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The recent proceedings taken against a publican for having held a beneficial interest in more than one licence for the sale of liquor serves to draw attention to the prohibition…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Although the cable has given us to understand that the new Betting Act, which permits of bookmaking in Germany, was passed weeks ago, such can scarcely be the case in view of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →George Legard, 55, was arrested on Sunday morning for selling liquor in Wentworth-avenue without being the holder of a license, and when he was searched he had concealed about him 10 bottles of [?], four…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some idea of the way in which the nolicence edict is evnded was told during the hearing of a case at Invercargill,. which has been "dry" for several years. The manager…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Since the beginning of the year the police have been on the look-out for an enterprising hotel barber, whose activities have deprived about a dozen persons of their possessions in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This was an application made by Mr. Wade K.C., on behalf of Harry Stanley Lincoln, brewery manager, of Hay, to make absolute a rule for a mandamus compelling Henry Giles…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An application was made on behalf of Harry Stanley Lincoln, of Hay, brewery manager, to make absolute a rule for a mandamus to compel Henry Giles Shaw, P.M., William James…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Hartley Licenses Reduction Court, consisting of Judge Docker, Major Bracey, and Mr. T. C. Clegg, P.M., of Penrith, concluded its sittings on Wednesday afternoon. After…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Reduction Court decided to-day to cancel the license of four hotels and two wine bars on the mountains, as follows:— Cooper's Grand Hotel, Mount Victoria;…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →BOWRAVILLE, Wednesday. -- The Nambucca Licensing Bench has been conducting a special inquiry into the petition by M. Wallace for a second public house at Macksville. The petition set forth that present licensed…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At the Water Police Court, John Arthur Johnson (23) was charged with having stolen from a bedroom at the Hotel Metropole. Mrs. Marie Dodd, of Commonwealth-parade, Manly, was staying at the Metropole on March 6,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a sitting of the Parramatta Licensing Court yesterday Daniel O'Shea, licence of the Royal Hotel, Granville, applied for a renewal of his license. He informed the Bench that he paid a rent of £12 per week, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →LITHGOW, Wednesday. -- At the Hartley Reduction Court the Licensing Inspector, Mr. Burn, said that there had been scarcely any increase in the population of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The following transfers of publicans' licenses were granted at yesterday's sitting of the Metropolitan [?]nsing Court:— Hotel Canberra, Oxford-street, Sydney, from George Augustus Rogers to Daniel Minihan:…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Licensing Bench, sitting at the Central Court, yesterday arrived at an Important understanding. It was decided that in future, where a single man applies for the transference…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Publican" writes:— Sir,—In 1913 I bought an hotel, freehold and furniture, for £8000, and immediately afterwards sold an ingoing for. £1000, for a term of years, at a weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →WEST MAITLAND, Thursday.--A special sitting of the Maitland Licensing Bench, consisting of Messrs, C. H. Gale, P. M., Elias Bowden, and J. W. Birkenhead, L.M.S., began to-day for the hearing of applications for new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WEST MAITLAND, Friday.--The Maitland Licensing Bench continued the hearing to-day of the applications by James Martin Carey for a publican license at Branxton. The applications was refused…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The Reduction Court has decided to cancel the license of four hotels and two wine bars on the mountains, as follows:—Cooper's Grand Hotel, Mount Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The license of the Park. Gate Hotel was transferred from Elizabeth Barber to John Nash. The applicant, John Nash, was a single man; but it was stated that…
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