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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

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

Employees Oppose Broken Shifts Hotel Overlap Shifts Sought

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 December 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday. — The Federated Liquor Trades Union will ask for a new award, with two overlapping shifts, when 10 p.m. closing is introduced…

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Missing Publican's Car Recovered From Yarra

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 8 December 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE.—Police and "frogmen" today located in thick mud on the river, bed a sedan car in which a publican is believed to have plunged into the Yarra yesterday. It is feared that the…

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Hotel Razed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 December 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday. — Guest fled in their night attire when fire swept through the Princess of Wales Hotel at…

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1st Innings Win For Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 13 December 1954 · page 3

Commercial Hotel (Branxton) cricketers beat a Royal Hotel (Cook's Hill) eleven by 38 runs on the first innings at…

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Hotel Licensees To Be Prosecuted

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 December 1954 · page 12

SYDNEY: More than 15 city and suburban hotel licensees are to be prosecuted for 40 breaches of…

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£20 Fine For Publican

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 December 1954 · page 7

SYDNEY, Monday. — Mr. Bliss, S.M., fined, a publican £20 in the Metropolitan Licensing Court to-day for…

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Blitz On Hotels In Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 14 December 1954 · page 8

SYDNEY, Monday.—Many Sydney hotel licensees will be charged by the Health Department with having adulterated…

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Ace Rider Turns Publican

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 December 1954 · page 24

Retired Victorian cross-country jockey Brian Smith has gone into the hotel-keeping business at Brighton. This week he began decorating the bar with pictures of his successes. First up went a series on his Australian Steeplechase win on The Drum at Caulfield last August…

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Publicans Can Seek Price Rises "For Amenities"

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 December 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY: Hotel licensees who are planning special amenities for drinkers are entitled to apply for increases in prices of beer find spirits, said the Prices Commissioner (Mr. Weir) today. Mr. Weir said he wished…

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Publicans Win £365 Verdict

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 14 December 1954 · page 21

At Newcastle District Court today, Judge Amsberg granted the former licensees of a Gulgong hotel a total amount of £365/16/5. The former licensees are…

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Gulgong Hotel Case Verdict

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 15 December 1954 · page 14

Arising from the sale of a hotel at Gulgong, Leslie William Bailey and Elizabeth Bailey, of Willawan, via Kempsey, claimed £375/9/4 from Eric Edward Taylor and…

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Hotel Waiter Stabbed

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY: A waiter was stabbed four times in Adams Hotel, Pitt-st., City, last night. He is George…

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American Way Of (Hotel) Life Is The Craziest

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 16 December 1954 · page 27

WASHINGTON, Wednesday: I have been living for the past week in one of the contemporary American hotels—one of the chain operated by the Hilton-Statler group that now covers the country and gets bigger and bigger all the time—a 900-roomed edifice, put…

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Hotel Tenders

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 2

Newcastle City Council will hold a special meeting on Monday night to consider tenders for the Central Hotel licence…

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Hotel Picnic

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 18 December 1954 · page 10

A meeting of Newcastle members of the Liquor Trades Union decided to hold the annual picnic on a Sunday in…

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Central Hotel Decision Council To Seek Lease Offers

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 3

Newcastle City Council decided by 10 votes to nine last night to seek firm prepositions from breweries and "other interested parties" for the lease of its Central Hotel…

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Hotel's Future Is Still Unsolved

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 8

Newcastle aldermen last night debated for two and a half hours the future of the Central Hotel, but at the end of that time were virtually no further ahead than when they started. They were recalled from…

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£8000 Work On Hotel At Merewether

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 December 1954 · page 2

More than £8000 will be spent on alterations and improvements to the Prince of Wales Hotel,…

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Tyson—"Early Bird" For Hotel Breakfast

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 December 1954 · page 16

SYDNEY: Match winning fast bowler, Frank Tyson, did not even allow himself the luxury of breakfast in bed today. He was one of the first…

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Big Alterations For Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 8

In Newcastle Licensing Court yesterday, Mr. W. E. MacAndrew, S.M., granted the licensee, Phillip Benjamin…

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