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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1951

177 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 9

“Half of bottled beer quota went to licensee’s friends”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 November 1951 · page 9

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The former manager of a city hotel told the Royal Commission on Liquor today that for a year and a half the hotel’s bottled beer quota went to the licensee’s friends…

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Hotel licensee fined £20

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 December 1951 · page 8

No conviction was recorded against the licensee of an Albury, hotel in which men were, found drinking after hours…

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M.L.A. says race clubs should license and control betting shops

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 December 1951 · page 7

TOWNSVILLE, Fri.: The present system of open, illegal operation of S.P. shops, with sporadic raids by the police, followed by amazingly diverse court punishments, did not generate a respect for the law in those applying…

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Publican Shot Leaving Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 December 1951 · page 8

DARWIN, Tues.: Tennant Creek hotel owner Kenneth Milnes was shot and wounded as he walked out of his hotel…

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Hotels Booked Out for Christmas, New Year

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 December 1951 · page 2

Most of Albury’s hotels are booked out for Christmas and New Year. Holiday makers and interstate travellers and wool buyers,…

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Albury publican fined £20

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 December 1951 · page 9

The licensee of an hotel in which 16 men had been found during prohibited hours was fined £20. The men were each fined…

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Skinner retaken in hotel

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 December 1951 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Tuesday: One month after his sensational escape from Pentridge Gaol, MAXWELL CARL SKINNER, 23, was…

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Man refused hotel licence

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 December 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wed.: A man was refused- an application for transfer of a hotel licence by. the Licencing Bench today, because…

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Xmas Spending at Peak at Albury Shops Crowded Hotels Too

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 December 1951 · page 3

Christmas shopping reached its peak in Albury yesterday when thousands jammed city stores. People arrived in the city shortly after shop…

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Fire in hotel destroys 10 rooms

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 December 1951 · page 14

SYDNEY, Fri.: A fire tonight destroyed 10 rooms in the staff quarters of the Hydro-Majestic Hotel. Medlow Bath…

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£80,000 Damages to Luxury Hotel Building

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 December 1951 · page 10

HOBART. Wed.: Fire burnt out a partly built luxury hotel and caused £80,000 damage at Old Beach on the River…

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Fire in hotel lounge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 December 1951 · page 4

SYDNEY. Wed.: Drinkers fled from a first floor lounge when fire broke out in the University Hotel, Parramatta rd., Glebe, today…

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Publicans seek another price rise

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 December 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A reported application for an increase in the retail price of beer had not yet been…

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Thieves’ big haul from hotel

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 December 1951 · page 2

MELBOURNE. Thurs: A safe confining £1400 in cash and jewellery has been stolen from the Yarram Hotel, Gippsland…

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Victorian Hotels Got Big Flow of Beer

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 December 1951 · page 10

MELBOURNE, Thurs: Victorian hotels got 872,090 gallons of draught beer in the week before Christmas—25 per cent more…

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Guests flee from hotel fire

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 December 1951 · page 10

BRISBANE, Thurs: Three people received minor injuries when fire swept through Riverside private hotel. Hamilton early today…

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Popular Sportsman, Townsman, Hotelkeeper, Dies Suddenly

The Pastoral Times · Friday 28 December 1951 · page 1

One of Deniliquin’s most popular sportsmen, townsmen, and hotelkeepers, Mr. Norman Hunter (Nobby) Hall, died…

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