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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1951

165 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 9

Publicans Want Beer Increases

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY.—Unless beer prices were increased soon, Sydney's dwindling supplies were likely to be driven deeper into…

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Mr. Dovey Counsel At Hotel Inquiry

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 26 July 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Mr. W. R. Dovey, K.C., has been appointed counsel to assist the Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Maxwell) in…

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Woman Bashed In Hotel: Big Theft

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 August 1951 · page 2

ADELAIDE: Police now believe the woman who was bashed and locked in a city hotel wardrobe on Thursday night may have been robbed of as much as £5000…

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Seaman "Ran Away From Hotel"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 August 1951 · page 1

A seaman who was to have completed the crew for the Iron King had not been located since he ran away from a city hotel on Friday…

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Waratah Hotel Sold for £50,000

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 August 1951 · page 2

The Royal Hotel at Waratah and an adjoining building were sold by auction today for £50,000. The hotel, which is…

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Black Ban Threat On Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 August 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Members of the Liquor Trades Employees' Union will declare most hotels in North Sydney area black unless…

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Millionaire Hotelkeeper Dies At 86

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 August 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—Mr. James Richardson, well-known Melbourne hotelkeeper, died to-day. He was 86…

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Red Paint On Doors Of Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 August 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY: The doors of the Regent's Park Hotel, Regent's Park, which has been declared "black" by…

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Hotel Magnate Left £1 Million Estate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 17 August 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Mr. James Richardson, hotel magnate, who died oil Sunday, left an estate of £1 million…

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Drank With Dead Man In Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 August 1951 · page 2

Customers at a South Melbourne hotel drank with a dead man for at least four hours on Monday without knowing it…

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Rating Falls 30ft. From Hotel; Dies

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 August 1951 · page 3

TOWNSVILLE, Friday.—R.A.N. Lending Stoker John Kevin Elliott fell 30 feet to his death from the top floor of Buchanan's Hotel this…

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Mr. McKell Confined To Hotel Room "Herald" Service

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 28 August 1951 · page 3

LONDON, Aug. 27.—The Governor-General of Australia (Mr. McKell), who has been ill through overstrain since his arrival in…

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Returned To Burning Hotel For Slippers

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 August 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY.—A woman being rescued from an hotel fire early today climbed back up a firemen's ladder to get her…

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Man Killed In Fall From Hotel Balcony

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 1

WAGGA, Sunday.—A 23-year-old Norwegian was killed and another man was critically injured when they fell 20 feet from a hotel…

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'Gradual Decrease' In Publicans' Licences (Continued from Page One)

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 2

The number of publicans' licences in N.S.W. had gradually decreased since 1922, John Malcolm Kelly, secretary of the Licences Reduction Board, told the commissioner. In 1920, he said, the…

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Brewery Owns 628 Hotels, Leases 85, Inquiry Told

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 10 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY.—Tooth and Co. Ltd. holds the freehold of 628 hotels, leases 85 others and is interested as mortgagee in an additional 610…

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Thug Bashes, Robs Woman In Big Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday.—A woman was brutaily punched and robbed in the Australia Hotel, Castlereagh-street, to-night…

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1003 Hotels in "Tie" by Tooth's

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—One thousand and three hotels in New South Wales were tied in some way or another to Tooth and Company Ltd., the Royal Commission into the liquor…

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Hotels Sometimes Sold At Fictitious Prices (Continued from Page One)

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 12 September 1951 · page 2

Hotels were sometimes sold at fictitious figures, a hotel broker told the Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Maxwell). The broker, Robert Arlington Steele of Martin Place,…

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Royal Commission on Liquor Publicans "Soon Saw Error of Their Ways"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 13 September 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Publicans who broke the "tie" had soon seen the error of their ways, a witness told the Royal Commission on Liquor to-day. They had seen this when in junctions were taken against them…

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