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Hotels & licensing, 1909

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Another Resumption Claim. City Council and Hotel Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 September 1909 · page 7

A [?] arising out of the Engine-street resumptions for the new markets came before the City Council last night. Mrs. Moran, lessee of an hotel on the resumption area, had claimed £4300 as compensation…

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City Council and Hotels. Building Lease Objected To. Aldermen on Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 September 1909 · page 11

Quite an interesting discussion on the drink question arose from an apparently simple recommendation by the Finance Committee, which was considered by the City Council last…

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The Prospective Publican

Evening News · Wednesday 29 September 1909 · page 4

P. M. A. writes:—I quite agree with "F.P." re the prospective publican ("Evening News," September 21), and would go a little further, and think that the teetotal fanatics should…

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Aldermanic Scruples. Council As Hotel Lessee. Business or Principle?

The Star · Wednesday 29 September 1909 · page 1

At the City Council last night the finance committee recommended the acceptance of the proposals contained in a minute by the Lord Mayor in reference to the claims by…

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A Policeman's Evidence. a Publican's' Appeal

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 September 1909 · page 10

MOREE, Tuesday. -- James Kelly, of the Royal Hotel, appealed against his conviction in June on a charge of having a person on his premises in prohibited hours. Mr. W. C. Moodye…

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Baptist Union. the No License Campaign

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 September 1909 · page 6

The concluding session of the New South Wales Baptist Union was held at the Bathurststreet church yesterday afternoon, the president (Mr. G. W. Griffith) presiding…

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Hotelkeeper Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 September 1909 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Angus' M'Coll (52), hotelkeeper at Bathuni, was crossing a lagoon in a flat-bottomed boat, when it swamped and sank, about six years from the bank. M'Coll…

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Parramatta Licensing Court Monday, September 27. (Before Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.M., and Mr. C. J. Byrnes, J.P., Licensing Magistrates.)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 29 September 1909 · page 2

An application for the transfer of the Iicense of the Horse and Jockey Hotel, Homebush, from Annie Nowell to Albert Arthur Thomas, was granted…

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Sydney Hotel-keeper Fined. Fob Working Employees Excessive Hours

Evening News · Thursday 30 September 1909 · page 6

In the Industrial Court Mr. J. J. Morrish, secretary of the Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Employees' Union, proceeded against Daniel O'Brien, licensee ol the Hotel Victoria,…

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Public Telephones in Hotels

Evening News · Thursday 30 September 1909 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Wednesday,—In the House of Representatives this afternoon, Dr. Liddell (N.S.W.) asked Sir John Quick it the Postal Department was opposed, stated to the…

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Telephones in Hotels. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 September 1909 · page 11
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The Postmaster-General was asked by Dr. Liddell in the House of Representatives to-day if it was a fact that his department declined to allow the installation of public…

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No License

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 September 1909 · page 4

At the annual meeting of the Temperance Alliance it was resolved, on the motion of the Rev. C. H. Nield,—"That before seeking further legislation the executive should make…

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Industrial Court. (Before Judge Heydon.) Charge Against Hotelkeeper. Alleged Excessive Hours

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 September 1909 · page 7

Daniel O'Brien, licensee of the Hotel Victoria, George-street, Sydney, was proceeded against by the Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Employees' Union on a charge that he…

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Hotel Servants' Hours

The Star · Thursday 30 September 1909 · page 6

Zara Tuck, a witness before Judge Heydon in the Industrial Court yesterday gave evidence as to the number of hours worked by a domestic servant in a city hotel…

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Telephones in Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 September 1909 · page 6

In the House of Representatives yesterday morning. Dr. Liddell. (N.S.W.) asked the Post-master-General whether the department's objection to placing public telephone bureaus in…

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City Council and Hotels. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 30 September 1909 · page 10

Sir,--Whether the Lord Mayor of Sydney made an excellent bargain "in arranging a 50 yours' lease for a big hotel in the vicinity of the new markets or not is a matter upon which at present I offer no opinion, but…

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The Park Gate Hotel License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 4

At the Parramatta Licensing Court on Wednesday, before Mr. E. Marriott, D.S.M., the license of the Park Gate Hotel, Parramatta, was transferred from…

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Wonders of an Up-to-date Hotel

The Star · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 11

In Switzerland the hotels occur in all conceivable and inconceivable situations. The official guide of the Swiss Society of Hotelkeepers gives us photographs of over eight…

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Telephones in Hotels. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 14

Sir,--The reply given to the question made by Dr. Liduell in the House of Representatives, furnished by the Postmaster-General, was of the usual official evasive style, with very little truth. As a matter of fact, there…

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