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Sydney · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1919

740 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 37

Usher's Hotel Dividend

The Sun · Sunday 2 March 1919 · page 9

Usher's Metropolitan Hotel, Limited, yesterday declared a dividend, the fourth, for half-year ended February 28, at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum…

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Domestic Work Maids Point of View Hotels and Boardinghouses Lists for Morning Tea

The Sun · Sunday 2 March 1919 · page 5

To ventilate all the grievances of domestic workers would require a newspaper devoted to nothing else, and then too much wouldn't have been…

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Brightening City Hotels Busy Again Pictures, Billiards, and Normality

Evening News · Monday 3 March 1919 · page 5

[?] sub keep one down [?] such is the vulgar phrase The to fined day [?]—to the [?] with a thirst it is as the [?]…

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During Prohibited Hours City Hotelkeeper Fined £10

Evening News · Monday 3 March 1919 · page 6

In the [?] Court this [?] Hotel. [?] with falling to keep…

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Hotels Open Schools Resume Next Week MELBOURNE

The Sun · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 7

All hotels in the metropolitan area were reopened this morning. Before they closed a regulation provided that a hotel should not have…

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Hotels Re-opened. "Spot" No Longer Barred

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 March 1919 · page 4

Considering the historic importance of the event there was no noticeable excitement manifested in the city yesterday when the hotel bars were opened. Though a few faithful…

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Hotels Reopen. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 11

Sir,—At the Central Police Court this morning a large increase of "drunks" marked the fact that the hotels had again opened their bars; 32 men, 10 women, total 42, were listed…

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North Shore Publican Fined

The Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 4

Several cases in which breaches of the Quarantine Act were charged were before Mr. Clarke, S.M., yesterday at the North Sydney Police Court…

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The Closed Hotel What It Did and Didn't

The Sun · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 4

"Bar Assistant" jabs savagely with the corkscrew:-- The Rev. Mr. Hammond, in his soliloquy in "The Sun" the other day,…

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A Sydney Landmark Roberts' Hotel to Go. An Interesting Personality

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 37

Sixty-five years ago Mr. C. J. Roberts, C.M.G., M.L.C., first called the building known as "Roberts' Hotel" home. Since then it has been in his possession, but it…

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The Flu and the Hotels. At the Police Court Defying the Proclamation

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 March 1919 · page 2

At the Parramatta Police Court on Mon-day several interesting cases having reference to the closing, or non-Closing, of hotels in Parramatta were heard by Mr.M…

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Northern Territory Hotel Boycott. Still Being Maintained. Government Institutes a Lockout

The Australian Worker · Thursday 6 March 1919 · page 4

The boycott against the Government-owned hotels at Port Darwin, Northern Territory, is still being maintained by the unionists and townspeople there. Far…

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Hotel Was Not Closed Newtown Publican Fined

Evening News · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 8

At the Newtown Police Court, John [?] of the White [?] Newtown.—was [?] with…

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Hotels Change Hands

Evening News · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 6

The Metropolitan Licensing Bench, sitting at the Central Police Court, granted the following transfers' of publicans' licences:—Grand Pier Hotel,…

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Through the Fanlight [?] from a City Hotel

Evening News · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 8

[?] Hotel, is [?] this morning [?] that the [?]…

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Hotel Transfers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 5

The Metropolitan Licensing Court granted the following transfers of the licenses of hotel premises yesterday:—Grand Pier Hotel, Esplanade, Manly, from Francis Edward Barton Smith to William Thompson;…

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The Closed Hotel Mr. Hammond Counters

The Sun · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 4

The Rev. R. B. S. Hammond writes: The community is indebted to "Bar Assistant" for his "jab with the corkscrew." This is one of the few…

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Non-Licensed Labor Agency

The Sun · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 5

At the Central Summons Court yesterday E. V. Hittman, Elizabeth-street, was fined £5, with £5 16s 4d costs, in default two months imprisonment, for…

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Publican Fined

The Sun · Friday 7 March 1919 · page 5

John Rodgers, licensee of the White Horse Hotel, King-street, Newtown, pleaded guilty at the Newtown Court to-day to a charge of allowing his…

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