Shipping Reporter mixes with a grubby Larrikin
Rummaging about Magnetic Island yet again, our waterfront snoop found a very battered 1956 copy of the Selected Verse of C. J. Dennis , chosen and introduced by Alec. H. Chisholm ,who decribed him in an informative preface as the Australian Laureate of the Larrikin .
Recently four books by Dennis , with interesting inclusions , were found by a fossicking correspondent in Darwin , featured in this blog .
It would seem that Dennis books are tucked away in offbeat places all over the nation , waiting to be discovered .
The island find, illustrated by Hal Gye ,with a 12 page glossary of Australian terms, ,was minus its front cover, had been scribbled in , was badly wormed , went into lengthy quarantine .
Inserted was a circa 1950s order form for the Sydney store , Winns, with extensive details of mail and freight charges within Australia and the Pacific islands.
Townsville was not listed in the Queensland air freight list , but Burketown , Normanton , Mount Isa and Charleville were. Northern Territory towns listed were Alice Springs, Darwin , Katherine and Tennant Creek .
