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Hotels & licensing, 1910

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1910 · page 4

A licensing court was held at the West Maitland Courthouse this morning, before Sir. .T. McKensey, P.M., and Messrs. E. Bowden find John Rourke, Js.P. The quarterly report of the licensing…

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Reward of Virtue. £10,000 Bequest to an Hotel Page Boy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 7

Michael Dunphy, an hotel page boy in New York, has inherited £10,000 thereby proving that Fortune, has not yet ceased, to bestow her gifts most unexpected on…

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Licensing Court. Thursday, January 6. (Before Mr C. H. Gale, P.M.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 2

A hawker's foot license was granted to Samuel Crispin, and hawkers' licenses were granted to William Crowther, Ab raham Moussa, Namet Khan, and Dolat…

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The Very Latest. Secret Congress Meeting. Said to be Held in Sydney Hotel. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 January 1910 · page 5

The delegates of the recently formed Strike Congress, of which Mr Peter Bowling is the leader, held a meeting in the city this afternoon. The greatest…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 January 1910 · page 2

Robert Maurice Crowe and Charles John Nott were granted collectors' licenses, and the latter a second-hand dealer's license…

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Curious Licensing Case. When is a Traveller not a Traveller?

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 January 1910 · page 2

An unusual case, involving the question "When does a traveller cease to be a traveller?" (under the Liquor Act), oc cupied the attention of the Parkes Police…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 January 1910 · page 4

John Henry Hector applied for, and was granted, the transfer of the license of the Mulbring Hotel from himself to Arthur Underwood…

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Hotel Transfer

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 January 1910 · page 4

At a meeting of the Licensing Court on Thursday, Mr C. H. Gale, P.M. and Licensing Magistrate granted a transfer of the Imperial Hotel from Francis…

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Work at Bellbird. Hotel Servants and the Police. Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 January 1910 · page 5

The carting of Bellbird coal has commenced by free labour under police protection. Only two carts are engaged at present, but more were expected to arrive to-day. The carts make about…

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Cessnock Licensing Matters. Petition for Another Hotel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 February 1910 · page 4

The licensing requirements of Cessnock were the subject of consideration by the Maitland Licensing Bench (Messrs. J. McKensey. P.M., and Elias Bowden and John…

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Municipal Council the Proposed, Water Rate. Trouble Over Tapping Licenses

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 4

The Singleton Municipal Council met on Thursday evening, at the Council Chambers. There were present; The Mayor (Alderman Waterhouse), and…

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Notes and Comments. No LICENSE

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 February 1910 · page 2

Among the impressions made on Mr. Wade by his recent tour in New Zealand pone are of greater interest than those connected with the…

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Publicans and Unjust Mugs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 February 1910 · page 5

On January 25, at the Water Police Court, Sydney, Charles Degotardi, Inspector of Weights and Measures, proceeded against the licenses of a George-street hotel for "having an unjust measure…

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Trouble About a Booth License. Clergyman's Remarkable Evidence

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 February 1910 · page 2

Considerable interest was taken in an application before the Parramatta Licensing Bench for the grunting of a publican's licence for the annual show at Castle Hill…

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Comedy of a Violin. Publican Cleverly Tricked

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 February 1910 · page 5

It is dangerous (says "Lloyd's Weekly News") to mention the word "violin" just at present in the hearing of the landlord of a certain hosteiry in…

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Late News by Wire. Sydney, Monday afternoon. Hotelkeeper's Suicide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 February 1910 · page 3

William Phillips, aged 45, proprietor of Rush's Hotel. Waverley, was found this morning morning in his bedroom with a clothes line fixed round his nock. Deceased only took possession…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 February 1910 · page 4

Fredrick William Hain was granted an auetioneer's license, and Philip Joseph Akers a collector's license…

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Trouble About a Booth License. Clergyman's Remarkable Evidence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 16

Considerable interest was taken in an application before the Parramatta Licensing Bench for the granting of a publican's licence for the annual show at Castle Hill…

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Hotels Wanted at Abermain, Inquiry by Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1910 · page 3

There petitions under Section 63 of the Liquor Amendment Act for publican's licenses at Abermain were listed for inquiry, to-day by the Special Licensing Court…

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London Liquor Licenses

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 February 1910 · page 3

The sum of ,£230,000, payable out of the trade special "fund," has been awarded at the London Sessions on account of 91 public houses, the licenses 61 which have been cancelled…

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