During his latest check on the outrageous neglect of Townsville's war memorials , our Shipping Reporter had yet another nasty fright when examining the North Queensland Memorial Garden site . After checking the hard to read plaque with vital information about the war years in Townsville , our inquisitive scribe lifted up the lid of the metal box, in need of a clean , a leaf poking out , below , in which is kept the register for the site .
Surprise, surprise . Sitting in a corner was a slumbering green tree frog , which had been there so long it had changed colour due to lack of exposure to sunlight , obviously no regular polishing and cleaning of this site , which bears the name of the Australian Government , the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Office of Australian War Graves .
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Do not disturb frog and something mysterious in register .
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The Victory in the Pacific Fountain had rubbish in both chambers , some of it there long enough to have established a new English Channel swimming record , plus a chunk of broken glass on the top wall which at first glance looked as if it had come from a fancy chandelier . In the nearby , usually grotty bus shelter there was much broken glass strewn along the footpath, this a short distance from the Townsville Travel Centre .
