Fleeing from City

Frustrations to Seek island Utopia

1/fELBOURNE newspapers have .▼1 been giving publicity to Mr.

John Greenston, described as i Black Rock bachelor of 57. He nvited people to sail with him on Christmas Day, 1951, to seek an islands Utopia.

Up to mid-September, 40 men and i women had manifested interest; tut the organiser said he still waited a doctor and a nurse, and le felt that the party needed an ther 20 “romantic, intelligent romen.” He said that honeymoon buples would be ideal.

Mr. Greenston proposes that each iccepted applicant shall put in £250. rhey will buy a yacht and farming ■quipment, and they will then ruise around the Islands of Torres Strait, New Guinea and Fiji until hey find a suitable site for a co iperative village settlement.

One newspaper reported late in September that the party had grown o 23 men and 10 women. They yere arguing about the best site for heir settlement. An Island near Auckland, and another one off

North Queensland, had been added to the others under consideration.

The organiser said the members of his party must be people who were “fed up” with the frustrations and irritations of city life. “We will have no laws, because laws rob a man of freedom,” said Mr. Green ston. “Nobody will be boss . . . Aus tralians have become the victims of

the petty tyrannies of crude and vulgar politicians. These power drunk men want to feel they are bigger than they really are.”

The late Mr. William H. Chance, who was a well-known trader in the Milne Bay area of Eastern Papua, left a gross estate officially valued at £6,961.