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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1915

797 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 40

Elections. Close Contest in South Australia. Socialists Gain Seats. Hotel Question. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 10

Yesterday the election to constitute the new House of Assembly was held. At the same time electors were asked to decide whether hotel bars throughout the State should…

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Hotel Burned. Warren

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 11

The Mount Harris Hotel and post-office with contents, were destroyed by fire. The buildings were owned by the Buttabone Pastoral Company, and situated on the…

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Hotel Employees' Trouble

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 29 March 1915 · page 8

BROKEN HILL, Sunday.--The position in the hotel employees call-out remains the same. W. H. Cowper's nomination to the Wages Board was not accepted, as he was not in the trade,…

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Early Closing of Hotels. The Movement In Perth

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 3

The clerical agitation in favor of the early closing of hotels in Perth (W.A.) continues. The matter was referred to at a meeting of the Fremantle Liquor…

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Barrier Hotel Strike

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 4

The hotel and restaurant employees or Broken Hill have been called out by their union. About a score of hotels and several restaurants are affected. The…

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Closing of Hotels. South Australian Voting. Six O'clock Favoured. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 March 1915 · page 9

The surprise to-day of the continuation of the counting of, votes cast in the referendum as to what hour at night hotel bars shall be closed was the way in which the figures for…

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An Unfaithful Wife. Publican Gets Divorce

The Sun · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 5

Mr. Justice Gordon, in the Divorce Court, to-day, delivered reserved judgment in the suit in which Alexander Ward, an hotel keeper, of Merewether, near Newcastle,…

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HOTEL - Keepers Plaint. , i

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 8

MELBOURNE. Tuesday. -- Publicans having been unable to pass on the increased duties on beer and stimulants to the. consuming public, an effort is now being made to induce the…

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Sale of an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 17

Evidence in the Equity suit, before Mr. Justice Street, of Alderson v. Sheedy and another, in connection with the sale and purchase of the Bungonia Hotel, was concluded, and counsel…

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Labour Wins. South Australian Poll. Hotel Closing Hours. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 14

The Scrutiny in connection with the elections for the new House of Assembly was continued to-day. The position remains unchanged, and the probability is that 26…

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Friendly Societies. Licensed Auditors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 March 1915 · page 10

The representatives of the Friendly Societies' Association met at the Oddfellows' Hall on Monday to consider a proposal of the Registrar to amedn the Friendly Societies' Act,…

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False Reports. How War News Is Spread. Publican Fined. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 April 1915 · page 6

The first prosecutions in Victoria under the War Precautions Act, 1914, for spreading a report likely to cause alarm among the civilian population, was heard at the City…

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Special Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 4

On Tuesday last a special licensing court was held at Penrith Court House, before the licensing magistrates, Messrs T B Clegg, P.M., L C…

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Publicans' Hours. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 14

Sir,—If you will klndly allow me, I, as a publican's a wife, would like to state my ideas on this all-important question of the moment, "the shortening of prevailing hours for…

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Hotel Hours. South Australian Vote. Labour Help

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 April 1915 · page 14

Mr. James Marion, general secretary of the New South Wales Alliance, returned to Sydney yesterday, after an absence of nine weeks in South Australia. He expressed himself as…

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Closing Hotels at 6 O'clock

The Sun · Sunday 4 April 1915 · page 17

Electors of South Australia have decided by a considerable majority that all hotels in the State must cease business at 6 p.m. Nearly all residents of the city dine after 6 o'clock…

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The Liquor Evil Early Closing of Hotels the Spoiling of Capable Soldiers

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 4

"The N.S.W. Chief Secretary, Mr. Black, stated on Thursday that he was inclined to think—and he believed some other members of the Cabinet were of the same…

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Strike Against a State Hotel

The Farmer and Settler · Wednesday 7 April 1915 · page 4

A Perth message states that the Gwalia State Hotel, the first established in West Australia, has been picketed by its customers for a beer strike in consequence…

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Night Adventure. Late Visitors at a City Hotel

Evening News · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 5

Thomas Durack. licenses of the Newmarket Hotel. Elizabeth and Campbell streets, had a [?] last Saturday night, the particulars of which he told at the Central…

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Hotels and Cleanliness

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 April 1915 · page 6

There is a necessity for plain speaking in connection with the san[?]tary arrangements in country hotels. When so much care is taken in every other direction it is extraordinary…

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