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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1946

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Hotel Customers Paid 10d a Glass for Water JUNEE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 January 1946 · page 2

Glasses of water and schooners of [?] were sold at 10d. each at Union Club Hotel today. Customers nominated the prices they were prepared…

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Albury Hotel License Transferred

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1946 · page 2

Licence of the Albury Hotel, Kiewa st, was yesterday transferred from Patrick Joseph Murphy to Andrew Millar Cleland, of Sydney. Transfer…

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Sportsman Takes Over the Albury Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 9 January 1946 · page 5

New licensee of the the New Albury Hotel is Mr. Andrew (Andy) Cleland, whose versatility in the [?] of [?] will make him a personality of much interest…

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Quarterly Licensing Report

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 3

At the Licensing Court at Corowa on Tuesday last the only business was the quarterly report by, Sgt. Blatt man,) Licensing inspector, who…

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Robbery at Hotel Airman Arrested at Tocumwal

The Pastoral Times · Friday 11 January 1946 · page 1

Following a complaint that articles were missing from the rooms at the Globe Hotel, the police got to work and an arrest was made at Tocumwal,…

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Three Wagga Publicans Heavily Fined Prosecution Alleges Over- Charging WAGGA

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 2

In Wagga court on Saturday. Edmund J. O’Brien, licensee of the Riverina Hotel, Wagga, was fined £40 on a charge of selling a bottle…

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Former Publican Fined £150 Alleged Disposal of Tyres WAGGA

Border Morning Mail · Monday 14 January 1946 · page 2

At a special sitting of the Court of Petty Sessions in Wagga on Saturday morning, John Pyraland Payne, a former Junee hotelkeeper, was fined…

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Warning to Publicans Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

Customs authorities today issued [?] warning to hotelkeepers who continued to decline to sell beer from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays…

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British Shell Hotel in Bandeong BATAVIA

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 January 1946 · page 1

British artillery shelled Izola Hotel, headquarters of Indonesian extremists, at Bandoeng and silenced machine guns and drove the…

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Dubbo Hotel Hours Dubbo Police Take Action

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 3

In consequence of complaints having been made, that the hotels were not open between 2 p.m and 5 p.m the Dubbo police took…

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Rapid Industrial Action Follows Alleged Victimisation Stir in Canberra Brig. Schreiber’s Household Declared "Black” Follows Dismissal From Hotel of Former Valet Canberra

Border Morning Mail · Friday 18 January 1946 · page 1

Industrial action has mounted rapidly since the Canberra Trades end Labor Council last night declared “black” the household of Brigadier Derek Schreiber, Chief of Staff to the Duke of Gloucester, for alleged…

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Federal Government Orders Inquiry Into Dismissal of Hotel Barman an Emphatic Denial by Brigadier Schreiber “Had Nothing To Do With Man Losing Employment” CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 1

The Commonwealth Government today ordered an inquiry into the dismissal from the Hotel Kingston, Canberra, of Ernest Cyril Fields, a former valet to Brigadier Derek Schreiber, Chief of Staff to the Duke of Gloucester…

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Money Stolen From Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 2

During Sunday night the hotel at Mulwala was broken into and a large sum of money stolen. Det. Sgt. G. B. Munro, of Albury, visited the town…

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“Hotel Berlin” at Wodonga

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 4

“Hotel Berlin.” to be screened at The Melba. Wodonga tonight, is the amazing story of German treachery and deadly Intrigue laid against the g[?]ing backdrop…

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Another Warning to Publicans Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 3

Hotelkeepers who refuse to sell schooners of beer when open for trade between 4-30 p.m. and 6 p.m. Mondays o Fridays, are liable to lose…

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Theft From Mulwala Hotel

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 2

About £50 and three cheques were taken from the Hotel Mulwala, Mulwala on Sunday night when a thief gained entry through a bar window…

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Man and Woman Stabbed to Death in Double Hotel Tragedy Gruesome Discovery by Albury Police No Evidence of Struggle

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 1

Miss Hazel Kirwin, filling a vacancy as temporary cook at the Railway Commercial Hotel, in Smollett street, was awakened suddenly shortly after 4 o’clock yesterday morning by a dull thud, followed by loud…

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Theft of £2012 From Hotel Woman Clerk Remanded SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 3

Charged with stealing £2012 from the Carlton Hotel. Joyce Walsh, aged 19. clerk pleaded not guilty at Central [?] today. She reserved her…

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“Most Happy Girl” Victim of Hotel Tragedy Albury Police Complete Inquiries

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 1

Police completed their investigations yesterday Into the tragedy at the Railway Commercial Hotel, Smollett st., Albury, in the early…

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Big Brawl Near Hotel MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 26 January 1946 · page 3

Alleged to hove broken a glass on the wall of the Star Hotel at the Intersection of Dandenong road and Chapel street, Prahran, tonight and…

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