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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1907

956 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 48

Seaside Hotel Fire. Eight Hundred Guests Escape in Night Clothes. Careless' Maid the Cause. New York, July 29

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 September 1907 · page 12

The Long Beach Hotel, at Long Beach, Long Island, which is the summer residence is the summer residence of hundreds of New York businessmen and their families, was burned to…

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The Brewers v. the Publicans

Evening News · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 8

Canon Boyce writes:—A copy of the local option ballot paper has been handed me that has come from a brewery. It is printed with a cross in the top square, so as to show how an…

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The Local Option Vote. What It Means. How the Publican May Be Affected

Evening News · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 5

Electors will tomorrow be asked to vote on three resolutions:—1. That the number of hotel licences existing in the electorate continue. 2. That the number be reduced. 3. That no hotel…

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Local Option Poll. Rev. W. Carr-smtth Emphatic. "Nothing Would Induce Me to Vote No License." Distortion of Divine Revelation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 7

The Rev. W. Carr-Smith, preaching last evening at St. James' Church, made some vigorous observations on the "No License" crusade. After impressing with very…

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No-license Campaign. Cry of the Children. Temperance Demonstration. 4000 in Procession

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 8

Some 4000 children took part in a great demonstration on Saturday afternoon to promote the cause of "no-license." The churches were evidently the backbone of the movement,…

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Comprehensive Meeting. Supports No-license. Condemns the Tariff and £600 a Year. Kempsey

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 6

A public meeting held in the Willowarrin Hall, Macleay, passed resolutions pledging every effort to socure a no-license vote, condemnatory of the action of the Federal…

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Rydalmere Sensation. Fight in a Sacristy Altar Splashed with Blood. Constable and Publican Injured

The Australian Star · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 1

A serious disturbance occurred in the Roman Catholic Church hall at Rydalmere, two miles on the Sydney side of Parramatta yesterday and resulted in a publican named…

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No-license Campaign

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 9

The position in Bathurst grows in interest. friend writes me from there saying, "Since April we have been working hard and have succeeded in making no-license a burning question…

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The Liquor Question. "No-license" Rally. Children's Demonstration. a Big Procession

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 9

Young Australia, or at least so much of it as could conveniently be gathered from the various points of the metropolitan compass, on Saturday, afternoon made war against the liquor…

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Fight in a Church Hall. Sunday Scene at Rydalmere. Policeman Severely Kicked. a Publican Shot with a Revolver. Four Arrests

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 September 1907 · page 6

Rydalmere, a quiet little district, best known tor its fruit, in the midst of scrubby country two miles on the Sydney side of Parramatta, was the scene of a sensational occurrence early…

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Estate Sequestrated. an Hotelkeeper Appeals. the Merchant and the Publican

The Australian Star · Tuesday 10 September 1907 · page 1

In the Bankruptcy Court this morning Mr. Justice Street resumed the hearing of the appeal of Victor Ulric Ernest Vandy from the sequestration of his estate on the petition…

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The Publicans' Battle Demonstration at Masonic Hall. the Poor Mans Beer

Evening News · Tuesday 10 September 1907 · page 2

The Mascnic Hall in Castlereagh-stret. city. was crowded on Monday evening, when the Liquor Trades Defence Union made a last rally of its forces, in opposition to the no-licence…

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The No-license Question. Mr. T. S. Lang in Difficulties

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 September 1907 · page 11

In yesterday's issue of the "Herald" Mr. T. S. Lang attempts an answer to my statement of the ethics of the licensed victuallers Position, published on Thursday last…

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Appeal Against Sequestration. the Case of an Hotelkeeper

The Australian Star · Tuesday 10 September 1907 · page 7

In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday Mr. Justice Street heard argument in the j appeal of Victor Ulric Ernest Vandy, whose estate was sequestrated, on the petition of…

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Local Option. the N.s.w. Alliance. Final "No-license" Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 September 1907 · page 6

A final meeting of the Alliance connected with its "no-license" campaign was held at its headquarters yesterday afternoon. Much correspondence was dealt with and many…

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Closing of Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 September 1907 · page 10

The uproarious crowds that filled the principal streets constituted a marked contradistinction to the orderly little knots of people who, loitering in the vicinity of the…

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The Tariff Licensed Victuallers' Protest. 40 to 90 Per Cent. Increase. Direct Duties Preferred

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 September 1907 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Representatives of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association of Victoria protested to the Minister for Customs (Mr. A. Chapman) to-day against the…

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"Our Quatre Bras." Canon Boyce on "Reduction Victories." "Scores of Licenses Lost."

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 September 1907 · page 9

"The friends of temperance, and its sympathisers, have worked magnificently," said Rev. Canon Boyce, president of the New South Wales Alliance, when interviewed last night by a…

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No-license Demonstration

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 11 September 1907 · page 2

The Parramatta branch of the New South Wales Alliance are to be complimented upon their remonstrations of last Saturday and Sunday, and if earnestness…

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Rev. W. Carr-Smith Emphatic. " Nothing Would Induce Me to Vote No License." Distortion of Divine Revelation

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 11 September 1907 · page 1

The Rev. W. Carr-Smith, preaching on Sunday evening at St. James Church, Sydney, made some vigorous observations on the ".No-licence" crusade. After…

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