As part of the campaign against coronavirus , all tourist brochures have been removed from the display stand in the Magnetic Island ferry terminal. It has to be said that some of the publications , next to a sign pointing out the location of a nearby defibrillator , had been looking limp and sickly for some months .
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The stand in healthier,albeit somewhat droopy times .
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In other Magnetic Island news not picked up by the mainland media there was a drug raid on March 11 involving mainland and island police , oddly written up by the island's community news newssheet, which runs an inordinate amount of Townsville City Council handouts .
Armed with search warrants, police went through houses , a number of people were charged with a variety of offences , including possession , producing drugs . A " weapon " was mentioned twice in the scrambled , feeble POLICE REPORT page.
Another item of island interest is that mainlanders have been coming over by ferry to Townsville's Jewel in the Crown -Maggie - and buying up toilet paper and hand cleansers . This may force islanders to roll their own ,wink, wink .
The weirdest story , however, is hard to believe . An islander went to Harvey Norman's store in Townsville and handed over a $20 note to pay for an item .
The apparently scared staff member was reluctant to touch, take the money, wanting a credit card instead. Harvey Norman refusing to take legal tender !!!! The customer insisted , won the argument .
Another important story not picked up by mainland scribes is the fact that the Nelly Bay Beach , oft glibly described as one of the island's pristine strips, is being eroded away , some tree roots becoming exposed , revealed by these two Shipping Reporter photographs .
