Townsville is a strange place when it comes to reporting what is visibly going on in the so called Queen City of the North . A large part of the city , especially near the waterfront , is blanketed in smoke , and the media seems not to notice, certainly no mention in the Townsville Bulletin .
Early one day recently , our recuperating Shipping Reporter took the above shot of a fire across Cleveland Bay. Later a substantial part of the city was covered in smoke. People were looking towards the waterfront and asking what was the cause of the haze.
Due to high temperatures and strong winds, large parts of North Queensland are dry, a fire at Cooktown destroyed a house .
Despite having received some slight showers of late, Magnetic Island is very dry .
The Bulletin, with a photograph of a laughing weather bureau spokesman , ran a report on the coming wet season in which it was said there could be flooding , not a matter for mirth in a city which recently suffered extensive flooding . Another inappropriate laughing reporter staff photograph accompanied a crime report .
