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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1909

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Federal Intervention. Strike Pay Reduced. Publicans Withdraw Support. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1909 · page 10

The promise of the Federal Government to intervene in the industrial dispute has pleased the local labourites, though the basis of the intervention is not clear. Mr. Hewitt, one of…

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Licensed Victuallers

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 April 1909 · page 17

The ordinary general meeting of the committee of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association of New South Wales was held at the moms on Thursday. The President (Mr. J. B. Seaton) in the chair. The…

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To Close Hotels on Election Days. London, Saturday Morning

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 April 1909 · page 9

The Bill which Mr. Charles Henry Roberts, Liberal M.P. for the City of Lincoln, introduced to close the public-houses on election days, has been read…

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Closing Hotels on Election Days. London, Saturday, 3.30 a.m

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 4 April 1909 · page 1

In the House of Commons last night Mr. C. H. Roberts's bill providing for the closing of public houses on election days gassed its second reading by 199 votes to 46…

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Easter Show. Crowded Hotels

The Star · Tuesday 6 April 1909 · page 11

With Easter comes country visitors, and the city is always taxed to its uttermost to provide for their welfare. The present season is no exception to the rule, and…

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Two Leading Hotels

The Catholic Press · Thursday 8 April 1909 · page 20

The Gresham Hotel, which was re-opened in December, 1907, and Lennons Hotel, are the two leading establishments of the kind in Queensland's capital. They are centrally…

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New Hotel for Suva. Union Company's Enterprise

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1909 · page 10

Owing to the growing passenger trade from New Zealand and Australia to Fiji, the Union Steam Ship Company. recognising that hotel accommodation at Suva is quite insufficient to meet the requirements, has decided…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 9 April 1909 · page 3

The Metropolitan Licensing Court has granted the transfer of the 'following publicans' licenses:—Friendship Hotel, Bathurst-street, Sydney. Martha C. Conley to James Brown; Oddfellows'…

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Suburban News. Licensed Victuallers Marshalling

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 April 1909 · page 8

At a meeting of licensed victuallers at Balmain, it was decided to form a branch of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association. The officers clected were:— Mr. R. Stewart, preaident; Mr. [?] hon. treasurer;…

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Waitress Turns Organ Grinder. Pretty Girl Prefers Life of Freedom to Hotel Routine

The World's News · Saturday 10 April 1909 · page 4

UP till quite recently one of the great attractions of a leading hotel in a large town in North Wales was a pretty waitress. She was about 23 years of age, and…

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Union Company As Hotel Proprietor

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 April 1909 · page 14

Owing to the growing passenger trade from Australia and New Zealand to Fiji, the Union Steamship Compuny, recognising that hotel accommodation at Su[?] is quite insufficient to meet the requirements, has…

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Liverpool Licensing Court. Wednesday, April 7. (Before Mr. H. S. Hawkins, P.M., and Mr. J. C. Mayne, L.M.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 10 April 1909 · page 3

J. S. Perry applied for a renewal of his license of the Commercial Hotel, Liverpool, which was granted. Sergeant Coates, licensing inspector…

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Tragedy at the Savoy Hotel Jewel Thief Takes His Life. Clever Ruse That Failed. London, March 6

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 April 1909 · page 12

"The story is like an extravagant romance; I doubt whether anything like it has been read in a shilling shocker," the Westminster coroner exclaimed yesterday…

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Hotel Brawl. Man Assaulted, Another Arrested

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 11 April 1909 · page 1

An unseemly bra[?] occurred, in a King-street hotel last night over the "shouting" of drink, and as a result Edward Fisher, 29. living in Palmer-street, city, received a…

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Licensed Victuallers. Annual Conference. Net Result of Local Option. Hotels to Be Closed, 301

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 6

"You are asked to assemble here for the purpose of devising ways and means for the advancement and defence of hotelkeepers' interests." With those remarks the president of…

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The Liquor Trade. Hotel-keepers' Conference

Evening News · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 4

The second annual conference of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association of New South Wales was held on Tuesday, under the presidency of Mr. J. B. Sutton…

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Licensed Victuallers' Association. the Need of Organisation

The Star · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 7

The second annual conference of the United Victuallers' Association of New South Wales was commenced at the City Bank chambers yesterday, Mr. J. B. Sutton (president,…

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Publicans in Conference. Appeal for Organisation

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 14 April 1909 · page 7

The second annual conference of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association of New South Wales was commenced in the rooms, Pitt-street, yesterday, and was presided over by the…

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Hotelkeepers' Conference. This Afternoon's Business. Delinquent Lodgers. the Publicans' Losing Game. (Continued from page 8.)

Evening News · Thursday 15 April 1909 · page 5

The annual conference of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association of New South Wales was continued this afternoon in the Associations rooms, City Bank Chambers, Pitt-street,…

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The Power of the Pint. Liquor on Good Friday. What Some Publicans Did. the Fallacy of the Act

Evening News · Thursday 15 April 1909 · page 7

Mr. J. Knight Smith, of Willoughby, in moving his motion, at the annual conference of the New South Wales United Licensed Victuallers' Association this afternoon, regarding…

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