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Hunter Valley · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1912

208 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 11

Re-opening of Hotel Refused

Singleton Argus · Thursday 29 February 1912 · page 2

At the adjourned sitting of the Licensing Court yesterday, before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., and Mr. R. Faulkner, L.M., the hearing of evidence in support or…

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Lady Taxi-driver. Refused a License

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 6

A lady motorist (says "Lloyd's News") is endeavoring to persuade the Manchester authorities to permit her to act as a taxi-cab driver…

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Lady Taxi-driver. Refused a License

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 March 1912 · page 6

A lady motorist (says "Lloyd's News") is endeavoring to persuade the Manchester authorities to permit her to act as a taxi-cab driver…

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Hotel Strike at Broken Hill. Curious Developments

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 March 1912 · page 5

Although the strike of restaurant and hotel employees is nominally over at Broken Hill there is still some trouble. More than one hotelkeeper having to pay the new…

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Broken Hill Hotels Closed. Employees on Strike

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 March 1912 · page 6

The Hotel Employee' Association met on Saturday afternoon, and decided not to make any further concessions to the employees, but to stand by the amended log…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 March 1912 · page 8

Morris Baker was granted a hawker's license. Phillip Joseph Akers made application for a second-hand dealer's license. An objection was…

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Another Burglary in Sydney. Hotelkeeper Held Up. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 March 1912 · page 5

A masked and armed burglar entered the Rushcutter's Bay Hotel early this morning. On being discovered he bailed up the licensee and his wife and forced them to…

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Local and General News Sale of Publican's Booth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 4

To-morrow (Wednesday), afternoon, Mr. J. Enright will offer by auction at his rooms, at 3 o'clock, the right of a publican's booth at St. Patrick's Day sports, to…

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Shorter Hotel Hours. Deputation to Mr. Holman

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 March 1912 · page 4

A deputation representing the New South Wales Alliance, which carried with it the support of the Anglican, Presbyterian, Methoist, Independent, and Baptist Churches, the…

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Hotel Burnt Down. Plaster Rock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 March 1912 · page 5

Fraser's hotel been destroyed by fire Five commercial travellers were burned to death, and ten other persons narrowly escaped the same fate. The names of the When the Yass-Canborra site for the Federal capital was selected by the National Parliament, it was opposed in some quarters on the ground that the water supply was not sufficient. The Cotter…

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Shorter Hotel Hours. Deputation to Mr. Holman

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 12

A deputation representing the Now South. Wales Alliance, which carried with it the support of the Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, Independent, and Baptist Churches, the…

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Alterations to Percy Hotel

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 4

Mr. F. D. Anderson, architect, has prepared plans for extensive alterations to the Percy Hotel, under instructions from the licensee (Mr. L. G. Budden)…

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Fatal Hotel Fire

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 March 1912 · page 6

Plaster Rock (New Brunswick), Wednesday.-Five commercial travellers lost their lives in Fraser's Hotel, destroyed by fire. Ten others narrowly escaped…

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Licensing Court

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 20 March 1912 · page 2

At the local Licensing Court, on Tuesduy, 19th instant, before Messrs J. C. White and C. H Cox, LM'S, renewals of publican's licences were…

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Habitual Criminals' Hotel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 3

In describing the private hotel which Mr. Winston Churchill is benevolently providing for habitual criminals at Parkhurst in the Isle of Wight a London journal says…

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Desirable Investment for Country Residents. Ruck Hotel to Be Built in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 7

It is not often that country residents have an opportunity of investing in a city proposition they thoroughly understand, morn so indeed, than city people. They have personal…

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License for Drinkers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1912 · page 4

Declaring his belief that most of the drunkenness in America originates in clubs, Dr. Harvey H. Wiley, pure food expert, for the United States Government. has, states…

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Transfer of Hotel License

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 7

At the Licinsing Court yesterday, Mr. C. H. Gale granted the transfer of the license of the Federal Hotel from Catherine Curry to harold John Button…

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Licensing Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 March 1912 · page 3

At the Licensing Court, before Messrs. J. C. White and C. H. Cox, Licensing Magitrates, the license of the Prince of Wales Hotel, Muswellbrook, was transferred from Thos…

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Local News. Hotel License Transferred

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 March 1912 · page 4

On Thursday the P.M. (Mr. C. H. Gale) granted the transfer of the license of the Federal Hotel, from Catherine Curry to Harold John Button…

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