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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1908

282 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 15

Licensed Victuallers' Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 May 1908 · page 4

A meeting of hotelkeepers, owners, and others interested in the liquor trade was held this afternoon at Mr. J. W. Birken-head's office, to listen to an address by…

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Country Hotel Profits. Big Margin for Licensee

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 3

The profits made by the licensee of a country hotel were brought out in evidence at the sitting of the Licenses Reduction Board at Melbourne on…

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The English Licensing Bell. Humorous Side of It. Rather Grim

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 5

To any acquainted with English history there is something grimly humorous, and yet not a little tragic, in the outcry now being raised on behalf of…

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Avalanche Disaster. Swiss Hotel Destroyed. Twelve Persons Killed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 3

Considerable damage and loss of life was caused yesterday evening (wrote the Brigue correspondent of the London "Daily News" on 1st March) at the…

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Licensed Victuallers' Association Branch Formed in Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1908 · page 2

A meeting of hotelkeepers, owners and others interested in the trade was held at Mr. J. W. Birkenhead's office yesterday afternoon to listen to an address by…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 25 May 1908 · page 2

The transfer of the license of the Governor Gipps Hotel from Robert Campbell to Ernest E. Denny was granted…

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Brush with a Burglar. Hotelkeeper's Smart Capture

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 May 1908 · page 3

At Bedfern Police Court on Tuesday, William G. Parsons, alias Thomas Elwell, was charged with having been found for an unlawful purpose in the…

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Great Fire at Grafton Stores and Hotel Burned. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 May 1908 · page 2

There was a disastrous fire in Grafton last night, in the heart, of tho city. M'Cann's general store was burned to the ground, while Wcilcy's hotel and…

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British Licensing Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 June 1908 · page 5

Lewis Harcourt, First Commissioner [?] speaking at Newcastle-on-Tyne [?] night, said regarding the [?] Bill, that the Government was…

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Renewals of Licenses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 June 1908 · page 4

It should be noted by those interested that the Licensing Court for the renewal of publicans' licenses will be held at this West Maitland Courthouse on the 22nd…

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Special Licensing Court. Reduction of Licenses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 June 1908 · page 4

The first sitting in the district of a Special Court, constituted under section 70 of the Liquor (Amendment) Act, 1905, for the electorate of Maitland, to inquire…

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The Licensing Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 June 1908 · page 5

Many meetings, organised by temperance passed societies have passed resolutions in favour of the Licensing Bill. The Select Committee of the House of Commons has…

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Special Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 2

The initial silting of the special licensing court (consisting of his Honor Judge Fitzhardinge and Messrs. T. H. Wilkinson and W. Le Breen Brown, P.M's.) was continued yesterday…

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British Licensing Bill

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 3

Many meetings have been held, organised by Government machinery and the temperance societies, in favor of the Licensing Bill…

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Publican's Technical Offence

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 3

For serving a boarder with liquor through the slide window of the bar, after 11 p.m., William Hurst, licensee on the Carriers' Arms Hotel, Hay, was…

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Liquor Amendment Act. Hotels to be Closed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 June 1908 · page 2

The Local Option Court. Judge Backhouse presiding, sat at Penrith on Tuesday, when the following decisions were given:—…

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Special Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 June 1908 · page 4

The majority of hotelkeepers are likely to follow the old piscatorial adage, "it's all fish that come to their net," when dealing with the general public, but occasionally a…

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Hotel Fire Panic in New York. Guests Perish at Windows

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 June 1908 · page 6

America has been furnished with yet another object-lesson in the folly of tolerating "firetraps" in big towns by the total destruction of the Aveline Hotel at Fort Wayne, with the loss…

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Special Licensing Court. Reduction of Licenses

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 June 1908 · page 6

The first sitting in the district of a Special Court, constituted under section 70 of the Liquor (Amendment) Act, 1905, for the electorate of Maitland, to inquire…

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Fire in an Hotel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 June 1908 · page 3

A fire was discovered in the bar of the Percy Hotel shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday morning by the proprietor. Mr. A. E. Ball. The alarm was raised, and with…

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