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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1912

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Hotels in Markets Area. Hours of Opening

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 November 1912 · page 9

The City Council in July last, at the instance of Aid. Burke, instructed the finance committee to consider and report upon the desirability of taking steps to have the hotels in the…

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Lismore Licensed Victuallers' Club. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 November 1912 · page 12

The Lismore Licensed Victuallers' races this afternoon were poorly attended. Results:- Opening Handicap, 6f.—[?]ulcower, 1; Clytine, 2; Mohegan, 3. Won by half a length. Time, 1m 16s…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 November 1912 · page 4

The undermentioned hotel license transfers [?] granted before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., and [?] J. L. King, S.M., at the Central Licensing Court yesterday:…

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City Hotel Intrusion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 November 1912 · page 4

Mr. Payten, S.M., heard a case yesterday at the Central Police Court, in which Patrick Clan[?], 27, was charged with having been found in an up[?] bedroom of the Arcadia Hotel, Pitt-street, on November…

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Metropolitan Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 November 1912 · page 5

The following hotel transfers were granted, before Mr. G. H. Smithers, S.M., and Mr. J. L. King, S.M., at the Licensing Court yesterday:-- Town-hall Hotel, Oxford-street, Paddington, from…

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New Zealand Licensing Vote. Presbyterian Assembly Accepts 55 Per Cent. Majority

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 November 1912 · page 8

WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Thursday.--The Presbyterian General Assembly resolved in favor of a 55 per cent. majority in the vote to carry national prohibition and local no-license polis…

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Manifesto of N.s.w. Alliance Earlier Closing of Hotels and Wine Shops

The Methodist · Saturday 16 November 1912 · page 15

The question of the Early Closing of all Business Premises is now prominently within the mind of the people, because of the introduction of a Bill by the…

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Beep and Milk. Must Not Be Mixed. Warning to Hotelkeepers

Evening News · Saturday 16 November 1912 · page 10

"The New South Wales Dairy Supervision Act as is generally known," Dr. Ashburton Thomp son, president of the Board of Health, said to an "Evening news" reporter this morning, "has…

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Whiskies and Sodas. Increase in the Tariff. Action by Adelaide Publicans. Adelaide

The Sun · Saturday 16 November 1912 · page 3

Just as summer is fast approaching a rise in price of whisky and soda is threatened. Since the award of the wages board appointed to deal with the rates of ray and working…

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Trout Fishing. Rod License Necessary

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 November 1912 · page 11

A party of members of the New South Wales Anglers' Casting Club returned yesterday from a trout fishing excursion to the Big Badia. Mr. C. H. Gorrick, while relating various incidents…

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" a Hive of Industry." American Progress. Luxurious Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 November 1912 · page 7

Mr. J. B. Thornley, of Sydney, who returned from America last week, found a few things that surprised him in the land of the Stars and Stripes. "The whole place," he says, "is nothing more…

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Action for Slander. Butcher and Hotelkeeper. Newcastle

The Sun · Tuesday 19 November 1912 · page 10

In the District Court to-day Robert Arthur Vidier, butcher, of Woy Woy, sued Elizabeth Marshall, licensee of the Woy Woy Hotel, for £300 damages, for alleged…

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Late Cable News. Received To-day. Leap to Death. Fatal Hotel Fire. Terrible Scenes. a Plucky Lift Man

Evening News · Wednesday 20 November 1912 · page 10

LOS ANGELES, California, Tuesday Evening. A fatal fire occurred at an hotel here, and terrible scenes were witnessed, owing to the panic, into which the guests of the…

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Hotels Changed Hands

Evening News · Thursday 21 November 1912 · page 5

Licences for the following hotels have been transferred by the Metropolitan Licensing Court:—Herbert Honor to William Alfred Mack Frost's Hotel, Dowling-street, Sydney;…

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Hotel on Fire. Five People Killed. Los Angeles, Nov. 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 November 1912 · page 9

Five people were killed owing to a fire in a city hotel. They leaped from a height of four stories, and were dashed to pieces on the pavement…

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Hotel Sensation. a Boxer Shot. Young Woman Arrested. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 November 1912 · page 10

A shooting affray occurred in the Imperial Hotel, Rathdown-street. Carlton, at 10 o'clock to-night. Samuel Mayber, a boxer, who re cently arrived from Goulburn in company with…

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An Hotel Fire. Those Who Leaped Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 November 1912 · page 7

LOS ANGELES, Tuesday Evening.--Five people were killed as the result of a fire in an hotel. Some of the guests leaped from a height of four storys to the street pavement, and were…

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Hotel, Club, Restaurant, and Caterers’ Employees

Co-operator · Thursday 21 November 1912 · page 5

Mr. Harry Potter presided over a special meeting of the Union held at the Queen’s Hall, Pitt-street, City on Tuesday evening, November 12th…

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Conflicting Licensing Applications

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 November 1912 · page 7

WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.--The Licensing Bench to-day gave its reserved decision regarding the conflicting applications for a certificate authorising the issue of a publican's license for…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 November 1912 · page 5

The following license transfers were granted by the Bench at the Metropolitan Liecensing Court yesterday:— Park View Hotel, Rose and My[?] streets, from Edward Cooke to John Thomas O'Malley; Imperial Hotel,…

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