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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1938

329 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 17

Fine Hotels at Albury £31,000 Improvements

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 7

Albury possesses many fine hotels, yet a further £31,480 is to be spent this year by hotelkeepers in improvements. So far as hotel…

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Licenses Reduction Board

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 April 1938 · page 5

Mr. T. W. Cohen, a member of the Licenses Reduction Board, was in Corowa yesterday, and presided at the Licensing Court, when two…

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To Be Wet or Dry? Victoria to Decide Licensing Poll This Year MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 April 1938 · page 1

Active preparations are being made for the second octennial [?] poll on the simple question. “That [?] shall be…

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498 Fewer Hotels Since 1920 SYDNEY

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 3 May 1938 · page 4

The report of the Licensing Bench and Licenses Reduction Board for 1937 shows that hotels in New South Wales have decreased by 498 since 1920,…

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Luxury Seaside Hotel to Cost £30,000 Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 4

To be known as the Cumberland, a large private hotel is to be erected at Lorne for Mr. Frank Beaurepaire, sen., at a cost of £30,000, in an…

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498 Fewer Hotels in N.S.W. SINCE 1920 But Population Up by 700,000 in That Period £1,000,000 Spent on Improvements SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 May 1938 · page 4

The report of the Licensing Bench and the Licensing Reduction Board for 1937, just made available by the Minister for…

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Hotels in N.s.w. 498 Fewer Than 18 Years Ago

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 2

The report of the Licensing Bench and Licensing Reduction Board for 1937 shows that hotels in N.S.W. have been decreased by 498 since 1920…

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Publicans and S.P. Betting Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 6

It was announced to-day that the United Licensed Victuallers’ Association had not yet directed the removal of wireless sets from hotels in view of…

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Young Woman Stabbed Police Seek Man Attacked in Hotel Yard MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 4

Attacked with a knife at the backyard of an hotel in Johnson St.. Collingwood, early this morning. Mrs. Maud Read 18, was admitted to St. Vincent’s…

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Five Hotels Orders Issued for Rebuilding

The Pastoral Times · Friday 6 May 1938 · page 1

In the Licensing Court at Deniliquin yesterday afternoon Inspector Kemp stated that orders under Section 40a had been served on the owners of five…

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Waterside Workers May Be Licensed Sequel to Refusal to Load Tin Clippings for Japan and Germany Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 May 1938 · page 2

There is a possibility that unless tho waterside workers review their decision not to load tin clippings bound for Japan and Germany, the Federal…

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Nurse Sues Wagga Publican for £500 Breach of Promise Alleged Met in a Hospital Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 May 1938 · page 1

Michael Quilligan, hotel proprietor, of Wagga, was the defendant in a breach of promise suit before Mr. Justice Stephen and a Jury…

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Licence of [?] Hotel Transferred

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 May 1938 · page 4

Samuel Tetley, of Jindera, a fish merchant, for whom Mr. E. E. Jones appeared, wan granted a transfer of the licence of the Jindera. Hotel at…

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Rugs Stolen From Hotel

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 10 May 1938 · page 2

On Tuesday last Constable Hart, of Mathura, received information that some rugs had been stolen from a hotel at Moama. The constable made a…

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Broke Liquor Laws Two Albury Licensees Fined Police Sergeant’s Comments

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 May 1938 · page 6

The licensees of two hotels and six men found on the premises on the night of April 26, admitted charges relating to after-hour…

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Wagga Publican Sued for £500 Nurse Alleges Breach of Promise

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 16

Michael Quilligan, hotel proprietor, of Wagga, was the defendant in a breach of promise suit before Mr. Justice Stephen and a jury in Sydney. The…

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Hotels and Betting. Drastic Action in City. SYDNEY, Friday Afternoon

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 2

The declaration by the police of certain hotels as common gaming houses caused considerable disquiet in betting circles. The police to-day…

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New Drastic Step in War on S.P. Betting Hotels Vitally Concerned Three Declared Common Gaming Houses Action in Sydney; Shadow of Arrest Over Customers SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 May 1938 · page 6

The successful application to Mr. Justice Maxwell in Chambers to-day for the declaration of three Sydney hotels as common gaming…

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Common Gaming Houses Police and Hotels Crusade to be Continued Warning to Licensees Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 14 May 1938 · page 6

The declaration by the police of certain hotels as “common gaming houses” has caused considerable disquiet in betting circles…

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War on S.P. Betting Drives People to Racecourse Reflected at Moore- Field Leger Patrons Hotels Feel Lost of Trade SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 May 1938 · page 4

The crowd in the Leger at [?] yesterday numbered [?], the largest for two years, and the improvement, it is…

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