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Hotels & licensing, 1903

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Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 July 1903 · page 3

Before Messrs F R Wilshire, P.M., W C Fulton and Dr Barber, Js P. The license of the Blue Mountain Hotel was transferred from Clarence W Wilson to Mrs Thomas,…

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The State As Publican. Messrs. Rowntree and Sherwell in Reply. Gothenburg System Weighed But Not Wanting

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 July 1903 · page 13

The most puzzling thing about the criticisms which have been finding their way into print for years on the Gothenburg system of public control for the liquor traff[?] has been their…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 July 1903 · page 6

The weekly sitting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M. (presiding), Mr. E. H. Wilshire, S.M., and Mr. Barnett, L. M. The following transfers of publicans' licenses were…

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Publicans' Compensation in England

Evening News · Tuesday 14 July 1903 · page 8

The Bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr. J. G. Butcher, K.C., Conservative, member for the City of York, entitled the Licensing Law (Compensation for Non-Renewal) Bill,…

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Licensing Court. New Licenses Granted

The Australian Star · Tuesday 14 July 1903 · page 6

The weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday. The bench consisted of Mr. Smithers, S.M., Mr. Wilshire, S.M., Mr. Isaacs, S.M., and Mr. Barnett…

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Publicans Fined

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 July 1903 · page 8

At the Central Court, Patrick Carey, licensee of the Quarryman's Arms Hotel, John-street, Pyrmont, was filled £10 for selling liquor at unlawful hours; and William Sharff, licensee of Shard's Hotel, Liverpool and Pitt…

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Hotels in a Progressive District

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 July 1903 · page 9

WEST MAITLAND, Tuesday.--Several applications for hotel licenses at Cessnock and the new mining townships being formed along the railway line between Aberdare Junction and…

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Balmain Publican Fined

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 July 1903 · page 6

In the summons division of the Balmain Police Court yesterday, Michael Toohey, licensee of the Norfolk Pine Hotel, Mullins-street, Balmain, was charged with having…

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Removal of a License

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 July 1903 · page 7

An application for the removal of the license of the Star Hotel, Hunter and Phillip streets, yesterday, came before the Licensing 'Bench, consisting of Messrs…

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Removal of License Refused

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 July 1903 · page 3

In the Water Licensing Court yesterday. Arthur Haughton, license[?] of the Star Hotel, applied for a for a removal of license from premises at the corner of Hunter and Phillip street. Sydney, to the opposite corner of the…

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Alleged Theft From an Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 July 1903 · page 8

Before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., at the Water Police Court yeterday, Leslie Haves, 22, groom, was charged with having stolen an overcoat and a quantity of cutlery valued at £6, the property of Samuel Palmer, licence of the…

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Police Courts. Alleged Theft From a Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 July 1903 · page 11

At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. E. H. Wilshire, S.M., William Copeland, 30, fitter, was committee for trial on a charge of having stolen from the Royal Hotel, George-street, a number of toilet requisites…

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Tattersall's Club License

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 July 1903 · page 10

An application for a common writ of prohibition to prevent Judge Molesworth from adjudicating upon the application of the Metropolitan Licensing Court, to cancel the club certificate…

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Licensing Vagaries. Who Rules the "Roster"?

Truth · Sunday 19 July 1903 · page 4

Can anyone, outside the charmed circle, tell how the decisions of the Metropolitan Licensing Court are governed? Are the members of the Court governed by the…

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FINED £30. Selling Beer Without a License

The Australian Star · Monday 20 July 1903 · page 5

Today, at the Central Police Court, a married woman named Emma Davis, aged 43, was charged by Sergeant Thompson and Constable Asprey with selling beer without…

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Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 July 1903 · page 8

The weekly meeting of the Central Licensing Court was held yesterday before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S. M. (presiding), Mr. E. H. Wilshire, S.M., and Mr. W. M. Macfarlane, S.M…

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The License of a Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 July 1903 · page 5

In the Licensing Court to-day Judge Molesworth proceeded with the hearing of an application to have a certificate issued to City Tattersall's Club in 1891 cancelled. The application was supported by the…

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Publicans' Transfers

The Australian Star · Tuesday 21 July 1903 · page 6

At the Central Licensing Court yesterday, before Messrs. Smithers, Wilshire, and Macfarlane, S.M.'s, the license of the Belvidere Hotel. Bathurst -street, was transferred…

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Tattersall's Club License

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 July 1903 · page 5

The matter of the cancellation of the license issued to Tattersall's Club was called on at the sitting of the Licensing Court to-day. Judge Molesworth was on the Bench, the objection to…

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Hotel Licenses

The Australian Star · Thursday 23 July 1903 · page 6

The Licensing Bench, sitting at the Water' Police Court yesterday, granted transfers of publicans' licenses from John F. Gordon to Alex.'Forrester; Flood's Hotel, Riley and…

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