SUNDAY ISLAND
SETTLEMENT PLANS
FARMING SCHEME
; (By Telegraph—Press Association.) ... AUCKLAND, This Day. . Plans for settlement on Sunday Island, the largest island of■ tho Kcrmadee Group,- ; arc being completed in Auckland. The greater part of the island isa" bird sanctuary, but a property known as Bell's section is privately owned, and it is on this that it is proposed to establish a farming settlement. A .Sunday Island Association" has been formed, and also a company, which is negotiating for the purchase of a. vessel to run a regular service to the island from Auckland. It is understood that some twenty people are awaiting a ship to take them to the island, where'they will take up an area of about 360 acres.
The island was occupied in 187S, and for some years afterwards, by Mr. T. Bell and family, and attempts at settlement were made in 1926 by Mr. C. H. Parker and two others, but Mr. Parker died of blood poisoning.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 52, 30 August 1934, Page 15
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160SUNDAY ISLAND Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 52, 30 August 1934, Page 15
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