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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1946

191 stories in Murray's papers · page 5 of 10

“Buck Ban” on Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 May 1946 · page 1

Picketing of the Coogee Bay Hotel by local residents began badly—one of the pickets slept in and only a few people observed the “black…

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Prices Check in Hotels SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 22 May 1946 · page 1

Special Investigators of the Prices Branch today raided hotels and guesthouses to check up on prices charged. By the time the drive has…

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“Publicans Must Provide Meals for General Public” SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 May 1946 · page 6

In the Licensing Court today Mr Scobie. SM. warned about 300 hotelkeepers that under the new Liquor Act they will have to provide meals…

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Drama Lives in Hotels

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 May 1946 · page 7

Every famous city has its great hotel— London, the Savoy; Paris, the Grand; new York, the Waldorf-Astoria. The name of the Waldorf-Asloria has endured for many…

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Woman Hotel Licensee Holds Bravery Certificate SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 7

A woman who applied to the Licensing Court today for tho licence of the Vulcan Hotel, Wattle street, Sydney, is the holder of a certificate from the…

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Many Guests Die in Spectacular Hotel Fire in Chicago Death-roll at Least Totals 52 Most Suffocated, But Others Killed Jumping From Windows CHICAGO

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 June 1946 · page 1

At least 52 persons lost their lives, while about 230, including 20 to 30 firemen, were injured in a spectacular fire which broke out in the 23 storey La Salle Hotel in the centre of Chicago's financial district early today…

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Visit to an Hotel a Man Fined by Wodonga Court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 4

Robert Midceley Hall, baker, and Charles K. Wilton, useful, after pleading not guilty o charges of having been unlawfully on the premises of…

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58 Deaths in Chicago Hotel Chicago

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 June 1946 · page 2

Because the register was burnt, difficulties of identification of the Victims of the which swept the La Salle Hotel early this morning…

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Hotel to Become Hostel for Workers SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 1

Details of a scheme which is designed to attract more workers to the clothing industry was announced last night by Mr F. J. Palmer,…

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15 Known Dead in Hotel Fire Six Storey Building Destroyed New York

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 June 1946 · page 1

Fifteen persons are known to be dead and it is feared that several others perished in an early morning fire which destroyed the…

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25 Guests Still Unaccounted for Panic Contributed To Hotel Fire Death-Roil DUBUQUE (Iowa)

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 June 1946 · page 1

American Associated Press states that like the tragedy in the La Salle Hotel, Chicago, panic contributed to the death roll in the Canfield Hotel fire, Dubuque’s greatest disaster…

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OVER ½ Million Licensed Drivers Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 June 1946 · page 1

For the first time the number of licensed drivers of motor vehicles has passed the half million mark. At the end of April the figure was…

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No Coupons for Pork; Hotel Manager SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 June 1946 · page 4

In a Special Federal Court today the manager of Usher’s Hotel was fined £30 with £2 10/ costs on a charge of having obtained a quantity of pork…

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Alleges Ultra-Exclusionists at Koscuisko Hotel SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 June 1946 · page 9

Exclusive metropolitan ski clubs are receiving preference in bookings at the Hotel Kosciusko and other holiday makers are being excluded, it was…

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Leading English Trainer’s License Withdrawn London

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 June 1946 · page 10

Cecil Bay, the season’s most successful trainer so far, with 25 winners and nearly £60000 in stakes, had his training licence withdrawn by the Jockey Club as…

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Plans To Sell City Hotel £3 Million Wanted; Improvements to Sydney SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 June 1946 · page 5

To get the [?] million necessary to carry out its plans for slam clearance, street widening, city parks, and other improvements to the city of Sydney, the…

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C.w.a. Against Extension of Hotel Hours

The Independent · Thursday 20 June 1946 · page 12

Instances of what later closing hours meant to Tasmania were, given in the discussion following the Murray Valley…

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Hotelkeeper to Pay Woman £1000 MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 June 1946 · page 10

A special jury in the First Civil Court today warded Mrs Gertrude Winton, of High street. Glen Iris, widow, £1000 damages against Francis…

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Eight Killed in Hotel Explosion Dallas (Texas)

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 June 1946 · page 1

Eight people were killed and 41 injured In an explosion yesterday. in the basement of the 16-storey Baker Hotel…

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Hotel Licenses Renewed

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 June 1946 · page 3

At the annual Licensing Court at Corowa on Friday last the Licensing magistrate, Mr. E.J. Etherton, granted renewals of the…

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