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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

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Stole Beer From Finley Hotel

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 3

“You had bettor Keep away from strong [?] if you want to keep out of trouble. At the outset I intended to give you a…

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Hotel manager who drove under the influence sent to gaol for three months

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tues.: A hotel manager who had pleaded guilty to driving a car while under the influence of liquor was sentenced to three months’ gaol in Burwood police court today…

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Hotel porter battered to death

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 March 1954 · page 5

LONDON, Thurs.: Two men were charged last night with the murder of elderly George Smart, a London hotel night…

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Community hotels praised

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 March 1954 · page 10

ADELAIDE. Mon.: The Lord Mayor of Sydney (Aid. Hills) said today community hotels in South Australia served a “very…

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Hillston Hotel May Lose License

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 2

It has been recommended to the Licensing Inspector at Hillston that he should proceed against the licensee of the Royal…

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Transfer of Hotel Licences

The Pastoral Times · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 1

At the Licensing Court held in Deniliquin Court House on Wednesday, the transfer of two district hotel licences was…

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Third Death Fall at Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun. : An elderly man fell to his death from the fifth floor of the Metropole Hotel today…

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Attempts to Fire Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun. : Police are investigating several deliberate attempts to set fire to the Sabloniere Hotel in…

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Hotels Booked Out for Easter

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 5

Easter reservations in Albury and Wodonga hotels have been heavy over the past few months and some are booked out…

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Minister to Be Licensing Court Head

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: The chairman of Victoria’s new Licensing Court is almost certain to be the Minister for Labor,…

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Hillston Hotel May Lose Licence

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 1

It has been recommended to the Licensing Inspector at Hillston that he should proceed against the licensee of the Royal…

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Five Men Die in Hotel Explosion and Fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Sun.: Five men ore dead and four men received critical injuries in an explosion and fire which destroyed the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla, at 2.45 p.m. today…

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Police fix hotel fire death-roll at five

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 3

BRISBANE, Mon.: Police are satisfied that no more bodies are buried under the smouldering ruins of the Commercial Hotel, Cunnamulla. Five men were burned to death yesterday…

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Wireless License Prosecutions

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 3

Five persons were recently fined at the Mulwala Police Court for failing to have a wireless license…

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Hotel-keeper on three charges

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 10

The licensee of a Tallangatta hotel was charged in Albury Court yesterday with failing to stop after an accident,…

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Hotel’s Films Seized

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.: Customs officials on Friday took possession of some films being shown in the public bar of a Sydney hotel…

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Were fish sent to hotel at Canberra radio active?

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 20

CANBERRA, Mon.: Senator O’Byrne (Lab., Tas.) told the Senate today that the Commonwealth Health Authorities had carried out a test of the fish supplied to the Hotel Kurrajong. `…

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The Albion Hotel, Corowa

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 April 1954 · page 1

The above hostelry is now being conducted by Mr. John Francis Baylis, the license having been transferred from Mr. Jim…

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Pressure on publicans

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 13

SYDNEY, Tues.: The Licensing Board is exerting pressure on hotel owners to restore destroyed, damaged and sub-standard hotels…

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Cabinet to consider easing regulations to cut cost of building community hotels

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 11

SYDNEY, Wed.: State Cabinet will discuss easing regulations to cut the cost of building community hotel in N.S.W. when they consider Liquor Act amendments soon…

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