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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1915

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Beer Strike One Publican Yields. Kurri Kurri

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1915 · page 8

Beer was raised to fourpence per pint today, and a strike followed at once. Scores of men refrained from entering the hotels, but business has not been bad. One hotelkeeper…

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Price of Beer. Hotelkeepers Divided

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1915 · page 6

The new scale of chargea for whisky and beer came into operation yesterday, but quite a number of city and suburban hotelkeepers refused to raise their prices. Naturally their…

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Prices for Drinks. H0telkeepers Still Uncertain, Licensed Victuallers Organising

Evening News · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 6

The liquor problem is still [?]ing a lot of discretion is Sydney among hotelkeepers and their patrons, and the public is exercised in its mind whether or not It should quietly…

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The Purchase of an Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 13

Mr. J. Hardle writes:- Sir,—I purchased an hotel for £2000, of which £500 is the value of the furniture and fittings, leaving £1500 for the goodwill. The lease has four years to…

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Hotel Premises

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 13

"Inquirer" writes:- Sir,—I have here a lease of an hotel, which includes several offices. These of course, are not on the licenced premises. Must I include these office rents…

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An Hotel Lease

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 13

"Hotelkeeper" writes:- Sir,—I purchase the lease of a hotel property. I have, sat, £3000 to put into it. The price is £5000. I mortgage that lease to a brewing company for the…

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Newsboys' Strike. Issue of Sellers' Licenses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 14

Reference to the newsboys' strike was made by Alderman Burke at last night's meeting of the City Council. He commented on the statement by the proprieters ot the evening…

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Publican Shot. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1915 · page 12

To-night William Berkhols, licensee of the Hillside Hotel, was shot through a shoulder with a revolver…

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Publican Wounded. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1915 · page 10

William Berkholz, licensee of the Hillside Hotel, who was shot with a revolver by his wife last night, was wounded in the fleshy party of the shoulder, near the neek, Mrs…

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Sale of an Occupation License. Hillston Land District

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 3

At the office of the Crown Land Agent at Hillston, at noon on Tuesday, the 19th January, 1915, the right to an Occupation License of about 14,100 acres in the parishes of [?] and Rutland…

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Purchase of Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 9

Mr. J. A. Mackenzie writes:- Sir,—I start in a hotel business, paying rental for the premises occupied. An opportunity occurs to [?]urchase the said premises, and to enable me to do this…

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Financial. Hotel Metropole[?] Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1915 · page 9

The report of the above company covers the 12 months ended December 31. A net profit (including £1[?]19 interest on investments) of £15,368 was made during the period. A…

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South Australian Hotels. Early Closing Referendum

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 16

The electors of South Australia will determine the hour of closing liquor bars by referendum, which is to be taken on the day of the general election—March 27…

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Earlier Closing of Hotels

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 January 1915 · page 17

An original method of determining the hour of closing liquor bars is about to be voted upon in South Australia. Mr. James Marlon, general secretary of the…

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Beer Strike. Miners Determined. Fifteen Hotels Boycotted. West Maitland

The Sun · Sunday 17 January 1915 · page 4

The beer strike now extends over the Malt land coalfield from Pelaw Main to Cessnock, and no beer business has been effected at any of the 15 large hotels on the field…

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Bathurst Licensing Court

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1915 · page 11

BATHURST, Saturday.-- At the quarterly sitting of the Bathrust Licensing Court the application by Charles Murray for the removal; of his license from the Royal Exchange Hotel…

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Hotel Full of Spies

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 19 January 1915 · page 3

"I had arranged with the Hotel people to stay us their maid, thinking that they would shut their doors and that I could just go in und out. Imagine my…

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Bolting Coach Horses. a Bathurst Hotel Damaged

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1915 · page 4

As a result of two horses attached to the Sunny Corner mail coach taking fright at an explosion caused by the back firing of a gas engine, close to where…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 January 1915 · page 6

The Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday granted a transfer of the license of the Southern Cross Hotel, Devonshire-street, from Charles Robert Heap to Frederick E. Mitchell…

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More Bad Sovereigns. Publicans Victimised

The Sun · Friday 22 January 1915 · page 3

Spurious sovereigns are still being passed on Balmain publicans. Two were put over bars last night--one at the Contingent and the other at the Leichhardt--and in each…

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