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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1914

844 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 43

Liquor Trade. Hotel Keepers Increase Prices. New Tariff To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 12

The United Licensed Victuallers' Association yesterday held a meeting of hotel-keepers at the Lecture Hall of the Sydney School of Arts. The attendance, however, was so…

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Industrial Court. (Before Mr. Justice Edmunds.) Licensed Victuallers' Application

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 7

The main objection raised by the Licensed Victuallers' Association in their application for a variation of the award of the Domestic Group, No. 1 Board, was that they could…

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Auctioneers' Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 10

A bill to amend the Auctioneers Act and the Acts relating to Early Closing, in order to permit auctioneers to sell wool, skins, and hides after sunset, was passed through all its stages…

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The "Pint" Abolished. Newcastle Publicans' Meeting

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- The pint of beer dispensed over the hotel counters is to disappear, and in future the thirsty worker or other individual will have to be content with…

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Tax on Thirst. Pint Costs More. Uproarious Publicans

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 December 1914 · page 8

Never before had publicans gathered in such force as yesterday. First they crowded the School of Arts Hall till it became obvious that a third of the meeting would have to stand…

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Glebe Hotelkeepers Decision

Evening News · Thursday 10 December 1914 · page 7

At a full meeting of the [?] of Gigbe it was usaolmoubly decided that the scale of prices as passed by the [?] Association meeting on tuesday afternoon be…

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Auctioneers' Licenses Bill to Enlarge Privileges

The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 10 December 1914 · page 2

In the N.S.W. Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, the Auction[?]ers' Licensing (Amendment) Bill, to enable auctioneers to sell wool, skins, and hides after…

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Publicans and the Public

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 December 1914 · page 6

The burning question in this State just now is whether the brewer, the publican, or the beer drinker shall offer himself as a vicarious sacrifice for the teetotaller on the…

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Law Report. High Court. Western Australian Licensing Law. Conditional Special Leave

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 December 1914 · page 5

A case in which the Court, for the first time in its existence, imposed special conditions in granting special leave to appeal was decided…

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Law. Thursday, December 10. High Court of Australia. (Before Sir Samuel Griffith, C.J. Mr. Justice Barton, Mr. Justice Issac, Mr. Justice Duffy, and Mr. Justice Rich.) Interpretation Op Licensing Law

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 December 1914 · page 9

Mr. Miner Stephen (Instructed by Messrs. Stephen, Jaques, and Stephen, agents for the Crown Solicitor of West Australia) moved ex–parte, for special leave to appeal in a matter…

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Questions of All Descriptions Answered Legal Wine License

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Saturday 12 December 1914 · page 8

GROCER (Balmain): The following extract should answer your enquiry: The number of Colonial wine licenses in an electorate shall not, except as specially provided, exceed the…

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A Publican's Plaint

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 December 1914 · page 14

A George Street Publican writes: -- "If grocers, drapers, and other tradespeople are allowed to pass on to the general public the extra duties just imposed by the…

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Gone-foe Ever, the 3d Pint. Fixing the Parramatta Traiff. Meeting of Licensed Victuallers

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 12 December 1914 · page 11

The poor man's pint will, till further notice, cost him fourpence in Parramatta, for at a meeting of the trade," held in the Parramatta School of Arts on…

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Snubbing the No-Licensee

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 12 December 1914 · page 6

At the meeting of the Hornsby Shire Council on Thursday, a letter was read from the lion, secretary of the Ryde electorate No-License Executive, asking…

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Beer Up. Duty Passed On. Brewers and Publicans' Successful Application. Necessary Commodities Recommendation

Evening News · Monday 14 December 1914 · page 1

The proposed increase in the price of beer and spirits was discussed before the Necessary [?] modities Commission this morning. There was a large attendance of members of the…

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Doom of the Pint. Hotelkeeper Problems. How to Meet the Increases Duties More of the Beer Strike

Evening News · Tuesday 15 December 1914 · page 6

The question of the moment, as far as every hotelkeeper in Sydney in concerned, is "How am I going to recoup myself the 1d per gallon extra exise duty which the Necessary…

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Wine and Spirit Problem. Merchants' New Prices. What Hotelkeepers May Pass On

Evening News · Tuesday 15 December 1914 · page 8

The difficulty which pressted itself at the meeting of the Necessary Commodities commission yesterday morning regarding the increased charges the wise and spirit merchants proposed…

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Aliens in London Hotels. Position at the Carlton and Ritz

Evening News · Tuesday 15 December 1914 · page 4

Mr. William Harris, chairman of the Carlton Hotel Company, presiding at the annual general meeting an October £0 in London, said a great many of the staff of the Carlton and the…

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Fire at Coff's Harbor. Bank, Post Office, Stores and Hotels

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 December 1914 · page 2

A fire broke out on Sunday morning in Hardy's newspaper shop at the Coff's Harbor jetty, and spread to the railway construction office, Hattersley's (tailor)…

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Licensed Victuallers Confer

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 December 1914 · page 8

Members of the United Licensed Victuallers Association met yesterday, and considered the increases proposes by the wine and spirit merchants, and formulated proposals which will be 1…

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