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LOWLIEST POLICEMAN

The loneliest-policeman in the Australian - continent is ■ Constable. John Stokes,- in charge of a watering and fuel base /for pearlers at. Elcho Island, a'tiny-dpt 1 on the map of Arnhem Land, Northern Australia.

.Apart from an, occasional Thursday Island pearling lugger, the only visitors he-sees are in, the Northern Territory patrol boat which visits the Island on anaverageof four times a year, and wandering aborigines from the mainland ■

Ho has no wireless and no means of communication iwith; thtf mainland-except through .native- channels. When he •wishes to send' an urgent message to headquarters- at Darwin, _ 400 miles away, ,he'has natives, send it by smoke signal, along the mainland coast, thence by runners to Darwin. . But -his idyllic existence' more than compensates for the loneliness, for Elcho. Island is one of the most beautiful islands on." the dreary. Arnhem Land coast, and the"; most fertile. A. golden beach fringes every little cove round the island, and there is an ample supply of fresh spring water.

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Evening Star, Issue 23083, 8 October 1938, Page 7

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LOWLIEST POLICEMAN Evening Star, Issue 23083, 8 October 1938, Page 7

LOWLIEST POLICEMAN Evening Star, Issue 23083, 8 October 1938, Page 7

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