SUNDAY ISLAND.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 24 February 1931, Page 5

SUNDAY ISLAND.

kUMOUR AS TO ITS SALE. DENIAL BY LANDS DEPARTMENT. 1 ,• . \ [SHB MUSBB BWUI SmiM.}; ' WELLINGTON, February 28. , Sunday Island I* still theprbperty of the New' Zealand Government' transaction involving the, purchase : «f the island has been agreedtoor even . 1 considered, 11? was statedin a cable : message from Sydney published , thti . morning that a Brisbane- medical man i had bought' the island- Outright, but/ : from, enquiries made in, official circlet'' ! later in the day it is obvious that there ' I is not a word ,of, truth in this state- - ®ment. , . fi ~ ? About flvo years ago therewaa anill- ■ starred .adventure' of three. ' people who> settled-at Sunday, IslaiwLA* Crown grant was obtained in 1920, by a Mr C, H. Parker, in November of that year; He died * from blood. poisoning It is lpelievaV early in the following year, 1027. on the next trip north of thrtJflrc^' ernment steamer, then the Hinemoa, Parker's two companions were resetted, , and brought back.- to Auckland. They ■ were glad to get away from their isolated island home. ' Sincer, then 'jthe'island had been ttnoconpfod. j*' -« ] The Sydney cable message ! thitf ■ mpra-r < ing said that the "Sunday Guardian' 4 had stated that a Brisbane Dr. A. J: Boss, < had bbttght outright Sunday Island, and that he intended to settle it with fourteen, families inf eluding twelve from New Zealand, and further that he intended to jbuy. schooner in Sydney week. ■> ."The Department is not leasing ofynotdisposing of any part of the island and knawsnOthhig of the* piatter," said an official of the lands Department Vfhen, his was drawn to ,ihe message ftom Sydney. -■ "Wife the exception 6f the 270 acres of freehold property- the island-is all CroVra land/ The original own®r of the freehold block, a man named Bell, is dead, and the latest ftd~" vice we have received is -that itJLs ;now owned by a man named ' Parker,, 91' Suffolk, England. The menage Btates that the island haß been' purchased; out* ; right, but that iB quite incorrect. ' The only land th&t could be purchased 'iff a freehold block and" you, eoulji hardly settle fourteen'families jbn that area.?'