Thursday Is. Notes
p. 43 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent THURSDAY IS., February 1.
MR. E. J. Martin, one of T.I.’s regular travellers and well-known in many parts of the Pacific, has visited us again, after a rather longer absence than usual. He expects to make his next trip to Moresby, Samarai and Rabaul during May.
Just before Christmas, one of the best known of the coming generation of Thursday Islanders, Mr. Jim Fergusson, junior, left for Brisbane to join the Queensland Police Force.
His many friends here will be pleased to hear that Jim considers he has fallen on his feet and is very happy in his new surroundings.
Thanks to his training as a naval cadet and at the rifle range, our young representative from T.I. has made a very good beginning and we are quite confident he possesses just the right qualities for a successful career in the police.
The S.S. Mangola passed through on her way to Melbourne, six days late. On her outward voyage to Singapore, she struck a reef off the eastern end of Timor, and lost one of her propeller blades. The necessary repairs at Singapore accounted for the ves sel’s late arrival here.