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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1907

956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 48

Fire at Somerton. Hotel Destroyed

Evening News · Monday 29 April 1907 · page 5

TAMWOBTH, Monday.—The hotel at Somerton, 23 miles from Tamworth, Was totally destroyed by the early this morning. No particulars of the fire are at present available…

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Squabble at Watson's Bay. Charge Against a Stepdaughter. Row in a Hotel. the Magistrate's Sympathy

Evening News · Monday 29 April 1907 · page 5

At the Water Police Court this morning, before Mr. Isaacs, S. M., Lilian Toy, a young woman, was charged with assaulting her stepfather, George Wadsworth Ashworth, and…

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Bowling Clubs and Their Licenses. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 April 1907 · page 8

Sir,—I was much astonished to read the report of the deputation to the Attorney-General re request for permits to get behind the licensing laws passed, so as to secure certain…

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Breach of the Licensing Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 April 1907 · page 4

At the Parramatta Police Court on "Monday, before Mr. W. Chrlte, D.S.M., Oswald Schofield was charged that he, not being at the time the servant of a person helding a license authorising him to sell liquor, did on…

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By the Silver Sea. Ructions at a Hotel, a Young Girl Charged and Honourably Acquitted

The Australian Star · Tuesday 30 April 1907 · page 7

Lilian Toy. 21, no occupation, wan charged on remand, and on ball, at the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Isaacs, S.M., with assaulting and robbing George Wadsworth…

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Police Courts. Selling Liquor Without a License

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 30 April 1907 · page 6

At the Parramatta Court, before Mr. W. Clarke. D.S.M., a young man. Oswald Schofield, was charged with selling a bottle of wine, at a house at Keilyville. on April 22. He pleaded guilty, and was fined £30; in default,…

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New Hotel at Woy Woy

Referee · Wednesday 1 May 1907 · page 6

Now to the other side of the picture. It was not so very long ago that there was no hotel nearer to Woy Woy than Gosford. Then the Woy Woy Hotel was built. Now…

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Destruction of Hotels

Referee · Wednesday 1 May 1907 · page 6

Hotels at fishing resorts are having a bad time. The Yowic Bay Hotel, Port Hacking, has been almost completely destroyed by fire. It contained 17 rooms, 12…

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A Hotel Squabble

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 May 1907 · page 7

At the Central Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Donaldson, S.M., Alfred Smith, 22, Denia Murphy. 19, and Patrick Murphy, 45, were charged with assaulting John Cavanagh on April 20. The prosecutor stated…

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Royal Hotel Moree

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 1 May 1907 · page 1122

The Royal Hotel, which has been acquired by Mr. C. S. Marsden from Mr. John Cameron, is…

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The Licensing Act. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 May 1907 · page 6

Sir.--I do not deny that the new Licensing Act has been a benefit to the country, but has it been a benefit to such a one as myself, who desirous of spending the week-end away from the humdrum of daily toil and not…

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Assaulted in a Hotel

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 May 1907 · page 4

Vincent Brown, 21, street musician, pleaded guilty, under provocation, to having assaulted George Ramsay yesterday. Complainant stated that yesterday he was…

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Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 8

At the meeting of the Licensing Court yesterday about 40 publicans licenses were renewed, and several applications for renewal were postponed…

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Metropolitan Licensing Court the Narrabeen Hotel

The Australian Star · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 7

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench sat yesterday (Messrs. Smithers, Macfarlane, and Donaldson), and adjudicated in the following business as under:—…

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Metropolitan Licensing Court. Annual Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 9

The annual meeting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court (Messrs. Smithers, Donaldson, and Macfarlane, S.Ms) was held at the Central Police Court yesterday. Above 50 renewals of publican' licenses were granted,…

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The Narrabeen Hotel

Evening News · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 3

Charlotte Boutin, whose. hotel at Narrabeen was recently burnt down applied to the Central Licensing court yesterday, for leave to carry on the bar business in a…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 3

The following transfers of publicans licences were granted at the annual meeting of the Licensing Bench yesterday:—Leisure Hour Hotel. North Sydney, from Joe Hey to George…

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Clifton Gardens Hotel, Mosman Telephone Mosman 31

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 5

Sheltered from the bleak westerly winds of whiter, the Hotel occupies an ideal position at the harbor's edge, and affords a desirable Sydney home for country visitors. The terms are…

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Industrial Arbitration Office. (Before the Acting Registrar.) Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Employees' Union, Ex Parte William Ronneberg

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 5

This was an applicaion by Ronneberg, a member of the union, under section 8 of the Industrial Arbitration Act, for the cancellation of the registration of the union on the…

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Victorian New Licensing Act Melbourne

The Australian Star · Friday 3 May 1907 · page 7

The Licensed Victuallers' Defence Fund, for the purpose of obtaining a legal interpretation of the new Licensing Act and to oppose tho imposition of a £20 foe for extra…

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