Fire Guts Arcade
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) BRISBANE, October 29. Fire destroyed 15 shops and damaged five others in a £ 130,000 half-hour blaze -n a Brisbane arcade yesterday. The blaze broke out in a coffee shop at one end of the 140 yard long arcade and then “exploded through everything like a flame thrower,” onlookers said.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29657, 30 October 1961, Page 13
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