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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1909

891 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 45

Amended Licensing Act. London, Friday, 3.45 p.m

The Star · Saturday 28 August 1909 · page 1

The Government's amended licensing scheme considerably reduces the duties on hotels restaurants, theatres and off-licences, and makes clubs pay 6d in the £ on…

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British Licensing Law Duties Considerably Reduced. London, Friday Afternoon

Sunday Times · Sunday 29 August 1909 · page 7

The amended licensing scheme of the Government considerably reduces the duties on licenses on hotels, restaurants, and theatres, and makes…

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British Finance Bill. the License Duties. London, Aug. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 August 1909 · page 7

The amended licensing scheme of the Government considerably reduces the duties on hotels, restaurants, theatres, and off-licenses. It makes clubs pay sixpence…

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Amended Licensing Scheme. Duties Considerably Reduced

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 August 1909 · page 7

LONDON, Friday Afternoon.--The Government's amended licensing scheme considerably reduces the duties upon hotels, restaurants, and theatres, and off licenses,…

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A Woolloomooloo Hotel. Trouble Over a Purchase Contract

Evening News · Tuesday 31 August 1909 · page 5

Before Judge Scholes, in the Sydney District Court this morning, Terence Frederick Sweeney, of 176 Cumberland-street, Sydney, claimed £20 from John M'Mahon, of 185 Bourke-street, Surry…

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Mr. Roosevelt's License

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 1 September 1909 · page 4

Sportsmen in this country will be interested to know that Mr. Rosevelt's license in Africa in just an ordinary one, and permits him to shoot the following:—Two male elephants, two…

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Licensing Bill. Temperance Bodies' Protest Secret Drinking Among Women. London, Tuesday. 3 p.m

The Star · Wednesday 1 September 1909 · page 1

Temperance bodies have expressed strong disapproval at Mr. Lloyd George's amendment of the Licensing Bill, under which it is proposed to allow grocers to sell quarter…

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A City Hotel. Trouble Over the Sale. Alleged False Representation

The Star · Wednesday 1 September 1909 · page 7

In the District Court yesterday Judge Scholes commenced the hearing of a complicated suit in connection with the lease of an hotel. There were three cases on the…

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District Court. (Before Judge Scholes.) Hotel Sale Dispute

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 September 1909 · page 7

Three cases were taken together. In the first one the plaintiff was Terence Frederick Sweeney, of Cumberland-street, and the defendant John M'Mahon, of Bourke-street,…

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Licensed Waterman Charged. Chased by the Water Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 September 1909 · page 8

Clarence Potts, 31, a licensed waterman, [?] charged at the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. N. Payten, S.M., with having on August 19, in his custody a box of butter, a bag of tea, and a…

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Assaulting a Publican

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 September 1909 · page 8

Richard Mitcherson, 47, a fireman, was [?] the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. C. M. Payten, S.M., with assaulting [?] Braussen, the licensee of the New Zealand Hotel, corner of Sussex…

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Border Barbarisms. Auctioneers' Licenses. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 September 1909 · page 8

The question of border auctioneers' licensing came before the local court, when the adjourned case of J. G. Shields, auctioneer for Dalgety and Co., Wodonga, was dealt with…

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Imperial Parliament. Licensing Clauses. Grogers and Whisky. London, Aug. 31

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 September 1909 · page 7

There is strong disapproval among [?]perance bodies with regard to an amendment of Mr. Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the licensing…

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Sale of a City Hotel

The Star · Thursday 2 September 1909 · page 2

We have been asked to correct an error in connection with the findings of Judge Scholes (District Court) in the three cases arising out of the sale of the New Nation…

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The Licensing Bill. Secret Drinking Among Women an Amendment Withdrawn

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 September 1909 · page 5

LONDON, Tuesday. Afternoon.--There is strong disapproval among the temperance bodies at an amendment made by Mr. Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer…

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Metropolitan Licensing Court. Publicans' Licenses Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 5

The Licensing Bench at the Central Police Court yesterday granted the following applications for the transfer of hotel licenses—Lord Nelson Hotel, Ken[?] and Argyle streets, Thomas J. Finnan to Michael…

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British License Duties. Concession to Irish Publicans. United Nationalist Demand. London, Sept. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 7

In Committee of Ways and Means in the House of Commons last night, Budget resolutions regarding licenses were submitted. Mr. J. E. Redmond, leader of the…

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The Hotel Sensation. a Boarder Found Dead. New Discovery by the Police. (Continued from page 8.)

Evening News · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 7

The police were busily engaged this morning sifting the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Cox, at the Hotel Arcadia, on Thursday night, with the result that a different…

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Found Dead in Bed. Sensation in a City Hotel. Woy Woy Resident's Sudden End

Evening News · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 8

At an early hour this morning a well-known business man of Woy Woy, named Henry Robert Cox, was found dead in bed at the Hotel Arcadia, Pitt-street, Sydney, where he…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 3 September 1909 · page 9

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench has granted the following transfers of publicans' licences:— Lord Nelson Hotel, Kent and Argyle streets,…

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