DAMAGE £25,000
FIRE AT WALGETT. EIGHT BUILDINGS DESTROYED. NOTHING SAVED. United Press Assn.—Elec. TeJ. Copyrlg-nt. SYDNEY, Dec. 20During a Are which destroyed a hotel and seven other premises at Walgett, Mrs Coyne, an elderly chef, crawled through a window of the hotel and leaped to the street, two stories below. She is now in hospital critically Injured. In less than two hours the Are caused damage estimated at £25,000. Nothing was saved from any of the eight buildings.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19765, 21 December 1935, Page 9
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