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Murray · Hotels & licensing

Hotels & licensing, 1954

194 stories in Murray's papers · page 9 of 10

Extended hotel hours “harmful”

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 November 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: If hotel trading hours were extended to 10 p.m. it would be harmful to the general welfare of the community. Mr…

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Hotel staffs to hand ’how to vote’ cards on

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 November 1954 · page 16

SYDNEY, Mon.: Members of hotel staffs will man polling booths at next Saturday’s liquor referendum, the president of the U.L.V.A. (Mr. L. Plasto) said today…

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Inquiry Agents to Be Licensed

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 November 1954 · page 7

SYDNEY, Tues.: A bill to license private inquiry agents was introduced in the Legislative Assembly tonight…

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N.s.w. Hotel Hours' Referendum

The Observer · Friday 12 November 1954 · page 2

About 19,000 Albury district electors are expected to vote in Saturday's N.S.W. hotel hours' referendum. These…

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Hotel Closing Hours

Border Morning Mail · Friday 12 November 1954 · page 8

Sir.—I was delighted to see in your recent “Mail” the article by Rev. A. G. Manefield on closing hours for hotels. How any sane…

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Liquor Poll Publicans’ final word

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 November 1954 · page 5

Any person interested in the progress of N.S.W. cannot honestly say that the continuance of 6 o’clock closing is a progressive…

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Decisions on Two Hotels

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 November 1954 · page 5

The licence of a Corowa hotel was transferred and a permit to operate a temporary bar at Brock[?]by Hotel were the decisions of…

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Rutherglen Court Briefs Fines follow police visits to two hotels

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 November 1954 · page 9

Former licensee of the Star Hotel, Rutherglen, was fined £11 on three charges concerning after-hours trading on…

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£100,000 Hotel Deal

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 November 1954 · page 2

Mrs. E. H. O’Connor has bought the red Bluff Hotel, Sandringham, for more than £100,000 Mrs O’Connor, formerly license of…

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Says hotels should close from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. if 10 p.m. closing introduced

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 November 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Hotels should be closed from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and the alcoholic content of beer reduced, Mr. A. J. Dalziel said today. Mr. Dalziel, president of…

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Kosciusko May Get Hotel

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 November 1954 · page 11

SYDNEY, Sun.: The State Government was still prepared to consider proposals for the construction and running of a hotel…

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“Family Air” to Be Given Some Hotels

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 November 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Sun.: Many publicans in Sydney industrial areas will strive to give their hotels a “family atmosphere” if 10…

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10 O'clock Hotel Closing Soon?

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 November 1954 · page 3

As a result of the recent referendum on the closing hour of N.S.W. hotels, which so far has resulted in a majority of…

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Dawson’s interest in elite hotel sold for £2!

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 November 1954 · page 12

SYDNEY, Wed.: A bid of £2 bought David Stewart Dawson’s interest in Glen Ascham Private Hotel, Darling Point, at public…

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“Disgraceful” to employ teenage girls in hotel bars, union secretary declares

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 November 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: “It is illegal under the liquor trades Federal award, and disgraceful even if it weren’t, to employ 18-year-old girls in hotel bars and lounges,” declared Mr. Frank Ryan, general secretary of the…

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6.30—7.30 closing for hotel lounges

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 November 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Fri. : Hotel lounges would have to close between 6.30 and 7.30 p.m. when the liquor amendments became law, the…

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Transports Will Be Licensed Decision by Ministers

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 November 1954 · page 12

SIDNEY, Thurs. : The Governments of four States—Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and NSW—would…

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New hours may force some publicans to sell

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 27 November 1954 · page 20

SYDNEY, Fri.: The fact that some publicans would rather tell their hotels than pay the extra overhead could cause a drastic drop in values for at least six months after 10 p.m. closing is introduced…

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Clerk abandons attempt to buy elite hotel

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 2 December 1954 · page 18

SYDNEY, Wed.: Clive Freame said today he would no longer at tempt to buy the elite [?] Ascham private hotel…

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“Tea break” hotel hours to be given trial Minister declares

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 December 1954 · page 28

SYDNEY, Thurs.: The tea break between 6.30 and 7.30 p.m. in the new hotel trading hours would be in the nature of a “preliminary trial,” the Attorney-General (Mr. Sheahan) said in the Legislative Assembly to night…

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