Colony For Tired
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People
Advance Party To Go To Marquesas
IT was stated in this journal, in April, that Mr. F. Briggs, an Australian, had made plans to establish, in the Marquesas, a community of people anx ious to get away from the strain and distractions of modem life.
It was reported, on June 1, that the advance party would comprise Mr. and Mrs. Briggs, Mr. T. Alexander, and two or three others; that they would travel in a yacht then being prepared in Ho bart; and that the organisation already has a membership of 100, including peo ple from all over the British Empire and the United States. The colony is to be established on the island of Nu kahiva.
Dr. F. Widiake left Fiji for England by the May “Aorangi”, on leave.