Thursday Island
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MR. Doug. Wilson, formerly a Brisbane bookmaker, is now a steward on the SS “Wandana.” When he arrived at Thursday Island recently, he found that more than 200 people on the Island were hungry, and that beer was 4/- a bottle.
Things were slowly getting back to normal at TI, and the Army probably would have vacated the place in a few months. Shops and hotels were opening and pearl and trochus shell fishing were the main subjects of discussion. With luggers and divers still scarce, fishermen were getting very high prices for pearl shell; but, according lo Mr. Wilson, they had only touched at the fortunes lying on the oyester beds which had been idle for the six war years.
In the Suva Lawn Tennis Club’s 1946 Tournament, Miss Leone Sunderland has established a record by winning the Women’s Open Singles, the Women’s Club Singles, the Handicap Singles, (with Mr. E. W. Simms) the Open Mixed Doubles, and (with her mother, Mrs.
Sunderland) the Open Doubles and Handicap Doubles.