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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1951

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Man dies in hotel fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 March 1951 · page 15

SIDNEY, Sun.: A 37 year old rather of two children was turned to death in a fire at Gunnedah early this morning…

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Licenses for Plumbers & Drainers

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 20 March 1951 · page 1

The old question of whether or not licenses for plumbing and draining work should be issued to other than persons with Technical…

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Man allegedly hit on head with bottle during brawl at hotel

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 March 1951 · page 1

A man was allegedly hit over the head with a bottle in a browl at the Lagoon Hotel, Kiewa, yesterday afternoon. A knife was allegedly produced during the brawl…

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Town loses six hotels in day

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 March 1951 · page 3

AUCKLAND, Tues: Next Saturday will be a bleak day in the old gold-mining town of Thames, 42 miles south of…

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Building concessions to publicans

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 March 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Tues.: Because of the high cost of building, the Licence Reduction Board is prepared to consider partial…

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Licence for Community Hotel at Leeton

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 3 April 1951 · page 4

The Leeton Shire Council decided or its meeting on Thursday night to proceed at once with its application for a license for a community…

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Cocktail party at the Albury Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 5 April 1951 · page 8

Following the running of Albury Gold Cup races yesterday Mr and Mrs Gavin Findlay entertained over 220 guests at a cocktail party…

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Townsend Street Hotel Sold for £45,000

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 April 1951 · page 2

The two-storey Gloucester Hotel in Townsend street, one of the oldest hotels in Albury, owned by Mrs. Charlie Howard, has…

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Globe-trotting Americans Kept in Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 3

DJAKARTA, Sunday: Thirteen globe-trotting American tourists who were confined to a hotel on Bali by the local military…

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Hotel Bar Goes Up in Flames

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 2

Fire fatted the temporary bar of the Rand Hotel shortly after midnight on Saturday, causing damage estimated at £1500…

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Guests Flee From Hotel Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 April 1951 · page 11

BRISBANE, Sun: Thirty guests fled in their night attire at 3 o’clock this morning before fire destroyed the two-storeyed Royal…

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New Licensee for Albion

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 2

Mr Reg Robertson, who for the past 18 months has managed the New Albury Hotel, will be leaving there at the end of this month. Mr…

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Items of News Jindera Hotel Licence Transferred

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 April 1951 · page 2

In Albury Licensing Court yesterday the licence of Jindera Hotel, Jindera, was transferred from Norman James William Heggie to…

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100 guests shiver while fire guts Hotel Kosciusko

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 April 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: More than 100 guests and 92 staff members fled to safety in night attire when fire gutted the wooden two-storey Hotel Kosciusko at dawn today. They stood shivering in drizzling rain as the blaze reduced the tourist resort to smouldering ruins within on hour…

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Hotel Bar at Rand Gutted by Fire

The Observer · Friday 20 April 1951 · page 1

Fire gutted the temporary bar of the Rand hotel shortly after midnight on Saturday, causing damage estimated at £1500. The building a timber and…

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Diggers Want All Hotels Open on Anzac Day

Border Morning Mail · Monday 23 April 1951 · page 5

SYDNEY, Sun.: Many returned soldiers’ organisations are annoyed at the proposal of many Sydney hotels to stay closed on Anzac Day…

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Items of News Hotel, Sale Denied

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 25 April 1951 · page 2

Solicitors for the estate of the late Thomas Ryan, Messrs Tietyens, Angel and Jackling, yesterday denied rumors that Ryan’s…

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Popular hotel keeper retiring

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 6

Mrs A. T. Higgs, proprietress of the Albion Hotel, Albury, will soon retire. Mrs Higgis has been in the hotel…

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Fire at Royal Hotel

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 1 May 1951 · page 8

What could easily have proved a disastrous fire broke out in the buildings at the rear of the Royal Hotel early last…

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Fish Wager Cost Publican £20

Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 May 1951 · page 2

“Mine host” of the Punt Hotel, Gooramadda, Mr K. McClure, Yesterday had a call from a team of fishermen from Beechworth…

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