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Hotels & licensing, 1912

1,095 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 55

Alleged Theft in Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 January 1912 · page 15

Peter Lang, 42, and Charles Brown, 25, were committed for trial on Tuesday, before Mr. W. Clarke, S.M., at the Water Police Court, on a charge of stealin in the dwelling-house of John Bolsdon, 89…

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Hotels Ordered to Close. Will Not Open To-day

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 January 1912 · page 9

Shortly before 6 o'clock orders were issued hotelkeepers to close their doors. The order was obeyed, and the sale of liquor was temporarily suspended…

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Brisbane Tram Strike Trouble Extending. Trade Paralysed. Railways Affected. Will the Trains Stop? Hotels Closing

Evening News · Thursday 1 February 1912 · page 8

BRISBANE. Wednesday Afternoon.—The effect of the general strike was visible early this morning when the railway service was curtailed as the result of the defection of four…

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Hotels Voluntarily Closed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 February 1912 · page 9

A special general meeting of the licensed victuallers was held this morning, when the following resolution was carried:—"That all licensed victuallers' houses within the…

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Broken-hill Hotels. Negotiations with Employees

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 1 February 1912 · page 4

BROKEN-HILL, Wednesday.--Matters in connection with the trouble over wages and working conditions between the Hotelkeepers' Association and Restaurant and Boarding-house Keepers' Association, and the Hotel,…

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Licenses of Stallions

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 16

Kansas has a stallion law, and the license certificate is the prominent feature in which the certificates are purebred, crossbred, or grade, and the horse must be certified as…

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A Licensed Surveyor's Description

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 4

Bathurst writes:—I am selling my property, but I want to rent two acres of it, and to build a house thereon. The rent I have to pay for the two…

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Hotels Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 5

The following transfers of hotel license were yesterday granted by the Metropolitan Licensing Bench:— Oxford Hotel, New Canterbury-road, Petersham. Joseph Edward Hunt to Patrick Tracey: Star Hotel,…

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Hotel and Restaurant Employees. Broken HILL,Wednesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 6

Delegates from the Hotle, Club, and Resturant Employees' union met the employers in conference last night,but could arrive at no agreement. The delegates from the employers said they could not grant the…

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­­­­­­The Astor. Sydney's Premier Private Hotel. American Ideas in Australia

The Sun · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 12

Sandwiched between a massive grey granite edifice owned and tenanted by the State Government and an imposing structure clally set apart for those professional gentle…

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Boycotting Hotels. Perth Union to Be Prosecuted

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 2 February 1912 · page 8

PERTH, Thursday.--In regard to the attempt by the Barmen and Barmaids Union to boycot hotels which do not obey the union order that barmon and barmaids shall not live in the…

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Hotel Burned. Gunnedah

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 15

The Railway Hotel at Curlewis was completely destroyed by fire last night…

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Hotel Destroyed by Fire

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 15

CURLEWIS, Friday.--Moloney's Curlewis Hotel was burned down at about 1 o'clock this morning. There is no water supply in the town, and practically everything was destroyed…

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Broken-hill Hotels. Employees Claim for Increases

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 15

BROKEN-HILL, Friday.--A meeting of the Hotel-keepers and Restaurant-keepers' Association was held yesterday afternoon to discuss the course of action to be adopted regarding…

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Broken-hill Hotels. Employees Give Notice

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 February 1912 · page 13

BROKEN-HILL, Friday.--Members of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union decided as the outcome of a meeting last, night, to give the employers a week's notice on account…

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Hotel Employees. Notice to Cease Work. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 February 1912 · page 11

The trouble between the Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Employees' Union and the hotel and restaurant keepers yesterday reached an acute stage. After yesterday afternoon's…

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

The Sun · Monday 5 February 1912 · page 11

The Hotel Australia wireless station expects to be in communication with the following ships to-day:-- Ulimaroa, Sydney to Wellington…

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American Hotel Fashion

The Sun · Monday 5 February 1912 · page 10

This photograph is one of the many which Alderman E. Lindsay Thompson procured while on his recent world tour. The St. Francis Hotel, san Francisco, is the latest in hotel fashion. The building is constructed on the steel frame principle. The front of the structure is treated with terra-cotta. One of the chief features of the hotel is that every room opens to the fresh air. The light areas formed in the street frontage obviate the necessity, of a central courtway, often attended by many objections. The…

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Hotels Still Closed. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1912 · page 9

An order has been issued further closing all hotels till Monday next…

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Barrier Hotels Trouble. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 February 1912 · page 13

The executive of the Barrier Liquor Trades Employees' Union has notified that at a meeting held on Saturday morning it was decided that after Thursday next the members of the…

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