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"Loosemore was burnt to death. His body was discovered when a tree was being removed from the Moe-Hill road."
The Narracan Shire Advocate

Hill End
13 January 1939

STOP PRESS – At Hill End, the Church of England, school, hall, three sawmills (owned by Messrs Reed, Hutchinson, and Billson Bros.) and eight houses, including those of Messrs F Bloye, J Purcell, W Loosemore, Santa Fordi, W Dogral, M J Hitchins, R West, and V Paynter were destroyed.

Loosemore was burnt to death. His body was discovered when a tree was being removed from the Moe-Hill road.

...All telephonic communication on the Moe to Fumina and Walhalla lines is cut off.

[NSA, 13/1/39]

 
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