Thursday Is. News

From Our Own Correspondent

Thursday Is., Dec. 5.

MR. BAKER, who took charge of the radio station a few months ago, has returned South for medical treatment. Mr. Pusey is acting temporarily as officer-in-charge.

Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Dunwoodie have come back from Brisbane after their holidays.

An old identity of T.I. has passed away in the person of Mrs. A. E. Cohen, after a short illness in the Torres Strait Hospital. The deceased lady had been a widow for many years.

Mr. S. H. Chance, Resident Magistrate of Daru, Western Division of Papua, came over on the Papuan Government vessel Vailala to take back Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Woodward upon their return from a holiday trip to Japan.

The proprietors of the Thursday Island cinema have generously given a benefit performance for the Anglican Church Schools League. Our cinema is an open-air “theatre,” and it is a most popular institution, showing twice weekly, with extra pro grammes when the pearling fleet is in harbour.

Reports emanating from Darwin continually

come to hand to the effect that Japanese-owned pearling luggers are habitually using Bathurst Island as a base for their operations. There they take on water and wood, and hand over their catches to a Japanese schooner which conveys them to their headquarters in the Aru Islands, Dutch East Indies. Commonwealth officials at Canberra point out that the question is whether the marine produce is actually gathered within the three miles international boundary: proof to this effect is essential before any action can be taken in the matter.

Rev. W. Mackenzie, of Mapoon Mission (Gulf of Carpentaria) has returned from furlough in Aus tralia.

Mr. Harry Rowan, Superintendent of the Lock hart River Mission, Cape York Peninsula, has been up for medical treatment. The mission launch, Nianga, has been on the slips for an extensive overhaul and repairs.

Mr. A. T. Sullivan is on a long launch trip down the Great Barrier Reef inspecting his centres of the marine industry.

Rev. R. H. Lowe has resigned his position as chaplain of the Mitchell River Mission (Gulf of Carpentaria), owing to ill-health. After a stay on Thursday Island he is now visiting the Lockhart River Mission, prior to returning to New South Wales.