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Riverina · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1912

174 stories in Riverina's papers · page 2 of 9

Broken Hill Hotel and Restaurant Employees. Revolt Against Conditions of Employment

The Worker · Thursday 8 February 1912 · page 12

The oppressive conditions existing in the Broken Hill hotels ami restaurants have compelled those employed therein to take action. For a considerable time the…

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Fire at Parkes. Hotel Practically Destroyed. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 12 February 1912 · page 2

The Occidental Hotel at Parkes was practically destroyed by fire. The inmates had barely time to escape…

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Licenses Granted

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 13 February 1912 · page 3
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

J. F. M'Lean, of the Albury Hotel, Baylis-street, was granted a booth license in respect to the Highland Gathering at the Wagga Show Grounds…

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Booth Licenses

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1912 · page 3
Also in Wagga Wagga Express

J. F. W. Gancer was granted booth licenses in respect to the Wagga Trotting Club's meeting on the racecourse on the 28th inst…

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Sport the Turf. Licensed Victuallers' R.C.

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 27 February 1912 · page 3

The committee of the above met at the Royal hotel (Tattersall's) on Monday night, when preparations were made for the forthcoming…

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Illegally on Licensed Premises

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 27 February 1912 · page 4

Edward Morton, Thomas S. Jones, and James M'Alister did not appear on charges of being on the licensed premises of the Union Club…

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Girls on Strike Broken Hill Hotels Picketed. Broken Hill

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 February 1912 · page 2

A strike of an unusual nature has occurred here, the domestic servants at the hotels and boarding houses having ceased work. In all 200 are…

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The Hotel Strike. Settlement Effected. Broken Hill

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 29 February 1912 · page 2

Delegates from the hotel and restaurant keepers and the employees met again last night, and after along discussion accepted the amended…

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Lady Taxi-driver. Refused a License

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 2

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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Licensing Court. (Before Mr. G. Stevenson, L.M.)

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 1 March 1912 · page 4

J. McConville applied for a Booth License for the sports to be held at "The Willows" on Wednesday next, 6th March…

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Burglar in Hotel. Bails Up Licensee and His Wife. Secures Money and Jewellery. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 2

A masked and armed burglar entered a Rushcutter's Bay hotel early this morning. On being discovered, he bailed up the licensee and his wife…

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Gaming on Licensed Premises

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 2

Mrs. E. M. Packham, for suffering gaming to take place at her licensed house, the Union Club Hotel, was fined £3 and ordered to pay 6/ costs…

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Licensing Laws Contravened

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 3

[?]elena M. Packham, licensee of the Union Club Hotel, pleaded guilty to a charge of suffering a game to be carried on in her premises…

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"After Hours" in an Hotel

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 3

James Doyle and Lon. McCray were conjointly charged with being on the licensed premises of the Terminus Hotel during prohibitive hours, to wit,…

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Hawkers' Licenses

Wagga Wagga Express · Tuesday 5 March 1912 · page 3

Michael James Clancy and John George Planer were granted hawker's licenses to have effect in the Wagga District…

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Women and Hotels. "Worse Places for Young Men." Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 March 1912 · page 2

The Australasian Women's Association's Conference defeated a motion in favor of closing all hotels at 6 p.m. One delegate said they knew as…

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N.s.w. Hotel and Restaurant Employees. Comprehensive Board Refused

The Worker · Thursday 7 March 1912 · page 6

The award of the Hotel, Club. Restaurant and Caterers' Board, at present operating within the Sydney Metropolitan district, being near its expiration,…

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Broken Hill Hotel Employees' Strike. Complete Triumph of the Union

The Worker · Thursday 7 March 1912 · page 9

The strike of hotel, restaurant, and boarding-house employees at Broken Hill had not to he continued very long. At a conference between representatives of the…

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