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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1919

740 stories in Sydney's papers · page 33 of 37

Sportsman's Arms Hotel, New Lambton

The Catholic Press · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 45

J. P. W Walsh is a particularly well-known resident of New Lambton. He is such a thorough business man that his reputation continues to spread far and wide. He is the…

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Hotel Rawson, Newcastle

The Catholic Press · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 45

Those who have stayed at the Hotel Rawson in Newcastle are high in praise of it. It is particularly well-managed. Edith M. Kerr is the proprietress, and under her…

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Breweries Closed Hotels Carry on Decision Largely Ignored

Evening News · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 6

Apparently there is not an hotel in the city so drastically affected by the stop work decision as to have had to close. indeed. a treat number of the employees…

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No Beer Brewed Employees Cease Work Hotel Hands Idle

Evening News · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 6

The breweries of Sydney are the as a result of the employes ceasing work to take part is a balief concerning wages and conditions…

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"Business As Usual'' Public Voting Continuance Liquor Stop-work Day Hotels Unaffected

The Sun · Thursday 20 November 1919 · page 7

"The public are voting continuance. We don't know yet how the hotel employees' vote will go." This was how the man in the street…

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City and Suburban Hotels Licenses Transferred

Evening News · Friday 21 November 1919 · page 4

The Metropollian Licensing Bench—Messrs. Adrian (chairman), M'Kensey and Galbralth—sitting at the Central Police Court, granted the following…

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Hotel Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 November 1919 · page 5

The following hotel transfers were granted by the Metropolitan Licensing Court yesterday:—Star Hotel, Bourke-street, Sydney, from Thomns J. Williams to William Campbell; Bow Bells Hotel, Botany-road,…

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Over the Bar Daring Hotel Thief Chase in Park-street

Evening News · Saturday 22 November 1919 · page 2

A good deal of excitement was caused in the Criterion Hotel, at the corner of Park and Pitt streets, yesterday afternoon by a man who, while drinking at the…

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Reduction of Hotels. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 November 1919 · page 13

Under the Victorian system of reduction or [?]es there had been closed up to July of this year 1282 hotela, while 42 H[?] had lapsed. In 1906 there were 3448 hotels and 60…

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Licensing Proposals Temperance Council Objects LONDON, November 19

The Sun · Saturday 22 November 1919 · page 8

The Temperance Council strongly opposes the trade licensing proposals as [?]et out in the new bill. They favor the replacement of the…

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The Resch Way John Bateman's Story "SQUEEZING " a Licensee

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 22 November 1919 · page 4

When Edward Resch, Jun., bought Bateman's Hotel over the head of thai well-known Sydney sportsman, John Bateman, he made things so uncomfortable for the latter that Bateman was glad to sell his license and get out…

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Lidcombe Publican Charged

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 22 November 1919 · page 2

At Parramatta Court on Wednesday W. H. Farne, a lidcombe publican, was charged with permitting drunkenness in his licensed house. Mr. R. Windeyer K.C…

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Hotel Sale Claim for Commission

Evening News · Tuesday 25 November 1919 · page 5

Judge Cohen, sitting in the District Court to-day, heard the claim of George Alfred Burges and John Maxwell Ryan, trading as Burges and Ryan, hotel…

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Metropolitan Hotel, West Maitland

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 November 1919 · page 52

W. P. Feneley it is that runs the Metropolitan Hotel in "West Maitland. It is one of those popular centres where the mere man finds himself well provided for. There…

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Volunteer Hotel, West Maitland

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 November 1919 · page 47

R. Parsons (late A.I.F.), is fittingly the proprietor of the Volunteer Hotel, corner of High and Hunter Streets, West Maitland. This hotel is conducted on the best possible…

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The Criterion Hotel, John-street. Singleton

The Catholic Press · Thursday 27 November 1919 · page 47

Visitors going to Singleton should, if they desire comfort and a really home-like hotel, stay at the Criterion. It is run by Cecil H. Hardcastle, and is one of the most…

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Boarder and Licensee Conviction Quashed LISMORE

Evening News · Thursday 27 November 1919 · page 6

An interesting appeal under the Liquor Act was heard by Acting-Judge White at the Quarter Sessions this morning, when Harry Clark appealed against a…

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Dynamite Outrage Explosion in Hotel. Kalgoorlie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 November 1919 · page 7

At Kamballa, a small settlement at the southern end of the Golden Mile, about 3.20 yesterday morning, a terrific explosion occurred, and was heard four miles away in…

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Liquor Strike. Breweries and Hotels Affected. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 November 1919 · page 7

The period allowed browers and licensed victuallers to conc[?]de the demands made by the Federated Liquor awl Allied Trades Employees' Union for increased wages expired…

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Licensing Court

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 5

At yesterday's sitting of the Metropolitan Licensing Court the following publicans' licenses were granted:— Tivoli Hotel, Castlereagh-street, city, from Alfred Stevens to Florence Wells; Ivanhoe Hotel, Corso, Manly,…

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