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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1916

926 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 47

Hotels and Soft Drinks

The Sun · Monday 3 July 1916 · page 5

When Mr. Hall received the deputation from the Alliance party last Friday he said the publicans decided to close their bars against the sale of nonalcoholic drinks at 6…

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Hotel Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 July 1916 · page 9

MURWILLUMBAH, Monday.--At the Licensing Court, when the licensee of the Royal Hotel, South Murwillumbah, applied for a reduction in the assessment on the grounds, amongst…

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Travellers' Rights. Hotelkeepers Must Serve Meat

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 4 July 1916 · page 4

A decision of interest to hotelkeepers and travellers in country districts, in that the liquor law makes it an offence for a hotelkeeper to refuse to supply a…

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Broken Hill Licensed Victuallers Race Club. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 July 1916 · page 16

The following are the weights for the Silver City Cup, 1¼m.—Jarwan, 9st 12lb; Maori Lad, 9st 10lb; Juan Fernandez, 9st 8lb; Epistle, 8st 12lb; Admirable Rob, 8st 11lb; Pistol Prince, 8st 91b; Great…

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Licensing Fees. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 July 1916 · page 14

At the Licensing Court a number of applications were made for reduction in licensin[?] fees. In each case the Bench granted a reduction of from 25 to 33 per cent…

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Beer Without a License Fine of £100

The Sun · Wednesday 5 July 1916 · page 5

Thomas Carroll, aged 41, was fined £100, in default six months, this morning, at the Central Police Court, for selling beer in Abercrombie- street without a license. Defendant…

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Wentworth Hotel

The Sun · Wednesday 5 July 1916 · page 9

The annual report and balance- sheet of the Wentworth Hotel Ltd., for the term which closed on April 30, shown that after making provision for depreciation on furniture, fixtures, and fittings of 10…

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Northern Territory. Wages in Government Hotels Mr. Justice Powers' Judgment

The Australian Worker · Thursday 6 July 1916 · page 5

On June 30, in the Commonwealth Arbitration Court at Melbourne, Mr. Justice Powers delivered judgment in the case of the Darwin (N.T.) Hotels, nationalised by…

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The West. Land Scheme for Soldiers. State Hotels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 July 1916 · page 8

It is anticipated that the land settlement schemes for returned soldiers will result in a proportionately greater increase of the agricultural population of Western Australia…

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Hotels and Soft Drinks

The Sun · Thursday 6 July 1916 · page 3

Would you be good enough to publish a few lines in your valuable paper in reply to Mr. Trautwein's letter of the 3rd instant re hotels and soft drinks. On behalf of my…

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Hotel Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 7 July 1916 · page 4

BROKEN HILL, Thursday.--Several hotelkeepers applied for renewals of licenses yesterday. In nil cases, the assessments and license fees were reduced…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 July 1916 · page 5

At Thursday's sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court the license of the Royal Standard Hotel, Bathurst and Castlereagh streets, city, was tranferred from Alfred Hamilton Kirkby to Gordon Charles Larkin…

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Buying a Hotel Deal That Ended in the Court

Evening News · Saturday 8 July 1916 · page 6

William Alexander de Fries, 54, appeared at the Central Police Court, before Mr. Burton Smith, S.M., on three charges of false pretences. It was alleged that he obtained £5 from Percy…

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Thrashing the German Crown Prince. Berlin Hotel Manager's Revelation

The World's News · Saturday 8 July 1916 · page 8

ALL German royalties are attended at table by their own butlers. The crown Prince has an elderly butler who was once in the service of an English peer. In…

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The Licensee Ducked

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 8 July 1916 · page 5

Francis McCabe, a returned soldier, got annoyed on Tuesday in the bar of the Railway Hotel, and fired a heavy glassmug at the proprietor, Mr. John Rafferty,…

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Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 8 July 1916 · page 3

At the special sittings of the Licensing Court held at Penrith Court house, on Tuesday last (6th July) (before Messrs. T.B. Clegg, P.M…

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Inflammable Liquids Licenses and Registrations Warning to Barbers

The Sun · Sunday 9 July 1916 · page 3

The Inflammable Liquids Act, which has just come into operation, prohibits the keeping of inflammable liquid by any person, except in registered premises or licensed…

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English Wool Trade. Europe on the License System. (From Our Special, Correspondent.) Bradford, May 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 July 1916 · page 5

The wool trade of Europe at the present time seems to be worked on the licence system. Exports of wool and wool goods in any form are prohibited from Great Britain,…

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Publican Fined £20. NEWCASTLE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 July 1916 · page 10

Rohert Forbes, licence of the Sunnystoe Hotel, at Broadmeadow, was on Friday fined £20 by Mr. Adrian. S.M.. for soiling a bottle of whisky to a soldier on Sunday, July…

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Cries of Violence Hotel-keeper's Wife Strangled a Tragic End to a Pleasure Jaunt

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 11 July 1916 · page 4

On Saturday night Adela Browne, a married woman, was found strangled in her at the Cricket [?] Hotal, St. Kilda (Vic.) Later her husband Ernest…

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