INVADING , FLAG -WAVING COCKATOO AT BARRICADES

Magnetic Island. Vallis oddity, 

 (Cockatoo. Island. Invasion .)

SCENIC ISLAND ROCKETRY

Magnetic Island  .

(Rocks.Island. Queensland.) 

PELICAN HAPPY HUNTING GROUND

 

Near Alva  Beach , Ayr ,  North  Queensland.

(Pelican. Alva. Ayr.)

A FLURRY OF FEATHERS

 

Public art  on  Magnetic  Island. 

(Birds. Art. Island.)

WATERY REFLECTIONS

Vallis photo.

 

(Reflections. Pond. Vallis.)

POPULAR SWIMMING HOLE

 

Magpie Geese and  Whistling Ducks,Townsville .Vallis pix.

(Birds. Mundingburra . Water.)

RARE BOOK FAIR

One of the many interesting offerings  by  Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Melbourne , at  the  current  London  Rare  Book Fair , is  the above   l947  volume  illustrated   with   watercolours  , black and white sketches  and line drawings  made  in  the  Changi  prisoner  of  war  camp.

A Londoner,  Iris  Parfitt  was a teacher at Penang's exclusive  St.George's  School at the time Malay fell to the Japanese . 

During the occupation, she was an internee in both the Changi and Sime Road camps. In Changi, she was chairman of the camp’s Entertainment Committee and played a key role in staging all kinds of entertainment in the camp. 

"Capitalising on the variety of ages, races, nationalities, professions and  social backgrounds of the internees, she put on magnificent entertainments, that were remembered as a great source of encouragement, joviality and entertainment "

The bookshop  says   Jail-bird jottings, 84 pp,priced at 750 pound , provides one of the most important published eyewitness accounts of daily life in the infamous Japanese internment camps. Her watercolours and sketches, with their accompanying explanatory notes, contain an enormous amount of highly detailed observation, and range in tone from the satirical to the deeply poignant.

(London .Books. Changi.)