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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

329 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 17

Brawl in Hotel Wool-classer Fined £3

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 November 1938 · page 4

Lively assault charges came to light when St. Kilda Court was told a few days ago that smiling Barry Nelson, known as Kingston giant wool classes…

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Licensing Poll Trade Seeks Abandonment Request to Government Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 November 1938 · page 4

Abandonment of the octennial licensing poll on the question of the complete abolition of liquor licences [?] Victoria was sought to-day by a…

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Miners’ Big Thirst Hotels Could Not Cope With It. Amazing Scenes at Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 November 1938 · page 6

Soa[?] temperatures and the biggest payday for some months combined to make goldfields drinking history on Friday night,…

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New Albury Hotel Will be Completed Next Year

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 November 1938 · page 4

The new Albury Hotel, to be built Kiewa street, next to the Commercial Bank Chambers, will be completed by either May or June next year…

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Persons on Premises During Prohibited Hours Licensee of Town Hall Hotel Fined

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 November 1938 · page 4

Pereival [?] licensee of the Town Hall Hotel, Dean street, was fined £3 and 8, costs by Mr. I. Beavers, P.M., in Albury Court of Petty Sessions…

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£13,000 Hotel Destroyed by Fire Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 November 1938 · page 6

The 16-room hotel at Bellbird, 26 miles past Orbost, was destroyed by fire about midnight last night. It was insured for £13,000. There were no…

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First Stage in Erection of £35,000 Albury Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 November 1938 · page 2

Workmen are demolishing what were once sample rooms of the Albury Hotel, in Kiewa st., preparatory to a modern five-storey building being erected. The new hotel, which will be completed by May or June next, will cost in the vicinity of £35,000…

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Albury Licensee Pined

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 2

Percival Hancox, licensee of Albury Town Hall Hotel, Dean-street, was fined £3 by Mr. L. Beaver, P.M., in Albury Court, for having allowed…

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Hotel Bill Not Paid

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 5

At the Corowa Police Curt yesterday before Messrs. B. J. Rodgers and J P. Leahy, Js. P., E. Trebeicock, Who is Known in the district as "Torrible…

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Inspector Objects to Renewal of a Chiltern Hotel Licence Wodonga Court Proceedings

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 November 1938 · page 4

Considerable interest was evinced in a case before the Wodonga Licensing Court yesterday, when Licensing Inspector Murphy objected to the…

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Woman Jumps to Her Death From Hotel Australia Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 November 1938 · page 1

A woman was killed instantly to-night when she jumped from a window of the Hotel Australia She was Miss Muriel [?], aged 40 years, of…

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Fell to His Death From Hotel Window Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 28 November 1938 · page 6

Fatal injuries were received by Harry Dillon, aged 46, laborer, when he fell from a window on the third floor of an hotel in Redford last night…

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Plan[?] for New Hotel and Homes

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 2

Plans for the Richmond Brewery Company’s new hotel, to be [?] in Kiewa st., were considered by Albury Municipal Council last evening…

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Pig Iron for Japan Menzies Warns Union Licensing Threat Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 December 1938 · page 1

The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Menzies) to-day warned the [?] Workers’ Federation by urgent telegram that unless the watersiders…

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Elaborate Darwin Hotel

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 December 1938 · page 43

Plans for an elaborate air-conditioned hotel, which will be built in Darwin early next year at a cost of £50,000, were outlined by Mr. D. K. Turner,…

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Fire in Mathoura Garage and House Destroyed Bucket Brigade Saves Hotel

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 December 1938 · page 1

Farmed by a stiff south breeze, a fire which broke out in Mr. D. R. Jennings’s motor garage in Living-stone street, Mathoura, on Tuesday…

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New Club Hotel To Be Old English Tavern Work Started

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 December 1938 · page 5

With extensive alterations and additions to the majority of Ms leading hotels Albury has achieved an excellence in hotel…

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Redlands Hotel Transferred

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 December 1938 · page 3

At the Licensing Court yesterday the Licensing Magistrate, Mr, I Beavers, granted an application for the transfer of the license of the…

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Hotel Bill Not Paid Charge Under Vagrancy Act Unusual Procedure in Court

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 December 1938 · page 3

Edward Trebelcott, on remand appeared before Mr. I. Beavers, at the police court yesterday, charged with having refused to pay the sum of £7…

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Dead Man's Gold Buried in an Hotel Yard Had Committed Suicide Kalgoorlie

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 7 December 1938 · page 3

Last Tuesday when Pietro Loreno Marini, 60. an Italian prospector, arrived in Leonora, he had in his possession a packet containing at oz. of…

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