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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1908

282 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 15

Mining Gamp Favors No License

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 April 1908 · page 4

The gold miners at the Oaks rush, in the Georgetown district of Queensland, who already number between 800 and 1000, are in favor of no…

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Hotels Closed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 April 1908 · page 5

The Special Local Option Court to-day decided to close five hotels in Darlinghurst electorate…

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Licensing Question in England. Facts Bearing Upon the Controversy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1908 · page 13

The man who is not familiar with some of the many facts connected with the forthcoming Licensing Bill (says the London "Daily Mail") is likely to be considerably bewildered…

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Five Hotels to Close. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 11 April 1908 · page 4

The Local Option Court to-day decided to close five more Darlinghurst…

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Late News by Cable. London, April. 14. Licensing Legislation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1908 · page 3

Earl carringon, President of the Board of Agriculture, states that if the Licensing Bill is [?] there is nearly certain to be no further being legislation this generation…

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Licensing Court

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 5

In the Licensing Court a second-hand dealer's license was granted to George Papworth…

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London's Mammoth Hotel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 April 1908 · page 4

The magnitude of the work of constructing the new Piccadilly Hotel, now in course of erection on the site of the old St. James's Hall and Restaurant, with a…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 April 1908 · page 4

Albert Ernest Howard applied for the transfer of his licenses of the Cessnock Hotel, Cessnock, to E. J. Anstey, which was granted…

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Licensing Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1908 · page 8

But the bill which is producing more discontent than all others is the new licensing measure. It will do enormous harm outside the liquor-dealing circles. The shareholders…

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Local and General. Transfer of a License

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1908 · page 2

At the Wost Maitland Courthouse to-day, before Mr. T.H. Wilkinson, P. M., the lieonse of the Royal Hotel, was transforred from Walter Edwards to Arthur Pride…

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Hotels Reduced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1908 · page 3

tHE sPECIAL lOCAL Option Court has decided to reduce the number of hotels in [?] by four…

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Story of the Licensed House. Centres of Social Life

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 April 1908 · page 6

We have to go back a long way to find a time when the people did not drink some kind of intoxicating liquor (writes the Special commissioner of the Mancherster "…

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The Licensing Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 April 1908 · page 5

Cardinal Logue and nearly all the Catholic Bishops of Ireland urge Nationalists to actively support the Licensing Bill…

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Reduction of Hotels

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 April 1908 · page 3

The Special Local Option Court has reduced tho hotel licences in St. George electorate by two…

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Licensing Bill. Reading in the Commons. London. April 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 April 1908 · page 3

[?] H Asquith, the prime Minister, [?] second reading of the Licensing[?] Rouse of commons yesterday. [?] that the Act of 1904 substan[?] licoases, though the pro…

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The Licensing Bill. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 April 1908 · page 2

"The Archbishop of Armagh and nearly all the Catholic Bishops of Ireland," says the "Nationalist," "will actively support the Licensing Bill…

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Licensing Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 May 1908 · page 5

[?] on the second reading of the [?] Bill was continued in the House of [?] last night. [?] Walter Long, Conservative, argued that…

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The Licensing Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 May 1908 · page 5

A great meeting of the [?] Party was held at the Reform Club. The Prime Minister (Mr. [?] H. Asquith) was urged to persist with the Licensing Bill…

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Story of the Licensed House. Centres of Social Life

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1908 · page 14

We have to go back a long way to find a time when the people did not drink some kind of intoxicating liquor, (writes the Special Commissioner of the Manchester…

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The Licensing Bill. London, April 29

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 May 1908 · page 5

Mr. H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister, moved the second reading of the Licensing Bill in the House of Commons yesterday. He admitted that the Act of 1904…

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