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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1909

193 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 10

Commercial Hotel, Morpeth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 May 1909 · page 7

Extensive! additions and improvements have been effected to the Commercial Hotel, Morpeth, for Mr. Harry Sucker, The additions make this hotel compare favorably…

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New British Taxes. Higher License Fees London May 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 5

A meeting of the Heonse trades of the city including distillers passed a resolution emphatically protesting against the "ruinous increase " in duties and license…

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Rutherford Hotel

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 14

Important additions and alterations are being carried out in connection with the Rutherford Hotel, consisting of the construction of an upper storey, and the remodelling and complete…

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Benefits of No-License

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 13

The four medical men practising at Oamaru, N.Z., have signed the following statement:—"In view of the fact that Commissioners from Australia and others…

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The Budget Proposals. Enormous License Fees London, May 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 May 1909 · page 3

Notwithstanding the week's debate in the House of Commons, the operation of several Budget proposals is still obscure, especially the death duty on the unearned increment…

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The Budget and Hotels

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 May 1909 · page 5

Hotel proprietors are protesting against the proposed enormous license fees, and are urging instead of them, the imposition of a duty of 4½d in the .£, on liquor consumed, the method…

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New Zealand's Licensing System

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 May 1909 · page 3

The report, on the licensing system in vogue in New, Zealand, prepared by Mr. R. A. Ranking, Police Magistrate, was made available in Brisbane on Monday…

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The Hotel Casual

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1909 · page 3

The Uckfield (Sussex) Guardians revelled in fantastic nomenclature recently, when they were called upon to find an alternative for the word "workhouse."…

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Hotel's Lost Glories. Vicissitudes of the Richmond Star and Garter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 May 1909 · page 2

Far the second time within two years, the Star and Garter Hotel Richmond was offered for sale by auction in London recently following the sale of the furniture…

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Commercial Hotel, Morpeth

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 May 1909 · page 10

Extensive additions and improvements have been effected to the Commercial Hotel, Morpeth, for Mr. Harry Sucker. The additions make this hotel compare favourably…

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Hotel Manageress Found Dead. Supposed Cycling Fatality. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 May 1909 · page 4

This morning the body of Mrs Gilchrist, a widow, aged 45, who was engaged as manageress of the Hotel Metropole, Sydney, was found at the…

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Local and General News. Publicans' Licenses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 May 1909 · page 8

The period for which publicans received their licenses will expire on June 30, and it will therefore be necessary for them to make application for renewal, which should be forwarded to the District…

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Mrs. Hetty Green's "Economy." Returns to Hotel Life

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 May 1909 · page 8

Mrs Hetty Green "the nichest woman in the world," has returned to hotel-land in Fifth avenue New York She has engaged this time not an expensive suite in…

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Late Hews by Wire. Sydney, Friday Afternoon. Interesting to Hotelkeepers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 May 1909 · page 5

The High Court to-day confirmed the decision of the Full Court in quashing the conviction, of a hotelkeeper at Hay who had been fined for an alleged breach of the…

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Hotel's Lost Glories. Vicissitudes of the Richmond Star and Garter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 May 1909 · page 9

For the second time within two years, the Star and Garter Hotel, Richmond, was offered for sale by auction in London recently, following the sale of the furniture…

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Mrs. Hetty Green's "Economy." Returns to Hotel Life

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 May 1909 · page 5

Mrs. Hetty Green, "the richest woman in the world," has returned to hotel-land in Fifth-avenue, New York. She has engaged this time not an expensive suite in…

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The Old Licensed "Houses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 May 1909 · page 8

Very few of the old licensed houses are now remaining—that is to say, those for which licenses were grunted in the year alluded to In the preceding. In…

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Slaughtering' Licenses

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 May 1909 · page 2

All butchers carrying on business whose slaughter yards are outside the Dungog Municipality, are reminded that the licenses they at…

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Strychnine in Ginger Ale. a Publican's Close Call

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 May 1909 · page 1

As mentioned in Thursday's "Argus," Mr C. Edwards, licensee of the Corrimal Hotel was dining at his hotel on Monday, when he ordered a bottle of…

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Licensing Matter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 June 1909 · page 2

The adjourned matter of the petition lodged on behalf of John Court for a certificate authorising the issue of a new publican's license at Cessnock was before the Licensing Bench, consisting of…

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