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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1908

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Special Licensing Court. Tursday, Jult 14

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 15 July 1908 · page 2

The special licensing court to deal with licenses affected by the local option vote held its second sitting on the above date, there being present His Honor Judge…

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Special Licensing Court

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 July 1908 · page 3

The special licensing court to deal with licenses" affected by the local option vote held its second sitting, at Dubbo, on Tuesday last, there being…

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Special Licensing Court. Conclusion of the Evidence

The Wellington Times · Thursday 16 July 1908 · page 5

After the report of the Special Licensing Court at Dubbo, which appears on another page, closed, the remainder of the Wellington hotels were dealt…

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Special Licensing Court. Tuesday, July 14

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 18 July 1908 · page 3

The Special Licensing Court to deal with the licenses affected by the local option vote continued its sittings after we went to press on Tuesday. Evidence was concluded…

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Licensing Butchers

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 July 1908 · page 2

The sanitary inspector brought under the notice of the Municipal Council on Thursday evening that under ordinance 56 it was necessary to fix a…

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Special Licensing Court

The Wellington Times · Monday 20 July 1908 · page 3

The decision in the matter of Wellington-Dubbo district hotels was given by the Special Licensing Court at Dubbo at 2 p.m. on Friday, as…

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Card-playing in Hotels

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 July 1908 · page 5

A case which excited very great interest right along the line was heard at Bathurst on Monday by the P.M., Mr. T. C. K. McKell, in which Daniel…

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Hotel Conveniences

The Wellington Times · Monday 27 July 1908 · page 2

At the conclusion of the business at the Wellington Court on Friday, Mr. W. Burton Smith, Licensing Magistrate), stated that when visiting a…

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Local Option at Peak Hill. Three Hotels Closed

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 29 July 1908 · page 2

BY the decision of the special local option Court sitting at Forbes, the following hotels in the Peak Hill district are to be closed as under : Exchange Hotel, eight years from January 1,…

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Tramway Trouble. Strike Declared Off. Sydney, Thursday. The strike was Officially declared off this morning. Later Particulars. No Use Continuing, with Men Going Back in Large Numbers. Johnston's Conditions Accepted. Hostile Demonstration and Assault. He Seeks Refuge in an Hotel. Alley Produces His Revolver. Lawton Described "A Traitor." Police to the Rescue. Cheers for the Trades Labor Council. Hoots for Labor Members. 1300 Men Re-instated Last Night. Sydney

The Cobar Herald · Friday 31 July 1908 · page 5

When the tramway men gathered to hear the result of the tram officials' deliberations last night, they were stunned to find the strike was…

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Auctioneers' Licensing Courts

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 6

Dubbo, 24th November, 1908. Wellington, 24th November, 1908. Warren, 24th November, 1908…

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Licensing Bill Posters

The Wellington Times · Monday 17 August 1908 · page 2

Under the municipal ordinances relating to hoardings and bill-posting it is perscribed that the Council shall fix a licence fee for these, and the fact…

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How Publicans Amu Customers

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 29 August 1908 · page 2

Centuries ago mine host of [?] Barleycorn made the discovery [?] customers found additional quality [?] virtues in a glass of boor handed to [?]…

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Licensing Cases at Stuart Town

The Wellington Times · Thursday 3 September 1908 · page 4

At the Stuart Town Police Court on Thursday last before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.M., Constable Adey proceeded against A. J. Wade, licensee of the…

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Hotel Burglars. Midnight Struggle. Rapid Trial and Sentence

The Western Herald · Saturday 26 September 1908 · page 6

From Now York on July 9 the correspondent of the "Daily Mail" wrote:—Major Mostyn Cookson, 1st Royal Sussex Regiment, and his wife are the hero…

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Demonstrations Against the Licensing Bill

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 30 September 1908 · page 3

Two hundred and 6fty thousand persons demonstrated in Hyde Park on Sunday against the Licensing Bill. Seven thousand provincial excursionists arrived by 170 spacial train, from…

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Licensing Court

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 7 October 1908 · page 3

IN the Dubbo Licensing Court on Tuesday morning before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.M. and Mr. Thomas Baird, L.M., Renewals of publicans' license were…

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Licensing Court

The Cobar Herald · Friday 9 October 1908 · page 5

On Tuesday the following licenses were granted:—A. J. Anderson, Tattersall's Hotel, £35 ; T. Rankin, Tattersall's Hotel, Wrightville…

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Dubbo Licensing Court. Tursday, October 7. (Before Mr. W. Burton Smith, P.M., and T. Baird, J.P.)

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 10 October 1908 · page 5

Renewals were granted to the following licensees:—-William E. Clifton, Club House, Dubbo (assenment £190) William Reynolds, Railway Hotel, Geurie (assenment…

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Quarterly Licensing Court

The Wellington Times · Monday 19 October 1908 · page 2

The quarterly sitting of the Licensing Court for the Wellington district was held on Friday, the presiding magistrates being Mr. Burton Smith…

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