FIRE AT EMU PARK

The first picture is one of the Imperial Hotel, Emu Park [Qld] – the owner of which was Mrs Catherine Begg, licensee and owner of the Grand Central Hotel, Emu Park, and the lessee of which was Mr. H. M. F. Connolly – that was destroyed by fire early on the morning of Tuesday week, April 7.

The second photograph shows all that was left of the place after the flames had done their work.

– Rockhampton Capricornian Saturday 18 April 1925

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