DEVELOPING PITCAIRN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 105, 3 May 1917, Page 6

DEVELOPING PITCAIRN.

THE ISOLATED ISTAWD. TO HAVE A MAIL SERVICE. Tt is the Americans who have taken compassion on the people of Pitcairn Island, and have decided to maintain a regular service to the isolated island and home of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers. Few ships visit Pitcairn, though these have increased since alterations have been made in the courses taken by many of our oversea vessels. A steamer left an American port recently for Auckland. Southern nnd Australian ports, via Pitcairn Island, with mails for the island, and this sailing inaugurates a regular service for the Islai.->i*rs. The last vessel to arrive in Auckland land, via Pitcairn. brought news of the launching of a schooner by the inhabitants. They had cut their own timber, beaten their own nafls. and prepared all the material used in the construction of the boat. The vessel had left for another island, and the owners were becoming anxious as no news of her had bee:' received, though it is hardly likely that anything has interfered with her progress as the weather there is at the present time fairly calm. The permanent linking up of the island will make it possible to trade with the Islanders, and in return for clothing and other manufactured goods, fruit, and foodstuffs will be obtained.