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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1952

146 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 8

Six Killed In U.S. Hotel Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 26 March 1952 · page 3

LOS ANGELES, March 25. A.A.P.—Six persons are known to have lost their lives in a fire that broke out in the St…

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Victorians Control Big Sydney Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: The Plaza Hotel, Wynyard, biggest liquor distribution centre in N.S.W., is controlled from Victoria, the Liquor Royal Commission was told today. John B. Limerick,…

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Four Die In U.S. Hotel Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 3

SAN FRANCISCO. April 1. A.A.P.—Four persons died and about 12 were injured to-day when fire broke out in a…

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Govt. Aid Needed For New Shepheards Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 2 April 1952 · page 5

CAIRO, Wed. (O.S.R.): Shepheards Hotel, world famous rendezvous for East and West here for over a century and ruined by fire in the Cairo riots in January, will need government aid before it can be rebuilt…

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Blazing Hotel Bed Fatal To Woman

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — Mrs. Olive Youngs, 60, who was found unconscious on a burning bed in a room at the…

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Liquor Royal Commission More Sly Grog Hotels Named

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—More hotels were named in the Liquor Royal Commission to-day as suppliers of blackmarket bottled beer to nightclubs. A former employee said three hotels had supplied the…

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Check On Hotel Transfers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The New South Wales Licences Reduction Board has ordered strict investigation into the…

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Community Hotel for Randwick

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — The Minister for Building Materials (Mr. Dickson) has given Randwick Municipal…

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Blind Man Repulsed By Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday. —A blind man told the Liquor Royal Commission to-day that, when…

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Liquor Commission "Loaded Beer" From Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A witness said to-day he had helped pick up two loads of beer from a Manly hotel. In October he took delivery of 200 dozen bottles of beer through a trapdoor at the hotel…

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A.L.P. Men Allege Victimisation Charge, Denial on Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 2

A protest against refusal by the management of the Swansea Hotel to serve a Swansea A.L.P. branch official will be made to Tooth's Brewery by Lake Macquarie State…

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Permits for 7 New Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Permits to build seven modern hotels in the metropolitan area have been granted by the…

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Man Is Arrested After Hotel Australia Pose

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 30 April 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: A man arrested last night after a police chase in which two shots were fired, was later found to have been living at the Hotel Australia, posing as a wealthy doctor. With another man, also…

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Liquor Commission More Licensed Clubs Urged

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Amendment to the Liquor Act to allow more licensed clubs was urged by the R.S.L. and the Clubs Amenities Association at the Liquor Royal Commission to-day…

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Hotel Waiters End Strike

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 May 1952 · page 2

LONDON, May 4. A.A.P.—Forty waiters and waitresses at the Cumberland Hotel well known to many…

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Thugs Rob Publican

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday.—Three men assaulted the licensee of the Inverness Hotel at Oakland Junction to-night…

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Cardiff Publican Fined Over Beer

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 May 1952 · page 16

Newcastle Court was told today that a four-headed bottling machine was discovered behind locked doors at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, after the licensee had denied bottling beer on…

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Licensing Court

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1952 · page 7

WITHDRAWN.—An application for a permit to sell light wines and malted liquors at the Aleron restaurant, Newcastle,…

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Licensed Men Only To Test

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—From January 1, 1953, only licensed electricians would he permitted to carry out electrical…

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Demand By Wangi For Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 May 1952 · page 6

Wangi Wangi Lake View Progress Association will urge the Minister for Building Materials (Mr. Dickson) to…

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