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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1908

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Hotel and Restaurant Employees

The Worker · Thursday 22 October 1908 · page 12

The Hotel, Club, Restaurant, and Caterers' Employees' Union have drawn up a log of wages and conditions to be submitted to the Caterers' Wages Board…

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Hotel Roof Ablaze. Flames Subdued. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 2

The roof of the Cambridge Hotel, Castlereagh-street, was discovered to be on fire at noon to-day. In anticipation of a big job the…

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Fire in the City. Hotel Badly Damaged. Sydney

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 24 October 1908 · page 5

A fire broke out in the roof of the Cambridge Hotel, at the corner of Castlereagh and Market streets, this afternoon. The flames were soon…

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Special Licensing Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 2

A Special Licensing Court is advertised to sit at the Wagga Court House on the following dates for the purpose of granting renewals and registering change…

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Auctioneers' Licenses

Wagga Wagga Express · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 2

It is notified for public information that all auctioneers' desiring to renew their licenses, and any others intending to take out new certificates must hand…

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Illegally on Licensed Premises

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 3 November 1908 · page 2

Frank Condon, Charles Carlon, Joseph Carlon, Ernest Morrow and William Barber were charged by Senior Constable Bath with being found on…

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The Criterion Hotel

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 3 November 1908 · page 2

Mr. Henry Millenet has disposed of the Criterion Hotel property, which has long enjoyed an excellent reputation and a leading position in the…

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Licensing Court

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 3 November 1908 · page 2

Application was made before Mr. Geo. Stevenson, P.M., yesterday morning at the Wagga licensing Court for licenses for the Leger and Grand…

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Tragedy in a West-end Hotel South American Lady's Suicide

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 6 November 1908 · page 3

At Westminster on the 28th of July, Mr Troutbeck inquired into the circumstances of the death of Catalins Fuschint di Legarza, aged thirty-two, the wife of a…

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An Hotel Case Suit in Equity. Alleged Blackmail

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 5

In the Equity Court (Sydney) the case of Headley v. Quintrell was heard. The statement of claim in this suit…

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Lost his License. Despondent Hotelkeeper Hangs Himself

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Tuesday 10 November 1908 · page 3

A telegram was received in Wagga yesterday stating that the dead body of Mr. R. W. Rogers was found hanging by the neck in a shaft near his…

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Suicide of a Hotelkeeper. After Period of Despondeney Junee

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 10 November 1908 · page 2

Robert Rogers late of the Junes Reefs Hotel, committed suicide yesterday. He was found suspended with a clothes line round his Deck, about 16 fact from the…

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Transfer of Hotel License

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 2

At a sitting of the licensing bench on Tuesday, presided over by Messrs. Fosbery and Purtell, J.'sP., the transfer of the license of the Albury Hotel,…

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Ganmain. Gooney's New Hotel

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 4

In the early part of this year Mr. Cooney'a hotel at Ganmain was practically destroyed by fire. So important has the district grown during the…

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The Licensing Bill. Weighty Petitions. London, Nov. 11

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 2

The petitions presented to the House of Commons against the Licensing Bill contain 1,585,901 signatures and those in favor of the measure, 1,209,098…

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Hotel Transfer

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 2

An application for the transfer of the licence of the Albury Hotel, Newtown, Wagga, from Edward O'Dwyer to John Francis M'Lean (late of the…

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General Cable News. the Licensing Bill. Huge Petitions. London

Wagga Wagga Express · Thursday 12 November 1908 · page 2

The petitions which have been circulated throughout the United Kingdom in favor of, and in opposition to, the Licensing Bill have been very largely…

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Ganmain. Opening of Mr. Cooney’s New Hotel

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 13 November 1908 · page 4

The opening of Mr. Cooney’s fine new hotel took place formally last Wednesday. A goodly number of both ladies and…

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The Licensing Bill

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 17 November 1908 · page 2

The Chief Secretary for Ireland says that the House of lords will be treading on very dangerous ground if they reject the Licensing bill…

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No-license Districts

Wagga Wagga Advertiser · Thursday 19 November 1908 · page 2

No-license was carried in Bruce, Taieri, Wanganui, Wellington South, Wellington Suburbs. The Hutt, near Wellington, Eden, and Manakau, near…

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