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Hotels & licensing, 1911

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Lighters Licensed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 September 1911 · page 10
Also in Daily Commercial News and Shipping List

New regulations framed by the Harbour Trust Commissioners provide that a license shall not be issued for any lighter unless the requirements of the Customs acts and of the Navigation Acts in force…

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Tried to Climb Into the Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 September 1911 · page 15

A verdict of accidental death was yesterday returned by the City Coroner (Mr. Stephen Murphy, S.M.), with regard to the death or Ernest E[?]as Abraham Rugg, who was killed by…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 22 September 1911 · page 4

The following transfers of publicans' licences have been granted:— Burwood Hotel, Clarence street city Charles E. Blackman to Edward Keisall Bancraft: Gosford Club Hotel,…

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Hotels Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 September 1911 · page 5

The following applications for transfer of hotel licenses were on Thursday granted by the Metropolitan Licensing Court:—Burwood Hotel Clarencestreet, Charles. E. Blackman to Edward Kelsall…

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Over the Sea. Ships in Touch by Wireless. May Be Spoken From Hotel Australia

The Sun · Friday 22 September 1911 · page 12

The Hotel Australia Station expects to enter into communication by Australasian Wireless, Ltd., with the following ships between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. to-day:--…

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Selling Wine Without License. Convicted on Second Hearing

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 September 1911 · page 3

HARGREAVES, Thursday.--At the local police court, before Mr. Heim, P.M., Walter Joseph Noo[?]n of Windeyer, was charged that on May 27, 1911, he did sell certain liquor--wine--without holding a license…

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Hotel Lawn Mower

Evening News · Saturday 23 September 1911 · page 6

You are proud of your lawn and you take a lot of trouble over it. An American paper suggests if you have even a tiny backyard in which you take sufficient pride to respect the…

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Old Sydney. And the Rum Hospital—How Bligh Dealt with Liquor—His Report to secretary Windham—"Breaking Down"—What the Farmer Did—Grain for Rum King's Rum Policy—D'Arcy Wentworth's Dealings—Governor Macquarie's "Regulation" of the Traffic—A Limited Number of Pubs—The Sydney Hotelkeeper—Chronological Facts—William Catlettm M.D.—Bartle O'Brien, M.D.—A Good Sport, Dr. Fortescue—The Farrells, Michael and Tom—The Farriers Arms—John Fdye Manning dead in England—Wickes Norton—John Hill, J.P.—William Toogood and the Goldem corner—Mr. Innes.—William Brady and Belvonic House

Truth · Sunday 24 September 1911 · page 12

Our historians tell us that Governor Bligh was sent out to New South Wales with injunctions to put a curb upon the efforts in that…

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Hard on the Hotelkeepers. How the Reduction Act Works

Sunday Times · Sunday 24 September 1911 · page 5

Under the Act of Parliament in Victoria that empowers the authorities to close up certain hotels, as decided upon by the Licenses Reduction Board, a levy of 3 per cent, upon the…

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City Hotels Robbed. Many Fairs of Boots Missed

Sunday Times · Sunday 24 September 1911 · page 7

For many weeks past a large number of pairs of boots have been missed from the Australia, Metropole, Tattersall's, and other hotels. The matter was accordingly placed in the…

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Cheap Fish. Hotelkeeper's Complaint. Looking to the Trawlers

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 September 1911 · page 7

The statements made by Mr. James Farnham, the Scottish fishing expert, in regard to the high price of fish in Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne, caused considerable comment at the…

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Sudden Death in a Hotel

Evening News · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 7

A wharf laborer named Richard Oberg. 42. a native of Finiand died suddenly in the bar of the Army and Navy Hotel corner of cathedral and Bourke streets, woolloomooloo,…

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Fimister's Wollongong Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 13

Largest and most elegantly-appointed Hotel outside of Sydney. Lofty dining reading and writing-rooms. Hot and cold plague baths. Within a minutes of golf links court and sea-water baths. Beautiful drives and walls through mountain scenery and along sandy beaches. Telephone 7 wilongong; private P.O. box 5. Tariff: 8/ per day or £2/2/ per week. Special erms for Families. Extensive addition lately made, bring the room accomdation up to 65. W. J. FIMISTER Proprietor…

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Hawkesbury River Hotel. Mrs. A. HANNH, Proprietress

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 13

THE BEST WEEK-END HOTEL IN THE COLONY. MOTOR LAUNCH FOR USE OF VISITORS. TERMS FROM £2 2S PER WEEK, 8S PER DAY. GOCD TRAIN SERVICE—35 MILE FROM SYDNEY THE BEST SUNDAY DINNER OUT OF SYDNEY. MENU INCLUDES; OVERSTER SOUPS ENTREES JOINTS POULTRY SWEETS SALADS TARIFF. 2/6…

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Are They Exiled ? Kosciusko Hotel Employees Grumbling. a Departmental Answer. Government Officials Wash the Dishes

The Sun · Tuesday 26 September 1911 · page 8

The Roof of Australia is not without its troubles. Hotel Kosciusko, remote as it is from the workaday world, and apparently sereno in its coat of snow, has its labor…

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When Boys Leave School Frequent Hotels and Billiard Rooms

Evening News · Wednesday 27 September 1911 · page 8

My experience is that boys on leaving school, instead of making themselves efficient in trade or calling go to billiard-rooms and publichouses, and many other places which…

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Transcontinental Hotel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 28 September 1911 · page 42

Mr. J. F. Donovan, well known as the onetime proprietor of "Donovan's Hotel, South Brisbane (Q.), is now installed as the host of the Transcontinental Hotel, opposite…

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Barron Valley Hotel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 28 September 1911 · page 42

The home for commercials and tourists when in Atherton, North Queensland, is the Barron Valley Hotel, kept by Mr. L. P. Cloutier, which has every convenience and…

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Port Macquarie's Hotel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 28 September 1911 · page 42

This coastal summer resort is the ideal of the sportsman, offering as it does every aquatic amusement in vogue. Those purposing a trip will naturally enquire regarding…

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