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Soldier’s Visit to Magnetic Island
Driver Albert Dodds, writing to his father, Mr L. C. Dodds, of “Glen Anne,” Bulga, is enthusiastic about three days spent on Magnetic Island in a rest home run by the Y.M.C.A. and A.C.F. He says it only costs 2/- for a return ticket, and was the most enjoyable time he had spent in his life. Food was served out at tables, there being plenty of fruit, milk and sugar. Girls were also present, so there was plenty of company. A dance was conducted on one night.
The island, Driver Dodds says, grips one. It affords a good rest away from everything. It is very beautiful and just what one would expect a tropical island to be. “There are no dusky maidens in grass skirts leaning against palm trees,” he adds. “The palms are there, but one has to close his eyes