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Mid North Coast · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1908

44 stories in Mid North Coast's papers · page 2 of 3

Liquor Under No-License

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 10 September 1908 · page 5

THE New Zealand correspondent of the Telegraph writes:—Whenever the prohibition movement in New Zealand, is under discussion it is nearly always…

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Special Licensing Court

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 23 September 1908 · page 3

The Special Licensing Court in connection with the new Liquor Bill was Continued at the Kempsey Court House on the 12th insi. The members…

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Special Court. Thursday, Sept. 18. Before His Honor Judge Docker, &c. [Continued from last issue.] Royal Hotel. Kew

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 2

Mrs. Cahill, sworn stated—I am the wife of the licensee of the Royal Hotel, Kew, who is at present ill in the Taree hospital. We pay £4 10s a week, and have a lease of 5½ years from the 21st…

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Local Option Court. Thursday, September, [?]. Before His Honor Judge Docker, & C. Royal Hotel Kew

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 30 September 1908 · page 3

Mrs. O[?], sworn, stated:-- I am the wife of the licenses of the Royal Hotel, Kew, who is at present ill in the Taree Hospital. We pay £4 10s…

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Imperial Licensing Bill

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 1 October 1908 · page 4

Lord Landsdown, leader of the Opposition in the House of London, in consultation with his colleagues, has decided tht the Licensing Bill will…

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Gloucester Licensing Court

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 4

The Gloucester Licensing Court ordered seven hotels to be closed in the district…

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Demonstration Against the Licensing Bill

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 4

DETAILS of the monster demonstration against the Licensing Bill, referred to in our cables last week, show that a quarter of a million people participated…

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English Licensing Bill

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 8 October 1908 · page 4

The Government intends to devote twenty-three days to the consideration of the new Licensing Bill in the House of Commons…

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Licensing Court

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 7

At the quarterly licensing court held here on Monday last, before Messrs. F. Hayward and J. E. Flynn, L.M's., the following renewals of hotel licenses were granted…

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Special Licensing Court

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 4

The Local Option Court for Gloucester Electorate sat at Taree last week The members of the Court were His Honor Judge…

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Licensing Court Taree, October 12

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 14 October 1908 · page 3

Before Messrs. A. Gates, H. Flett, H. Gollan, [?] s.M. Mr. Gates said at the Quarterly Licensing Court, that the result of his…

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Special Licensing Court. Taree Monday. 12

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 17 October 1908 · page 13

Mr. A. Gates, P.M., gave a report of the decision of the Special Licensing Court and the result of his own inspection of the licensed premises in the…

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Publican Baronet

The Gloucester Advocate · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 13

Sir Henry "Echlin, the baronet publican, who formerly kept a public house at Wooburn Green, Bucks, is now landlord of the Seven Stars at…

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Troubles of an Hotelkeeper

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 3

SOME interesting peculiarities of the N.S. Wales Liquor (Amendment), which serve to make the pathway of the publican very…

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The Licensing Bill

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 4

The clause in the Licensing Bill restricting the opening of hotels in the provinces on Sunday to three hours, has been carried in the House of…

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Rights Under Timber Licenses. an Important Point

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 7

AT the Court of Petty Sessions, Bellingen, on Monday week, Thomas Edward Caban (Mr. Blackmore) applied for the restoration to him of one ironbark log seized by the…

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Floating Hotel for Invalids

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 9

A floating hydropathic hotel is to be launched by a London Syndicate for the benefit of invalids who wish to combine sea life with luxury. The…

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The Detunct Hotel

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 4

At Newcastle, N.S.W., recently, the Liquor Defence League held a meeting on the balcony of a "Dead Hotel," which had been closed under the reduction vote. A flag…

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South Australian Licensing Bill

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 8

THE South Australian Assembly sat right through Thursday night considering the Licensing Bill. During that period 141 clauses were put through, some of them…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire. School Inspector Burned to Death

The Macleay Chronicle · Thursday 26 November 1908 · page 8

THE Grand Hotel, at Emu Park, Rockhampton, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night. Mr. Russell Brown, inspector of schools, was…

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