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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1913

1,221 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 62

Betting in Hotel. Barman Fined £25

The Sun · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 3

A barman, Thomas Graham, aged 25, employed at the London Tavern Hotel, at the corner of Albion and Elizabeth streets, has been launching out in the bookmaking…

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Building & Construction. Large Modern Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 May 1913 · page 7

In place of the Trocadero Cafe a large modern hotel is to be erected for Mr. Usher, whose license of the Metropolitan Hotel has been transferred to the Trocadero. Messrs. H. E…

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Teaching Hotel-keeping. Am International High School

Evening News · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 11

The Municipal Council of Ducese[?] has approved of an international hotel high school, as decided upon by the international Association of Hotel Proprietors, bring established…

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Hotel Row. Four Persons Injured

Evening News · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 3

A disturbance that occurred in an hotel to Liverpool-street, city at about 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, was responsible for four people receiving injuries and considerable damage…

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Bomb Outside a Hotel. Policeman's Timely Discovery. an Early Morning Sensation. London, Tuesday, 9.15 p.m

The Sun · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 8

In the early hours of this morning a policeman on duty at Charing Cross noticed a woman of the unfortunate class pass by one of the windows of the main entrance to the…

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Betting in Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 7

At the Central Court, Thomas Craham (25), a barman, employed at the London Taven Hotel, corner of Albion and Elizabeth streets, City, was fined £25, with the optuib of six months imprisonment, for betting in the…

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Hotel Disturbance. Several Persons Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 10

At about 10 o'clock last night a disturbance occurred at a city hotel, during which three persons were injured, including an elderly woman named Fish, who resides at…

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Row in an Hotel. Four Persons Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 May 1913 · page 13

A disturbance occurred in the Liberty Inn, Liverpool-street, last night, in which four people were injured—an elderly woman named Mrs. Fish, living at 220 Liverpool-street, who…

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Attempt on Grand Hotel. Woman and a Bomb

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 9

The woman who was arrested early this morning by a constable, after placing a bomb with a lighted fuse near a wall of the Grand Hotel, is named Ada Ward. She was remanded…

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Fire at Hotel. Sequel to Drinking Bout. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 12

Henry Herbert Smith pleaded guilty at the Wangaratta Sessions to-day to having set fire to the Mountain View Hotel, Whitfield, in unusual circumstances. Accused, who had…

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"No License." Presbyterians Divided. an Exciting Debate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 12

There were exciting times in the Presbyterian General Assembly last evening, when the temperance question came up for discussion, and late at night there was a…

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The Liquor Question. Attitude of Presbyterian Assembly. Out for No-license. Definite Declaration of Policy

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 12

The New South Wales Presbyterian Assembly last night had a discussion lasting several hours on tho following recommendations from the temperance committee:--…

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State Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 May 1913 · page 8

The West Australian Alliance at the annual meeting adopted a report strongly condemning the Premier's (Mr. Scaddan's) policy of State hotels for revenue production, and denouncing…

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Quarterly Licensing Court Before the L.M., Mr Fincham and Mr L C Tennant, J.P.

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 6

James Henry Bl[?]ome, licensee of the Alexandra Hotel, Leura, applied for renewal of license. Bloome had faile[?] to make application at the…

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Residential Hotels in Sydney

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 9

Apart altogether from the merits of the case, the recent successful application by Mr. Usher for the removal of the old Metrop. license…

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Happy Gaol. Husband's Prison Hotel

Evening News · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 10

In as amusing report presented last month to Mr. Gaynor, Mayor of New York, the Commissioners of Accounts call attention to the existence in New York of "the most luxurious…

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The Presbyterian Assembly and No-license. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 23

Sir,—The debate on the liquor question in the Presbyterian Assembly the other night indicated a gratifying interest in a subject of worldwide importance. It has been the…

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Garage Destroyed by Fire. Hotel Damaged. Quirindi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 20

Early this morning three swagmen camped beneath the bridge at Whitaker-street heard a fire crackling. William Jones went to see, and found a galvanised structure at the…

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Kogarah No-license Meeting

The St George Call · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 4

The first public meeting in connection with the 1913 campaign for No-license was held on Thursday week in Brett's Hall. The Rev. W. Touchell presided…

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Prof. M'intyre' and No-license to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 May 1913 · page 10

Sir,--The remarks of Professor M'Intyre regarding liberty of opinion during the debate in the Presbyterian Assembly, on the liquor question, seem more like those emanating from a bigoted and illegible "Liberty…

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