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Hotels & licensing, 1905

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Police Courts. Selling Liquor Without a License

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 September 1905 · page 18

A middle-aged widow named Mary Henderson, was fined £30 at the Central Court, with the alternative of three months' imprisonment, for selling liquor at 97 Fo[?]aux-street, without a license…

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State Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 September 1905 · page 10

The balance-sheet of the Stain Hotel at Gwalia for the year ended June 30 shows a profit of £589, exclusive of depreciation. This is the only Government hotel in the State, and…

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How to Settle an Hotel Bill

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 23 September 1905 · page 7

AN hotelkeeper at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, recented learned something in this wise: Two countrymen took lodgings at his place and fared sumptuously, drinking three…

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The New Licensing Bill

Evening News · Monday 25 September 1905 · page 8

Mr. T. W. Shortland writes:—Legislation which has for its object the elimination of the immense death rate due to the excessive use of alcohol should be hailed with delight by all…

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Hotel Destroyed at Broome

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 September 1905 · page 7

The Weld Club Hotel, Broome, and the residence of Mr, Rodiglez, Which adjoined, were entirely destroyed by fire on Friday. Mr. Egan, formerly of Kalgoorlie, had a narrow…

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Western Australia. a State Hotel. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 September 1905 · page 7

The net profit on the Gwalla State Hotel for the year ended June 30 last was £589…

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A Publican Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 September 1905 · page 8

On Saturday night Walter Sydney smith, proprietor of the Yowie Day Hotel, Port Hacking, was admitted to the St. George's Cottage Hospital, Kogarah, suffering from a wound in the…

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Hotel Damaged at Wagga

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 September 1905 · page 8

WAGGA, Saturday.--This morning a fire broke out in the bar of Alexander Stewart's Exchange Hotel. Mr. Stewart's nephew discovered the fire and raised the alarm, The fire brigade was…

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Central Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Tuesday 26 September 1905 · page 6

At yesterday's sitting of the Central Licensing Court the following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted: Patrick Davis to Margaret Davis, Cave of Dunmore…

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Police Courts. Central Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 September 1905 · page 4

At the Central Licensing Court yesterday,[?] fore Messrs. G. H. Smithers, E.H. Wilsh[?]re and M. Macfarlane, S.Ms., Bessie Evans was granted renewal of a license for the Welcome Home H[?]…

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Interesting Licensing Case. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 September 1905 · page 8

At the Licensing Court to-day an application was considered by the Bench for the transfer of a license to a man who is an uncertificated insolvent. The applicant's wife…

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No-license As Seen by a New Zealander. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 September 1905 · page 7

Sir,--I am grateful to a "Sydney Hotel-keeper" for giving me an opportunity of stating more fully and accurately what I have seen with my own eyes and heard with ray own cars…

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Hotel Cook Missing

Evening News · Wednesday 27 September 1905 · page 4

HAY, Wednesday,—A woman, named Cwendoline Wrlliams, aged [??] years, employed as cook at the Courthouse Hotel, Hay suddenly disappeared on saturday night, and has not…

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A Tea Room. with a Wine License. Mrs. Amy Carter's Affairs

The Australian Star · Wednesday 27 September 1905 · page 5

Examined before the Registrar in Bankruptcy by her official assignee (Mr. L. T. Lloyd), Amy Cecilia Carter said that she carried on several businesses prior to her…

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Anti-liquor Demonstration. Rechabites and the Licensing Bill

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 September 1905 · page 9

The series of meetings to celebrate the "coming of age" of the Independent Order of Rechabites in New South Wales was continued by a gathering held last night in Wesley…

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Licensing Court

The Australian Star · Thursday 28 September 1905 · page 7

The Licensing Bench sitting at the Water Police Court granted the transfer of the following publicans' licenses:-- The Royal Oak Hotel, College-street,…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Thursday 28 September 1905 · page 3

The Water Licensing Bench has granted the transfer of the following publicans' licences: This Royal Oak Hotel, College-street Balmain, from George Pearson to Edward Augustus…

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Water Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 September 1905 · page 4

The weekly meeting of the Water Licensing Court was held yesterday, the Bench consisting of Messrs. G. H. Smithers, S.M., C. N. Payten, S.M., L. S. Donaldson, S.M., and A. N. Barnet, L.M., The…

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No-license in New Zealand. the Ashburton Experiment. Further Investigation and Report. Commissioner No. 2. a Minister of the Gospel on the Matter. the Moral Aspect. Wellington, Sept. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 6

The [?]utter in the dovecot caused by the report of a special commissioner, who visited Asbburton last July on behalf of the Lyttelton "Times." has not yet ceased. It will be…

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Public Carriers and the Traffic Act. Most Vehicles Be Licensed?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 September 1905 · page 8

Several cases of interest were heard yesterday at the Water Summons Court, before Mr. payten, S.M., under the Trafile Act. Edward E. Sanders was proceeded against for being…

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