NORFOLK ISLAND.
PLACID SPHERE OF EXISTENCE. AUCKLAND, July 22. The advantages and charm of Norfolk Island have so impressed Captain R. H. Stainforth that he has decided to live there. He returned to Auckland this morning by the Hinemoa after a visit to the island. Captain Stainforth says that the arrival of motor cars on the island did not meet with the approval of the inhabitants. Three cars and a motor lorry are there at present, but a petition of protest against them has been lodged with the Administrator. The land, which is particularly fertile, is bringing from £lO to £3O an acre. The inhabitants are busilyplanting bananas in order to increase the export trade. At present, said Captain Stainforth, the planters are realising high prices for their fruit, most of which is being shipped to the Sydney market, where there is a shortage of bananas owing to the blight in the Queensland plantations.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3828, 26 July 1927, Page 34
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154NORFOLK ISLAND. Otago Witness, Issue 3828, 26 July 1927, Page 34
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