To the Editor Townsville
Bulletin 11 December 2005.
You know the "Fort" at
Horseshoebay on the Island has more relevance and significance as a
"military sacred" place than the Jezzine
area.
The Fort and a number of other spots around
the hills there, was actually a pioneering "lookout" with plenty of people
around at the wartime, so let's build the "war-obelisk-memorial" upon that hill
instead or why not Palm Island which the editor John Andersen so greatly pointed
out a few weeks ago in the Bulletin, being a frontier during the War
ll.
I understand that Townsville is running out
of land for development so I guess the present council is now looking to
make the Island to a "normal" surburb soon, and not seing Magnetic Island as a
totally separate entity, off-shore. And then even the Island shall lose
the tourism, we so much is dependent on.
Maybe Thuringgowa can lease or lend some of
its waste land, to Mr. Mooney.
Ture Sjolander
(If you wanna use this additional text you are welcome to
put it in as an Addendum to my earlier comments)