MISS BETTY CARSTAIRS
Exile on Lonely Island
LONDON. September 28.
Miss Betty Carstairs. Britain’s foremost woman lacing motorboat pilot and one ot the country's wealthiest young women, has renounced civilisation and is sailing to-day to begin a self-enlorced exile on Whale Cay, a lonely island in the Bahamas, which she has bought and on which she will make her home among the native*. She told the “Daily Mail”; “1 m* going because I cannot afford to live in England any longer and bear the insoperable burden of taxation. I may uev. er return.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 246, 29 September 1934, Page 7
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