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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1909

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Temperance and Morals Committee Oe the Methodist Church of N.S.W. No-license Campaign. To the Ministers, Office-bearers, and Members of the Methodist Church in New South Wales

The Methodist · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 1

THE Committed on Temperance and Morals desires to call attention to the fact that at the next General Election of Members for the State Parliament the people will again have the opportunity to…

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Border Auctioneers' Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Mr. John Murray, Premier of Victoria, and Mr. C. G. Wade, Premier of New South Wales, have come to an arrangement to take the necessary steps to authorise the issue of local licenses to…

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Hotel Washed Away. a Plucky Postmistress. "Would Die Like a Rat."

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- Newstead has experienced the biggest flood in its history. The Loddon River rose 2ft. in an hour, cutting off the west part of the town and station, and…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Wednesday, August 18. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.M.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 21 August 1909 · page 6

All application was before the Court for the transfer of the Railway Hotel, Parramatta, from George Samuel Phillips to Thomas Loughrey…

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Jewel Robbery. From a London Hotel. LONDON, Saturday, 6.30 a.m

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 22 August 1909 · page 1

A sensational robbery was perpetrated in the Great Central Hotel in London yesterday, when £4000 worth of jewellery was stolen in broad daylight from the room of Mrs…

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Hotels and Churches. the Squalor of Sydney's Slums

The Star · Tuesday 24 August 1909 · page 8

"That is perhaps the most densely populated part of the Commonwealth, and no doubt it also represents the most ignorance," said the Rev. R. B. S. Hammond, pointing…

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Is No-license a Success? Invercargill Mayor Says "Yes." Reply to Mr. Ranking. Wellington (N.z.), Aug. 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 August 1909 · page 10

A few months back Mr. Ranking, chief police magistrate at Brisbane, visited New Zealand on a tour of investigation into the results of no-license in parts of this country. On…

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Is No-license a Success? to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 25 August 1909 · page 12

Sir, -- In your issue of the 11th inst., under the above heading, Rev. Canon Boyce says "Invereargill is in question, and in the first year of no-license the convictions in the Courts for drunkenness were only 23 as…

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Business Pars. Tattersall's Hotel Forbes

The Catholic Press · Thursday 26 August 1909 · page 41

Visitors to Forbes will find that Tattersall's Hotel is one of the most comfortable and convenient in the western district. Reading and sitting rooms, civility and attention…

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Hotel on Fire. Excitement at the Broadway

The Star · Thursday 26 August 1909 · page 4

Block columns of smoke shot out of the roof of the University Hotel, which is licensed by Mr. W. G. Buflin in the Broadway, Globe, at 7 o'clock tills morning…

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Extra Special 3.15 P.m. Publican's Lease and Stamp Duty. Tooth and Co. Oppose an Assessment. a Balmain Hotel

The Star · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 5

The Full Court this morning resumed the hearing of the appeal of Tooth and Co., Limited, against the Commissioner of Stamps…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 8

The Metropolitan, Licensing Bench has granted the following transfers of publicans' licences:—Empress Hotel, Regent-street, Redfern, James Bleakney to Charles Nicholson…

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Slaughtering Without License

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 6

At the Globe Police Court on Wednesday a butcher was fined (costs included) £17 14s for having slaughtered and skinned some calves "on premises…

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Metropolitan Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 5

The Licensing Branch at the Central Court yesterday granted the following applications for transfers of hotel licenses:—Empress Hotel, Regent-street, Redfern. James Blealeney to Charles Nicholson Dawkins;…

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Fire in Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 11

About 7 a.m. yesterday the fire brigade was called out to the University Hotel, Broadway, Glebe. In an old lift well, used as a linen press, a fire had started through an electric…

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Publican's Lease and Stamp Duty. Tooth and Co. and the Commissioner. Appeal to the Full Court

The Star · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 6

The Full Court yesterday had before it the special case of Tooth and Co, Ltd., and the Commissioner for Stamps. Mr. Lamb and Mr. Thompson appeared…

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City Fires. Outbreak at an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 August 1909 · page 8

Considerable excitement was caused at the University Hotel, Broadway, Glebe, occupied by W. G. Bulfin, at an early hour yesterday morning, when one of the inmates gave an alarm of…

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A Bicycle License. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 August 1909 · page 17

Sir,—It is satisfactory to see that some notion is being taken to stop scorching by bicyclists. In most cities owners are required to register their bicycles, and carry in the…

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Assaulting a Publican

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 August 1909 · page 16

Charles George R[?]se, 38, a clerk, was charged [?] the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. J. L. King, S.M., with assaulting [?]l Keig, on August [?], The case for the prosecution was to the effect th[?]…

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Hotel-keeping. Some Romances of the Trade

The Star · Saturday 28 August 1909 · page 14

A public house hardly seems to be the sort of place where one might expect to and happenings of a romantic nature, but, all the same, I know of some occurrences in the…

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