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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1953

124 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 7

Hotel Hours "Unimportant"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 September 1953 · page 7

PERTH, Tuesday.—The question of hotel hours of trading was unimportant compared with other problems, Mr. Justice Maxwell said to-day…

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Drunkenness Blamed On Hotel Hours

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1953 · page 7

SYDNEY, Monday. — The solution to drunkenness in New South Wales was to extend drinking hours, Mr. John…

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All Bakers to Be Licensed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 29 September 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday. — Bread manufacturers and bakers are to be licensed in New South Wales. A Bread Industry Advisory…

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May Enter Hotels On Business Only

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 October 1953 · page 4

A postman and a lorry driver who had been placed on recognisances not to drink or enter premises selling alcohol, told Judge Amsberg in the Quarter Sessions Appeals Court at…

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Warning on Hotel Meals

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 12 October 1953 · page 2

A warning that action would be taken against hotels failing to supply meals and accommodation…

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Standard Of Hotels Attacked

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 15 October 1953 · page 9

CANBERRA: Australia's generally poor hotel standards were having a disastrous effect on tourist…

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State's Hotels "Below Par" Says N.R.M.A Report

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 October 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY: The standard and adequacy of N.S.W. hotel facilities generally remain far below requirements, and liquor breaches are still reported by members, states the N.R.M.A. annual report…

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Hotels Warned On Juveniles

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 23 October 1953 · page 8

Concern at the number of youths who, when charged in the Children's Court, said they had been drinking, was…

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. R: A. Harwicke, S.m.) Found in Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 26 October 1953 · page 4

Francis Charles Smith (27), laborer, was fined £5 for having been found in the Newcastle Hotel without lawful purpose on…

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Hotel Splea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1953 · page 2

Actually I don't really want a room, just a nice long passage. I always a walk in my sleep…

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Hotel's 5000 p.c. Profit

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 November 1953 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sun. (A.A.P).—Speculators who bought Waldorf-Astoria Hotel debentures at rock-bottom price in the late 1930's will make a 5000 per cent, profit when the issue is offered for redemption…

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Yugoslav Stabbed In Hotel Brawl

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 November 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A Yugoslav was stabbed in the leg during a brawl at a Fairfield hotel yesterday…

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£250,000 To Be Spent On Sydney Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1953 · page 9

SYDNEY, Monday.—Owners of the Plaza Hotel, George-street, City, were ordered to-day to make alterations to the…

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Luxury Hotel For Cairo Planned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 November 1953 · page 7

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. A.A.P.—Mr. Conrad Hilton, multi-millionaire hotel owner said yesterday he would build…

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Newcastle Hotel Blaze Left Drinkers Cold

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1953 · page 1

A fire on the roof of the George Hotel, Scott-street, yesterday attracted three fire engines and hundreds of people. But it didn't move drinkers in the hotel's bars. Most of the drinkers, many…

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Dead at Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 November 1953 · page 2

Claude William Fuller, also known as Alfred William Merriman, 60, of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, Carrington, a…

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Publican in Fatal Fall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A publican was killed when he fell from the roof of the baths at Coogee to-day…

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Hotel Stay-in Husband's Bid On Children

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 November 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sunday.—A husband who is trying to evict his wife from his private hotel at Darling Point said…

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Hotel Sale

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 25 November 1953 · page 18

GILGANDRA: The Hotel Imperial was auctioned this week for £26,000…

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Shortland Hotel Brings £40,000

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 November 1953 · page 2

The Shortland Hotel, at the corner of Market and Scott Streets, City, was sold at auction yesterday for £40,000…

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