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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

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Court At Newcastle (Before Mr. L. E. Stapleton, S.m.) Licensee Fined

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 4

George Cameron, licensee of Cameron's Family Hotel, Hunter St., Newcastle, was fined £5 with 12s court costs when…

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Licensed Rest Home Bill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Health Department officials did not have power to inspect rest homes or to enforce…

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15-Year Gaol Term For Slaying Man In Hotel

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 31 March 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY: A laborer aged 33 was sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude today for the manslaughter of a 21-year-old man, which the judge said was "scarcely distinguishable from murder." Mr. Justice Myers said:…

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Russians Get Pick Of Geneva Hotels

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 8

PARIS (O.S.R.): Russian delegates should be in happy mood for the Geneva conference on the Far East, opening on Apr. 26. They've got the best accommodation in town…

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15 New Hotels For Moscow

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 1 April 1954 · page 25

MOSCOW (Reuter).—The building of 15 new hotels in Moscow has revived a belief that the…

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Adverse Report On Site For Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 4

Lake Macquarie Shire Council decided last night that its Works and Health Committees should inspect a site at Blacksmiths on which it is proposed to erect a hotel. The site is at the corner…

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New Hotel Likely At Kosciusko

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Minister for Lands (Mr. Hawkins) said to-day that he hoped a new hotel in the…

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Hotel Site Opposed By Health Officer

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 5

Objection to the use of land at the corner of Piriwal St. and Pacific Highway, Blacksmiths, as a site…

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£700 Hotel Theft

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A bag containing about £700 in cash was stolen from the bar counter of the Exchange…

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5 Burnt to Death in Hotel Blaze Cries Of Trapped Men

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Sunday.—Five men were killed and four were critically injured in a fire which destroyed the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla, to-day. The cries of men trapped in the hotel could be heard…

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Hotel Gas Mystery Explosion

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE. — Arson Squad detectives began investigations today to discover what type of gas…

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Stop Press Hotel Explosion

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 16

CUNNAMULLA: Fears are growing that when the wreckage of the Commercial Hotel is searched, the death-roll may grow from five to…

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Escaping Gas Theory On Hotel Blaze

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday.—The fire in which five men were burnt to death at Cunnamulla yesterday is believed…

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No More Bodies In Hotel Ruins

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 4

BRISBANE: Police who raked over the ruins of the Commercial Hotel at Cunnamulla today are confident there are no more bodies in the debris…

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Council Urged To Run Hotel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 2

Newcastle City Council should take over the licence of the Central Hotel and run it as a community hotel, the Deputy Lord Mayor (Ald. McDougall) said last…

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Sixth Death In Hotel Fire

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 1

BRISBANE: The deathroll in the Cunnamulla hotel fire has increased to six…

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New Hotel Lease Under Discussion At Council

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 7

At the suggestion of Alderman Herrald, Newcastle Council will investigate the leasing provisions of brewery-owned hotels to see whether they have any advantage over those embodied in a proposed new lease of the Central Hotel drawn up by the Town Clerk (Mr. Burges)…

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Hotel 'Disgrace To Council'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 April 1954 · page 8

The Central Hotel was a disgrace to the Newcastle City Council, Ald. Herald said last night. He told the council's…

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No Right To Be In Hotel Room

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 20 April 1954 · page 13

A young man charged with vagrancy after being found without authority in a hotel room in which stolen property was located, was remanded and allowed to "go…

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Pressure For Better Hotels

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday.— The Licensing Board is exerting pressure on hotel-owners to restore destroyed, damaged and substandard hotels…

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