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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1940

190 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 10

Robbery From Moama Hotel [?]an Arrested At Sports Meeting

The Pastoral Times · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3

Investigations into a robbery [?]om the bar of the Border Inn, [?]oama, early on the morning of [?]oxing Day led to the arrest the…

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Hotel Disaster in U.S.A. MINNEAPOLIS, January 4

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 4

Twenty persons are dead and 40 injured as a result of a fire which destroyed the Marlborough hotel. Two hundred guests were trapped, many…

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Licensing Court Applications Granted

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 2

In the Quarterly Licensing Court at Deniliquin yesterday, reference was made to an application by Mrs. Ellen O'Shea, proprietress of the Globe…

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New Licensees Railway and Morago Licences Transferred

The Pastoral Times · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 1

Transfers of two district hotel licences were granted by Mr. I. Beavers, yesterday in the Deniliquin Licensing Court…

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Municipal Council Meeting Drainage Difficulties At Hotel

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 9 January 1940 · page 1

When the Deniliquin Council assembled last night for the first meeting in 1940, there was a full attendance of aldermen, viz., The Mayor…

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Lachlan Street Property Sale The Perseverance Hotel

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 2

Lachlan Street property seems to still have pride of place in regard to investors and this is only another instance of the solidarity of the town…

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Tragic Hotel Fire Eight People Lose Lives in Inferno Trapped in Their Rooms Police Sergeant’s Story at Inquest BRISBANE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 3

The tragic story of how eight sleeping people were incinerated In a blazing inferno that was the Grand Hotel at Goomeri was given to the Coroner…

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Girl Saves Guests in Hotel Fire All Escape in Night Attire Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 January 1940 · page 4

A girl’s bravery saved guests when the Star Hotel. Cameron st.. Wa[?]chope was destroyed by fire early yesterday…

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Hotel Licensee Fined

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 2

Percy Hancox, licensee of the Town Hall Hotel, pleaded guilty at Albury Court of Petty Sessions yesterday to having allowed persons on his…

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Chairs and Tables Overturned; Bottles and Glasses Broken in Hotel Battle Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 January 1940 · page 2

Four policemen had to be called to quell a disturbance in the lounge of an hotel in the city this afternoon. The licensee, John Austin McCIurkin, and…

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Theft From Hotel Bar Two Men Arrested at Balranald

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 3

Between 1 a.m and 6 a.m, on Sunday last the bar of the Commercial Hotel, Balranald, was entered by means of opening a trap door on the…

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Robbery at Local Hotel. Two Men Convicted Before Mr. C. Soady, J.P.

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 20 January 1940 · page 3

At the Balranald Court of Potty Stations on Tuesday last, January 16th, two men, Archibald James Black, aged 42 and Frank Herbert Crompton, were…

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Soldier Fined; Hotel Brawl Sequel Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 5

John James Mackey, of the A.L.F., was fined £1 at the Parramatta Police Court to-day on a charge of behaving offensively at a Lidcombe hotel on…

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To the Editor Soldiers and Officers in Hotels

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 January 1940 · page 4

Sir.— Cables from England indicate that as in the Great War, soldiers holding other than commissioned rank. are being insultingly ejected from…

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“Driven Insane by Nazis” Czech Publican’s Fate Brother’s Story New York, January 24

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 5

Mr. Anthony F[?], a Czechborn American, is returning in the Manhattan with his brother, a former hotelkeeper in Prague,…

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Fire at Railway Hotel Extensive Damage To Bar Parlor

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 30 January 1940 · page 1

Extensive damage was caused by fire in a bar parlor of the Railway Hotel, Deniliquin, at an early hour this morning…

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Suspicious Fire Hotel and Eight Shops Destroyed. Brisbane

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 1

Damage estimated at £10,000 was caused by a file which destroyed the Commercial Hotel and eight shops at Nanango last night…

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Hotel Licenses Transferred

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 2

At the Licensing Court on Tuesday last, before. Mr. J. Sheridan, L.M., the following transfers of hotel license were granted:--Howlong…

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Denied Door Broken Police and a Wodonga Hotel Licensee Fined

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 3

Harold Oscar Harris, licensee of the Halfway Hotel, Wodonga, was convicted on three counts of breaches against the Licensing Act…

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Local Hotel Licence Transferred

The Pastoral Times · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 4

Transfer of the license of Tattersall’s Hotel, Deniliquin from James Hall to George Clyde Oddy was granted by Mr. N. L. Sheridan, P.M., in the…

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