Conditions on Lonely

Easter Island

[?] Easter Island correspondent corrects [?]e figures published in March (1954) [?] It appears that the stock figures as ished were reversed 1930 or thereabouts the island was [?]ing 23.000 sheep and 7,000 cattle—not other way about—and when Mr. I.d ds departed there were 45,000 sheep [?]uding lambs) and 2,000 cattle, the d then being fully stocked. forecast in the March article, the [?] Government took over the control [?]le Easter Island stock station early in Last year the island had a severe ght—in line with many other Pacific [?]P s —and a large number of stock dled food for the population became low, [?]e accompanying recent photos we e along One shows one of the images Which the island is famous, set up on modern base, apparently in the main [?]g e . The other shows a group of [?]er Island people outside the station homestead