[“Sunday Island Mission”, The Western Mail (Perth, WA), Saturday 14 May 1910, page 51]
SUNDAY ISLAND MISSION.
Among the passengers who left Fremantle by the Koombana last week was Miss M. Jose, who is proceeding to Derby to take up the duties of matron at the Aboriginal mission at Sunday Island, in King Sound. This mission is reported to have been steadily progressing in an unobtrusive way since its foundation in 1899 by Mr. Sydney Hadley. The aboriginals are contented and happy. The adults occupy themselves with fishing and collecting beche de mer and spearing turtles. They have been taught to sail the 18-ton cutter belonging to the mission. The adults number about 80, and there are about 40 children. The proceeds of the fishing more than half support the mission. It is unsectarian, and there is a neat schoolhouse, to which the Government contributes a subsidy.
