Mysterious Fires Alarm Wool Men
BRISBANE, Oct. 5. The Criminal Investigatiou Brancli has been called in to investigate .a series of lires at woolsheds and haystacks in the Goondiwindi distriet in Southeastern Queensland. Yesterday a lire which started in the early morning totally destroved the Talwood railwav station, an important wool and sheep railhead. Local graziers, who believo that the fires a.re part of a grand plan to disrupt their industry, claim t'hat several threatening notes hav6 been received, and that in two sheds which were burned down the water supplv had been tampered with. They ailege that the wool in a tliird shed had been soaked with kerosene. The first seven fires caused darnage optiroetf'd nt £15,000,
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 October 1948, Page 7
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