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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

194 stories in Murray's papers · page 6 of 10

Bank Buys Hotel for £131,000

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tues.: One of the last properties in Melbourne associated with the ”gay nineties,” Richardson’s Hotel, on…

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Court House Hotel License Transferred

The Pastoral Times · Friday 2 July 1954 · page 1

Mr. Joe Hetherington was last week at Barham granted the licence of the Court House Hotel, Deniliquin…

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Publicans to Meet Here

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 July 1954 · page 2

Albury and District Licensed Victuallers’ Association annual conference will take place today at the New Albury Hotel and…

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Hotel-keepers in conference at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 July 1954 · page 3

This group of Albury and district hotelkeepers looked serious as executive member of the NSW ULVA, Mr. J. D…

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25 publicans at conference

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 July 1954 · page 2

A one-day conference of 25 Albury and district hotelkeepers. attended by members of the NSW United Licensed Victuallers’…

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Hotel-keepers’ leader addresses conference

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 July 1954 · page 20

Mr. J. J. McCarthy, president of Albury and district branch of the U.L.V.A. addressing a conference of Albury and district hotel-keepers at the New Albury Hotel yesterday. Seated (from left to right) are: Mr. Leo Waterhouse (secretary of Albury branch), Mr. P. J. Ryan (vice-president) of N.S.W. U.L.V.A.). Mr. R. Hadfield (general secretary N.S.W. U.L.V.A.) and Mr. S…

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Pays £8000 to go into hotel at Corowa

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 6 July 1954 · page 13

A hotel license and spirits merchant’s licence were transferred in the Albury licensing Court yesterday…

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Want nation-wide action over hotel employes’ complaints

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 July 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Wed.: Australiawide action to enforce wage demands for hotel workers is being sought by the Victorian…

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Transfer of Corowa Hotel Licence

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 July 1954 · page 2

Some misinterpretation has been placed on a report of the transfer of the licence of the Australian Hotel, Corowa, which…

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Collecting Without License

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 9 July 1954 · page 2

At the Hay Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday, two Victorians pleaded guilty to acting as collectors without N.S.W. licenses…

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Albury hotels report fewer bookings

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 July 1954 · page 15

Albury hotels, for the post month, have noticed o foiling off in accommodation bookings and licensees yesterday gave various reasons for the decline. Mr. S. J. Warrell, license…

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£40,000 Hotel Fire

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 24

SYDNEY, Tues.: A fire which today gutted portion of the Bellevue Hotel at Cloncurry on the north coast damage…

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Boy Shot in Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 July 1954 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A 15-year-old boy was seriously shot in the chest at a hotel in North Melbourne yesterday…

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A Wagga hotel Passed in at £115,000

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tues.: Romano’s Hotel at Wagga, described as one of the most modern country hotels In Australia, was passed…

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Hotel to Be Modernised

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 9

The Carriers’ Arms Hotel. Hume st., Wodonga, is to be made in to the “Best Hotel in Wodonga,” Picture shows…

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“No Change in Hotel Hours”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 11

MELBOURNE, Tues. ; Ministers said today any move in the Labor caucus to extend hotel hours to 9 or 10 p.m. would…

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Hotelkeeper Turns Painter

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 July 1954 · page 16

Recently Mr. Reg Robertson, of the Albion Hotel, decided that, as business was quiet—usually so at this time of the year—he would have his premises painted. However, the prices tendered were considered excessive, so he decided to do the job himself. Here is Mr. Robertson at work yesterday painting the front of his hotel…

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Police raid hotel after juror says he was “approached”: man charged

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 July 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Police raided a nearby hotel and rounded up about eight drinkers immediately after a General Sessions juror reported today he had been approached by a stranger during the luncheon adjournment. The police took the…

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£2129 mill. spent in shops, hotels, garages in year

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 1

CANBERRA, Mon: Australians spent £2,129,300,000 on retail goods in the year ended June 30 last, The acting Commonwealth Statistician (Mr. Carver)…

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Husband will be “silent” partner in hotel: wife

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 August 1954 · page 11

A woman who received the licence of a Corowa hotel gave an undertaking to the Albury Licensing Court yesterday that her husband would not serve in the bar or take any part in the management of the hotel…

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