T.I. Museum.
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Memorial to Reginald Hockings.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Thursday Is., May 29.
FOR some time the idea of erecting a Town Museum has been under dis cussion. The local branch of the Royal Geographical Society is very keen on it, and the Town Council, which has in its custody a number of valuable na tive curios and old relics, is also back ing the project.
Various meetings have been held, and, at a gathering of representatives of various societies and organisations in the town, held recently, it was de cided to push on with the scheme. A committee has been appointed, and it has been decided to erect the Museum as a memorial to the late Reginald Hockings, whose name it will carry. It is proposed to build a room alongside the School of Arts, in which will be housed the present collection and other promised exhibits, as well as historical and geographical books and documents relating particularly to Thursday Island, Torres Strait and North Australia gen erally.
Tourists and visitors frequently en quire for works which will tell them something of this part of the world, with its fascinating and romantic his tory; and the present proposal would help to make information more readily accessible.