Commercial Hotel Allora
Publicans since 1892
The Commercial Hotel was built for Francis Kates and opened on 1/4/1892.
The first licensee was John Kelly 1892 - 1895.
John Basford 1895 - 1899
F. R. (Frank) Kilmister 17/6/1899 - 14/5/1909 (F. R. Kilmister died)
Clara Kilmister 1909 - 8/6/1910
F. E. Golsby 8/6/1910 - 15/7/1911
T. H. Marshall 15/7/1911 - 12/1915
C. J. Gorry 12/1915 - 1923
John Dodd 1923 -   24th August 1938.
( John Dodd bought the freehold from the Misses Kates, grandaughters of Francis Kates, at the same time that he took over the licence from C. J. Gorry in 1923.)
Lucy Forman  from   25th August 1938
George Augustus Heldon McClintock from   10th January 1940
Roy Newton Ellaby from   30th May 1940
Darcy Malcolm Lavarack from  18th October 1945
John Albert Berry from  11th June 1946
Earnest Westaway from   28th August 1947
Herman Martin Henry Warneminde from   16th February 1948
Margaret Thelma Coe from   31st May 1948
Raymond Albert Coe from   14th April 1949
Ronald Charles Warren from   7th November 1949
Colin Ray Frizzell from   26th June 1950
Charles Martin from   23 July 1951
Thomas Henry Conley from   15th September 1953
Naason Raymond Dawes from   17th February 1956
William Keith Smith  from   11th July 1957
Ronald Henry Reeves from   18th December 1958
Joseph Corvaia from   6th June 1960
Robert Hanlon Flannery from   9th March 1961 
Kenneth Thomas Casey from   29th July 1966
William Teer Ayres from   30th April 1971
Rodney Wayne Williams from   13th January 1973
Geoffery Alexander Kendall from   24th July 1973
Colin Arthur Swan from   25th January 1974
Frederick Cecil Ferguson from   23rd October 1974
John Alexander King from     5th April 1976
Suzanne Mary Clothier from   28th February 1977
Alton Stewart Walker from    9th November 1978
Leo Vincent Lacy from   16th July 1979
Kenneth Edward Turner from   6th August 1980
Mervyn Edward Parmenter from   20th May 1986
Edwin Russell Bunch from   4th July 2001
Anthony Britton from   10th April 2004
Mrs Annemarie Smith  from   30th June 2005 (Current).