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Hotels & licensing, 1951

1,069 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 54

Woman's Battered Body in Hotel Believed Victim Of Murder

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

Shockingly buttered about the head, Mrs. Lucy Barrows (about 55), the licensee of the Oxford Hotel, Wollongong, was…

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Woman Strangled in Hotel Room Police In Hunt For Intruder

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Mon. -- Battered on the head and face and with a pillowslip tied around the neck, the body of Mrs. Lucy…

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Woman Murdered in Hotel Room Police In Hunt For Intruder

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Mon. -- Battered on the head and face, and with a pillowslip tied around the neck, the body of Mrs. Lucy…

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Woman Murdered in Hotel Room Police In Hunt For Intruder

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Mon. -- Battered on the head and face, and with a pillowslip tied around the neck, the body of Mrs. Lucy…

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Woman Murdered in Hotel Room Police In Hunt For Intruder

Daily Mirror · Monday 11 June 1951 · page 1

WOLLONGORG, Mon, -- Battered on the head and face, and with a pillowslip tied around the neck, the body of Mrs. Lucy…

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Suspected Killer "Thin Man" Woman Murdered in This Room Strangling of hotel licensee

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 5

Detectives are seeking a tall thin man with a peculiar walk for the murder of Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows at Wollongong yesterday…

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Brutal Murder In Wollongong Hotel: Man Sought From Our Special Reporter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Monday.—Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, 53, was brutally murdered last night in her bedroom at the Oxford Hotel, of which she was the…

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500 Helping Police in Hunt for Killer of Woman in Hotel

The Sun · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 3

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday. -- More than 500 workmen and sportsmen are co-operating with police in the hunt for killer of Mrs. Lucy…

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Police Hunt "Thin Man" I[?] Hotel Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Tues.-- Detectives [?]vestigating yesterday's murder of Mrs. L[?] Frances Barrows (53) said today they ha[?] new "lead" which they believe might as[?]…

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Police Hunt "Thin Man" in Hotel Murder

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Tues.-- Detectives investigating yesterday's murder of Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows (53) said today they had a new "lead" which they believe might assist…

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Geraghty Supports Opposition in Call for Debate on Liquor Reform Royal Commission on "Tied" Hotels Sought

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 2

The State Government offered no opposition in the Legislative Assembly today to a debate on a motion providing for the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate brewery control of hotels. The motion was submitted by…

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Geraghty Supports Opposition in Call for Debate on Liquor Reform Royal Commission on "Tied" Hotels Sought

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 2

The State Government offered no opposition in the Legislative Assembly today to a motion providing for the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate brewery control of hotels. The motion was submitted by…

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Government Agrees to Opposition Call for Debate on Liquor Reform Royal Commission on "Tied" Hotels Sought

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 2

The State Government offered no opposition in the Legislative Assembly today to a motion providing for the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate brewery control of hotels. The motion was submitted by…

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Government Agrees to Opposition Call for Debate on Liquor Reform Royal Commission on "Tied" Hotels Sought

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 2

The State Government offered no opposition in the Legislative Assembly today to a motion providing for the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate brewery control of hotels. The motion was submitted by…

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English Soccer Team Quits Hobart Hotel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 1

HOBART, Tuesday.— The English Soccer team to-day walked out of the leading hotel into which…

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Community Hotels To Cost Over £600,000 City and Country Projects

Construction · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 4

Community hotels have long been a conspicuous success in South Australia, particularly the one at Renmark, which was opened over 50…

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Bloodstained hotel laundry as clue in murder

The Sun · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 3

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.--A bloodstained sheet and pillowslip, taken from the Oxford Hotel in which Mrs. Lucy Frances Barrows, 53, was murdered early Monday morning, were found in a Wollongong street last night. With the laundry were…

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Better Class Hotel Needed, Says Manager

The Sun · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 20

HOBART, Wednesday.--Co-manager of the touring English Soccer team R. Adams…

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Brewery Control of Hotels Government agrees to Royal Commission

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 7

State Parliament yesterday ordered a Royal Commission to inquire into brewery control of hotels. The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Treatt), who moved the motion, said…

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Hotel Murder Clue

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 13 June 1951 · page 2

This bloodstained scarf was discovered near £ the Oxford Hotel, Wollongong, where Mrs…

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