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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

260 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 13

Woman Drops To Death From Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 October 1954 · page 1

NEW YORK, Oct. 4. A.A.P.—A 66-year-old woman leaped to her death early to-day from a seventh-story…

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2 Million Swiss Hotel Bookings

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 21

BERNE: Switzerland's tourist industry had a record month in June with a total of two million…

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Improvements To Central Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 8

It will be many months before Newcastle Council's architect can pre pare plans for proposed…

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Publican Warned By Magistrate

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 October 1954 · page 4

A publican who has held licences of six hotels over the past four years was warned by Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M., in Maitland Licensing Court today that if his subsequent…

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Blacksmiths Hotel Hearing Oct. 28

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY: A move to build a modern tourist hotel at Blacksmiths will be contested by 30 local residents at the Newcastle Land Board hearings on Thursday week…

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Action Plea On Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 October 1954 · page 6

Newcastle Chamber of Commerce decided yesterday to ask Newcastle City Council to act to improve the standard and amount of hotel accommodation…

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Hotel 63 Years In One Family

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 3

When the licence of the Commercial Hotel at Morpeth was transferred at Maitland Licensing Court today, Sgt. E. V, Cahill said the records indicated that the hotel had been…

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Referendum Day Hotel Closing

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 18 October 1954 · page 8

SYDNEY: The Minister of Justice (Mr. R. R. Downing) announced last night that hotels, clubs and wine…

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Hotel Guests Escape Fire

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 19 October 1954 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Monday.— Fourteen people fled in their night attire when fire broke out in a hotel at the…

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Change In Licensing Suggested

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 20 October 1954 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Hotels that did not provide proper accomodation for the travelling public were…

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New Hotel for U.s. Soldiers

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 12

FRANKFURT. West Germany. — Rhine - Main air base here is to build a four - storey hotel for…

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Hotelmen Wait Suez Boom

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 17

CAIRO, Thurs. (O.S.R.): Egyptian hotel-owners and managers hope to cash-in on a new era expected to follow conclusion of the Anglo-Egyptian Suez treaty…

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German "Hotel For Babies"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 22 October 1954 · page 3

A "hotel for babies" is doing good business at Badgodesberg, a quiet spa near the West German capital of…

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Broken Glass Attack In Hotel: Man Is Gaoled

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 October 1954 · page 4

A 22-year-old laborer who jabbed a broken glass into another man's face at a Boolaroo hotel was sent to gaol for two and a half years in the Newcastle Quarter Sessions today. Judge Amsberg told the…

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Inquiry Agents To Be Licensed

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 14

SYDNEY.—State Cabinet yesterday approved legislation to license private inquiry agents. The Premier…

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Luxury Hotel Planned

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 25

BRISBANE: A Victorian company has bought one-and-a-half acres at Surfers' Paradise for about…

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T.l. Fines Seeks Hotel Site

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 9

An application for a special lease of Crown land at Blacksmiths for a hotel site was made to the Land Board in Newcastle yesterday…

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Blacksmiths Hotel Site Decision

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 3

The Land Board chairman (Mr. D. K. Bowler) announced in Newcastle today that the board would recommend to the Minister for Lands the granting of a special lease in perpetuity for the erection of a hotel on a site at Blacksmiths…

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Board Favours Site for Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 October 1954 · page 7

The granting of a perpetual lease of Crown land at Blacksmiths for use as the site of a hotel was recommended by the Land Board in Newcastle yesterday…

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Chamber Dissatisfied On Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 October 1954 · page 2

Newcastle Chamber of Commerce will again ask Newcastle City Council to give high priority to the work…

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