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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1912

1,095 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 55

Cigars in Hotels

The Sun · Monday 30 September 1912 · page 1

The limitation of the hours within which cigars and cigarettes may be sold at hotels is being strongly objected to by the licensed victuallers of Sydney. They contend that…

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Selling Stamps Without a License

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 30 September 1912 · page 8

Mr. West (N.S.W.) in the House of Representatives asked the Postmaster-General whether he was aware that a large number of persons who had been selling stamps in Sydney had…

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Sale of Cigars in Hotels. Licensed Victuallers in Arms

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 October 1912 · page 8

No sooner had the Manly deputation retired yesterday than Mr. Carmichael was waited upon by a deputation from the Licensed Victuallers' Association, which also had a…

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Hotels and Aerated Waters. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 October 1912 · page 12

At the sitting of the Aerated Waters' Board stress was laid by the representative of the factory proprietors on the competition arising through hotels using machines to make the aerated waters they…

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Hotels and Tobacconists

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 1 October 1912 · page 12

Diners in the city, theatregoers, and suburba working men find it convenient to purchase tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes at the hotels…

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"Have a Cigar." Hotels and Tobacco Sales. Tobacconists Protest

The Sun · Tuesday 1 October 1912 · page 6

In your issue of the 30th ult. details are given of a deputation of hotel-keepers protesting against inclusion in the matter of early closing. This is nothing more or less…

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Hotel and Restaurant Employees. Western Australian Award. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 October 1912 · page 8

The Arbitritlon Court award in the hotel and restaurant employees' citation provided for 4S hours per week, reckoned by the time the employee is on the premises,…

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Tobacco and Hotels

The Sun · Wednesday 2 October 1912 · page 7

Those shops named in the Act to be closed are a great convenience to the working- class, and in the majority of cases (in the suburbs) are kept by women struggling to earn a few…

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Metropolitan Licensing Court. Hotel Transfers Granted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 October 1912 · page 4

The weekly sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court was held yesterday at [?] Central Police Court-house, Mr. King, S.M., presiding. The following transfers of publicans's licenses were…

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Single Men As Licensees

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 October 1912 · page 10

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--Some remarks were made to-day by Mr. F. .S. Adrian, chairman of the Newcastle Licensing Bench, when an application came before the Court for the transfer…

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Suicide in a City Hotel an American Shoots Himself Preparations Before Death. a Farewell Letter

Evening News · Friday 4 October 1912 · page 7

A men who has only been in Australia for a couple of months, committed suicide at the Hotel Australia, in Castlereagh-street, city, some time last night or this morning, by…

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Tobacco in Hotels. a Unionist's Opinion

The Sun · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 5

Mr. W. A. Flanagan, vice-president Shop Assistants' Union, writes: -- "Permit me to reply through your paper to the remarks made at the deputation…

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Murder Mystery. Governess Lured to Low Hotel in New York by Unknown Man and Murdered. Police Apathy

Globe · Saturday 5 October 1912 · page 7

The murder of a cultured Irish woman in a low-class New York hotel in most mysterious circumstances last month. created another outcry at the lax and suspicious methods of the…

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Scowling Snuddens. Publican and His Partner. Desire Divorce in Their Dota[?]e. Polish Wife Alleges Lots of Things

Truth · Sunday 6 October 1912 · page 7

"A home without love may be a as[?]stle, one palace," said Sir John Lubb[?]ck, "but [?]is not a home." As far as no[?]eny was concerned, there was nothing to…

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Governess Strangled in New York Hotel. Scandalous Police Methods to Avoid an Inquiry. Death Certificate Falsified. New York, Sept 1[?]

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 October 1912 · page 24

The murder of Mrs. 'Julia Curran, an Irish governess, in a low-class New York hotel, has treated a great sensation throughout America, because it throws a startling light on the…

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Hotel, Club, Restaurant and Caterers Employees’ Union. INAUGURATED 1900. President . . . .H. J. POTTER Gen, Secretary . . . J. J, Morrish Assist. Secretary . . . .A. P. Steyne Total Membership 2,518

Co-operator · Monday 7 October 1912 · page 23

Ever since the stirring times of the Maritime strike, which did so much to awaken the workers to the necessity of organising industrially and…

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Indignant Hotel Employees. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 October 1912 · page 7

The Hotel Employees Union, at a mass meeting, passed a resolution of protest against the recent arbitration award, and especially against Mr. Somerville, workers'…

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Accident in George-street. Man Run Over by Motor Car Hotelkeeper Sued for £1500

Evening News · Tuesday 8 October 1912 · page 7

Mr. Justice [?]eon and a jury commenced the bearing, in No. 2 lury Courty. this morning, of an action in which Augustus Chirst sued Chories Wesley Edwards for damages for…

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Hotelkeeper's Narrow Escape

Evening News · Tuesday 8 October 1912 · page 5

Frank Johnson, M. [?] native of [?] was before the Central Police Court this morning to a charge of assaulting Michael Farrell. [?] of the Evening Star Hotel,…

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Trading Without a License

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 October 1912 · page 11

At the Manly Police Court on Friday, Inspector Ferris proceeded against Heary Pilcher and Perey Pyke, who [?]eep a butchery and slaughter-house at Narrabeen, for a b[?]ach of the regulations in allowing…

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