Scenery Among Islands

Quaint Life and Beautiful Scenery Among Islands of Torres Straits

From Our Thursday Island Correspondent THE great variety of life and beauty in and around the Torres Straits Islands is shown in a striking collection of moving pic tures taken by Mr. Sullivan, manager for Morey and Company.

Every, phase of island life, industry and sport has been snapped and the result is a very vivid representation of the sort of pro gramme. awaiting a wanderer in these fav oured parts.

Native dancing at Badu and Murray, won derful and novel entertainments to strangers, receive due attention. Sardine catching, with a cast net at Murray proves the ease with which the fish can be taken and the enorm ous hauls obtained. Mr. Sullivan has caught the white children racing at their annual picnic; little darkies performing physical drill, natives spearing fish and turtle, swimming and diving for trochus. climbing coconuts and making copra; the whole pageant of Tor res Straits is being gradually brought to gether in this interesting film series. As for local scenery, the views of sailing dinghies on Thursday Island waters and the falls on Prince of Wales ought to attract the most blase of travellers.

Mr. Sullivan has amused and entertained a number of local people with his pictures and we suggest that he lends the films occa sionally to the shipping companies so that they may be shown to passengers on the way up the coast. With these proofs of our dis trict’s attractions before them it seems likely that we would quickly increase the number of pleasure-seekers among the Isles of Tor res Straits.