Belmont

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 4

Transfer of the licence of the Northumberland Hotel, West Wallsend, to modern premises to be built at Pacific Highway, Belmont, was…

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Later Hotel Hours "Not Justified"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—No Government would he justified in going behind the backs of the people and extending the trading hours for…

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Hotelmen Against Shop Sales

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—Hotel-keepers would oppose a move by grocers for an amendment to the Liquor Act to permit them to sell…

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U.S. Visitor Scathing On Sydney's Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Friday.—Two Sydney hotels were the best of a bad lot, but even they were below standard in service and general…

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A.L.P. Body Condemns Tied Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 24 February 1951 · page 4

Kurri Kurri A.L.P. Electorate Council decided last night to ask the Parliamentary Party to licence more clubs and to abolish the tied…

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Hotel Hours Motion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Methodist conference to-day carried a motion opposing alteration of the closing hours of hotels from 6 p.m…

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Appeal to High Court in Hotel Mortgage Case

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Monday.—An appeal has been lodged in the High Court against Mr. Justice Sugerman's decision refusing discharge of a…

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Longer Hotel Hours Asked for A.C.T.

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

CANBERRA, Monday.—The A.C.T. Advisory Council decided to-day to support a move to liberalise hotel drinking hours in…

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Hotelkeeper Shuddered As Busmen Met

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 1

The meeting was one of the longest—4½ hours—and noisiest held by the union for years. The progress of the meeting,…

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Man Burnt To Death In Hotel Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 March 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A charred body was found early to-day in the burnt out ruins of a wing of the Parkview Hotel, Gunnedah…

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Petty's Hotel Licence Goes To Fairfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 March 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Transfer of Petty's Hotel licence to a hotel to be built at Fairfield was granted by the Full Licensing Bench to-day…

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Talk Of "Protection" For 18 N.Z. Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 March 1951 · page 5

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wed. (A.A.P.): Under the heading "Flat beer here" a list of 18 Wellington hotels has been circulated among trade unionists by striking waterside workers. Licensees would not say…

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Part Rebuilding Of Hotels To Be Permitted

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1951 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Because of the high cost of building, the Licence Reduction Board will consider part reconstructions where full…

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Exports Of Rubber To Be Licensed

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 April 1951 · page 2

SINGAPORE, Mon. (A.A.P.- Reuter).—Licences will be necessary to export rubber to certain countries from Malaya and…

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Licence Of Hotel Transferred

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 10 April 1951 · page 6

The transfer of the licence of the Criterion Hotel, Islington, from T. P. O'Neill was granted today to John Patrick Maloney,…

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Kosciusko Hotel Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 April 1951 · page 1

The Hotel Kosciusko which was destroyed by fire at 4.30 today. Guests left in their night attire and stood in drizzling rain while flames swept through the building. No one was injured…

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Hotel Gutted At Kosciusko

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 April 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY: The wooden, two-storey Hotel Kosciusko was gutted in a spectacular blaze which swept through the building at 4.30 a.m. today. Eighty-eight guests and 80…

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