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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1917

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Parramatta Licensing Court Wednesday, July 4. (Before Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, S.M.) Licenses Transferred

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 7 July 1917 · page 2

The license of the Hallway Hotel, Parramattn, was transferred from Thomas Loughrey to Robert Miller. The transferee stated that he was a married man…

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Anti-shouting Move Publicans Outvote Reformers Perth (W.a.)

The Sun · Tuesday 10 July 1917 · page 5

The Town Hall was packed last night, on the occasion of a demonstration by the Temperance Reformers in favor of an anti-shouting law…

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Hotel Losses. Effects of Early Closing

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 July 1917 · page 4

CASINO, Monday.--The Licensing Court to- day granted Edward Kearney, of the Commonwealth Hotel, a reduction in the annual value from £300 to £225 in consequence of losses…

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America's Exports. Denmark Wants a License. New York

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 July 1917 · page 5

Advices from Washington state that Denmark has applied for a license for the export of meal cakes. The Exports Council has withheld its decision…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 July 1917 · page 5

At yesterday's sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court the license of the Wynyard Hotel, Erskine and Clarence streets, Sydney, was transferred from Thomas William Bird to William Benjamin Dickson…

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Licensing Court

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 July 1917 · page 1

At a Special Licensing Court at the Penrith Courthouse, presided over by Messrs T B Clegg, L.M., and A Judges, J.P., the following…

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Man Shot Dead Following Row in a Hotel

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 July 1917 · page 2

Inspector Doig telephoned the Inspector-General of Police last night that, shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday, Collins, a publican of Maryvale, near Wellington, reported to the local…

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Hotel Bar Tragedy Shooting at Maryvale

The Sun · Sunday 15 July 1917 · page 2

While in the bar of a public-house at Maryvale, near Wellington, William Downey was, late last night, shot dead. He received the contents of a shot gun in the head…

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Man Shot in Hotel

Evening News · Monday 16 July 1917 · page 3

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Crimes of Violence a Girl Shoots Her Lover a Sensation at a Sydney Hotel

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 17 July 1917 · page 4

A shooting affray occurred on Thursday afternoon at the printing establishment of Robertson and Wishart, Ltd., in Sydney, as a result of wliich Miss Evelyn…

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A Man Shot at Wellington. a Publican Arrested

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 17 July 1917 · page 4

A publican named Collins, of Maryvale, near Wellington (N.S.W.), reported to the police on Saturday night that he had shot a man named Downey. It was stated that…

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Fatal Hotel Affray

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 July 1917 · page 8

As the result of a scuffle in an hotel at Maryvale, near Wellington, on Snturday evening, William Downey, aged 26, was shot, and died almost instantaneously. It is reported…

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Shot in Hotel Bar. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 July 1917 · page 9

An inquest on the body of William Downey, who was shot at Maryvale on Saturday night at the Oak Hotel, was held yesterday afternoon…

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Appeals. Removal of Hotel License

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 8

The granting by the Metropolitan Licensing Court on May 14 last of the application by Peter Puig for the removal of the license of the Albert Park Hotel, Brisbane Street, Sydney,…

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Closing of Hotels Extended Power Granted MELBOURNE

The Sun · Thursday 19 July 1917 · page 7

By an amendment of the War Precautions Regulations to-day, the power of the Minister for Defence to close licensed premises where the sale of intoxicating liquor is…

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Australia Hotel Year's Profit of £12,109

The Sun · Friday 20 July 1917 · page 5

The balance-sheet of the Australia Hotel Co., Ltd., for the year ended June 30 last showed that the profit amounted to £12,109 19s 8d. With £160 0s 9d brought into the…

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Eking Out the Soup. New Table Manners in Berlin Fashionable Hotels

The World's News · Saturday 21 July 1917 · page 2

GERMAN soup etiquette in war-time is described by Mr. Oscar King Davis, one of the American newspaper correspondents who are now back in the United States from Berlin…

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New Zealand Early Closing Offer From the Hotelkeepers Wellington (N.z.)

The Sun · Saturday 21 July 1917 · page 2

The representatives of the liquor trade, in protesting to the Government against the suggested closing of the hotels at 6 o'clock, stated that the anti-shouting legislation had…

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Sunday Trading Licenses

Nepean Times · Saturday 21 July 1917 · page 4

The following persons were granted Sunday Trading Licenses at Penrith Court, before Mr T B Clegg, P.M., on Tuesday last:—George F Sweeting…

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