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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1943

145 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 8

Seaman Smashed up Hotel NEWCASTLE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 1 January 1943 · page 5

After he had been informed that his wife had died, in Copenhagen, John Pedersen, aged 39, seaman, went beserk in an hotel at Merewether and…

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Items of News Licensing Court on January 25

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 2

Mr G. C. Hook, CLC, has notified that a quarterly licensing court for the licensing districts of Albury and Holbrook, will be held in the Albury…

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Many Hotels Shut SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 3

Two of every three city hotels were closed yesterday-the fourth Austerity Saturday. Half of the hotels that remained open had no beer, and sold only spirits and…

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Hotel Control New Regulations Give Special Privileges Canberra

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 1

National Security Act regulations, designed to give special privileges to hotel keepers because of wartime conditions, were gazetted last Tuesday…

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Fire at Hotel

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

Some confusion was caused, especially among A.R.P. wardens at about 10 p.m. on Saturday evening, when the air raid siren suddenly sounded. The…

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Hentys Hotels "Dry"

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 2

The longest "dry" period in the history of Henty's hotels occurred this week, when both the Hotel Central and the Hotel Henty sold their quotas…

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Licenses and Revenue

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 January 1943 · page 2

In 1942 £4713/19/10 was paid in connection with 73 licence applications under the Liquor Act, for the Albury district, including Culcairn, Henty, and…

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Hotel [?]It in [?]D London, January 2[?]

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 27 January 1943 · page 4

Several raiders bombed a town on the q sou[?]-west coast of England this afternoon. There were about eight ca[?]ties. inc[?]ng one death. mostly as a result of a…

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Beer Shortage Acute Many Hotels Forced to Close

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 1

City and country hotelkeepers say that the shortage of beer was never so acute as at present. Hotels, which have managed to survive other…

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[?] Action Sale Small Farm (Freehold) and Plant Saturday, February 6 Com[?]ming with Plant, at 2 p.m. R. H. CA[?] Licensed A[?]neer

Border Morning Mail · Friday 29 January 1943 · page 2

HAS received instructions from MR. J SUCHHORN, to seel on the PROPERTY, LAVINGTON, PLANT, comprising [?]rrow Plough, I-D.F. Plough 1 Old Plough Searlfer with various attachments; 1 Steel 7-tyne Scarifeer: 1-3 Tyne Scarif[?] 1 two-way Disc Cultivator;…

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Beer for Some Hotels. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 February 1943 · page 3

First of the month’s beer deliveries were made today, giving hotels an opportunity to do their normal business. Last week, b[?]ause of the abnormal heat. many city…

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Hotels to Give Up Fit Men SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 February 1943 · page 4

A State-wide survey is to be made of all hotels to ascertain what further contributions they can make to the Commonwealth manpower pool…

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Hotel-breaking in Wagga — Man Arrested

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 February 1943 · page 2

During the early hours of Tuesday morning the bar Of the Tourist Hotel. Wagga, was broken into and a cash [?]egister, valued at £60, containing £7…

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Ban On Work On Hotels SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 February 1943 · page 5

Bar on painting work on hotels in NSW including prohibition of matn[?] work, was announced today by NSW Manpower Director (Mr…

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“Please Explain” for Hotel-keepers Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 February 1943 · page 1

Officers of the Prices Commission are to make investigations at hotels and guest houses 'where guests are asked to do their own housework or wait…

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Hotel Guests Make Own Beds. Broken Hill. Wednesday

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 February 1943 · page 3

As a result of a strike of employes this week, guests at the Grand. Hotel have to seek their morning meats at another hotel in the town and also have to make…

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Fire in Hotel Cellar

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 February 1943 · page 1

A minor outbreak of fire occurred in the cellar of the Globe hotel, when an electric motor used for refrigerating equipment seized and burnt out. It…

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“Drunks” Must be Kept Out of Hotels MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 3

An order is to be prepared as soon as possible to make licensees liable if their agents or servants permit a drunken person to be upon licensed…

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Publican’s Appeal Succeeds

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 2

Trouble about the serving of liquor to a gill under 18 was settled in the Appeal Court in Sydney, when a conviction of a city hotelkeeper was…

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Declare Hotels “Black” Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 2

Newcastle hotels which do not serve schooners all day, were declared “black” by a special meeting of the c[?]al trimmers branch of the Waterside…

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