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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1914

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Fashionable "Ragtime." Hotel Licensee Fined

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 4

Hannah Maclurean, the licensee of the Wentworth Hotel, city, was proceeded against at the Water Police Court on a charge of permitting dancing on licensed premises…

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Farewell to "Snowy" Baker Dinner at Hotel Australia. Away in Search of the Best

Evening News · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 8

Mr Snowy baker is going to tour the world—the boxing world, America, Great Britain, and France—in search of more boxers to bring to sydney, and at the Hotel Australia last night…

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Selling Meat Without a License

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 4

Morundah asks me if farmers are liable to prosecution for selling each other mutton for domestic wants. Answer: So far as the law is…

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The Farmer and His Horse. a Hotelkeeper's Liability

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 6

The yards and stables at hotels in country towns in farming centres are looked upon by the regular visitors to the towns as among the best features…

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Historic Hotel Closed. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 January 1914 · page 10

Holt's Hotel, at Lidsdale, was closed at the end of the year as the result of the local option vote six years ago. The hotel was situated on the main Mudgee road. It…

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Hotelkeepers to Live on Premises. License Liable to Cancellation

Evening News · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 5

It does not spencer to be generally known that under the New South Wales Liquor Act. 1912, a public stands a chance of having his license cancelled if he abandons his licensed…

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Closed for Good. Historic Hawkesbury Hotel

Evening News · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 14

The Brooklyn Hotel Hawkesbury [?], one of the hotels which local option [?] three years ago was unnecessary, closed its doors for good with the expiration of the old year…

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Albury Licensed Victuallers' Race Club. Summer Meeting. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 16

The following are the nominations for the Albury L.V. Race Club's Summer meeting on the 14th and 15th inst.:- FIRST DAY…

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The Word "Resident." and an Auctioneer's License

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 8

ALBURY, Tuesday.--The application of Archibald Mathieson, a member of the firm of Mathieson and Davis, for an auctioneer's license, was dealt with to-day before Mr. J…

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The "Queen's Hotel" for the Poor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 18

LONDON, December 5.--Queen Alexandra's great wish that every man and woman and every little child in London should be able to get enough to eat at the smallest possible prke…

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Hotelkeepers' Liability

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 7 January 1914 · page 15

The fining of a hotelkeeper at Beaufort (Vic.) for refusing to supply meals to the public should sharpen popular intelligence as to the obligations of publicans in this regard (says…

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Unknown Man's Suicide. Suffocated in Annandale Hotel

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 10

An unknown man engaged a room at the [?] Hotel at the corner of Parramatta road and Johnston-street. Annandale laic on Wednesday night. This morning he was…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 7

The Metropolitan Licensing Court has granted the transfer of the following publicans Itcences:— Gosford Club House, Castlereagh-stret sydney from Peter Alexander pase to…

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Hotel Cooks and Waitresses. Award Issued

The Australian Worker · Thursday 8 January 1914 · page 17

The new wages board award for hotel employees in the Sydney metropolitan area has bene issued. It is said that it is a substantial improvement on the old…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 5

The following transfers of publicans' licenses [?] granted at Thursday's sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court:—From Peter Alexander Page to Charles William Cupit, Cosford Club Hotel, Castlereagh-street,…

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Dirty Hotel. Country Licensee Fined. Bathurst

The Sun · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 7

At the Bathurst Police Court to-day Henry Hunrahan, licensee of the Oxford Hotel, was charged with hot having his premises free front filth and offensive matter. Defendant…

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CORRESPONDENCE. Hawkers' Licenses

The Land · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 9

"Alpha" writes:—Kindly decide the following:—Has a shire that has acquired the power contained in clause 4, section 107, the power of issuing…

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Hotel Employees' Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 5

Among the office-bearers elected in connection with the Hotel, Club, and Restaurant Employees' Union are the following:—President, Mr. H. Potter; vice-presidents, Messrs. W…

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Motor Car Driver Fined. License Withdrawn. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 12

At the police court to-day Clarence Roy Bartrop pleaded guilty to negligently driving a motor car in High-street on December 20. Defendant's car collided with a buggy, in…

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Licensing Poll. Belated Returns. Official Explanation

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 January 1914 · page 11

Complaints have been made of the delay which has taken place in announcing the results of several of the suburban licensing polls, notably Granville and Hurstville…

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