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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1918

424 stories in Sydney's papers · page 16 of 22

The Rutherford Hotel, Great Northern-road, Maitland

The Catholic Press · Thursday 19 September 1918 · page 42

Tourists and motorists are always glad to have some special hotel or restaurant recommended to them, so that when doing a trip, sight-seeing, or in any other way on…

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Women 'Bus Conductors. Three Receive Licenses

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 September 1918 · page 4

The first women motor omnibus conductors to be seen in Sydney received their licenses from the police authorities yesterday. Altogether five females have applied, and…

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Hotel Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 September 1918 · page 5

The Licensing Bench yesterday granted the following transfers:—Louis Michael to Jacob W. Shaw, Star, Hotel, Botany-road, Alexandria: John Gunning to John Brennan. Garryowen Hotel, Darling-street,…

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Export Licenses for U.s.a

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 September 1918 · page 12

Recent stringent regulations have been received by the American Consul-General at Sydney (Mr. J. J. Brittain) from his Government at Washington, concerning the…

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Class-conscious Beer Magistrate's Misgiving Do Big Hotels Escape?

The Sun · Wednesday 25 September 1918 · page 5

I have received complaints that hotels of considerable importance in the town ore carrying on an illicit trade after hours, while struggling hotel-keepers are…

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The Town Hall Hotel, Waratah

The Catholic Press · Thursday 26 September 1918 · page 47

B. J. Doherty is the proprietor of the Town Hall Hotel, Waratah—one of those quiet, homely and comfortable hotels which many visitors prefer to others of greater…

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Metropolitan Hotel, West Maitland

The Catholic Press · Thursday 26 September 1918 · page 50

These who go in for comfort, and like when travelling to feel that at the hotels where they put up they are as well cared for as in then won homes, find the…

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Hotel Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 September 1918 · page 5

Thomas Frost to Eileen Neilson, Abbot's Hotel, Botany-road, Waterloo; Margaret Gleeson to Thomas William Grigg, Lord Wolseley Hotel. Quarry-street, Ultimo; George Kelly to Joseph Vincent Pedley, Lord…

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Parramatta Licensing Court Wednesday 25Th September

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1918 · page 11

Refore Mr. M. H. Fitzhurdlng S. M. and Mr. W. F. Jugo J. P. Liceasing Magistrates Margaret Deviln applied for the renewant of the license of the Merrylands Hotel The appllcant…

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Local Government Notes Goulburn Council and Motor Licenses

Construction and Local Government Journal · Monday 30 September 1918 · page 11

At the last meeting of the Goulburn Council, Alderman Betts moved:— "That the Local Government Association at the conference to be held in…

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Profit and Loss Investments: Wise and Otherwise Australia Hotel Co., Ltd

The Sun · Monday 30 September 1918 · page 4

The enterprise of the directors of this company in renovating the Australia has so far been rewarded by a marked improvement in the earning power. For various…

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The Hotel Sydney

Referee · Wednesday 2 October 1918 · page 4

The Hotel Sydney, opposite the Central Railway Station, is now fully licensed, and the Saloons and Lounges arc among the most exquisitely appointed in the Commonwealth…

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Ryde. Licensing Court

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1918 · page 8

"The quarterly report on the licensed heases in this district is very satisfactory," remarked Mr. M. H. Fitzhardinge, S.M., at the Ryde licensing court on…

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A Beer "Strike." Whare Workers Versus Hotelkeepers. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 October 1918 · page 6

The increase in the price of beer came into operation at 6 o'clock this morning, and as a consequence the beer "strike" agreed on by the waterside workers and others also came…

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Gambling in Hotel. Liability of Licensees

Evening News · Thursday 10 October 1918 · page 7

A publican was recently charged in a New Zealand Police Court, with having permitted gambling on his licensed premises. Some of the [?] were playing poker, and the night…

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Hotel Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 October 1918 · page 5

The Metropolitan Licensing Court granted the following transfers of hotels yesterday:—Brooklyn Hotel, George-street, Sydney, from Henry Moore Carter to Sarah Wessberg, Albion Hotel, Market and Elizabeth…

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Hotel Burned. Warren

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 October 1918 · page 8

Inglogar Hotel, situated on Marthaguy Crook, between Warren and Quambone, was destroyed by fire; also the apartments used as a post-office. The hotel was established…

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Control of Imports. License System Adopted

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 11 October 1918 · page 2

For the remainder of the war, imports to Australia will be subject to license. In addition to having urged upon the Commonwealth the need for…

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Greatest Hotel Man

The World's News · Saturday 12 October 1918 · page 10

WHO is the world's biggest "hotel man" In New York, at any rate, that distinction is accredited to Mr. John M'E. Bowman, who recently brought into existence the…

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