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Illawarra · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1951

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New Licensee for Flinders Inn

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 April 1951 · page 2

An application for transfer of the Flinders Inn was granted by Mr. J. Fleeman, S.M., in Wollongong Licensing…

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Hotel Ainslie Robbed

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 April 1951 · page 4

CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Thieves broke into the Hotel Ainslie here early this morning and took away a large iron safe…

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New Licensee at Flinders Inn Hotel

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 26 April 1951 · page 11

At the Wollongong Licensing Court on Monday the license at the Flinders Inn Hotel was transferred from Mathhew…

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300 Witness Brawl at Warrawong Hotel

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 26 April 1951 · page 10

Three hundred men and women, a number in various stages of intoxication, witnessed a brawl which started in the beer garden of the Open Hearth Hotel, Warrawon, and finished on the…

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Open Hearth Hotel

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 3 May 1951 · page 10

Sir: After reading the report of the so called disturbance at the "Open Hearth Hotel" on the…

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Threat of "Murder" in Thirroul Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 May 1951 · page 3

It was alleged at the Bulli Court yesterday that when a man had been asked by the son of the licensee to leave the Thirroul Hotel, he said "Get away from me if you don't want to see murder…

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Warrawong Licensee Charged with Selling Adulterated Rum

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 7 June 1951 · page 3

A summons served by the Board of Health on Reginald D. Tolley of the Open Hearth Hotel, Warrawong, charging…

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Hotel Licensee Murdered

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

Licensee of the Oxford Hotel, Wollongong, Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, was murdered some time…

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Police Manhunt For Hotel Murderer

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 1

Det. Inspector J. Ramus and a squad of Sydney C.I.B. detectives and scientific men will arrive in Wollongong today to join the intensive manhunt for the brutal murderer of Mrs. Lucy Frances…

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Treatt Wants Royal Commission On Hotels

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—The Leader of the Opposition (Mr Vernon Treatt) will tomorrow move in the Legislative…

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District-Wide Search For Hotel Murderer

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 1

Sydney and Wollongong detectives followed dozens of fruitless leads yesterday in their efforts to find the murderer of wealthy Wollongong publicany Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows…

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Prawn- Sellers to Be Warned Off Hotels

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 June 1951 · page 10

Ald. R. C. J. Floyd told the Northern Zone Committee on Tuesday night that the smell in hotels after prawns had been…

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3 Hungarians Accused Of Hotel Murder

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 15 June 1951 · page 1

Climaxing 72 hours of ceaseless investigation, Sydney and Wollongong detectives yesterday charged three New Australians with the King's Birthday slaying of Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, 53-years-old Wollongong publican. The three men charg-[?]…

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Oxford Hotel Inquest July 3

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 18 June 1951 · page 1

The inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, licensee of the Oxford Hotel, Wollongong, will probably open at Wollongong on Tuesday, July 3…

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Two Hurst in Brawl at Hotel

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 June 1951 · page 1

A New Australian was admitted to the Wollongong District Hospital yesterday following a brawl among migrants at the Harp…

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Oxford Hotel Inquest to Commence Tomorrow

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 2 July 1951 · page 1

The inquest into the death of Mrs. Lucy Barrows, licensee, of the Oxford Hotel, Wollongong, will commence tomorrow (Tuesday) at the Wollongong Court House…

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Hotel Inquest To Begin Today

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 July 1951 · page 1

The inquest into the death of Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, Oxford Hotel licensee, will begin at 10 o'clock this morning at…

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Crowded Court As Hotel Inquest Opens

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 1

A large group of spectators braved the bleakness of Wollongong Court House yesterday for the opening of the inquest into the death of Oxford Hotel licensee, Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, who was found dead on the early morning of June 11 in her hotel bedroom…

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Hotel Murder inquest

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 3

Miss Bourke said she had given most of the jewellery to her sister. She had no knowedge of how they had come to…

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Publican Not Responsible For Watered Rum

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 2

The licences of the Open-Hearth Hotel, Warrawong, Reginald Tolley, was given the benefit of Section 556[?] of the Crimes…

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