1843
19 August 1943
THE MUDGEE HOTEL to be LET
for a period of three, five, or seven years. The Mudgee Hotel is situated in the rapidly increasing township of Mudgee, opposite the Court House Reserve, now in full and profitable trade, and in the occupation of Mr. William Blackman, the proprietor, who is about retiring from business.
The Mudgee Hotel is replete with every necessary convenience, and contains ten rooms, with detached kitchen, and other apartments, laundry, stores, and an underground cellar; also, a coach house, a good well of water, stables of ten stalls, with two boxes for race horses, hay and corn loft, and ostler's apartment; a large new stock and sheep yards ; the whole in complete repair, and possession can be had immediately.
The STOCK-IN-TRADE, comprising wines, spirituous and malt liquors, cider, &c, and the utensils requisite for carrying on the business, together with the furniture for two parlours, and beds and furniture for four bedrooms, to be taken off at a fair valuation.
The trade of the Mudgee Hotel for the past four years has left a clear profit of one thousand pounds per annum, which is daily increasing, and is a certain fortune to any well conducted couple.
Apply (if by letter, post paid) to Mr. William Blackman, sludges to Mr. C. A. Wilson, Penrith; or at the Herald Office. 6261 .
1853
On 19 April 1853, Thomas Boyde Rosseter, Mudgee, was granted a General Publican's LIcence to operate the Mudgee Hotel, Market Street, Mudgee. His sureties were Thomas Purdy, bricklayer, Mudgee and Patrick Joseph >>>>, storekeeper, Mudgee2 .
1855
On 17 April John Wallace, Mudgee, was granted a General Publican's LIcence to operate the Mudgee Hotel, Market Street, Mudgee. His sureties were John Cox, farmer, Broomby and George Walker, storekeeper, Mudgee3 .
1867
In 1867 Frederick Dengate was granted a Publican's License for Mudgee Hotel, Mudgee.
1868
In 1868 Frederick Dengate was granted a Publican's License for Mudgee Hotel, Mudgee.
1920
24 July 1920
Licensee
Charles Harper
License lapsed 24/7/204
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1929
19 March 1929
24 January 1929
Works Approved
HOTEL MUDGEE, LTD.
At the special meeting of the Mudgee Council on Tuesday further consideration was given to matters affecting Hotel Mudgee, Ltd.
It was resolved to approve of the septic tank proposal submitted by the company. The Public Health Department and the Council's officer had already granted approval.
The question of kerbing and guttering, cementing footpaths, and erecting concrete gutter bridges was fully considered. The company agreed to pay half cost of the bridges and repairs to footpaths, and to provide material at cost price. It was also intimated that there was no immediate hurry for the money - that Council could pay up when funds were available.
Ald. Robinson moved that £180 be allotted for the work, and that the Council exercise supervision. Ald. Dykes seconded, and it was carried.
Ald. Dykes moved that four trees in the vicinity of the hotel frontage in Church Street be removed. Ald. Austin seconded.
Ald. Bawden moved, as an amendment, that only the pepper tree be removed. Ald. Easton seconded, the amendment which was carried5
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18 February 1929
HOTEL MUDGEE
THE IDEA BEHIND IT.
ALL MODERN APPOINTMENTS.
COMFORT THE FIRST AIM.
Early last year a limited liability company was formed - the shareholders being all district residents - for the purpose of establishing in Mudgee a first-class hotel to cater for Australian and oversea visitors to the town.
Hitherto comparatively few tourists from overseas have visited this district, though thousands visit this and the other States of Australia every year, some coming by British and American boats, and others by French, Italian, German and Norwegian vessels.
It will be seen that this opportunity to assist in developing the grazing and farming sections of Australia has not been availed of to any extent. Bring these tourists to the country districts, and when they return home they will send out hosts of their friends. This hotel will cater for the travelling public, and it will also cater for tourists and visitors from overseas. That is the idea behind the Hotel Mudgee.
It seems, too, that it should be successful, as most of the tourist agencies in Sydney are eager to bring in new centres in the country districts for tourists to visit.
The hotel is erected on the site of the old Miners' Arms, one of the very old hotels of Mudgee. Work on the new building commenced on Aug. 9, the demolition of the old hotel being completed in six of eight hours. Once work on the new building was put in hand it was pushed ahead rapidly, and as each month passed good progress was made.
Although only a week over six months since operations were started, the building is completed, and will be opened by the Minister for Local Government next Saturday, Feb. 23, at 3 p.m.
The hotel contains forty-seven bedrooms for guests, the staff being housed in a separate building. The entrance and assembly hall. 45ft by 40, with a terazzo floor, is nicely finished, and so designed as to be exceptionally cool in summer and warm in winter, the requisite warmth in winter being ensured by two large fireplaces, built on the new open hearth system. The furniture and fittings are of polished maple.
Adjoining this is the social, or lounge room, with the floor finished in tallow wood which, when waxed, will give this handsome room the same appearance as the new restaurant at David Jones and Co., Sydney.
To the left of the lounge is the dining room 40ft by 36, which will cater for everyone, the management having decided that there shall be only one class. Here the floor is also of tallow wood, and the fittings and furnishing of this handsome room leave nothing to be desired. Leading off it is a large servery, and then the kitchen - equipped with every modern requirement - and the refrigerating chamber. At the rear is the boiler for the hot water system - an improved type, which will ensure a plentiful supply of hot water all over the hotel.
The bedrooms are beautifully furnished; only the best quality and most modern designs being used; the suites being of polished maple, Elizabethen oak, silky oak, and log oak. All the floors are carpeted, the only linoleum in the hotel being that used in the kitchen and servery.
Provision is made for tourists with families - large bedrooms with accommodation for both adults and children. Every room has a hot and cold water service, and there are suites which are provided with a bath and balcony to each room. The double rooms have twin beds, and, like the family and single rooms, leave nothing wanting for the comfort of guests. Each bedroom has a writing desk, which is fitted, as well with a reading lamp.
The bathrooms and lavatories are conveniently situated, and the number of baths (non-splash) preclude any possibility of the annoying delays so common in many hotels and tourist resorts.
Spacious and comfortably furnished, the lounge landing has a terazzo floor and is carpeted, and the upstairs social room is in keeping with the fine appointments of the rest of the establishment.
Provision is also made for commercial travellers - sample rooms and so forth - and there are fourteen lock-up garages.
The bar is fitted with one of the newest electric refrigerators, and the latest appliances for keeping draught beer and other liquors cool during the hot weather.
With the official opening next Saturday Mudgee can take pride in possessing one of the most up-to-date and best equipped hotels south of the line. There is nothing gaudy or gim-crack about the new hotel - nothing meretricious. Comfort has been the first aim, but at the same time harmony of color and outline has not been lost sight of, and the result is a luxuriously-appointed hotel in which the evidences of luxury and the realities of solid comfort are so skilfully blended as to form one harmonious whole. The Hotel Mudgee is a triumph to the designers and builders, and to the town alike6
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1937
8 April 1937
PUBLICAN FINED
Hotel Mudgee Case
HERMAN Ole Seima Warneminde was charged before Mr. Pickup, p.m., at the Mudgee Police Court on Monday, with having been the licensee of premises on which William Glanville was found during prohibited hours on January 30.
The defendant pleaded guilty.
Sgt. Beggs deposed that on the night of January 30 he entered the bar of the Hotel Mudgee and saw a man named Glanville drinking at the bar. The defendant was behind the bar. Other men were also in the bar. Defendant said that the men told him they were travellers.
Glanville was a local man, added witness.
In answer to Mr. E. R. Daniel (for defendant), witness said that to his knowledge, the hotel was well conducted.
Mr. Daniel said that he desired to make an application under Section 63.
The defendant stated in evidence that some men came in and asked for a drink, saying they were travellers. He knew them and believed they were travellers. He always tried to conduct the hotel in the best possible manner and had been commended by members of the Licensing Board on the good way he kept the hotel.
The P.M. said that the defendant should have made further enquiries as to whether or not the men were travellers.
He ordered that the conviction be not recorded, and fined the defendant £2, with 8/- costs.
Police Inspector Armstrong said that there was no doubt that it is a well conducted hotel, but people had asked why the police did not deal with the Hotel Mudgee as well as others. The position being the same regarding leading hotels in Sydney7
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13 September 1937
LEAVING HOTEL MUDGEE
Mr. H. Warneminde and Family
AFTER being mine host of the Hotel Mudgee for nine years, Mr. H. Warneminde will relinquish control at the end of the month. Fortunately he will not be leaving the district, but will take up residence on his snug "Glen Heather" property at Avisford. During their stay in Mudgee the Warneminde and Scully families have won the admiration and esteem of all classes and their places will be extremely difficult to fill. Mr. Warneminde, in addition to being an ideal host, took a prominent part in the social life of the town, while the other members of the family were equally active. The "Guardian" regrets their impending departure and joins in the hope that they will find perfect happiness in their new home8
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4 October 1937
Licensees
James Chas. Birtles 1.1.20
Herman de Selma 28/5/28
Arthur Fredk. Muuga 4.10.37
Owner
James Birtles Burrundulla, Mudgee 1.1.20
Sub-Lessee - Booth Licenses
5-6/5/25, 15,16,17/3/28 (2) 19 &21/4/30, -/5/33, 20 & 22.4. 35
General
22/2/26 - Appl. to make material Alterns. - Approved.
25/7/27. Appn. to effect Alterns. & Additions Approved - Complete by 6 weeks - Cost £100.
21/7/28. Conditional Removal to premises proposed to be erected at Corner of Church & Mortimer Sts. Mudgee - Grtd. (Cost £35000)
21/2/29. Appn. to vary plan. Approved on Conditional Removal. Granted.
21/2/29. Final Order of Removal to premises at Church & Mortimer Sts. Mudgee - Granted Sign Changed to Hotel Mudgee (Stabling Dispensed with).
4/3/29. Permit Section 57A. Granted.
22/4/29. Appn. Material Alterations - Granted. Complete by 6 months. Cost £25
2/11/36. Appln. Mat. Altrs. Withdrawn.6.7.37 Music Permit for 17.7.37 - Granted.
6/7/37. Appln. Music Permit - Granted9
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1939
6 March 1939
HOTEL MUDGEE
AT the Mudgee Licensing Court this morning the licence of the Hotel Mudgee was transferred from Mr. A. Muuga to Mr. H. Warneminde. 'Warne,' as he is familiarly known, conducted this popular house for some years and knows all there is to be known about the business10
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1947
30 June 1947
Mr. Chas. Davison New Proprietor
Mr. E. W. Knowles, who has conducted the "Hotel Mudgee" for the past two years, has now disposed of the freehold, etc., of this well known hotel to Mr. Chas. Davison, who has had considerable experience in the conduct of country hotel businesses.
Although Mr. Davison has other hotel interests in New South Wales, he and Mrs. Davison intend making their home in Mudgee and the public of the town and district can rest assured that "the Mudgee" will be efficiently conducted by its new owners.
The Hotel Mudgee is extensively known as one of the finest and best equipped hotels in the country, and has proved a great asset in bringing this town and district to the forefront as a place of call for tourists and the travelling public. The sale of the hotel was effected by Messrs. O. L. Milling and Co., of Mudgee11
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1968
28 June 1968
The hotel had a good trade.
There was nothing wrong with the hotel trade at Mudgee back in the 1840s, if an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald of that time is any indication.
Mr. William Blackman advertised Mudgee's first hotel (The Mudgee Hotel), to let about where Bill Morgan's garage now is in Market Street.
He claimed that “trade of the Mudgee Hotel for the past four years has left a clear profit of £1500 per annum, which is daily increasing and it is a certain fortune to any well conducted couple”.
The advertisement said that the hotel was “replete with every convenience” and contained ten rooms, plus laundry, stores and celler, cool house, a good well, stables, boxes for race horses, sheep yards and hay lofts.
The £1500 would be worth many times that number of dollars in these times12
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