Discovered in a collection of old radio valves on Magnetic Island is a small one in a packet marked U.S. Navy Tube CRC 954, manufactured by RCA, dated October 1942.
According to the 1976 booklet The Methodist Church in Townsville, One Hundred Years , the Chinese Pastor of Darwin Mr Lo Shui Kwong was evacuated to Townsville during the war with his wife and three children and set up a small Chinese school, appointed to Sydney in late 1942.
The book says that in 1945 "the somewhat unique situation" existed where Jews, mostly from U.S. forces, held services every Friday night in the Central Church .
