A CRIMELESS ISLAND
islanders! lonely life. ‘ The Rev. Henry Martyn Rogers, curate-in-charge at Alexton, Rutland, and his wife have volunteered to go to Britain’s loneliest possession, Tristan da Cunha, a little island in the South Atlantic, to act as priest and schoolmaster There are 119 inhabitants of the island, which is 1512 miles west of Cape Town, and is visited only once a year by a British warship, and on remote occasions bv passing vessels. Friends of the islanders in England are now wondering how to get Air. and Mrs. Rogers thereNo vessels are likely to call for many months, and the organisers of the Tristan da Cunha Society are seeking someone who will lend or charter a whaler for the journey. The islanders have no laws, and snow no crime. They do not barter, and during the whole of last year the only sum of money on the island wns 55.! Tea, cocoa, and flour are rare delicacies. (
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 265, 3 August 1921, Page 6
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159A CRIMELESS ISLAND Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 265, 3 August 1921, Page 6
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