Twenty-two Businesses Destroyed at Longreach.
Brisbane, December 1. A telegram from Longreach to the Deputy Postmaster-General announces that the town of Longreach was swept away by fire at 1 o’clock this morning. Twenty - two leading business places were destroyed. Longreach, terminus of the Central Railway, 424 miles west of Rockhampton, has a population of beiween 1600 and 1700. The town has four banks, several hotels, three schools, public buildings, and several factories.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 3 December 1907, Page 4
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72Twenty-two Businesses Destroyed at Longreach. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 3 December 1907, Page 4
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