NORFOLK ISLAND.
G HEATER; DEV 10LO1PAI ENT POSSIBLE. UTTLI Si ATI ON OF WASTE LAND. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. AIELBOU R.NiE. May 20. Plie* Administrator of Norfolk Island, C blond K. T. Learie, in his animal report, tabled in the Hou.se of Reprer ■seutatives, expres,se;si Uie opinion that. U pro-pea l.y eulitiviated the Island could easily • carry three time-3 its present population. The report states, that at. one t'inne during . the convict days' Norfolk Island maintained a. population of three thousand, and in addition exported a quantity of cereals to Botany Bay. ‘To-day the population is not 111:0.1 e than eight hundred men., women, and children, and out of 3500 acres only 214 are under cultivation for cereals and loot, crops. Hundreds of acre® of privately owned first-class; agricultural land are given over to tobacco, bush, guava and other noxious weeds. This land in the hands oh pna.ctiral men. would return thousands of bushels of maize. Cblonel Leave .states that unless more frequent .service with New Zealand or Australia is opened up the settlers will not be able to dispose- of their .surplus products.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 May 1926, Page 7
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183NORFOLK ISLAND. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 May 1926, Page 7
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