A Lonely Outpost

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 39, 10 April 1931, Page 5

A Lonely Outpost

Radio Greatly Appreciated

ORNINGTON Island, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, is 100 miles by water from the nearest post office, which is at Burketown, North Queens-' land. There, for the past eight years, Rey. R. H. Wilson and his wife have been working alone among the aboriginals under the direction of the Presbyterian Church. A small ketch carries them supplies and brings mail eight times a year. They ‘have, how: | ever, a small short-wave transmitting : and receiving set, with which they are in daily touch with the mother station in Cloncurry, 300 miles away. Mr. Wilson is able to send telegraphic messages by Morse to Cloncurry, and if these are intended for further dispatch they are handed in to the post office and transmitted over the land wire in the usual way. The replies are given by voice from Cloncurry.