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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1952

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Hotels bar Japanese wool buyers

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 September 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Mon.: Appeal had to be made to the Licensing Commission today before hotel accommodation in Brisbane for…

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Policeman took money from S.P. bookmakers, retired . . . And became a publican, liquor inquiry told

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 September 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Thurs.: An acting police sergeant at Dubbo had been found guilty by a departmental inquiry of having solicited and received money from S.P. bookmakers, the Liquor Royal…

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Woman Found Dead in an Albury Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 September 1952 · page 2

A New Australian woman was found dead in a room of a Dean st. hotel late yesterday afternoon…

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Hotel Manager for Trial: Slaying Charge

Border Morning Mail · Friday 5 September 1952 · page 16

PROSERPINE (Q’ld.), Thurs.: Manager of the luxurious Royal Hayman Island Hotel, Clifford Ian Cutler, 32, was today…

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No Referendum on Victorian Hotel Hours

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 September 1952 · page 4

The Premier of Victoria (Mr. McDonald on Monday of last week rejected a request by the leader of the Victorian Labour…

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Air Travel and Hotel Faculties Are Slated

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 September 1952 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Australian customs, air travel and hotel facilities were badly behind overseas standards, the…

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Man seeking hotel licence questioned about attitude to religion, police and communism

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 September 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Man.: Former communist secretary of the Building Trades Federation, Donald David Thompson, was questioned extensively in the Licensing Court today on his attitude…

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Too many “suiciding” in hotels !

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 September 1952 · page 12

TAIPEH (Formosa). Mon.: The Hotel Owners Association has appealed to the public not to use their establishments to…

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On Licensed Premises

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 September 1952 · page 6

Eric Clive Thouliss was on Wednesday fined 30/- and ordered to pay 12/- court costs on a charge of being on licensed…

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Police and civilians in wild mix-up near hotel

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 September 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Two policeman and several civilians were Injured when a brawl involving more than 35 people broke out outside an hotel in Elizabeth st. city, last night…

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Judge hits at “dead-beat” publicans

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Mon.: The Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr Justice Maxwell) said today the day might come when the…

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Q.C. defends brewery’s ownership of hotels in address to Commission

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 16

SYDNEY, Mon.: The Liquor Royal Commissioner had heard no acceptable evidence that Tooth’s Brewery had conducted its hotels to the public detriment, Mr Gordon Wallace, Q.C., said today. Mr Wallace, senior counsel for Tooth’s, was the first counsel to…

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No hotel licence for ex- Red -- “too-ill ” court says

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 September 1952 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Mon.: The Licensing Court today refused a hotel license to Mr Don Thompson, former secretary of the Building Trades’ Federation, on the ground that he had…

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Bonus system on hotel deals “impose for brewery’s benefit”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 September 1952 · page 16

SYDNEY, Tues.: Unless some explanation of the bonus system in the transfer of hotels was offered, he would conclude that it was done solely for the benefit of the brewery, Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr Justice Maxwell) said today…

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Judge lashes at publicans: “Some treat public like animals”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 September 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed.: Some publicans treated people like animals, Liquor Royal Commissioner (Mr Justice Maxwell) said today. Toilet facilities in many hotels were disgusting, filthy and disgraceful…

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Mulwala Police Raid Hotel

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 4

On Thursday evening of last week N.S.W. police raided a the Mulwala Hotel. The names of 10 men including eight…

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N.S.W. population up: Fewer hotels

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 September 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Mr. Wallace, Q.C, pointed out to the Liquor Royal Com miss ton today that while the population of N.S.W. had increased by more than one million from 1920 to 1950, the…

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Mr M. Smyth, Chiltern hotelkeeper, dead

Border Morning Mail · Monday 29 September 1952 · page 12

Well-known Chiltern hotelkeeper and sportsman, Mr Mick Smyth, died yesterday in Royal Melbourne Hospital…

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“More Hotels Wanted for Games Visitors”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 September 1952 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Mon.: It would be desirable to build more hotels in Melbourne to accommodate visitors for the 1956 Olympic…

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Gutted Hotel Ruins

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 September 1952 · page 1

The gutted ruins of the Brocklesby Hotel, which was burned down last night. Fifteen district brigades and water carts poured thousands of gallons into the building in a desperate attempt to save it…

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