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Hotels & licensing, 1911

1,059 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 53

Hotel Appeal Upheld

The Sun · Monday 6 November 1911 · page 7

The resumed hearing of the appeal of John George Bryen, the owner of the Australian Hotel, George Street West, against an adjudication of the Licensing Bench in respect of an application to make alterations to the hotel…

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Scene at a Funeral Clergyman's Painful Speech Attack on Hotelkeepers. Manly and the Drink Habit

The Sun · Monday 6 November 1911 · page 1

At the funeral service of a only resident on Saturday the officiating [?]lergyman, the Rev. A. G. Stoddart. created a painful [?]nation among the relatives and friends of the devested assembled round the grave, by delivering,…

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

The Sun · Monday 6 November 1911 · page 10

The Hotel Australia Station expects to enter into communication with the following vessels between the hours of 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. today:--…

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Snakes As Pets. a New Craze. Eve and the Serpent. Excitement in a Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 9

Most people when they see a snake in the grass get a creepy feeling, and look about for, a stick to kill it, preferring to wait till it is dead to find out whether it be a non-venomous…

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Waverley Babies' Home. Application for License. Minister Quotes Inspector's Reports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 12

Yesterday a deputation of ladies waited on the Minister for Public instruction (Mr. Carmichael) in connection with the refusal to grant a license to the waverley Babies'…

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No License and Liquor. N.s.w. Alliance Takes Up a Challenge. Tea Rooms and Intoxicants. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 November 1911 · page 7

Sir,—Mr. Edwin Stooke, the general secretary of the Liquor Trades Defence Union of New South Wales, has in your columns recently challenged the Alliance to prove its charge of…

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City Hotel Alight. Outbreak in the Arcadia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 November 1911 · page 20

An outbreak of fire occurred in the Arcadis Hotel, Castlereagh-street, last night, and gave the firemen, an hour's hard work before all was safe…

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Fire in Hotel Arcadia

The Sun · Wednesday 8 November 1911 · page 3

An outbreak of fire occurred about 9 o'clock last night the civil service bottle department of the Hotel Arcadia, Costlcrcagh-street. The Fire Brigade effected a goad…

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Fire at Arcadia Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 8 November 1911 · page 8

About 8.20 this morning the Headquarters Fire Station-had a call to the Arcadia Hotel, Castilreagh-street, to a fire caused, it is supposed, by the fusinq of an electric wire. The…

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Fire in the Hotel Arcadia. a Splendid Save

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 November 1911 · page 11

About [?] o'clock last night a fire was discovered in the Civil Service bottle department of the Hotel Arcadia, in Castlereagh-street, which is occupied by Mr. J. Joynton Smith…

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An Up-to-date Hotel

The Catholic Press · Thursday 9 November 1911 · page 42

Mr. M. S. McLean, the proprietor of the Fitzroy Hotel, Coff's Harbour, is keenly alive to the way a country hotel should by managed, instanced by his own up-to-date…

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Waster Plumber's License[?]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 November 1911 · page 13

In September last the Water and Sewerage Board [?]te to the Technical College authorities, suggesting [?] in future a period of fine years' experience at the trade be insisted upon instead of seven years before…

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At the Seaside Hotel

Co-operator · Thursday 9 November 1911 · page 2

Proprietor : “I thought I told you to present the bill to number twelve?” Maid: “Yes, sir, I have.” Proprietor: “Impossible! I can…

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Special Licenses Objected to

The Land · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 9

At a recent meeting of Lismore Council, Ald. Jackson presented a petition from the cab proprietors and licensed cab drivers of the town,…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 11

The following transfers of publicans' licences have been granted:—Shakespeare Hotel. King-street. Newtown, John Joseph Barnsley to Wm. Fred. Schulstad; Sweeney's Hotel…

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Hotels Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 12

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench yesterday granted the following application for transfers of hotel licenses:—Shakespeare Hotel, King-strret, Newtown, John Joseph Barnsley to William Frederick…

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No License and Liquor. a Rejoinder. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 November 1911 · page 11

Sir,--In your issue of the 7th instant Mr. John Complin, secretary of the N.S.W. Alliance, professes to answer the challenge issued by me in your columns last week. It is evident either…

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Residental Hotel at Watson's Bay, The Palace Hotel

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 11 November 1911 · page 3

Of all the spots on the seaboard of Australia none is so marine or so [?] as Watson's Bay, South Head, the locality of the Dunbar…

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"Guns" and Hotels. What Police and Publicans Have to Say About Them. Immigrants Not So Easily Gulled

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 November 1911 · page 7

With the object of obtaining opinions on the article which appeared in our last issue, "Sharpers and Hotels," a "Sunday Times" representative interviewed several police officials,…

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Travelling in Spain. Tourists' Mistakes. Hotels Improved

Evening News · Monday 13 November 1911 · page 8

It is not so long since the average tourist hesitated before going to Spain. The trains that had any pretensions to comfort or rapidity were few and far between; for they…

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