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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1952

146 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 3 of 8

Power Equipment Delays Conde Blames Licensing

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Delay in granting import licences was holding up the delivery from overseas of urgently-needed electricity generating equipment, the Electricity…

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Small Fire In Mayfield Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1952 · page 2

Three brigades attended a small fire in the rear of the first floor of the Hotel Mayfield last night…

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Conditions in Country Hotels 'Bad'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A witness at the Liquor Royal Commission to-day named country hotels which, he claimed, gave unsatisfactory service to the travelling public…

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Liquor Commission N.r.m.a. Ousts 106 Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Liquor Commission was told to-day that the N.R.M.A. had removed from its register 106 New South Wales hotels because their standard had fallen. An N.R.M.A. country inspector, James Robertson, said…

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"No Tender Feelings For Publicans"

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 14 May 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: "I have heard sufficient evidence on the way a Barge number of N.S.W. hotels are conducted to make it quite clear have no tender feelings for publicans," the Liquor Royal Commissioner,…

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Liquor Commission Judge Warns Bad Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr. Justice Max well) said to-day that bad hotels would get no protection from him. "But in the process I don't want to do any injustice…

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Wedding Night "Spoilt" by Mean Room in Sydney Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: A young bride's wedding night was spoilt by the accommodation a leading Sydney residential hotel gave her and her husband, the Liquor Royal Commission was…

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Uniform Hotel Laws Sought

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1952 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Friday.—The Federal Conference of the U.L.V.A. to-day referred to its investigating committee a…

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Publican Fined for Receiving

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 17 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday. — Arthur Eric Kelvy, 53, licensee of the Montgomery Hotel. Union-street, Pyrmont, was fined £10…

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Faked Hotel Books, Witness Admits

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 19 May 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: A leading Sydney hotel identity, Samuel Edward Wallington, admitted to the Liquor Royal Commission today that for years he had been pocketing part of the profits from two hotels and faking his books to deceive the Taxation Department…

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"Lying", Says Judge Tariffs Altered By Hotel Licensee

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: A Watson's Bay publican, William Thompson, admitted to the Liquor Royal Commission today that he had altered tariff rates last nigh, on a schedule he was asked to bring to the Commission today…

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Liquor Royal Commission Hotel Books Falsified

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A hotel manager admitted before the Liquor Royal Commission to-day that under instructions he had falsified the books. The owner admitted having pocketed large sums…

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Sydney Hotel Licences Transferred

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Two hotel licensees and a spirit merchant who recently appeared before the Royal…

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Probe Of Hotel Black Ban

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 May 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY. — The Crown Solicitor (Mr. McRae) had not completed his investigations into the legality of…

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Complaint at Inquiry Keys Missing From Hotel Bedrooms

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 21 May 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: A man has written to the Liquor Royal Commission asking that publicans he compelled to provide safeguards for guests to enable them to sleep peacefully at night without fear of being molested or having their property stolen…

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Hotel Man Quizzed On Police Officer

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 22 May 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY: City publican Julius Myerson told the Liquor Royal Commission today that he had never felt indebted or under any obligation to former Metropolitan Licensing Inspector Francis Thomas Nunan…

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Liquor Commission Publicans "Main Subscribers"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thursday.—A retired licensing inspector said to-day that publicans had been the main subscribers to a £1000 testimonial to him at a send-off. The retired inspector, Francis Thomas Nunan, was…

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Publicans's Wife Alleges Intruder Punched Her

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 3

The wife of a Newcastle publican told a Newcastle Quarter Sessions jury today that she was punched on the head by one of two men she caught in the liquor storeroom of her husband's hotel. The woman, Giselda…

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Hotel Thefts At Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 3

Maitland police are investigating thefts from the Hunter River and Bank Hotels at East Maitland…

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Tooth's May Police Its Own Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY: As a result of disclosures before the Liquor Royal Commission, Tooth and Co. is considering policing its hotels and will probably appoint its own inspectors, although it does not want to usurp police functions…

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