SEVEN BROTHERS ENLIST
. Some 200 irfi'lcs south of Bluff is Campbell Island, \an old-time sealing and whaling resoi/i, which is now an extensive sheep station. The island has an area of about }£),000 acres, and at present carries CBOO sheep and 1559 lambs, a total of 835!). During- the past seven years the station, which' was leased by Captain Tucker, of Gis'd orne, has been controlled by Norton. linil hers, seven in number. 'All seven retui;jied to Bluff by ; the schooner KaeheK Cohen last week to go to the front with '(he 17th Reinforcements. The seven brothel's immediately set about enlisting (says a jDunedin paper), and in bo doing they created a New Zealand record. Thev werei the sole population of Campbclj Island, ! and so they have the magnificent response of-100 per cent, of the total populivti-)!). Tliny will be attached to the contingent from .Ticton, whence they all Will.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2767, 10 May 1916, Page 5
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150SEVEN BROTHERS ENLIST Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2767, 10 May 1916, Page 5
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