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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1951

165 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 9

Big Loss In Kosciusko Hotel Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Fire destroyed the £250,000 Hotel Kosciusko at dawn to-day. Flames from the wooden…

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New Hotel Site at Kosousko

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY.—Tourist Bureau officers will visit Kosciusko next week to recommend a new site to replace Hotel Kosciusko,…

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Canberra Hotel Safe Stolen

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 April 1951 · page 3

CANBERRA.—A large safe containing £500 in notes was stolen from the Hotel Ainslie last night…

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Thieves Take Safe From Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 April 1951 · page 3

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Thieves stole a safe containing £450 from the Hotel Ainslie early to-day. Extensive alterations are being…

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£3m. Hotel Plan

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 May 1951 · page 6

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.)— U.S. hotel "king," Conrad Hilton, said on arrival at London Airport yesterday he planned…

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M.l.a. Attacks Big Brewerty Gain in Hotel Licence Moves

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 May 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: Under the present system of removal of hotel licences, brewery monopolists were getting a big financial gain, Mr. J. G. Geraghty, independent M.L.A. for North Sydney, said today…

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Hospital Moves To Resume Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 May 1951 · page 2

Royal Newcastle Hospital Board will ask the Hospitals Commission to press for the resumption of the Beach Hotel and adjacent…

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Some Cafes, Hotels Increase Charge For Using Telephone

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 May 1951 · page 3

The public has become so conditioned to rising prices for almost every kind of service and goods that it accepts them now with little comment—but the growing practice of some hotel and cafe proprietors of increasing telephone charges from 3d. to 4d. has acted as a mild irritant…

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Liberal Plan On Hotels 'Inadequate'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 May 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Mr. Lands (Lab., Bendi) said to-night that he agreed with some of the Liberal Party's liquor reforms, but they…

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Woman's Death After Party In Hotel Room

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 May 1951 · page 3

TAREE.—Jan Algie (20), of Taree, whose dying depositions were taken by police in Manning District Hospital on…

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Hotel Position "Unchanged"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 2 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. — The hotel position had not improved since 1949, the Police Commissioner (Mr. Scott) said in his annual report…

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A.C.T. Hotel, Hostel 'Wet' For Jubilee

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 June 1951 · page 3

CANBERRA, Friday.—The Commonwealth to-day gazetted a special regulation to permit the sale of liquor at two Government…

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Woman Hotel Licensee Battered To Death

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

WOILONGONG: Brutally battered about the head and face and with a pillow slip twisted around the neck, the body of wealthy hotel licensee, Mrs. Lucy Barrows (53), was found in her bedroom at the Oxford Hotel, Crown-st., Wollongong, today…

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Opposition Move On Tied Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Vernon Treatt) will move in the Legislative Assembly to-morrow for a Royal…

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Treatt Urges Inquiry Into Hotel Ownership and Tied-houses

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: The appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into hotel ownership of breweries and the tied-house system was urged by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Treatt) in the Legislative Assembly today…

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Soccer Players Leave Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 1

HOBART, Tuesday.—The English Soccer players walked out of the hotel where Hobart officials had booked them and moved in to…

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Licensee Left When Stall Rent Raised

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 6

After the Newcastle City Council increased the rental of a bookstall in Beaumont-street, Hamilton, from 1/ to £2 a week, the licensee…

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Bloodstained Bed Linen and Scarf Found in Grass Vital Clues In Hotel Murder

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 1

WOLLONGONG: A bloodstained sheet and pillow-slip, taken from the bed in the Oxford Hotel, Crown-st., Wollongong, on which the licensee, Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, 53,…

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Mr. Chifley Dies of Heart Attack Failed Quickly After Hotel Room Seizure

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—The Leader of Federal Opposition (Mr. Chifley) died in an ambulance at 10.30 to-night on his way to hospital after a heart attack. He had suffered the attack in his room at the…

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Three Men Arrested In Hotel Murder Case

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 1

WOLLONGONG: Two young men, both New Australians, who were arrested in a Sydney club yesterday, were charged at a special court in Wollongong today with the murder of wealthy hotel licensee, Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, 53, last Monday…

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