DEPRESSED ISLE.
PLIGHT OF ALDERNEY.
PEOPLE'S INCOME VANISHING. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, August 17. Alderney, third largest of the Channel Islands—four miles by one and a half— is in a depressed condition. The income of its 1400 people is vanishing. Its stone quarries are deserted, its engineering works are rusting, its farmers have no export markets.
Alderney once built a great harbour to shelter the British Fleet in time of emergency. A mile-long breakwater was thrown out to sea.
It built 11 fortresses for the Army and 20 miles of military roads. Recently a fine airfield was completed.
But now there are no ships and no soldiers, and no aeroplanes have come.
Sir Edward Broadbent, LieutenantGovernor, told islanders recently that his efforts to interest the Services further in the island were in vain. There was not enough room to accommodate infantry.
Yet to town dwellers Alderney seems a paradise. Sun, sea, quiet, no tax on drink and tobacco, no crime, one policeman and one cinema.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 212, 8 September 1938, Page 24
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