Evacuees Return To
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Thursday Is.
CARRYING food, building material, 50 passengers and a number of children, the SS “Wandana” sailed from Brisbane on May 23, for Thursday Island. Most of the passengers had been absent from the island for five years; others longer. All former residents were eager to return to their homes, or what is left of them, and start again.
They will not find T.I. the prosperous place it was in pre-occupation days. It is now a shambles.
Mrs. Burgess, who was returning with her two daughters to again take over the Torres Straits Hotel, will have rea son to complain. Partitions and doors of the hotel have been removed; items of furniture, including a piano and a refrigerator have been taken away. That, however, does not deter the Burgess family from making a fresh start.—J.M.H.