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Hotels & licensing, 1908

1,369 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 69

Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Employees

Evening News · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 7

The President of the Industrial Court (Judge Heydon) had before him an application on behalf of the Amalgamated Hotel and Caterers Employees' Mutual Benefit Association of New…

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Country Licensing Courts. Blayney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 14

The Special Licensing Court, consisting of Judge Docker and Messrs. M'Kell, Marriott, and Treatt, P.Ms., gave its decison to-day. Judge Docker explained that in this…

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Hotel Transfer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 8

At the Central Police Court yesterday the following transfer of a hotel license was granted:—United Australia Hotel, Liverpool-street, Benjamin Keats to Arthur Herman…

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Aaron's Exchange Hotel Half-yearly Meeting

The Australian Star · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 3

The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Royal Exchange Hotel Company, Limited, was held yesterday afternoon. Mr. C. A. Lindeman, Chairman of…

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Hotel and Restaurant Employees Industrial Board Recommended

The Australian Star · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 2

An application was made in the Industrial Court yesterday on behalf of the Amalgamated Hotel and Caterers' Employees' Mutual Benefit Associati[?]n of New South…

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Tasmania. Licensing Bill in Committee

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 7

HOBART, Friday.--The Licensing Bill was further considered in committee to the Assembly. An earnest effort was made to have the question of license struck out of the bill, and…

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Transferred Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 19

CAMDEN, Friday.--At the Special Licensing Court, the license of Charles Page Commercial Hotel, was transferred to Sylyester Kennedy. of Yerranderre: also tht of Caroline Keating. Royal Hotel, was transferred to…

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Industrial Disputes. (Before Judge Heydon.) Board for Hotel and Restaurant Employees

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 August 1908 · page 18

Mr. Mortimer, on behalf of the Amalgamated Hotel and Caterers' Employees' Mutual Benefit Association of New South Wales, applied for the appointment of a board in that trade. Mr…

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Demonstration for Licensing Bill

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 August 1908 · page 12

A demonstration numbering 100,000 people, with 100 bands, and scores of banners, assembled in Hyde Park and supported the Licensing Bill. Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board…

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Gas Explosion in an Hotel Porter Badly Hurt

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 August 1908 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Sunday,--A serious explosion of gas took place at Thomas's Criterion Hotel, corner of Hunter and Bolton streets, just after 11 o'clock to- night. There had been a leakage in…

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Broken-hill Hotels. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 August 1908 · page 3

Sir,--The Full Court having decided that the convictions of the Special Licensing Court shall be quashed, and the hotels that were closed having re- opened, in the interests of fair play I should like to ask that a…

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Police Courts. Selling Liquor Without a License

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 August 1908 · page 9

Annie Lyons, 26, married, was charged at the Central Police Court yesterday with selling liquor without a license. She pleaded guilty. Evidence was given that Constable M'Neill went to accused's premises in…

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Licenses for Asiatics. Natal's Cancellation Proposals London, Aug. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 August 1908 · page 9

The Legislative Assembly of Natal has read the second time the bill providing for the termination of all licenses to Asiatics on a certain day. The licensees will be…

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Terminating Asiatic Licenses. Bill in the Natal Assembly

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 August 1908 · page 9

LONDON, Tuesday.--In the Natal Assembly yesterday, the second reading of the Asiatics Bill was carried. The chief clause in the bill enacts that…

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Hotel Safe Robbery

Evening News · Thursday 6 August 1908 · page 2

Leslie Haynes pleaded guilty at the Darlinghurst Sessions to having on June 21 stolen in the dwelling of Sydney George Parkes, hotelkeeper, in Flinders-street, Sydney, a cashbox…

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Country Licensing Courts. Tumut

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 August 1908 · page 8

The Special Licensing Court has ordered the closing of the following hotels in the electorate:—Cowan's Killarney, O'Keefe's Court House. Adelong; Dennis's Squatters' Arms,…

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Licensee Runs Amok. Threatens Inmates with Revolver

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 August 1908 · page 8

PERTH, Wednesday.--The licensee of the Windsor Hotel South Perth, George Gorringe Lewis, was arrested this afternoon charged with being of unsound mind…

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A Publican's Death

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 August 1908 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--At the Adelaide Hospital to-day the city coroner conducted an inquiry into the cause of death of W. Fergusson licensee of the Wellington Hotel, who…

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Selling Liquor Without Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 August 1908 · page 8

In the South Brisbane Summons Court to-day, a fruiterer named Holst was fined £20 and £2 2s costs for selling liquor without a license. Elizabeth M'Kean, a boardinghouse-keeper, was fined…

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Hotels on the Barrier. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 August 1908 · page 3

Sir,--When the decision of the License Reduction Court at Borken-hill to close only nine public-hourses out of a total of 76 in the two electorates was announced in your columns I at once, through the public press and direct…

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