The Other St. Kilda

Waipawa Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 152, 14 September 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Other St. Kilda

A .striking illustration of the simple and rugged lives of the inhabitants of the small island of St Kilda, only n 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 bo brought to Fleetwood, ami the young girl came with them. While staying at the house of Captain Carter, of the Loughrigg, a horse was pointed out to her. “I have seen horses in picture books, but never saw- one alive before,” she said. “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.”