Thursday Is. Notes

From Our Own Correspondent

Thursday Is., July 3.

Alderman Alex. Corran And Mrs. Cor

ran, Mayor and Mayoress of Thursday Is., recently celebrated their golden wedding. For the occasion they acted as the host and hostess to 150 guests in the Town Hall, which was pret tily decorated with flags and zamia palms. Mr.

J. Adams presented them with a substantial wal let of notes on behalf of the assembled company.

He pointed out that this was the first golden wedding that has occurred on T.I. Dancing, sing ing, and music filled a most enjoyable and pleas ant evening. Aldermen of the Town Council at the last meeting presented the Mayor with a gold mounted walking-stick of Queensland satinwood.

Miss Hawthorne, Girl Guide commissioner, has left for Australia after a tour of the Torres Strait Islands.

Mrs. Zahel, of Badu Island, has been the guest for a few days of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sullivan.

Mrs. Sullivan has now gone to Badu to stay with Mrs. Zahel.

Mr. W. Ewart, of Thursday Is., and Miss Mavis Mundell, of Brisbane, were married on June 15 in the Quetta Cathedral by the Bishop of Car pentaria. The bride was given away by Dr.

Nimmo. A short honeymoon was spent at the C.W.A. House on Prince of Wales Island, Torres Strait.

Alderman Corran, the Mayor, has been pre sented with a gavel made of Queensland timber to mark the golden jubilee of the establishment of the Town Council as a local authority.

Mr. and Mrs. Eric Corran have returned to their home in Roma, Queensland. Mrs. Vowels has gone South with them for a holiday.

Mr. W. J. Woods was married to Mrs. Dodt at the District Registrar’s Office, early in June.

Mr. D. Farquhar, of Messrs. Farquhar’s Pty., has returned to T.I., after a business trip to Brisbane.

News has been received of the death in Brisbane of Mr. John Quinn, who had been ailing for a long period. Some years ago, he was in charge of the quarantine station at Thursday Is.

Mr. Frank Hockings, of the Wanetta Pearling Co., has left for a holiday in Western Queensland.

The local branch of the Country Women’s Asso ciation has elected Mrs. Norman Hockings as president, and Mrs. John Partridge as secretary, for the ensuing year.

Mr. E. J. Hennessey has made a good recovery from his recent illness, and has now gone away for a long period of convalescence. Accompanied by his wife, he will spend the first two months of his holiday at Southport.

Mr. E. K. Thorpe, of Thursday Is., and Nurse Allison, late matron of the Cooktown Hospital, were married recently in Brisbane.

The Hon. John Mullan, Attorney-General for Queensland, and Mr. D. Riordan, M.H.R., are expected to arrive by the next Taiping. The for mer will make an official visit to the Torres Strait Islands on the Melbidir.

To dispose of the surplus of the silver jubilee celebrations fund, it has been decided to present T.I. schoolchildren with a small jubilee medal. The balance of the collection will be handed over to the Jubilee Museum Fund for the purchase of show cases.