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Hotels & licensing, 1907

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No License in Broken Hill

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 September 1907 · page 5

"Escapee" writes:—"Perhaps the most striking feature of the local option poll is the heavy vote of Broken Hill in favor of no license. This is exceedingly…

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No License or Prohibition

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 September 1907 · page 5

The reduction vote, recorded in every instance in the suburban and country electorates, is the greatest farce of the whole forcical scheme of local option. It…

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London and the Licensing Act

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 September 1907 · page 5

A report presented by the Local Government Committee of the London County Council shows that under the Licensing Act, 1904. there have been extinguished…

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Local Option. No-license and Reduction. How the Law Operates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 September 1907 · page 4

Mere returns of the voting on the local option question are meaningless, if they are not actually misleading, for the poll has to be considered in conjunction with the numerous…

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The Indefatigable. a Woman in a Hurry. Some Experiences of a No-license Worker

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 September 1907 · page 6

The apparently endless argument as to the capabilities of women may be advanced a step by an illustration of one woman's appetite for hard work and her indefatigable following of a…

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Mr. Carruthers Defined. by the Licensed Victuallers. Fight to Parliament Doors. Recruits to the Labor Camp

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 5

Mr. J. J. Power, president of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, had something to say to a "Daily Telegraph" representative yesterday concerning the local option poll in general…

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The Attorney-general and the Licensing Act. Alleged Misquotation of a Case

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 6

LITHGOW, Monday.--At the Licensing Court this morning, the licensee fee of the Grand Central Hotel was fixed at £65. During argument in the case reference was…

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The Publicans' View. Address by Mr. J J. Power

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 6

At a meeting of the Hotelkeepers of Belmore Association, held at the Prince of Wales Hotel last night, Mr. J. J. Power, the president of the Licensed Victuallers' Association,…

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No-license Committees. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 7

Sir,--There seems a probability that now the elections are over, some of the no-license campaign committees will cease work. The members of such bodies should remember that there is great scope for educational…

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The Licensing Act

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 8

During the hearing of a case at the Licensing Court Lithgow, on Monday, reference was made to a circular issued by the Attorney-General, and exception taken to the value of the…

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Temperance and Liberalism. Premier and No-license Party. What Canon Boyce Says

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 10

"The friends of temperance." said Rev. Canon Boyce (president of the New South Wales Alliance) to a "Daily Telegraph" representative yesterday, "have, as far as we can judge…

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Hotel Transfers. Licensed Victuallers' Protest

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 September 1907 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--An attack on the Licensing Benches was made at the half-yearly meeting the Licensed Victuallers' Association yesterday. The report of the committee…

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Victoria. Reduction of Hotels. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 September 1907 · page 8

The Licenses Reduction Board to-day took evidence with a view to determining whether it would not include among the places to be closed the Empire Hotel, Latrobe-street[?],…

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Government House and Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 September 1907 · page 6

The Empire Hotel, Latrobe-street, formerly the Government House occupied by Governor Latrobe, came under notice of the Licenses Reduction. Board to-day. Evidence was taken in…

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The Local Option Vote. Licensed Victualler's Opinion

Evening News · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 2

At a meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association on Thursday evening the .question of the local option poll was discussed. The figures so far enow that 16 of the 90…

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Fire at Narrandera. Hotel Burned Down

Evening News · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 5

NARRANDERA, Friday.—Mr. John Folly's Gillenbah Hotel and its contents were completely destroyed by fire at 5 o'clock this morning. The building was insured for £3235 in the…

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Burglary at an Hotel. a Good Haul

Evening News · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 4

The Castle Connell Hotel, Regent-street, City, of which Nell M'Eachern is the licensee, was broken into between 12 o'clock on Thursday night and 6 o'clock this morning, and a…

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Local Option Poll Hotelkeepers in Protest. Looking to Parliament

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 4

Sixteen out of the 90 electorates in the State have new declared for a continuance of existing licenses. These are Armidale, Belmore, Belubula, Burrangong, Corowa, Darling…

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Burglars at Chippendale Hotel Broken Into Come of the Property Recovered

The Australian Star · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 1

The Castle Connell Hotel, in Regent-street Chippendale, opposite the Mortuary railway station, of which Mr. Nea H. C. M'Eachern is the licensee, was broken into between 11…

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Metropolitan Licensing Bench

The Australian Star · Friday 20 September 1907 · page 7

At the weekly sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Bench, held yesterday, at the Central Police Court, the only transfers of publicans' licences grunted were the…

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