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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 40, 16 August 1921, Page 8

It may be remembered that in the month of February last the 'Government steamer Tutanekai visited the Camplfrll Islands with a party representing a Syndicate who have the pastoral righ!s over the islands, taking with them also four men under engagement for three months to work the resources of the islands (says the Otago Daily Times). v Two of these men, when they saw the conditions to. be faced, refused to stay, and returned with the party, the others remaining upon the terms that they would be relieved in three months' time. Six months have now passed, and the islands have not.been revisited, so, naturally, the x .relatives of the men are concerned about their position. We understand that the employing syndicate states that th.er.e are three, other men there, and there are;, ample provisions, but this is mot very satisfying to the men's friends, who aslc why an essential term of the contract is not being fulfilled. The Government has been appealed to, but it takes the view that removal of men is a matter to be undertaken by the ayndicate...