UTOPIAN COLONY IN PACIFIC
♦ *ADVANCE PARTY TO LEAVE HOBART “FOR PEOPLE TIRED OP STRAIN ” HOBART, June 3. A yscht is being prepared here to take the first colonists to a Utopian colony in the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific. The advance party consists of Mr F. Briggs and his wife and Mr T. Alexander, of Hobart. Replies have been received to circulars about the project from New Zealand, South Africa, and America. Mr Briggs, who was formerly in the photographic section of the Australian Air Force, said that the settlement at Nukahiva in the Marquesas would be open to people who were tired of the train of civilised life. It was not intended that the s-ttlers should go native. On the cmtrary the amenities of civilisation would be available. Nukahiva, the largest of the Marquesas Islands, is near the centre of the group. It is about 14 miles long, is mountainous, richly, wooded, fertile, and well supplied with cascades. It contains the port of Taiohai.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22419, 4 June 1938, Page 15
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