“Like An Island Of Sick

Dogs"

“17'OR several weeks, owing to a false Jl report that someone sent flying through the air, to the effect that we had typhoid fever here, the shipping companies stopped their boats from call ing”, writes a resident of Pitcairn Is land, under date of September 13.

“But one captain was humane enough to call and find out for himself whether or not the report was true, even at the risk of causing the company’s displeasure.

Now that the report is found to be false, the boats are calling again.

“Never had we realised our insignifi cance so clearly as when the boats passed us by. Even if the report had been true, we were treated as though we were an island of sick dogs, and we do not have a doctor, or medical aid of any kind.

Yet we are all British subjects, even though some of our blood is Polynesian.”

Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Evans returned to Suva, Fiji, by the last “Monterey”, hav ing completed seven weeks’ holiday in Sydney. Mr. Evans is Town Clerk at Suva.