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Newspaper
Peak Hill Express
Location
Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Oct 04, 1907
Page
22
In Mingelo on Tuesday J.P. H N Gibson held an inquiry at Norris Mingelo Hotel into last week’s blaze that destroyed the Mingelo Public School. Witnesses described discovering flames mid‑evening and estimating losses while denying knowledge of the fire’s origin.
Police constable Oscar Stanley McDonald testified on September 25 that the Mingelo School burned after he and Constable Hill arrived at 10:15 p.m. He found a locked door and padlock, while Robert Egan recalled seeing the fire after hearing an alarm and noting no earlier flames. An open verdict was returned as to the fire’s origin.
A quirky collection of light comic vignettes from a village scene. Jests span a shopkeeper customer exchange on price, classroom wordplay on months, a reminiscing remark about a life choice, a dye joke at a chemist, a wedding toast mishap, a lively country drive, and misheard phrases at a roadside stop.
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