The Boonara Hotel

The Boonara Hotel, which was located opposite the Grand Hotel was totally destroyed by fire eight years after the Grand Hotel fire in 1947. No one was hurt or killed in that blaze. That pub was never rebuilt. It can be seen in one of the photos posted here in the background of the smouldering Grand Hotel.




Related News Clip from The Telegraph newspaper (Pic no 3)
GOOMERI HOTEL IN DESTRUCTIVE FIRE
GOOMERI:
The Boonara Hotel, a two-story wooden building containing about 28 rooms, and situated on the corner of Boonara and Moore Streets, was destroyed by fire early this morning. The building has been unoccupied for some time, and tire outbreak was first noticed about 1.30 a.m. When people who saw it rushed to the spot the flames had too great
a hold for them to attempt to save the building.
Volunteers formed a bucket brigade and played water on the front of another hotel across the street to keep it from catching fire. Notwithstanding this, a number of windows in tile building was cracked by the blaze-
The hotel was owned by Messrs. Corser and Company, of Maryborough, and was used 'during the war ot shelter children trom the Nudgee Orphanage.
The hotel was insured, but the amount is not known.
It was at Goomeri about eight years ago that another hotel was destroyed, and about eight lives lost.

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