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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1944

157 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 8

Objection to Hotel Licence Overruled

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 October 1944 · page 2

An objection by Sgt Yardy to the transfer of the licence of the Walla Hotel to Herbert Henry Williams was overruled at Albury Licensing Court…

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Accidental Death Verdict Man Who Was Found Dead in Hotel [?]

Border Morning Mail · Friday 13 October 1944 · page 6

A [?] of accidental death was recorded at the inquest today into the death of [?] farmer, of [?] who was found dead at the [?] of the stairs in the…

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Charge of Perjury Wodonga Hotelkeeper Found Not Guilty WANGARATTA

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 October 1944 · page 4

At the Wangaratta Supreme Court today, before Mr Justice Martin, a charge of having committed perjury was preferred against William…

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Breaking and Stealing From Bar Publican and Soldiers Acquitted

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 20 October 1944 · page 2

In the Court of Quarter Sessions, yesterday, a story was told concerning three men, another publican; and two soldiers who, it was alleged, had gone to the Caledonian Hotel late one Saturday night in July, broke the bar door…

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Transfer of Hotel Licence

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 24 October 1944 · page 2

An application for the transfer of a licence in respect to the Gerogery Hotel from Albert George Ziebell to Charles Edmund Dinsdale, of 624 Olive…

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Flying Bomb Hits Hotel LONDON. Oct. 11

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 November 1944 · page 3

When a Hying bomb hit a hotel in south cm England today, front live to seven people were killed and others were injured…

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Big Hotel Fire at Wagga

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 November 1944 · page 2

Damage estimated at £15,000 was caused by fire at the Commercial Hotel, Wagga, early Yesterday morning, when the third floor was completely gutted…

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Publicans Ordered to Serve Reer; New Hours Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 November 1944 · page 3

The ULVA has ordered all hotels to serve beer from 4.30 to 6 p.m. on week days and from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday from tomorrow. The…

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Coroner Critical of Drinking “Pig Troughs” in Some Hotels, He Says SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 November 1944 · page 5

That drink had been responsible for 99 per cont. of the road accidents on which he held inquests, was staled by the Camden District Coroner (Mr H. W…

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Community Hotel for Griffith

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 9 November 1944 · page 3

A movement which was recently started on the M.I.A. for the establishment of community owned hotels at Griffith and Leeton, is…

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May Remove Color Bar Aborigines And Drinking In Hotels SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 9 November 1944 · page 4

In an endeavor to educate the aborigines away from the evils of “plonk.” methylated spirit, and other cheap adulterated liquor consideration is being…

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Hotel Fight Sequel Wodonga Man For Trial

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 11 November 1944 · page 8

On the night of September 18 several men were drinking beer and wine in the parlor of a Townsend st hotel. There were angry words…

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Critical of a Wodonga Hotel-Keeper Police Object To Renewal Of Licence

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1944 · page 2

“I’ve got no time for hotel licensees who use ‘spotters’ [?] of preventing the police from doing their duty, and I don’t like…

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Publicans May Ignore Beer Selling Hours SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 November 1944 · page 4

Many city publicans yesterday complained that the new hotel trading hou[?] fixed by the ULVA had resulted in the selling out of supplies of…

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Publicans Reject Offer of J Breweries SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 November 1944 · page 6

Several Sydney publicans reported today that they had been offered additional beer supplies by Sydney breweries to permit them to open their…

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Bail Refused Hotelkeeper SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 November 1944 · page 2

Bail was refused Norman Buchanan. Grindal aged 40, hotel licensee, when he was remanded at the Central police court today until November 28 on a…

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Leeton Hotelkeeper Fined for Assault

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 24 November 1944 · page 3

A case that attracted much interest was held at Leeton police court on Tuesday last, when Arthur Albert Walls proceeded against William J…

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Burrumbuttock Hotel Changes Hands

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 November 1944 · page 2

At a sitting of the Licensing Court at Albury yesterday the magistrate (Mr. R. M. Stewart) consented to an application for the transfer of the…

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One tree Hotel May Bloom Again; Historic Hostelry

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 November 1944 · page 2

A movement is afoot to urge the proprietor of the historic One Tree Hotel, in the centre of the One Tree Plain, to apply for the licence Which he forfeited two years ago, and make the old place a wayside pub again…

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Criticism of Publican Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 November 1944 · page 5

Mr H. J. A. Compton presiding over the Licensing Court today, said even people who had no sympathy with prohibition did not like to have “one put over” them by…

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