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Hotels & licensing, 1915

797 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 40

Goulburn Racing Club. Summer Meeting. All Satin Wins Publicans Purse. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 January 1915 · page 18

The Summer meeting of the Goulburn Racing Club was concluded to-day, the weather conditions snowing a great improvement. The meeting, from the point of view of sport, was the most successful held by the…

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Stole the Hotel Keeper's Dinner

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1915 · page 5

Samuel Creagh was at the Liverpool Court charged with stealing a sirloin roast of beef, valued at 4/3, the property of Joseph Hey, of the Warwick Farm…

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Postbag of the War. Soldiers' Disastrous Hotel Party. Monitors' Work Seen From the Sea. a Black Cat in the Trenches

Evening News · Monday 1 February 1915 · page 4

Petty Officer W. Grundy, of H.M.S. Vestal, writes from the Royal Marine Infirmary, Deal, describing his ship's telling work off the coast. —I may tell you that I was drafted on to the…

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An Hotel Business Inherited

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 February 1915 · page 11

"Nunquam" writes:- 1. A certain hotelkeeper died in October of the year 1914. Duty is claimed and paid on the estate of deceased. The business, etc., was willed over to his…

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A Bogus Detective. Wanted to Search an Hotel

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 4

Dairy Joseph Dunne, a Queensland contractor, was before the Newtown (Sydney) police court on Friday on chaises of personating a detective, and of…

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New Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 3

Mr. E. Lindsay-Thompson, architect, of Sydney, Arcatde, has commenced the building of a new hotel for Mr. Sweeney at the corner of Druitt and Clarence streets. The structure will…

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Twelve Shillings a Week! Wages Board's Astounding Award. Hotel and Restaurant Employees Ruthlessly Cut Down. Wages Reduced 20 and 25 Per Cent

The Australian Worker · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 22

Though unionists in Australia have been asked, to lay down their arms while the war is proceeding in Europe, the employers have continued to wage the…

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State Hotels. Scaddan Government Defeated

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 7

PERTH, Wednesday.--The [?]Government was defeated in the Legislative Assembly on the second reading of the bill removing the State hotels from the jurisdiction of the…

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Reducing Hotel Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The Licenses Reduction Board, since its inception in May, 1907, has closed 803. hotels and paid £895,025 as compensation. In 1914, the board closed 93, hotels,…

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Lismore Licensed Victuallers' Race Club. Summer Meeting. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 7

The Licensed Victuallers' Race Club's summer meeting was held yesterday. Results:- Opening Handicap.—Stockgrove, 1; Gold Laddie, 2; Laristan, 3. One other starter…

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Hotel Employees. Protest Against Reduced Wages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 8

The reduction in wages by 26 per cent, made by the board's chairman, Mr. W. H. Mocatta, came into operation on Monday in respect to hotels, restaurants, and caterers. The…

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Hotels Closed. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 10

As the result of eignt years' work the Licenses' Reduction Board has closed over 800 hotels in that portion of Victoria having more than the statutory number, at a total…

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Brawl in an Hotel

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 8

James Edward Payne, a marine fireman, was charged before Mr. Macfarlane at the Central Police Court yesterday with having assaulted Charles Robilliard, a cook…

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Australians in Berlin Living at Hotel Supplied with Cash

Evening News · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 1

An interesting communication in respect to a number of Australian tourists who were in Berlin when has war broke out has been received by Messrs. Burna, Philp, and Company…

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Excitement in Hotel. Chase After Two Men

Evening News · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 5

After an exciting [?] in the Tivoli Hotel, in Castlereagh-street, City, on Friday night, and an equally exciting [?] along Castlereagh-street, to King-street, two men, who are…

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important Hotel Announcement

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 4

Mr. M. A. McCabe, of the North Star Hotel, Liverpool and Pitt-streets, makes an announcement in another column which will prove…

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Hotel Brawl

The Sun · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 2

A disturbance occurred in an hotel at Redfern last night, and Harold Butler, aged 26, of Hugo-street, Redfern, is alleged to have been struck by a tumbler, causing…

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Barmaid's Tackle. Exciting Hotel Scene. Two Men Arrested

The Sun · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 6

The pluck of a girl was the outstanding feature of an exciting incident that occurred at the Tivoli Hotel, Castlereagh-street, last night…

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Hotel Employees

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 13

Mr. Low, general secretary of the United Licensed Victuallers' Association, points out that no reduction in wages of hotel employees has been sanctioned by the wages…

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Lost His License

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 6

At the Parramatta Police Court on Monday a young man was charged with being drunk whilst in charge of a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle happened to be…

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