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...manning the station; happy for the locals to call him "Frank" on the streets and in the shops; happy to make his mark in small ways. Lately, he's been targeting the safety habits of pushbike riders: "You'll notice," he says, "the high ratio of helmet wearers in town...
...where you have to be heavy-handed." Retirement is six years away and Taylor wants to see out his time right where he is. "I could never go back to a metropolitan area as a policeman," he says. "I love it here. It's a town of good people. That sounds corny, but they really are. They say a policeman's lot is not a happy one. I beg to differ...
...Country rivers and send stormy seas surging across the low coastline. Early this year, floods inundated 6,000 sq. km of Burke Shire, turning Highway 1 into a chain of atolls; supplies had to be dropped to some settlements by helicopter. At Floraville station, 73 km south of the town-and 80 km inland-the homestead was an island for two weeks, and sharks were seen circling the henhouse. Owner Kylie Camp says her husband Ernie was about to rescue some floating oil drums when "he saw the fins and decided...
...West is preparing to move out: the town is buying the theater and wants to restore it. He'll stay "involved," he says, standing amid bric-a-brac and sheet music piled for sorting, but "I'll have more down time." That means he'll finally be able to complete his hobby, connecting and tuning the unused pipes that make the theater's storerooms look like a plumber's shed. Then, with luck, the organ will live as long as the Son keeps riding...
...fishermen in Steele's Southern Zone is limited to a maximum catch: no more than 159.3 kg per lobster pot per October?May season. Once you reach that limit, you're on holidays, though usually with decent spending money. As the 17-m fiberglass lobster on the edge of town suggests, Kingston's prosperity depends in no small way on the success of its fishermen, most of whose catch is exported to Asia...