Territory Stories

The Garden Point Mob

Details:

Title

The Garden Point Mob

Other title

Stories about the early days of the Catholic mission and the people who lived there, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the mission

Creator

Historical Society of the Northern Territory

Editor

Brogan, Thecla

Collection

E-Publications; E-Books; PublicationNT

Date

1990

Location

Garden Point

Description

Published to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Roman Catholic mission at Garden Point (Pularumpi) on Melville Island begun in 1940; consists of stories mostly from the early days, prepared by people who were taken to the mission as children in the 1940s and by some of the staff of the mission in the early days; includes evacuation to Melbourne in 1942 and return in 1945, conditions at the mission, dormitory life, education, recreation including hunting, bush trips and football.

Notes

Made available via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).

Table of contents

Early days at the mission at Garden Point / J. Pye -- Mission 1940-1945 / E. Bennett -- Gifts from the skies / L. O'Dwyer -- Arrivals at Garden Point; daily life / Sister Elsie, Mick Cussen, Marie Gardner, Thecla Brogan -- How Leon Gregory go the name "Foxie" / Luke S Morcom -- Ada's story / Ada Bailey -- Faye's story / Faye Gavenlock -- Happy days at Garden Point / Barbara Tippolay -- Evacuation 1942 / Eileen Ryan -- The first months / Sister Antoninus -- Harold Anderson / Luke S. Morcom -- Some of the boys / Jack Cusack -- Memories of Garden Point 1956-1964 / Sister Christopher Cleary -- Garden Point grows up / Peter Brogan -- Melville Island song / words by Sister Mary Annunciata.

Language

English

Subject

Melville Island; Catholic Church; Missions; Aboriginal Australians; Religion

Publisher name

Historical Society of the Northern Territory

Place of publication

Darwin

Format

x, 85 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.

File type

application/pdf

ISBN

958809364

Copyright owner

Historical Society of the Northern Territory

Parent handle

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/300919

Citation address

https://hdl.handle.net/10070/372994

Page content

Timber Getting 2: Loading the jinker Rolling log on to timber jinker. The main timber getting period was in the 1940s and 1950s. Timber, much of it cypress pine, was used in buildings at Garden Point and some was sent to .Darwin for use in the Cathedral Timber Getting 3: Truck The Mission truck about to tow the loadedjinker 78 . ?-Jmber Getting 4: Boat The Quail towing a raft of logs back to Garden Point 8 .1 . Timber Getting 5. Jett ui dzng the jetty, where th_; remains of ~h~ olde!stone wharf are still to b seen. ,/.' ort Dundas zn background e 79