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Carriers Arms Hotel

Bourke.

Carriers Arms Hotel: Bourke. The Carriers Arms was the Cobb & Co. stop in Bourke. In his poems, Lawson referred to the hotel as the Shearer's Arms -- 'The yard behind the Shearer’s Arms was reckoned best of battlegrounds'.