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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1945

145 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 8

Defends 6 o’clock Closing of Hotels MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 August 1945 · page 2

Defending 8 o’clock closing of hotels the secretary of the Local Option Alliance (Rev Robertson McCue) said today that a couple of pints, which…

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Charge Against Former Publican

Border Morning Mail · Friday 31 August 1945 · page 3

In Junee Police Court yesterday, John Pyrland Payne. 42, former licence of the Locomotive Hotel, Junee, was charged with being in the…

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Shots in Hotel Bar Soldier on Murder Charge SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 September 1945 · page 2

At the Central Criminal Court today Pte Francis Walls, aged 46, AMF, pleaded not guilty to a charge of murdering Arthur John Graham, aged…

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Terminus Hotel License

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 7 September 1945 · page 3

When the application by Mrs. A.L. Pritchard, of the Terminus Hotel Corowa, for the transfer of the license of that hotel to Mrs. Margaret…

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Local Hotels Three Transfers

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 14 September 1945 · page 2

In the Court of Petty Sessions, before Mr. Meagher, P.M., yesterday, the transfer of three district hotels were granted, as follows:…

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Wants State to Establish Own Hotels SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 September 1945 · page 2

Hotels and guesthouses at holiday resorts that j[?]vide accommodation facilities for children should be granted special privileges in the…

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Brunswick Family's New Venture Downes Bros, in Hotel Commercial

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 18 September 1945 · page 2

Messrs. Alan and Arthur Downes of Downes Bros., Albion Street, Brunswick, have launched out on a new business venture in New South…

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Terminus Hotel Transfer

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 September 1945 · page 3

At the Licensing Court at Corowa on Friday last, before Mr. R. M. Stewart, an application for the transfer of the license of the Terminus…

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Walla Hotel Licence Changes Hands

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 September 1945 · page 2

In Albury Licensing Court yesterday the LM. approved the transfer of the licence of Walla Hotel from William Alexander McMasters, to Gordon…

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Attacks Licensing Laws “Absurd And Antiquated” CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1945 · page 3

It Australians were ever to become wine mined a revision of the [?]ing laws was long overdue, Mr S. E. Laffer said a in a report tabled…

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Globe Hotel Licence Transfer

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 11 October 1945 · page 2

Transfer of the licence of the Globe Hotel, Albury, from the present holder, Joseph Ecker, to Maurice Lily, of Melbourne, was mentioned at…

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Gunmen Hold Up Hotel Licensee [?] Carrying Revolver in Ea[?]b Hand SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 October 1945 · page 1

Four gunmen, one carrying a revolver in each hand, held up the licences and ransacked the office of the Woolbrokers’ Arms Hotel…

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Hold-up at Hotel Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 19 October 1945 · page 3

The licensee and three guests at the Woolbrokers' Arms Hotel, Pyrmont, were held up last night by four men, each armed with a…

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Hotel Lease As Birthday Gift Globe Changes Hands

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 October 1945 · page 2

A lease of three years of the Globe Hotel has been given to 21-year-old Maurice Lilley, as a gift by his father, a well known…

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Criticism of Publicans SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 October 1945 · page 3

Hotelkeepers who kept bedrooms unoccupied while accommodating was scarce, should have to show cause why their licences should not…

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P. O. W. s Entertainment Gathering at White Lion Hotel

The Pastoral Times · Friday 26 October 1945 · page 2

At the White Lion Hotel on Wednesday evening Privates Keith Thatcher and Bill Knuckey were the guests of Mrs. E. L. Green. The gathering…

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Hotel Hours 10 to 10 Favoured by U.L.V.A.

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 30 October 1945 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.:- The U.L.V.A. has unanimously decided that the trading hours of hotels should be from 10 a.m until 10…

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10 a.m. lo 10 p.m. Hotel Hours Wanted . SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 October 1945 · page 2

The U.L.V.A. had unanimously decided that trading hours of hotels should be from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.. the president (Mr Connolly) told the…

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Opposes Extended Hotel Drinking Hours SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 November 1945 · page 6

Extension of hotel bar drinking hours would be strongly opposed by the Hotel. Club and Restaurant Employes Union said the official…

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Sold Wine Without License. [?] of Recent Tragedy

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 7 November 1945 · page 5

A laborer Willard White of Melbourne Street, Mulwala, was [?] in the Mulwala [?] recently on a charge of selling two battles of wine…

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