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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1952

203 stories in Murray's papers · page 1 of 11

Attacks hotel, hostel food

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 January 1952 · page 7

ADELAIDE, Mon.: “Food provided at Government hostels and hotels in Canberra is so [?]ad that I would not be surprised to…

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Woman holds key to hotel shooting

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Mon: Detectives will tomorrow seek permission to interview a woman now in Goulburn Hospital in an attempt to…

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Community Hotel Schemes Arouse Wide Interest

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 1

Travel authorities have long agreed that the chief factor retarding our development as a tourist centre is our lack of…

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“Breach of licensing regulations”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed.: After he had been told of two cases where visitors had been served drinks after hours in ships at port…

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Hotels can use Neon signs

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 15

In a works committee recommendation adopted by last night’s meeting of Albury City Council, Albury licensed victuallers will be temporarily granted permission to use Neon signs…

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Burns hopes to become publican

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 January 1952 · page 11

SYDNEY, Mon.: Welterweight Tommy Burns’ manager, Joe Taylor, said today, Burns aims to stay in the fight game only about…

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Will appear before AJC Licensing Committee

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wed: Racehorse owner Mr R. Burnstein tomorrow will appear before the licensing committee of the AJC in connection with…

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Licensing Court

The Pastoral Times · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 4

At a meeting of the Deniliquin Licensing Court held on Wednesday before Mr K. M. Smith, S.M., an application for leave of…

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£72,000 Hotel at Hillston

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 2

Carrathool Shire Council has approved building plans of a £72,000 hotel to be constructed at Hillston. The plan covers the…

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Fell From Hotel Window

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1952 · page 2

New Australian Sigidisos Astrauskan, of Redfern, Sydney, suffered a broken bone in a foot when he fell 15 feet from a…

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Shots fired into hotel

Border Morning Mail · Monday 4 February 1952 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Police were called to a hotel on the corner of Lygon and Albert sts, Brunswick, last night when…

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Corowa Licensing Court

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 1

The Licencing Board comprising Messrs. Wells (chairman), Bliss and Stewart, and licensing prosecutor Sergeant Brownette…

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News from Wangaratta WANGARATTA, Wed.: £39,000 Offered for Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Friday 8 February 1952 · page 11

Bidding ceased in Melbourne today at £39,000 for the Commercial Hotel, Wangaratta, offered on behalf of Mr J. Redfern and Mrs…

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Former Jockey Fined Did not pay hotel bill

Border Morning Mail · Friday 15 February 1952 · page 8

At Albury Court yesterday, Joseph James Atoms, an ex-jockey, South Melbourne, pleaded guilty before Mr. A. V…

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Charges against hotel-keeper withdrawn

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 12

Two charges against the licensee of the Albion Hotel, Reginald Leslie Robertson, for alleged breaches of the Liquor Act were…

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Sunday Trading Inexcusable Publican Fined £20

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 February 1952 · page 1

“Trading on a Sunday is inexcusable” said Mr Keith M. Smith, S.M., at the Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Star Hotel changes hands

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 February 1952 · page 8

One of Albury’s small but outstanding hotels, the Star, in Guinea street, has [?] hands. The freehold of the hotel has…

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Publican in debt to night club director, Liquor Commission told

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 February 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.: A Sydney publican told the Liquor Royal Commission today that he was in debt to a director of Sammy Lee’s night club to which he had supplied 190 dozen bottled beer since last October…

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Tomato Juice Argument Led to Publican’s Suicide

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 February 1952 · page 6

GOULBURN, Thurs.: A domestic argument over tomato juice had led to the suicide of an hotel licensee. This was stated in the Coroner’s Court today when…

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