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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1913

1,221 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 62

Shearers Run Riot. Hotel Held Up

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 12

The "Herald's" Urana correspondent states:—Urana, Wednesday. Word was received in Urana late last…

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Licensing Bench. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 12

At a late hour last night decision was given by the Dubbo Licensing Bench in the application by William W. Alken for a conditional license for hotel premises to be…

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Evils of Alcohol. Special No-license Convention

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 12

The New South Wales Alliance held a special no-license convention at Chalmers Presbyterian schoolroom yesterday evening. Archdeacon Boyeo presided…

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Disastrous Fire. Queensland Country Hotel. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 10

A disastrous fire occurred, at Charleville to-day. The blaze is said to have started at 3 a.m. in an annex at the back of the Charleville Hotel through a baby overturning a…

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Hospital Site Sold. Palatial Hotel to Be Built. London, Thursday, 10.55 p.m

The Sun · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 9

Yielding to the offer of a syndicate, the governors of St. George's Hospital have agreed to sell for £460,000 the land on which the institution stands, and build another…

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Sale of Tobacco in France the Government's Monopoly Hotel Waiters Infringing It. London, Thursday, 11.55 p.m

The Sun · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 8

The monopoly enjoyed by the French Government with the sale of tobacco has lately been infringed by the head waiters in Paris hotels, who have been selling cigars…

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Cool Sneak Thief. Robbery at Oxford Hotel .Jury Don't Believe Story

The Sun · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 6

On June 9 Annie Simms, a widow, staying at the Oxford Hotel, King-street, went with some friends to the theatre, and when she returned to the hotel, at 11.10 p.m., she saw…

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Selling Liquor Without a License

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 12

LITHGOW, Thursday.—At the Caper tee Police Court, Messrs. J. B. Paton and W. C. Corlis, justices, William Richard Thomas Stapley was charged with selling liquor on June 5, at Airly,…

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"Greater Than Slavery." No–license Convention. Now a National Party."

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 July 1913 · page 12

A special no–license convention was held at the Chalmers Schoolroom, off Elizabeth–street, last evening. Archdeacon Boyce occupied the chair, and on…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 9

The following transfers of publicans' licenses have been granted:—William Henry Farne to Annie Dyer, City Club Hotel, Young-street, Sydney; James Nolan to George Craig. Sunderland Arms Hotel, Harris-street,…

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Special Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 4

On Monday (before the L.M., Mr T B Clegg and Mr L C Tennant, J.P.) Ernest. Alfred Knight Hudson was granted a Colonial Wine License at…

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Hospital Ousted. London's Changing Landmarks. Mammoth Hotel Takes Site. London

Evening News · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 2

Another of London's land-marks is to disappear in the building boom. This is St. George's Hospital and Medical School at Hyde Park corner…

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Crecy Hotel Leases. Fresh Tenders Recommended

Evening News · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 5

The matter of the Crecy Hotel, Oxford-street, Sydney, least, which was recently the subject of a special inquiry by the general purposes committee of the City Council, is to be further…

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No-license at Burwood. Mr. D. R. Hall's Advocacy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 13

Mr. Hall (Attorney-General) yesterday afternoon opened a bazaar at Burwood in aid of the local no-license campaign. Mr. Hall said he never had much tronble…

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Daring Jewel Robbery. From Lismore Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 12

LISMORE, Friday.--A daring attempt at robbery, which would in all probability have proved successful but for the smart action of the local police,was made at the Hotel Ryan last night…

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Auctioneer's License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 12 July 1913 · page 1

At a sitting of the Licensing Court at Parramatta on Wednesday, before Mr. E. L. Maitland, James Borserini, orchardist, of Toongabbic, applied for an…

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Hospitals and Hotel. an Expensive Undertaking. London

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 July 1913 · page 9

St. Georgo and Westminster hospitals are being amalgamated with the object of erecting a new and extensive hospital at Wandsworth. The site of St. George Hospital has been sold for…

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Cuttiford Crumpled. Hotel Broker Bustles and Bruises Bertha. Reggie's Wrangle with Mrs. Richardson

Truth · Sunday 13 July 1913 · page 2

Before S.M. King at the Central on Friday, Bertha Richardson, a not unhandsome married woman, summoned Cecil Reginald Cuttiford for unlawfully assaulting her on…

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Turned Down. Auctioneer's License Refused

The Sun · Monday 14 July 1913 · page 8

The further hearing of an application by Joseph Asher for an auctioneer's license occupied the, attention of the magistrate, Mr. Clarke, at Paddington Court to-day…

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Militants' Defiant Act. Cat and Mouse Licenses Sold Curios That Realised £6. LONDON, Monday, 9.20 p.m

The Sun · Tuesday 15 July 1913 · page 8

A remarkable incident was witnessed at a meeting of suffragettes in the Pavilion today, when Miss Annie Kenney, organiser of the Women's Social and Political Union, sold…

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