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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1915

797 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 40

Sale of an Hotel. Alleged False Pretences

The Sun · Thursday 22 April 1915 · page 5

Gordon M'Donald, departmental manager of the Public Supply Co-operative Stores. Pitt-street, city, was before the Central Police Court to-day charged with false pretences…

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Hotel License Transferred

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 April 1915 · page 5

At yesterday's sitting of the Metropolitan License Court, the license of Amanda O'Connell, Bedford Hotel. Wells Street, Redfern, was transferred to Charles E. Keast…

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Garden Water Licenses

The Land · Friday 23 April 1915 · page 9

At last meeting of Kiama Council Alderman Cornford advocated the advisability of adopting a scheme for issuing garden licenses, by which the water from…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 April 1915 · page 7

The Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday granted the following hotel transfer:—Bedford Hotel, Wellsstreet, Redfern, Amanda O'Connell to Charles E. Keast…

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Closing Hour for Hotels. Launceston

The Sun · Friday 23 April 1915 · page 5

The Government has arranged to prepare a Bill to amend the Licensing Act. providing for the closing of hotels at 10 p.m., and the prohibiting of the sale of drink at clubs after…

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Liquor in the Territory. Nationalisation Opposed. the "Hotel Fisher." Melbourne

The Sun · Friday 23 April 1915 · page 5

A protesting party against liquor nationalisation in the Northern Territory has been formed in the House of Representatives, with Mr. Finlayson, of Brisbane, at its head. Mr…

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Parramatta Licensing Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 24 April 1915 · page 6

At the Parramatta Licensing Court on Wednesday applications from Geo. Meadham, Auburn, and Robert John Grieve, Aulburn, for Colonial wine licenses were…

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Hotel Employees' Claims. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 April 1915 · page 17

The wages board dealing with the hotel and restaurant keepers' employees' dispute, finished its sittings yesterday. All the clauses in the employees' claim against the…

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State Hotels. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 April 1915 · page 14

Sir,—In your edition of the 14th inst. is a statement by Mr. A. Grant (Mayor of Hurstville), who, at some time or other, was on a visit to Leeton, saying he "never heard of any…

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Sunday Drinking at Thornleigh The Bona Fide Lodger Dodge. Publican Heavily Fined

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 24 April 1915 · page 11

For some years Thornleigh has enjoyed the reputation of being a peaceful, law-abiding district, but of late there have been evidences of a tendency, towards a…

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Totalisator License Granted and Withdrawn

Sunday Times · Sunday 25 April 1915 · page 12

It was announced in Perth during the week that permission to lise the totalisator at the Goodwood meeting yesterday had been granted. It was explained that the unregistered courses,…

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Early Closing of Hotels. Adelaide

The Sun · Monday 26 April 1915 · page 5

The Premier of South Australia stated this morning that early next session he would introduce a bill to Parliament to give effect to the referendum on the early closing of…

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Barrier Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 26 April 1915 · page 11

BROKEN HILL, Sunday.—Tho hotel and restaurants, which had been partially closed through the dispute with, tho employees' union, were reopened as usual yesterday…

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Burglars in a Hotel

Evening News · Tuesday 27 April 1915 · page 5

Burglars visited the War[?]ick Farm Hotel, Moors-street, Liverpool, on Sunday night. They entered the building through an unlocked window, and broke a glass window in a passage…

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Hotel Transferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 April 1915 · page 6

The Metropolitan Licensing Court granted the following hotel transfer yesterday:—York Hotel, York and King streets, Sydney, from Philip J. Byrne to Eugeae M'Loughlin…

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Industrial. Hotels and Restaurants

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 April 1915 · page 4

Mr. Justice Hoydon had before him the appeal of the Hotel. Caterers, Club,and Restaurant Employees' Union, and the cross appeal of the Caterers' and Restaurant Keepers'…

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Fined License Suspended Taxi Driver in Court. Magistrate's Remarks

Evening News · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 5

"Men like you are a menace to the community," said Mr. [?]thers, S.M., at the Water Police Court this morning in fining Lewis Thomas Williams, a taxi driver, [?] with coats…

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Taxi-driver's Insolence. License Suspended

The Sun · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 6

When Lewis Thomas Williams, a taxi- driver, was asked at the Water Police Court this morning to explain how he came to knock down a man who was standing on the…

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The New Hotel

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1915 · page 2

The magnificent building which Mr. L. A. Chesslier has erected at the corner of Church and George streets, Parramatta, on the site of the old White Horse Hotel…

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Early Closing of Hotels. West Maitland

Evening News · Thursday 29 April 1915 · page 4

The "follow the King' movement was inaugurated at a largely attended meeting in the Town Hall last night. Dr. Arthur M.L.A., secretary of the movement in Sydney,…

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