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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

194 stories in Murray's papers · page 4 of 10

Hotels open as usual on Monday in N.S.W.

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 April 1954 · page 16

SYDNEY, Fri.: Hotels will open at 10 a.m. on the Anzac Day holiday and will Observe normal trading…

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Leeton Community Hotel

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 4

The Licensing Magistrates in their 1953 report state that a petition by the Leeton Council to build a community hotel has…

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Collapses and Dies in Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 14

CANBERRA, Tues.: An elderly man collapsed and died in the Hotel Kingston today. He was Mr. James Moore. 61, station-manager,…

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Tallangatta publican fined on driving charges

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 May 1954 · page 17

The failure of a man to slop after on accident and for furnishing false information cost him almost £25 in Albury Court yesterday. Through Mr. J.C…

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Coreen Hotel Licence Transferred

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 May 1954 · page 9

In A licensing court hearing, the transfer of the licence of the Coreen Hotel, Coreen, was granted from Sadie Ellen Callaghan to…

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Licensing of exports criticised

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 13 May 1954 · page 18

PERTH, Wed.: Licensing of exports served very little purpose under present conditions, and could be eliminated without loss to the…

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A Corowa Hotel Licence Transferred

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 10

The transfer of the licence of the Terminus Hotel, Corowa, was granted by Mr. Blackmore in a Licensing Court hearing. The…

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Constable’s Dismissal Stands: “Accepted money, bottled beer from publicans”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 16

SYDNEY, Wed.; A Temoro police constable had accepted money and bottled beer from three hotel licensees to refrain from taking action on liquor breaches, the Crown Employes’ Appeal Board held today…

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Carruthers to learn hotel business

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 19

SYDNEY, Wed.: Retired world bantamweight champion. Jimmy Carruthers. may go to the Terminus Hotel Singleton,, soon to…

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Criminals hid in hotel, police say

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Mon.: Two criminals had been found hiding in the bedroom of a Waterloo publican’s son, police said in the…

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Threat to Hotels No Beer If They Employ Non-unionists

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 May 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wed. : The Liquor Trades’ Union has decided to cut off beer supplies to ail hotels employing non-unionists…

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Hotels closed in NSW today

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 May 1954 · page 3

The usual election day “invasion” of Victorian border hotels will be made today by neighboring New South…

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Radio commentator retires to take over hotel

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Wed. : After 27 years in radio, Eric Welch, probably Australia’s best-known sporting commentator, will enter…

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Booroorban's Hotel and Some Links with a Distant Past

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 1

IT may be that you don't know the Royal Mail Hotel at Booroorban, near Hay. It is the first hotel when you turn right, off the Hay road, and swing in an arc past the Booroorban Town Hall. That there are no…

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They drank as the hotel moved !

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 5

AUCKLAND (N.Z.), Thurs.: Customers stayed in the bar and went on drinking when the Walwera Hotel, near…

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Judge warns an Albury hotel-keeper

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 June 1954 · page 9

Licensee of an Albury hotel told the court he thought three men found on his premises were bona fide travellers…

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Publicans to seek 10 p.m. closing

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.: A deputation from the ULVA is expected to seek an extension of hotel trading hours until 10 p.m. at a meeting with…

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Publican has one mark erased

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 5

Douglas Alexander Brady, licensee of the Railway Hotel, Smollett st., appealed against two lower court convictions for…

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In Albury District Court Yesterday Punches Fly in Jindera Hotel During Argument Over Cricket £225 Damages for Albury Man

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 June 1954 · page 5

Behavior of the farmer president of the Jindera Cricket Club when he was involved in an argument with another man had been “high handed, contemptible and cowardly,” Judge Brennan said in Albury District Court yesterday…

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Tallangatta Court Hotel licensee, two men fined

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 16

Licensee of Granya Hotel and two men were fined a total of £17, as a result of a visit to the hotel by Tallangatta police on…

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