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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

329 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 17

License Transfers

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 5

At the licensing Court at Corowa on Tuesday last, before the Licensing Magistrate Mr. I. Beavers the rollowing heense transfers were franted…

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Publican Fires Shots at Intruders Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 8

Shortly before two o’clock this morning a hotel employee at the Hotel Albury, Oxford street, Paddington, saw two men in the yard tampering…

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Committed for Trial Murder in Hotel Melbourne

The Pastoral Times · Friday 7 January 1938 · page 1

After hearing evidence this morning at the inquest on Arthur Kingley Taplin (23), of Sydney, who was fatally shot in an affray in a hotel bar in…

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City Hotel Shooting Man Committed For Trial Both From Sydney Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 January 1938 · page 4

[?]ound by tho Coroner (Mr. Tingate, P.M.) to have murdered Arthur Kingsley Taplin, 23, barman, of Paddington, Sydney, who…

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Thieves Steal £350 From Hotel Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 January 1938 · page 2

Thieves entered the Earlywood Hotel Earlwood early this morning and stole £350 in notes. They gained admission to the hotel by breaking a…

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Hotel and Restaurant Lock-out 20,000 Employes Affected London, January 16

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 January 1938 · page 2

Hotels, restaurant and cafes throughout Sweden will close at mid night, when the long anticipated lockout begins. Involving 20,000 employees…

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Items of News Hotelkeeper’s Fine Record Praised by P.M.

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 January 1938 · page 2

“You have a record of which you have cause to be proud,” and Mr. C. W. Swiney, Licensing Magistrate at Albury, yesterday, to the applicant in…

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An, After Trying to Shoot Wife, Suicides An Hotel Tragedy Jealousy Believed to Be Motive for Attempt Perth

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 January 1938 · page 1

Arriving in Collie from Perth yesterday, a man named Norman Lock went to the Collio Fields Hotel, where his wife is employed as a barmaid and…

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Another New Hotel £9000 to be Spent. Townsend Street Venture

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 6

Albury is to have a new £9000 twostorey hotel planned on modern lines by a Melbourne architect. It is to be built in Townsend st. for…

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Hotel Property for Sale

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 February 1938 · page 3

Hotel Riverina, and two adjoining shops and a residence, at Jerilderie, will be offered for sale in Melbourne on Thursday, February 17. The hotel…

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Minor Alterations to an Albury Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 February 1938 · page 2

In the Albury Licensing Court yesterday the Licensing Magistrate Mr. I. Beavers, granted permission for minor alterations to be carried out [?]…

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Conviction Quashed Although Men in Hotel an Unusual Case Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 7

The Chief Justice ([?] Frederick [?] in the [?] Court to-day [?] a conviction against the licensee of the [?] Hotel, William…

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Assault in Hotel Alleged Against Laborer Jury Stops Case Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 February 1938 · page 4

At the Quarter Sessions to-day John Joseph Finnie, 32. laborer, [?] guilty to a charge of having assaulted Gerald Vincent…

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Presbyterian Church Henty Man Licensed [?] on March

Border Morning Mail · Friday 18 February 1938 · page 8

A meeting of Wagga Presbytery was held in Henty Presbyterian church, when Mr. [?] of [?] was licensed to be a preacher…

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Non-licensed Hotel £350,000 Project for Melbourne Largest in the City Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 February 1938 · page 2

A public company will be formed shortly in Melbourne to construct a non-licensed hotel at a cost of £350,000, including the price of the land. Of…

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New Tourist Hotel at Tawonga

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 3

The increasing importance of Tawonga an a tourist resort has led Mr. R. Hore to contemplate rebuilding his Tawonga Hotel, and in the re-design…

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Hotel Licence to Orange Hands

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 February 1938 · page 4

Applications will be made to the Licensing Magistrate at Albury within the next few days for the transfer of the licence of tho Town Hall Hotel…

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£170 Stolen From Hotel Safe Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 February 1938 · page 6

The hotel at Gloucester was entered by [?] last night and £174 stolen front the safe. At 6.45 o’clock the licensee placed the money in the…

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New Hotel at Tawonga

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 42

The old Tawonga Hotel, owned and conducted by Mr. R. Hore, is to be rebuilt on the present site and the above sketch, prepared by the architect Mr. S. S. Oxenham, of Albury gives the general…

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Albury Hotel to Change Hands

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 February 1938 · page 3

Applications will soon be made to the Licensing Magistrate at Albury for the transfer of the licence of the Town Hall Hotel in Dean-street from Mrs…

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