Norfolk Island’s Village Smith
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From Our Own Correspondent.
Norfolk Is., Dec. 9.
UNDER a tall and stately pine the Village Smithy stands.
Actually christened “The Village Smithy,” and doing as well or better than the modern motor garage a few yards down the road. That will show exactly our place is still well in the romantic rear of the onward march of civilisation.
There are quite as many traps, sulkies and waggons on the island as cars and lorries; and horses are used in hundreds.
The newly established Village Smith hails from Devon, via Australia, where he spent four years, and he said that his first touch of homesickness for his native county came when he sighted our red roads and grassy cliffs.