The History of the NAMBOUR District
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Currie Street burns on 5th January 1924
FIVE days only elapsed in the New Year - the wishes for a happy and prosperous year had not waned - when the biggest fire in Nambour ’s history broke out, on Saturday night, and with inexhaustible fury spread its great red tongues of relentless flame over the main portion of Nambour ’s business area. Sixteen shops, containing seventeen businesses, were utterly destroy- ed. As is usual for the residents on a Saturday night, the pictures found their usual full houses. Interval time had arrived, when the
alarm “fire” was raised, and the picture proprietors were equal to the occasion in that they immediately turned the lights full on to allow for as orderly an exit as possible. The bucket brigades were mustered, and were concentrating with all efforts to save the adjoining places, and those opposite. The Royal George Hotel was now in immediate danger, and gangs were divided and organised to concentrate on these premises, the Club Hotel and Collins and Co’s furniture store. As the fire continued the rapid progress of destruction, the buildings in line
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were quickly demolished. Sergeant Parker and Constable McLean, with Cr. Myers and other townsmen, at once realised that the town was in great danger, and they were instrumental in organising volunteers. Notwithstanding the constant work put in, the Royal George Hotel three times caught alight and the Commercial Bank, being one of the oldest buildings was brought to the ground. Some of the more unprincipled of the bystanders were ‘’looking for souvenirs” and were picking and choosing as calmly as the average customer does in a shop. Trying on this hat, a size too small or too large, and placing the confiscated goods in a little heap, alongside, or filling up the loose spaces of wearing apparel, and making out of sight with the plunder. Cars coming from
Woombye and other places met these miscreants making their way up the hill with the loot. One light-fingered gentleman asked a bystander if these goods were his, and he replied, “They were not, or his either.” The owner’s attention was called to this practice, but too much work and worry then on hand demanded attention elsewhere. As soon as permissible for the police to leave the precincts of the fire, Sergeant Parker and Constable McLean made after the thieves. By a good deal of judicious tracking, the ‘gentry,’ who for the most part were said to be travellers, were caught, and placed under lock and key. From any of the hills around Nambour the view of the flre was most spectacular as it was awesome. The high tongues of flames lapped over building after building, the crash of a rafter or post, sending up a great shower of sparks, which would descend fiercely on the already banked up cinders of fierce, red-hot coals. (Extract from the Nambour Chronicle of 11 th January, 1924 describing the town’s worst fire)
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Seventeen business places demolished damage estimated at £70,000
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