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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1916

926 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 47

Fewer Hotels in Victoria Work of Reduction Board Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 7 August 1916 · page 6

The Licenses Reduction Board has issued a review of its operations, which shows that during the current year 110 hotels were closed. In the latter half of 1907 there were…

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Minors and Hotel Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 August 1916 · page 9

GUNNEDAH, Monday.--At the Gunnedah Licensing Court, the application of J. J. Seery for the transfer of the license of the Commercial Hotel to A. C. Frater was refused, on…

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Misdemeanors a Problem for Publicans What Are the Boundaries of a Bar

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 8 August 1916 · page 4

A point of interest to hot[?] copers was before Mr. Justice Harvey, in Common Law Chambers, Sydney, on Friday. The ap[?] was James Whiteman,…

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Liquor Without a License. £40 Fine at Manly

Evening News · Tuesday 8 August 1916 · page 5

Marie Elizabeth H[?] charged at the Manly Police Court this [?] with selling liquor without a [?] pleaded guilty…

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1000 Hotels Closed. a Decade in Victoria. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 August 1916 · page 8

Under the licensing law as is at present stands the Licenses Reduction Board will cease to operate at the close of the present year. As the result of ten years' operations…

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The Diminishing Hotel. Victoria's Work

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 August 1916 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Licenses Reduction Board to-day issued instructions for the closing of 29 hotels in and around Melbourne. The new list of hotels ordered to be closed, it…

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No-license District. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 August 1916 · page 10

Herbert Owen has been fined £50 for keeping liquer for sale in the no-license district of Invercargill…

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Boiling-down Works License Refused

The Sun · Wednesday 9 August 1916 · page 3

About six weeks ago the Granville Council refused to renew the license of a boiling down works carried on in Blaxcell-street, Granville, by Mr. J. H. Barnes. Several…

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Selling Liquor Without a License

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 August 1916 · page 5

Marie Elizabeth Homberg, keeper of a fish shop at Manly, was charged at the Manly Police Court yesterday with selling liquor without having a license…

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Her Hotel Bill

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 9 August 1916 · page 51

Mrs. Spendthrift was enjoying her holidays at a fashionable seaside resort, and during her stay she wrote her hubby, saying: "Dear Tom, I enclose the hotel bill."…

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Topics of the Day. Various Views. The Poor Publican Again

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 August 1916 · page 11

It is difficult to follow the logic, if there is any, in the claim of the N.S.W. Alliance to prevent publicans from supplying their customers with soft drinks. When the…

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Hotel-keepers' Troubles. Rise in Prices Fore-shadowed

Evening News · Thursday 10 August 1916 · page 4

At the ninth annual conference of N.S.W. Hotelkeepers the president (Mr. J. T. Donnison) commented on the serious loss sustained by hotelkeepters consequent on early closing. He…

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The Liquor Trade. Conference of Hotelkeepers

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 August 1916 · page 7

The ninth annual conference of New South Wales Hotelkeepers was held in the Oddfellows' Temple, Elizabeth Street[?] Mr. John T. Donnison (president of the U.L.V.A.) occupied the…

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A Soldier's Fatal Fall. From Hotel Window to Footpath

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 4

Private Black, a member of the Expeditionary Forces in camp at Rutherford, West Maitland, was killed at a late hour on Saturday night through failing from…

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Hotels "Out of Bounds." Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 10

Two of the local hotels have been declared "out of bounds" by the military authorities…

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Hotelkeepers' Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 9

The annual conference of New South Wales hotelkeepers was held in the Oddfellows' Temple on Tuesday. Mr. John T. Donnison (president of the U.L.V.A.) occupied the chair…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 4

At Thursday's sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court, the Becuse of the Park View Hotel, Mitchellread, Alexandria, was transferred from John Carrick to James Benjamin Hoban…

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Hotel Bars. No Women Customers. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1916 · page 8

The regulations under the Act which has just been passed will absolutely prevent women from entering or being served with liquor in hotel bars…

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At the Hotels

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 August 1916 · page 5

Hotel Carlton :—Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Jones (Dunedin), Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Boyd, Muter C. Boyd and Miss Henderson (Melbourne), Mr. and Mrs. W. Keogh (Ceonamble), Mr. and Mrs. Yeoman (Bowral), Mr. and…

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Early Closing of Hotels. Reduction of Hands

Evening News · Monday 14 August 1916 · page 5

[?] opinions of the [?] will as of then employees, [?] means the dismissal [?] attendants in…

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