Children's party at Cairns

Abstract

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this film recording may contain images, voices and names of people who are deceased. -- "The excited chatter and laughter of the 60 children of the Mona Mona mission school resounded in the seamen's mess of the Kanimbla yesterday afternoon. The Seamen's Union members of the ship were giving their annual Cairn's children's part, and the boys and girls, aged from five to 14 years, enjoyed to the maximum the huge balloons, squeakers, jazz caps and abundant party fare. Each boy received a gay shirt and each girl a purse, comb, handkerchief and mirror. Union members put on the party with the permission of Captain O. K. Snowball and McIlwraith McEacharn Ltd. and decorated the mess with flags. While the children enjoyed the novelty of seeing over their first ship, they formed a most animated group for photographs to be taken. The headmaster of the Seventh Day Adventist Mona Mona mission, which is near Kuranda (Mr G. J. Dawson), his assistant Miss W. M. Gillam, and junior teacher Miss J. Laverton, accompanied the children." The Cairns Post, 16 July 1954, page 8.