Five Sunday Is. Settlers
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Evacuated
TT\ESCRIBED as “disillusioned”, four New Zealanders and an Englishman, who had settled on Sunday Island, in the Kermadec Group, were evacuated by the N.Z. Government steamer Maui Pomarc early in August.
The men made an appeal to be removed when the British cruiser Achilles called at the island in June. They reported an acute food shortage. They said that they had been existing on fruit, fish, mutton birds, goats, and an occasional turtle.
The seven settlers had been reduced to helping themselves to each other’s crops.
Announcing the evacuation, the Acting Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr. Langs tone) said that the Auckland—Sunday Island Association’s settlemejit plan was “hair-brained and not really deserving of pity, but public censure.”