LONELY LIFE
MEN ON SUNDAY ISLAND VISIT FROM H.M.S. DUNEDIN After many months of complete isolation, the two Auckland men who last winter decided to settle on Sunday Island, Messrs. A. Bacon and B. Robertson, received their first visit for a long time when H.M.S. Dunedin called there last month. Before the Dunedin's departure from Auckland for her annual winter cruise to the Pacific Islands, Commodore the Hon. E. R. Drummond was asked by Mr. Bacon's mother, who lives at Devonport, if tho warship would call at the island and deliver an accumulation of mail addressed to the two men. When ho consented to do this Commodore Drummond also agreed to take any mail tho men might wish to send from the island to the Dunedin's first port of call after leaving Sunday Island. A few short blasts of the ship's siren brought tie two men down to tho beach. A whaler took them to the warship. One was dressed in a singlet, shorts and an old straw hat, the other in a pair of shorts. The second man had in addition a long ginger board and a generous crop of hair. They were entertained to dinner by the officers, and later some of the naval men visited tho shore. They found the shack the two men had built surrounded by orange trees laden with fruit and healthy in growth Othet- tropical fruits and a variety of garden vegetables were under cultivation about the lint.
With Mr. R. Randall, of Rotorua, Messrs. Bacon ami Robertson went to Sunday Island at the beginning of last winter in the yacht Ngataki. Mr. Randall returned to Auckland by tbc yacht in December. Mr. Bacon first lived on the island 47 years ago, when ho went there with his parents, and in 19126 hewas concerned in an attempt to settle the island. But this venture ended in tragedy, one of the members of the party dying of tetanus a few days after lie had cut his hand. Mr. Bacon, however, cherished his idea of living at the island for the remainder of his life and went there last year with the idea of growing oranges for export.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22466, 9 July 1936, Page 15
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