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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1946

191 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 10

Detective Calls Stories “Malicious Gossip” Death of Woman in Albury Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 January 1946 · page 3

Detective Sgt. G. B. Munro yesterday classed as “malicious gossip” [?] which are circulating in the our concerning the circumstances…

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Would Bar Licence to Black Marketing Publicans Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1946 · page 5

Legislation providing for the automatic loss of [?] in the [?]ase of a publican convicted of black[?] marketing offences [?]…

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Hotel Licensee’s Close Call SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 1

Clement McDonough, hotel licensee, saved his life today by smashing a window and escaping from the bedroom of a house at…

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Double Hotel Tragedy Inquest Opened Albury Doctor Tells of Man’s Wounds

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 February 1946 · page 2

The deputy Coroner at Albury (Mr D. G. Padman) opened on inquiry last evening into the double tragedy, Involving the deaths of a man and a woman by stabbing, at the Railway Commercial Hotel in Smollett street in the early hours of the morning of Thursday, January…

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Wagga Hotel Bought for £35,000

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 7 February 1946 · page 2

Mr A. O. Romano, well-known Sydney restaurant and race horse owner, yesterday bought Bellair’s Commercial Hotel, Wagga, for £35,000. He plans…

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Wagga Hotel Bought for £35,000

The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 5

Mr. A. O. Romano, well-known Sydney restaurant and racehorse owner, this week bought Bellair's Commercial Hotel, Wagga, for £35,000…

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Two Soldiers Fined Sequel to Visit to an Albury Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 February 1946 · page 4

Lionel George Cook, soldier, in camp at Bandiana, pleaded guilty in Albury Court yesterday to having used indecent language in Kiewa st…

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May Declare City Hotels “Black” SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 9 February 1946 · page 1

Threatened imposition of “black” ban on metropolitan hotels or alternatively the withdrawal of union labor from breweries until such time as an…

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Double Tragedy in Albury Hotel Coroner Unable to Say Who Did Stabbing Woman Left Home For Good

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 February 1946 · page 1

“Dear Mother : Keep my things or share them among friends. I am not coming home any more. I know I have made the right decision,” is a passage from a letter written by Jean Connolly, 26, married woman, to her mother at Marrickville, two days before her body,…

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Rush Drinking Not Fault of Hotelkeepers

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 4

Rush drinking in Sydney was not the fault of ULVA, which just had[?] enough beer to go around, said the President (Mr…

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Teachers’ Allegation Hotelkeeper Refused Accommodation Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 2

Hotelkeeper at Wingham had 22 rooms vacant, but had refused accommodation to teachers and other essential workers…

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Hotel Hold-up. Masked Man Assaults Porter SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 12 February 1946 · page 3

Wearing a black mask an armed man early today held up and assaulted a porter at Mansions Hotel, city, then escaped with a safe containing…

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Licenses Granted

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 3

At the Licensing Court in Corowa yesterday the Licensing Magistrate, Mr. M. S. Meagher, granted the following applications for licenses:--…

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Man on Murder Charge Sequel to Alleged Brawl in Hotel SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 1

As the sequel to an alleged brawl in a Pyrmont hotel on January 30 last, following which William Emelyn (“Taffy”) Jones, 49, died in hospital,…

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Hotel Licences Transferred

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 February 1946 · page 1

To-day in the Licensing Court Mr. Meagher, P.M., granted transfer of the licence of the Wakool Hotel, Wakool, from Harry John Pill to Leslie David…

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Want Community Hotels SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 1

Five hundred residents of Auburn are supporting a proposal that community hotels be established in every municipality and shire in…

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Hotel Employe’s Death

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 February 1946 · page 2

Mrs Nancy Hannaford, aged 27. an employee of the Criterion Hotel, Wagga, died in Wagga Baae Hospital yesterday afternoon from a haemorrhage…

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Community Hotel Wanted CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 February 1946 · page 7

A deputation of Conberra citizen will wait on the Minister for the Inter[?]or (Senater Johnson tomorrow seeking Government approval [?]…

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Trades and Labor Drive Against Hotel Rackets Teachers’ Federation Recommendations SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 February 1946 · page 2

Drive to clean out racketeering in hotel and guest house accommodation charges for school teachers in country areas is to be made by NSW…

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Ordered Out of Hotel To Make Room for Politicians and Wives CANBERRA

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 February 1946 · page 2

To make room for members of Parliament and their wives, senior public servants are being ordered out of the Kurrajong private hotel…

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