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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1953

124 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 7

"Sun" Letter Box Hotel Hours

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 1 July 1953 · page 8

"Sensible" says extension of evening hours for liquor bars would prevent the "swill." But greedy…

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Hotel Opening "Not Approved"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 3 July 1953 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Commissioner of Police (Mr. Delaney) said to-day that Ben Bernard, licensee of the Royal…

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Hotel Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1953 · page 6

About £100 in cash and a quantity of cigarettes were stolen from the bar of the Golden Fleece Hotel, Scone,…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. U. A Hardwicke, S.m.) Licensee Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 July 1953 · page 14

John Clover Williams, licence of the Criterion Hotel, Carrington, was fined £5 with 12s costs on a charge of having…

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Hotel Passed In At £80,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 8 July 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Bidders failed to reach the reserve price when the freehold of the Criterion Hotel, Newcastle…

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No Lunch, No Jury; Publican To Rescue

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 9 July 1953 · page 3

Selection of a jury at Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday was held up till a member of the panel agreed to arrange for the midday meal…

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Three Levee Banks Licensed

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 22

Only three levee banks in the city were licensed, the Town Clerk (Mr. S. J. Dunkley) told Maitland…

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News From The Film Capitals Film Stars In Big Demand For Stage, Hotel Shows

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 18

With producers in a close huddle over 3-D and other new screen developments designed to please the movie-going public, the film colony's actors and actresses are hitting the road…

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Publicans Want Raffles Stopped

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 July 1953 · page 8

SYDNEY: Organised groups of men conducting illegal raffles in hotels were making handsome profits each week, hotel proprietors claimed today…

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Hotelkeeper Wins Queen's Bisley Prize

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 20 July 1953 · page 3

LONDON, July 19. A.A.P. —Major Norman McCaw, proprietor of a Portsmouth hotel, won the Queen's Prize…

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Licensing Court (Before Mr. T. H. See, S.m.) Golf Club Alterations

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 26

The magistrate granted an application by John Murphy, on behalf of Waratah Golf Club, Cockle Creek, for permission to…

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Woman Tells Men How To Run Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 5

LONDON: A woman in a red velvet hat and a fur coat talked about "a deplorable" dinner and dance that cost the customers a guinea each…

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Hotel Hours Move In Victoria

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Monday. — The U.L.V.A. of Victoria has sent letters to all members of the Victorian Parliament…

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Hotel Transfer

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 7

The licence of the Carrington Hotel, High St., Mattland, was transferred in Maitland Licensing…

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Licensee's Appeal Dismissed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 9

At Newcastle Appeals Court yesterday, Judge Prior dismissed an appeal by Goodman Joel Pyke, licensee of the…

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£345 Theft From Hotel Safe

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 24 August 1953 · page 2

The theft of £345/10/ in notes from a locked safe in the office of the Belmore Hotel, High-street. Maitland,…

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Money Missing From Locked Hotel Safe

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 24 August 1953 · page 3

No trace has yet been found of £345 10s which disappeared from a locked safe at the Belmore Hotel,…

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Ice-Cream Vendors May Be Licensed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 1 September 1953 · page 8

SYDNEY.—The Health Department is acting on a Newcastle City Council proposal for the licensing of…

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3 Tenders For Chalet, Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 September 1953 · page 10

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Three tenders have been received for the leasing of the Chalet and the building and running of…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. H. A. Hardwicke, S.m.) Licensee Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 September 1953 · page 14

Eric Roy Callaghan, licensee of the Shortland Hotel, Newcastle, was fined £ 10 with Via costs niter pleading guilty to…

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