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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1953

124 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 7

French Baron, Girl Dead In Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 4

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.): A murder and suicide were discovered last night in London's fashionable Ritz Hotel. Police battered down the…

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Direction On Hotel Supervision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1953 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Delaney) has directed senior officers to give proper…

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No Beds For Japanese In Darwin Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 3

DARWIN, Thursday.—Darwin hotelkeepers' refusal to accommodate Japanese pearl divers has necessitated a…

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Loss Of Pet Lizard Upsets Publican

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 March 1953 · page 5

AUCKLAND, Fri.: By Government order, Charles Nicholson, an Otahuhu publican, has had to surrender to Auckland Zoo a pet tuatara lizard which, like the notornis and kiwi…

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Five Die in Hotel Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 March 1953 · page 3

NEW YORK, March 20. A.A.P.—Five persons died and a dozen others were injured in a fire that swept through…

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£60 Stolen From Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 March 1953 · page 2

Thieves took £60 from the till at the West End Hotel, Newcastle West, at the week-end. They forced a parlour…

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Old Hotel To Be Demolished

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 25 March 1953 · page 6

The Hunter River Hotel at years old, is to be demolished East Maitland, stated to be 110 and a new hotel built within…

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Hotel Packed In Rush For Counter Lunch

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: Nearly 500 men rushed the Welcome Inn, Sussex-st, Sydney, at noon today for free counter lunches and a ration of two bottles of beer. The hotel's manager,…

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'Threat' To Hotel Probed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY: The alleged threat of withdrawal of beer supplies by Tooth and Co. to a Sydney hotel…

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£6/13/- Meal at Moscow Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 3

NEW YORK, April 12, A.A.P. — Seven newspaper and radio editors paid super-capitalist prices for Communist comforts during a week in Moscow. It cost them 19 dollars a day…

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Hotel Sold For £80,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 April 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. David Stewart Dawson has bought the Glen Ascham private hotel at Darling Point…

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Publican Doubles Lunch Prices

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Prices of counter lunch sandwiches at the Welcome Inn Hotel, Sussex-street have been…

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3 Stabbed in Brawl at Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday — Three men were stabbed in a hotel brawl at Fairfield last night after a man had accused a…

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Court at Maitland (Before Mr. A. S. McDonald, S.m.) Licensee Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 April 1953 · page 4

Keith Phillip Dagg, licensee of the Victoria Hotel, Hinton, was fined £5 with 12s costs for permitting liquor to be…

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Boxes in Hotels Raise £379

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 29 April 1953 · page 8

Boxes placed on hotel counters for contributions for the Cessnock Spastic Centre during the 12 months have yielded…

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Hotels Closed Next

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 5

SYDNEY.—The U.L.V.A. today received legal advice that hotels must close next Saturday, the day of the…

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Hotels To Shut On

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 May 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.— Hotels will be closed on Saturday— polling day for the Senate elections…

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Publican Leaves £309,096

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 May 1953 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.— John Henry Connell, owner of the Railway Hotel, Melbourne, who died on December 9, aged…

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Hotels Closed On

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 May 1953 · page 2

SYDNEY.—President of the U.L.V.A. (Mr. N. H. Connolly) said today that hotels would be closed on…

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Hotels Close Saturday By Proclamation

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The New South Wales Government will issue a proclamation forbidding hotels to open next…

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