Away from the World

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 149, 7 September 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

Away from the World

A striking illustration of the simp*) and rugged lives of the inhabitants of the small island of St. Kilda, only a few hours by trawler from the coast of North Britain, is shown by the arrival at Fleetwood, on the mainland, of Rachel Gillies, 17 years old, who had never seen a horse, a motor-car, a railroad train, or a motion picture. It was her first visit away from her native island.

When the fishing steamer Loughrigg made one of the infrequent calls at the island it was found that two of the older residents wished to be taken to Fleetwood, and the young girl went with them. While staying at the house of Captain Carter, of the Loughrigg, a horse was pointed out to her. “1 have seen horses in picture books, but never saw one alive before,’ 1 she said.

The astonished girl added: “It is wonderful to see people going about in their smart clothes, to see women driving motors through the busy streets, and to hear whistles of railway trains. I have never seen a moving picture, and am wondering what it is like-"