[?] Erromanga

Elbourne Woman

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rELBOURNE Argus is responsible I for the report that the island of Erromanga, in the Southern e hrides, 70 miles southwards Vila, has been “bought” recently a young widow, Mrs. D. Sawyer, South Yarra.

Sorting out the definite state tits from the typical blurb and psody of the newspaper writer— >me’s a tropical island, with ite beaches, oysters, fish, wild eon, tropical fruits and all” ppears that, before the war, Mr.

I Mrs. Pete Sawyer bought an fishing schooner, Henrietta in erica, and sailed her through the me Islands to Australia. Three r? /go. Mrs. Sawyer and her ill daughter voyaged through the 7 Hebrides in a 60 ft. schooner, s and called at Erromanga er i n s ™ e bou S ht the island, i 1,000 wool-bearing sheep, a lestead on a hillton, and 400 [yes; and has gone to live there, bat is the newspaper story. What lably happened is that Mrs. has bought the 11,000-acres lerty on which sheep have been ed for the last couple of decades : nati of Erromanga, which tains 700 square miles, killed so

many missionaries in the early days that it was called “the martyrs’ isle.” It is exceedingly well-watered and fertile.