Pitcairn pilgrimage
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Norfolk Island’s Pitcairn pilgrimage
Talk of the island on Norfolk in recent times has been the forthcoming pilgrimage of Norfolk Islanders to Pitcairn Island, the ancestral home of many of them The Norflok Islander weekly reports: With the time steadily ticking away before the group leaves Norfolk for its Pitcairn Pilgrimage, enquiries have been made of Pitcairn as to whether or not the group from Norfolk would need sleeping bags and whether there would be sufficient water available during October early November.
The following is the text of a
cable received: “Yorley need no sleepen bags un no bed dings. We got plenty water for baths un fer drink. Yorley all is walcum we gwan look forward fer see yorley soon” and signed “Island Magistrate”, The date that the party is waiting for at the moment is that when the Tauporoll will be at Mangareva to take the Pil grims on the last leg of their journey to Pitcairn, Present dates are: Leave Norfolk on 14th October Auckland to Tahiti Wednesday 17th October and soon after that Tahiti to Mangareva to pick up the ship.
Cannon from the Bounty, Norfolk Island . . .the pilgrims are going to Pitcairn.