SHORT OF SUPPLIES.
News has reached Sydney from the Islands that the people on Palmerston Island, in the Pacific, are short oi supplies. When the American lumber schooner Kona passed the Islands some weeks ago, en route for Puget Sound, three sailing boats containing a considerable portion of the SO or 90 inhabitants which make up the total population put out to the vessel to ask for provisions. They stated that no boat had visited the group for nearly eight months, and that their solo diet was cocoanuts, a plentiful supply of which they took out to the Kona. Captain Hansen gave them a quantity of old clothes, potatoes, flour, and other necessities. A vessel with provisions was expected at the Islands daily. * Although* the inhabitants appeared to he very short of provisions, their plight was not regarded as a particularly serious one. The islands are to the north of the Cook group.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 84, 16 April 1913, Page 7
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