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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1912

1,095 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 55

In the Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 May 1912 · page 5

Before Mr. Smithers, S.M., at the Central Court, Thomas White (33) was fined £5 or two months' imprisonment for striking George Muir, licensee of the Surrey Hotel, King-street, who remonstrated with him for…

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Mr. Watt and the License Full Court's Judgment. Favors the Treasurer

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 May 1912 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The State Full Court, consisting of the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Hodges, and Mr. Justice Cussen, to-day delivered judgment in the appeal by the Treasurer…

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Hotel Row. Right Swing Downs Publican Was a Revolver Presented?

The Sun · Wednesday 8 May 1912 · page 4

A disturbance occurred in the Port Jackson Hotel, in George-street North, last night, and when it was ventilated to-day, at the Water Police Court, where a fireman, Edward…

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Big Haul at Dubbo. Royal Hotel Entered. Dubbo

The Sun · Wednesday 8 May 1912 · page 8

Thieves have made a big scoop at the Royal Hotel, and the value of the stolen property, which consists principally of jewellery, is close on £150…

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

The Sun · Wednesday 8 May 1912 · page 8

The Hotel Australia Wireless Station expects to be in communication with the following ships to-day:--Moana, Bluff to Hobart…

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Passenger Licenses. Coastal Company Convicted. Excess Number Carried

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 May 1912 · page 18

Proceedings were instituted against the North Coast Steam Navigation Company, Limited, by the Department of Navigation, at the Water Summons Court yesterday, for carrying on certain vessels a greater number…

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Parramatta Licensing Court. Monday, May 6. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzharlinge, D.S.M)

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 8 May 1912 · page 4

Application for transfer of publican's Scence from .V If red John Loomes to Perth A. Macauliffe. Sent on to the full Licencing Bench as an objection was in…

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Scuffle in a Hotel Story of a Revolver

Evening News · Thursday 9 May 1912 · page 4

A struggle on Tuesday night in a hotel, with conflicting evidence about the display of a revolver, were the features of a case heard at the Water Police Court yesterday, by Mr…

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Police Courts. Assaulting a Publican

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 May 1912 · page 5

At the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Maitland, D.S.M., Edaward Boyle, 28, was charged with having assaulted Mark Lapin on May 7. The evidence of the prosecutor was to the effect that…

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Made an Ass of Himself. Hotel Porter and the Change

The Sun · Thursday 9 May 1912 · page 1

"I took the money. I made an ass of myself." A young man, Thomas Allanson, made this statement to Constable Duncan when…

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No-license. the Chosen Three

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 May 1912 · page 8

At last night's meeting of the Presbyterian General Assembly, Rev. J. Steele, the convenor, of the temperance committee, announced that the Alliance had selected three centres in which…

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Counter Lunches. Publicans' Serious Complaint. Astonishing Figures. Position in Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 May 1912 · page 13

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--Since the increase in the price of meals in this by the counter lunch trade has, on the estimate of hotelkeepers, briskly advanced by 25 per cent…

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The Licensed Surveyors' Examination. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 May 1912 · page 4

Sir,--Your correspondent "Microscope," or "Licensed Surveyor No. 2," states that the Surveyors' Board is composed of two Government serveyors and of two other surveyors representing the rest of the profession; and…

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Quarrel in an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 May 1912 · page 6

At the Water Court, before Mr. Maitland, D.S.M., Edward Boyle, a fireman, was charged with having assaulted Mark Lapin, the licensee of the Port Jackson Hotel, George-street North. Prosecutor deposed that…

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

The Sun · Friday 10 May 1912 · page 9

The Hotel Australia Wireless Station expects to be in communication with the following ships to-day:--Maheno, Auckland to Sydney…

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No Escape. Hotels That Would Be Death-traps. Fire Brigades Powerless. the Defect in the Law. Architects Await the New Building Act

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 May 1912 · page 11

For long it has been recognised that the building law of the State is defective, and repeated efforts have been made to amend it in the direction of giving the authorities wider…

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Cheap Counter Food. What Sydney Publicans Think. "Most Scandalous."

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 May 1912 · page 7

Counter lunches, at any time popular, have, of late, been going up rapidly in public favor. This is practically, a reflex of the position in Melbourne, where the increased price of food in…

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The Bed Sheet. Hint to Hotel-keepers

Evening News · Saturday 11 May 1912 · page 4

Nine-feet bed sheets by all means. A bill introduced at Albany, New York, makes it a misdemeanor for a hotel proprietor to supply g[?]nts with bed sheets less than nine feet…

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The Digger's License. Chapter XXXVII.—"Comrade!"

The World's News · Saturday 11 May 1912 · page 24

MARY came to herself to find a woman bending over her and wiping the blood from her face. Slowly she realised where she…

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Beer Strike. Publican Pleads in Vain. "No Drink To-night." Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 May 1912 · page 17

Unionists at Port Pirie have entered upon a beer strike, on account of the publicans having increased the price of beer from 2s to 2s 6d per gallon, with an extra penny for…

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