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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1913

1,221 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 62

Australian "License to Drink!"

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1913 · page 8

Some remarkable information regarding Australian liquor laws is contained in a Canadian newspaper that has just come to hand. This veracious journal, published in Brampton, a…

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Hotel Bombarded. Young Woman's Lapse

The Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 3

Elizabeth Hayes, a. sturdily-built girl of 18, made things lively at the corner of George and Hay streets yesterday evening. In company with another girl, she was refused a…

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Counter Lunches. Newtown Publicans Break Away

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 20

When the free counter lunches disappeared from the bars of the city hotels, the Newtown hotelkeepers decided also to abolish them. In order that none of their number should…

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Albury Licensed Victuallers' Race Club. Summer Meeting. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 22

The following nominations have been received for the Summer Meeting of the Albury Licensed Victuallers' Race Club on the 14th and 15th inst.:- First Day…

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Goulburn Licensed Victuallers' Race Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1913 · page 12

The following are the weights for the meeting, to be held next Saturday:- Opening Handicap.—Bellbrook, 9st; Dustcloud, 8st [?]2lb. Gunning, 8st 9lb, Fancy Vest, 8st 7lb…

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Hotel and Restaurant Employees

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 January 1913 · page 9

At the meeting of the Hotel, Club, Restaurant, and Caterers' Employees' Union it was stated that the Wages Board dealing with clubs was sitting in conference in regard to the union…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 3

At the Metropolitan L[?]casing Court the following hotel licences were transferred—Globe Hotel, Forbes-street. Woolloomooloo, from William John M'Kin[?]on to John Joseph…

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Not Up to Sample. Hotel-keepers Fined

Evening News · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 4

A number of hotelkeepers were proceeded against by Licensing-inspector Kendall, in the Central Summons Court, before Mr. Clarke, for selling adulterated liquor. In all cases…

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Licensing Land Agents

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 2

A comprehensive Act for the licensing of land agents has just come into force in New Zealand. In future no person is at liberty to follow the…

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Metropolitan Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 7

At the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday the following hotel licenses were transferred:—From William John M'Kinnon, Globe Hotel, Forbes-street, Woolloomooloo, [?]o John Joseph Derahy; and from…

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"A Nice Point." Is There a Loophole in the Licensing Act ?

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1913 · page 12

WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.--An interesting legal point was taken in a case which came before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., and Mr. J. W. Pender, J.P., at the West Maitland Police Court…

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Business Meals. Hotels v. OFFICES

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 6

A habit among business men in London of using hotels as office has grown enormously of late said the manager of a large hotel in the West End Some of these men have…

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A Free Hotel

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 2

At Miramar on the island of Majorca in the Mediterranean is a free hotel where accommodations may be had for three days, upon application to the agents of the…

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Punched the Publican

The Sun · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 9

Mark Lapin, licensee of the Port Jackson Hotel, at the corner of George and Globe streets. Sydney, figures rather often as complainant or prosecutor at the Water Police…

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Adulterated Liquor. Publicans Prosecuted

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 11

At the Central Summons Court yesterday, before Mr. Clarke, S.M., Inspector Kendall, licensing inspector, proceeded against a number of publicans for selling adulterated liquor…

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Damages for Assault. A Parramatta Hotel Incident Inverell Squatter and Inspector

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1913 · page 6

At the Supreme Court, Sydney, on Thursday, Mr. A. D. Oliver appeared for the plaintiff, Linnora McLean, and moved for leave to examine a witness, on the…

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Most Unique Hotel in the World

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1913 · page 25

The most interesting hotel in New York at the present time is the "Martha Washington," the only hotel in the "world reserved exclusively for members of the fair sex. It is conducted for…

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Pickled Publicans. Bung Brigade in Bother. Have Tendencies Towards Temperance, But Their Efforts Are Not Appreciated by the Beak

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1913 · page 2

Several brothers of the Bung Brigade were in broken-down spirits when they made their appearance before Mr. Clarke, at the Central Summons Court, on Friday last…

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Old Sydney. Mr George Morris on "The Red House"—Sam Terry's Wealth—The Angel Hotel—A Primitive Pigeon Left—Thomas Holt, of The Warren—John Morris, General Dealer—"The Currency Lass," by Dan Tierney—The Royal Blue House—Walter Renny—Bernard Daly, of the "Union"—Emily Soldene and Her Reminiscences—A Trip to Botany Bay—Gus Wagenheim and His Lightning Sketches—Ted Lee

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1913 · page 10

Mr. George Morris, of the Royal Oak Hotel, in the ancient town of Parramatta, writes me very interestingly about a historic spot in the Pitt-street of old Sydney:—…

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Hotel Employees. the Care of Health

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1913 · page 2

Every year an advance is made is some quarter or other toward insuring the public against contagion and [?] health through various forms of unclean[?]ness. Not so very long ago one of…

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