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Hotels & licensing, 1911

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Hotel Robbed

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1911 · page 6

BATHURST, Friday.— Mr. Doswell. [?] of the Bridge itself Perthville has reported in the theft of a cash box containing shout [?] in sold notes and silver. which…

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Burglaries at Redfern. Three Hotels Entered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1911 · page 7

No less than three burglaries were committed on Wednesday night within a comparatively limited area, and evidently by the same persons. The point of attack selected in each…

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NO. 2 Jury Court. Hotel Commission Case. (Before Mr. Justice Pring and juries.) Allan v Reach's, Limited

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1911 · page 4

Mr. Watt, instructed by Messrs. Buchanan and Smithers, appeared for the plaintiff, George Allan; and Mr. Knox, K.C., and Mr. Pitt, instructed by Messrs. Bradley and Son,…

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Paying for Resumptions. Hotel and Bank

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1911 · page 10

Among the properties reaumed by the City Council in Oxrord-slreet was the branch of the London Dank, of Australia. The bank made a claim for £23,000, and the City Coun…

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No-license Puzzle. the Riddle's Solution. Teetotal Military Camps

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1911 · page 10

Tidings of great joy are brought from New Zealand by Rev. Arthur Dewdney, a no-license man, who has arrived in Sydney. He explains why the no-license fighters consider that they…

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Local Option the Sherbrooke Electorate. Two Hotels to Close

Nepean Times · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 8

At the Special Court (before Judge Backhouse and Messrs Smithers and Love, S.M.'s, Special Licensing Bench), held at Parramatta on Friday…

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International Hotel Thieves

Evening News · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 8

BERNE (SWITZERLAND). Friday Evening.—Eliza Baumgariner, aged 18 has been sentenced at Geneva to a month's imprisonment for robbing hotel visitors. She was a member of…

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Licensing Bill Foreshadowed. London, March 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 15

In the Honse of Commons last night the Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, stated that the need for a Licensing Bill on the lines of that of 1908 was urgent, and one would…

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Licenses Transfered

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 8

At the Central Police Court yesterday, the following transfers of publicans' licences were granted.— Robert Miller, jun., Northern Club Hotel, 583 Ceorge-street, Sydney, to John O'Donnell; Paul Clausen…

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Licensing Reform. Britain's Urgent Need

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1911 · page 13

LONDON, Friday.--The Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) stated yesterday in the House of Commons that a licensing bill on the lines of the measure of 1908 was urgently needed…

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Week End Fires. Hotel Alight at Manly. Narrow Escape of Licescee's Wife. Woman Injured at Petersham

Evening News · Monday 27 March 1911 · page 6

The fire brigades were only called on to deal with small outbreaks of fire during the week-end, but in two cases they were of an exciting nature, and while one lady was injured a second…

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Grafton Licensed Victuallers' Jockey Club. Annual Meeting. [?]Arwood Wins a Double. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1911 · page 12

The annual race meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Jockey Club was held to-day, when there was a fair attendance. The weather was cool, with light showers. Results:…

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Fire at Manly Beach. Hotel Inmate's Narrow Escape

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 March 1911 · page 7

Mrs. P. J. Byrne, wife of the licensee of the New Brighton Hotel, Manly, had a narrow escape from burning early yesterday morning. She had been reading in her room on the first…

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Hotel Thieves. an International Gang. Woman and Her Lover Sentenced

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 27 March 1911 · page 10

BERNE, Friday Evening.--Elisa Baumgartner has been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment' at Geneva for robbing hotel visitors. The girl was a member of an international gang, which…

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England's Biggest Hotel No Tips Allowed

Evening News · Tuesday 28 March 1911 · page 6

The Stand Paints Hotel, in London was the moderate tariff and his system of on tips, has so justified the expectations of its originators that it is to be used as the model of something…

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Shall the Hotels Close?

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 March 1911 · page 8

Whether the hotels shall close or not on referenda day, April 26, is a questiou which has arisen. Under the State electoral law public-houses…

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Secrecy of the Census Inquiries in Hotels and Boarding Houses. a Crave Defect Remedied

Evening News · Thursday 30 March 1911 · page 8

The Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. G. H. Knibba) desires it be generally known that under the Ca[?] and statics Act. 1904, prevision is made for the almost secrecy in the…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 9

At she [?]Court on Thursday the following per[?]cans licenses were transferred—Coaries E. Black[?] to Charles Bankburst. Albert Hotel…

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Adjusting Compasses. Issue of Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 10

The Acting Treasurer stated yesterday that darft regulaitions had now been framed for the purpose of rendering workable the eighth schedule of the Navigation Act, of 1901, dealing with the [?] of…

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Victimising Publicans. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 March 1911 · page 9

Last week several publicans were victimised in the following way:—A person rang up and gave the name of a well-known country man, saying that he wished £2 to be…

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