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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1939

272 stories in Murray's papers · page 14 of 14

No Finality Reached Future of Halfway Hotel Proposed Transfer of Licence

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 December 1939 · page 3

The Licensing Court for the Licensing District of Benambra heard further evidence on Saturday at Wodonga for and against the proposal…

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Corryong Hotel Licence Transferred Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 2

The Licensing Court to-day approved of transfer of licence of the Corryong Hotel, Corryong, from Daphne Mary Mildren to Irene Lynch…

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Fatal Fall From Hotel Window “Lucky” Man's Death Kalgoorlie

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 December 1939 · page 6

Having worked hard in the mines for years, Reginald Stanley Grout, aged 37, had achieved his ambition in saving enough money to buy a small farm…

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W. Trimble Granted “A” Licence Country Jockeys Licensed V.r.c.by

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 16 December 1939 · page 6

Wahgunyah jockey, Walter Trimble, was yesterday granted an “A” licence by the VLR.C., which entitles him to accept mounts within the metropolitan…

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Fall From Hotel; Young Man Dies Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 December 1939 · page 3

Ray Purton, aged 22, plasterer, of New st., Armadale, who fell 16 feet from a second storey window at the Alpine Retreat Hotel, Warburton, last…

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Invalid Woman Trapped in Hotel Fire Rescued by Licensee and Workman Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 December 1939 · page 3

When a fire broke out in the bar of Markillie’s Hotel, Glenferrie road. Malvern this afternoon, an invalid woman (Miss Lillian Wells) was helpless in…

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Import Licensing Regulations No Further Concessions to be Made CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 5

The Minister for Customs (Mr. Lawson) stated to-day that he was unable to extend concessions already made under the Import licensing…

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Victorian Licensing Inspector Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 7

The Executive Council has approved the appointment of Police Inspector R. Knott to be a licensing inspector for each and every licensing district…

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Body Beside Road Night Shooting in Hills Hotel Employe's Death Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 4

With a bullet wound in the head, the body of Alfred Thomas Atherton, 35, hotel useful, was found at midnight last night, lying beside the…

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Tin Now Believed Dead in Hotel Fire Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 26 December 1939 · page 2

Ten persons are now believed to have perished in the fire which destroyed the Grand Hotel at Goomeri on Saturday morning. The…

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Nine Now Known to Be Dead in Hotel Fire Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 December 1939 · page 2

The remains of nine persons have been found in fee ashes of the fire which destroyed the Grand Hotel, Goomeri (in the Murgon district), on…

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Tragic Hotel Fire Nine Persons Lose Their Life

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 29 December 1939 · page 4

Nine persons were burned to death, and a number of others injured when the Grand Hotel at Goomeri, a small i town 173 miles north-west of…

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