VANCOUVER ISLAND
HEAVY LOSSES CAUSED BY FIRE SMALL TOWN AND TIMBER CAMP DESTROYED. SABOTAGET'INVESTIGATION ORDERED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 12.45 p.m.) VANCOUVER, July 22. Fire destroyed the Vancouver Island town of Headquarters, where five hundred people are homeless, and also the Comox lumber camp, with forty million feet of lumber. The fire advanced within eight miles of the town of Courtenay, which has a population of 3,000. The Premier, Mr Pattullo, has ordered an investigation of sabotage. A hundred former Vancouver Post Office sit-down strikers have been dismissed and ordered to leave the island.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1938, Page 6
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97VANCOUVER ISLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1938, Page 6
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