THE “INSULATED” FALKLANDS
Twenty English women teachers are readv to facq life in the Falkland Islands, 300 miles south of South America. even though it means mutton for dinner every day and wearing heavy coats all , the year round. They want to n-o and teach school there for £5 a week. This is the pleasant surprise 12 young women in London, five in Birmingham and three in other large towns, gave the British Board of Education. The board advertised for two women under 30 to teach in a school in the lonely island for three years. Not to mislead the girts, the board admitted that mutton there, at 3d a pound, including bones., is the chief item of diet, chops, steak and kidneys, and - bacon, are practically, unknown, that , coal .is £5 a . ton, so they must burn,peat .and that, there are practically hd entertainments. ‘ " Temperature in the islands ranges 30-40 deg in the winter 40-60 deg in the summer. Inhabitants are of British and jßpanish-American descent. Cattle and sheep rearing is the main industry.
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Evening Star, Issue 23059, 10 September 1938, Page 7
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175THE “INSULATED” FALKLANDS Evening Star, Issue 23059, 10 September 1938, Page 7
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