1931 Mount Isa Hotel fire provoked a battle of the sexes

Derek Barry
September 6 2018 - 5:30am
The Mount Isa Hotel circa 1925 - five years before the fire in question.
The Mount Isa Hotel circa 1925 - five years before the fire in question.

The vexed question of whether it was men or women who put out a fire was one of the big controversies of Mount Isa’s early days.

Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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