Pacific

Islands

Monthly

Jul/|t949

Vol. XIX. No. 12.

Established 1930.

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THIS is Lord Howe Island, 300 miles off the NSW coast; and Lord Howe is a part of New South Wales; and someone once won a bet that coconut palms grow in New South Wales by quoting Lord Howe Island. In this striking photograph of Mounts Gower and Lidgbird, the wind-torn palms in the foreground look like coconuts ; but, actually, they are the ornamental Kentia palms. From the sale of Kentia seeds, as well as from the accommodation of holiday-makers, who crowd in on the Qantas and TOA flying-boat services—and (occasionally) on the SS “Morinda’ —the 200 people on the island make their living. Lord Howe has the world’s most southerly coral reef —but no coconuts. —Photo by Whites Aviation.