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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

329 stories in Murray's papers · page 12 of 17

Luxury Hotel Plans for Darwin Cost About £50,000

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 September 1938 · page 3

Plans for a large hotel at Darwin having all the devices for comfort on "European standards were taken to Darwin by flying-boat at the…

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Important Activities In Albury And Thereabouts No Hotel At Wymah

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 September 1938 · page 6

THE Wymah Victoria Hotel, which has served travellers and Upper Murray, residents for many years and is one of the oldest lankmarks in the…

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Darwin Hotels Keen Competition

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 September 1938 · page 30

Keen competition has arisen to provide Darwin with a long overdue first-class hotel. Two applications for licences will be made to the licensing…

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“If Hitler Not a Lunatic, then Way Paved to Dispel the Tension” Lapstone Hotel, Thurs

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 September 1938 · page 4

The British Prime Minister’s decision to fly to Germany has relieved the extreme tension of overseas delegates to the British Commonwealth…

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Empire Relations Conference Praised Lapstone Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 September 1938 · page 3

At the conclusion of the Empire Relations conference to-day the chairman (Sir Thomas Bavin) said that the discussions had made a substantial…

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Mr. Lyons Ill Does Not Leave Hotel Gratified at Latest Developments Overseas

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 September 1938 · page 6

The Prime Minister (Mr. Lyons), who spent yesterday in Albury at the Globe Hotel, where he stayed overnight, expressed gratification at the…

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[?] In club Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 September 1938 · page 4

Had it gone undetected, a mild out-break of lire in a top storey room at the Club Hotel in Dean street yesterday afternoon would have quickly…

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Items of News Morven Hotel Transfer

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 September 1938 · page 4

The transfer of the licence of the Morven Hotel has been granted. The new licencee is Hannah O’Donoghue to whom the licence has been transferred…

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Albury Hotel Purchased for £10,500 Cafe Proprietor’s Big Deal Will Build Modern Shops

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 September 1938 · page 2

The Albury Hotel, a valuable Dean street frontage, has been purchased by Mr, George Sampson, proprietor of the Hume Weir…

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Police to Wage War on S. P. Bookies Hotel Licensees Warned Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 September 1938 · page 3

Starting price bookmakers throughout N.S.W. are to be given particular attention by the police in future. If they are caught accepting bets they…

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Dog’s Underground Crawl From Botanic Gardens to Globe Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 September 1938 · page 4

Somewhere in Albury there is a three-quarters grown sheep dog that possesses the distinction of having performed what must surely be…

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Fire in Hotel Inmates Trapped Boy's Fatal Fall Sensational Escapes

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 33

Trapped by a fire which, spread rapidly at the Wentworth Hotel, Sydney, on Monday night, a boy named Redmond, aged 12 years, suffered…

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New Darwin Hotel Modern £45,000 Building

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 4

Mr. H. G. Kirkpatrick, architect and engineer to Darwin Hotel Ltd., said, on his arrival back in Sydney this week in the flying-boat Coo-ee,…

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New Hotels for Darwin Two New Licences Recommended

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 25

The Licensing Bench at Darwin has decided to recommend to the Minister for the Interior that two new licences for hotels in Darwin should be granted…

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Hotel Premises Sold for £10,500

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 23 September 1938 · page 9

The Albury Hotel, a valuable Dean-street frontage, has been purchased by Mr. George Samson, proprietor of the Hume Weir Cafe,…

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Second Death Wentworth Hotel Fire Woman Aged 82 SYDNEY--Monday

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 27 September 1938 · page 2

Mrs. Mary Byers, 82, of Forbes, who was severely burned on the face and hands in the Wentworth Hotel Fire last week, died in the Sydney…

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Two Now Dead As Result of Hotel Fire Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 September 1938 · page 2

Mrs. Mary Byers, 82, of Forbes, who was badly burned when the Wentworth Hotel caught fire last week, succ[?]bed in the Sydney…

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Amusements “Hollywood Hotel” Opens at Hoyts To-day

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 September 1938 · page 6

In Warner Bros’ musical. “Hollywood Hotel,” the greatest Hollywood premiere of all has been staged in minutes detail. It opens to-day at Hoyts…

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Victorian Licensing Poll Law Defined

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 30 September 1938 · page 23

The Victorian Chief Secretary (Mr. Bailey) stated that so many conflicting statements had been made by partisan interests as to what would or would not…

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Royal Hotel Leased

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 30 September 1938 · page 2

Mrs. B. C. Dobble, who has conducted the Royal Hotel for the past 14 years, informed us yesterday that, on account of ill-health, she has…

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