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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1914

844 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 43

Publicans' Boycott. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 12

The Bathurst Hotelkeepers' Union was successful in its boycott of the sale of booth rights in connection with the forthcoming show. The sale was opened at the Royal…

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Brewers' License Fees. Temora

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 6

An Important meeting of brewers was held in the Albion Hotel, Cootamundra, on Tuesday, to discuss having to pay £20 for a State license fee and £25 to the Commonwealth…

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Local Option Vote. Hotels to Be Closed

The Sun · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 11

It has been decided by the special court appointed to deal with the reduction of licenses that the Commercial Hotel, in Junction- road, Summer Hill, shall he closed at the…

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Reduction of Licenses

The Propeller · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 4

The special court, consisting of Judge Backhouse, and Messrs. Smithers, S.M., and Clegg, P.M., set up to determine reductions in…

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Licensed Surveyors

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 April 1914 · page 5

At an examination of candidates for licenses to survey, conducted by the Surveyors' Board at the Department of Lands, the following were successful, and will be…

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Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 4

A sitting of the Licensing Court was held on Monday before Messrs T B Clegg and W H A Pye. An application for the renewal of the…

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Special Courts. Licenses to Cease

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 10

The special reduction courts which have been sitting at the Darlinghurst Courthouse for some weeks past concluded their business, when the reserved decisions as to which…

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Hotels to Close

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 4 April 1914 · page 6

Special Courts for the purpose of determining which licenses should cease sat at Darlinghurst on Thursday. The Courts consisted of Judge Backhouse (chairman),…

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Fire at a Country Hotel Why the Brigade Was Absent. Gilgandra

Evening News · Monday 6 April 1914 · page 7

Early this morning a fire broke out in the stables at Skelton's Hotel, near the railway, and the building was completely gutted. About 7 tons of chaff, a quantity of harness and…

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Hotel Metropole

The Sun · Monday 6 April 1914 · page 5

This company made a very comfortable profit in the December, 1913, year, despite the adverse influences of the smallpox scare. The profits, £17,065, were certainly over…

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Grand Pacific Hotel, Suva

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 18

The Union Company's new Hotel, specially designed for tourist traffic, will be opened under the management of Mr. C. Lugon, on. 1st May, and…

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Limiting the Beer Supply. Three Hotels Closed

The Sun · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 11

The special court appointed to deal with the reduction of hotel licenses has decided that the Glarstone Hotel, the licensee for which is held by Hannah Hardy, at Hunter's…

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"Passing It On." N.z. Hotel Tariffs Going Up

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 April 1914 · page 9

WELLINGTON, N.Z., Monday.--The Wellington hotelkeepers have decided to raise the tariffs in consequence of the enforcement of six days a week work for cooks and waiters…

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Easter. Invasion of Sydney. Hotels Crowded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 23

Sydney is teeming with visitors. They are arriving by every train and steamer, and to-day will see a further influx, particularly of country people. The indications…

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Licensed Liquor, Life, and Liberty. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 April 1914 · page 9

Sir.--In a recent issue Mr. James Marion, general secretary of the New South Wales Alliance, refers to the case of James Mullan, who was acquitted of the charge of murdering his…

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Transfer of Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 4

The following publicans' licenses were transferred at the sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:--Cottage of Content Hotel, Bourke-street, Sydney, from William Hamill to John Edward Dalley; Shelbourne…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 5

The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted at a special sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court on Wednesday:—Cottage of Content Hotel, Bourke-street, Sydney, from William Hamill to John…

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Hotels and Discipline

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 31

That a great hotel has to be run unde martial law is a startling way to put it, b[?]military discipline is indeed what is main [?]ained at the groat city hotels. The thou[?]…

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Thief's Escape. Missed by Two Bullets. Robbery at City Hotel

The Sun · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 4

Joseph Merton, a new arrival from England, who is staying at the People's Palace, was this morning robbed of a gold watch, a chain, a medal, and £3 10s…

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Licensed Liquor, Life, and Liberty. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 9 April 1914 · page 6

Sir,--In reply to my direct statement that the licensed liquor traffic was responsible for the murder of Mrs. Mullan by her husband at Waverley, Mr. Stooke lamely replies that "if…

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