New Zealand
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Pitcairn Islanders Go To
From Our N.Z. Correspondent
Auckland, Nov. 30.
THERE has been quite a trend of emi gration from Pitcairn Island, home of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers, to New Zealand. Four of the Islanders arrived a few months ago and are now working in the Dominion, and six more, including one woman, reached Auckland this month by the Rangitata.
Four of them had previously visited
New Zealand but two are making their first contact with the outside world. One of the visitors is a descendant of Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutineers, and the others are descendants of a midshipman who joined them.
They denied that there was any hardship on Pitcairn and said, indeed, that they were so self-supporting that the depression had scarcely been felt. Their object was to get a change from Islands life and to find work in New Zealand. The length of their stay depended on their success in obtaining employment. Friendly and well-spoken, their bearing to an inter viewer was the essence of courtesy.